Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-08-21

@ gorgeous northwest, anu i
Y found that everywhere in
Il n that vast region the Demo
Gratis have their war clothes
on and are fighting tooth and nail to
redeem Iowa, Minnesota and WiscOn-
sin. They appear to have first rate
chance to capture three congressional
seats from Iowa, at least two in Min
nesota and somewhere from One-third
to one-half the Wisconsin delegation.
In the Hawkeye State the Republicans
are split up the back on the tariff
trust question. Governor Cummins ap-
pears to be sort of bull in the Re
publican china shop, while Colonel
Hepburn, Major Lacy and Judge Smith
will have the fight of their lives to get
back to congress. Cummins is dead
against the old machine, headed by
Allison, Henderson, Dolliver ct al, and
it is war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt. The Horace Boies caper bids
fair to be repeated.
In Minnesota and Wisconsin the
deucei is to pay. Disgruntlement among
Republicans seems to be the order of
the day. Governor Van SAINT is max
ing war on the trusts; but, as Repub-
licans created the trusts and can't live
without them, Van SAINT is having a
rocky road to travel In the Mime
apolis district that brave and fortunate
Democrat, Governor John Lind, who
has an amazing record of success, is
hot foot after General Lorin Fletcher,
one of the most amiable Republicans
in congress. They will have the pref
tiest fight in America. General Fletch-
er is certain of a nomination, but in
distress as to the election. while Hon.
James A. Tawney is having bitter
fight for even a denomination. In Wis
consin the fight is so unrelenting be-
tween the La Folletteites and the anti
La Folletteites, the Spoonerites and the
the anti -Babcockites, that the state is
liable to go Democratic horse, foot and
dragons, as it did in 1892. the year of
the Democratic flood.
The CD. and the Republican Split.
1t will be remembered by the readers
of these letters that not long since the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat belabored
me for declaring in my Bangor (Me.)
speech that the Republicans are split
up the back and that it declared un-
equivocally that 1.-The Republican col
umn is solid" AS further evidence
that | was right and the CD. wrong
l submit the foregoing remarks as to
conditions in the northwest and also
what follows.
Item-Leslies Weekly. Republican,
bears this emphatic testimony to the
splits in the Republican party:
It is time to ask, in all seriousness,
whether the death of William Mckinley
marked the apogee of the Republican
party. While we are drifting apart on a
question of trade with Cuba the Democ-
racy is getting together. While such rock
ribbed Republican states as Vermont,
Ohio and Pennsylvania are being torn by
clashng factions the Democratic leaders
are falling into line in solid ranks and
preparing for the contest of 1904.
Is our leadership lost? Less than a
year has elapsed since the pitlful death of
the lamented Mckinley. and we find a
third of the Republican membership of
the senate, representing dozen states,
nearly all Republican, in opposition to
the administration. And over what? A
perplexing tariff question! This is not a
new question for the Republican party to
handle. 1t was far more difficult for
William Mckinley to adjust it for all the
country than it is for the present admin
istration to settle it for the little republic
of Cuba. William Mckinley settled it, as
he did every other question in his time
that perplexed and tried his party, by
conciliating, by harmonizing. by making
concessions and. whenever necessary, by
compromising.
Evidences of Solidity.
Item.-While it Is seeking informa-
gluing its optic to the following plain
words from the Chicago Inter Ocean
Republican):
The Republican party believes in pro-
lection, and in reciprocity as the compile
ment of protection. and in Justice to Cuba
as national duty. and upholds Theodore
Roosevelt and Elihu Root and Leonard
Wood in their efforts to fulfill party
PiCdSCS anu W hSSp Lie idliOu ldltl
it was pledged by William Mckinley.
So to believe and so to do are plain du-
ties imposed upon the Republican party
by the greatest protectionists in it's pres
ent or it's past. To believe otherwise, to
do less. would mean neither protection
nor free trade. but simply brazen repudi-
alton and falsehood.
And all the soft sophistries and honeyed
evasions in the language of politics would
fail IN hide a Or IN nd
such lie.
against Cuban reciprocity while the
president. Inter Ocean ct al are for
it shows "a solid Republican column"
Item.-While the CD. is advocating
Senator Marcus A. Hanna's pro
gramme. Keep on letting well enough
alone" it would profit mentally by
studying the following interview given
by a western Republican congressman
to the Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Record Herald:
This means that we have got to revise
the tariff. The American people know
that the average protection on the prod
uct of the steel trust is nearly 40 per cent
They know that on account of this pro-
lection there is no foreign competition in
our market. They know that the prices
of iron and steel are from % to so per
cent higher than they should be and that
these prices which enable the trust to
soll up such enormous profits are made
possible by the high tariff. In other
words, the steel trust is taking out of
other industries $40, 0000 900 or $50 900, 900 a
year more than it Is fairly entitled to and
more than it could take did not the fed
eral government bar out legitimate COM
petition. This is using a government of
the people to rob the people, and here is
the question which the Republican party
has to face. The sooner we make up our
minds to it the better will it be for the
party.
The congressman was talking about
the enormous and abnormal profits of
the billion dollar steel trust.
No doubt with it's wonderful acumen
and superhuman ingenuity, the CD.
will be able to twist that into evidence
of "a solid Republican column"
Out of Its Own Mouth.
Item.-By its own mouth the CD.
stands condemned After the Wiscon-
sin Republican convention by vote of
two to one had sent Senator Spooner to
the bottom of the coal hole with dull,
sickening thud the CD. evidently con-
ol,,dod tI,at affpr all slthe solid ReDIIh-