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


preston was defeated. But when the
matter comes before the legislature there
is strong probability that the senator
will be rechosen. He has had large ex-
perience in public Office possesses tact
and personal popularity and is decided
ly useful man to have in congress. The
Republican party needs men like Spooner
at the front.
Surely that is a remarkable sort of
harmony which induces Governor La
Toilette and his faction to turn down so
brilliant and eminent a Republican as
Senator John c. Spooner.
Item.-In the same issue-July 10
the GID. contributes to Republican
Harmony. with a big, big II. by wind
ing up long article on the presidents
action i'll retiring General Jacob III.
Smith with this vicious dig at Colonel
Roosevelt:
Yet Smith is the man who. by mastery
soldiership. quietcd the island of Sa-aar
in the year 1902. the same year in which
the president says he can be of no fur
ther use in the army. There is some
thing whimsical in this business that is
decidedly not approved by the American
people. General Smith stands higher in
public opinion than he ever did before.
That paragraph will have about as
much tendency to promote harmony in
the Republican camp as would a good,
big chunk of raw meat in the animal
department of circus.
Item.-Not satisfied with that thrust
of the dagger into the presidents back,
the CD. contributes this additional
tidbit to Republican harmony:
General Smith will be admonshed when
he returns to the United States that ev-
cry old soldier in the land offers him the
hand of fellowship and congratulates him
on the brilliant success of his operations
in Samar.
Item.-Continuing in it's efforts to
give quantum sufficit of raw meat to
the Republican menagerie, the CD.
hurls this chunk to the infuriated ami
mails:
The indianapolis Journal ridicules the
beet sugar industry because it is small.
just as it's local Democratic contemporary
derided American tin a dozen years ago.
When a Republican paper is discovered
holding a Democratic rifle pit of the year
1890, its friends ought to call a medical
consultation.
OF course that paragraph is not only
intended as a hard knock for the In
dianapolis Journal, the leading Repub-
lican paper of Indiana, but is aimed at
all Republicans who are holding
Democratic rifle PITS. e., all Repub-
licans who are in favor of Cuban reci-
procity Who are they? Theodore
Roosevelt, president of the United
States; all the members of the cabi-
net. Serene r. Payne. chairman of the
ways and means committee; John Dal-
zell. Governor Steele and Chester l.
Long. members thereof; David Brem-
ner Henderson. speaker of the house,
and the vast majority of Republicans
in house and senate. Verify. verify,
there is a distinguished company of
Republicans in "the Democratic rife
pits of 1890 who are in sore need of
medical consultation"
More Solids.
Item. = The Globe-Demoerat, while
attacking the president, thereby dem
onstrating the existence of "a solid
Republican column might increase it's
stock of knowledge by perusing the
following brief but pregnant editorial
from the Washington Post. which the
Kansas City Journal Qepublicam
quotes approvingly:
If any one imagined that the war be-
tween the beet sugar faction and the ad-
ministration-the latter backed by ma
jority of the Republicans in congress and
apparently by an overwhelming majority
of the Republican masses and the party
press-would end or begin to die away up
on the adjournment of congress, the name
of that credulous person must be written
into the list of those who Imagine a
vain thing" Instead of subsiding, that
war, nov trebly laundering. swells the
gale" Mark Hanna a true prophet
when he said in the senate last Monday:
my opinion is that shall hear from
the people in unmistakable terms 1t is
the policy of the administration today, as
it would have been of Mr.. Mckinley had
he lived to treat Cuba as ward and
friend"
Item.-The fact that four of the beet
sugar Michigan Republican congress
men have been ignominiously defeated
for denomination will convince the c.
D. beyond all controversy that '.the
Republican party is solid" and getting
more solid. just as General Zachary
Taylor remarked in his only annual
message to congress-that 1--WE are on
good terms with all the nations OF the
earth-and the rest of mankind"
Item The fact that the Iowa Mil
lers' association is making bitter war
ON Speaker Henderson for reelection
to congress and the further fact that
the antireciprocity gang is grooming
Mr.. Littlefield of Maine as d candidate
for the speakership, in the improbable
event that the Republicans elect the
next house, is overwhelming proof of
"a solid Republican column"
Item.-What opinion will the CD.
have as to it's "solid Republican col
umn'' when it reads this stingihg edi-
torial about President Roosevelt from
the Portland Oregonian, leading Re-
publican paper of the Pacific slope?
The Oregonian says:
Unquestionably there is remarkable
and ominous parallel between the course
marked out for himself and undeYiatingly
followed by President Roosevelt and
similar line of conduct pursued some sew
enteen years ago by Grover Cleveland.
The conditions in the two problems are
SO uniform and persistent that history is
reasonably certain to repeat itSesf.
Roosevelt has been president less than
a year, but in that time he has laid
broad and deep the foundatica of that
hate and envy within his party which in
Cleveland's S case defeated him for re-esec-
tion in 1883 and sent him ami his sup
porters into exile in 1896 and 1900 where
a vengeful faction that includes Waiter
son as well as Bryan propo.es to keep
them at whatever cost, and he is doing it
in precisely the same way
All the trouble that has been made for
President Roosevelt, and it Is not small,
has sprung from the desire to teach him
a lesson-a desire whose futnllment de-
volved upon the Republican senators and
representatives who are primarily the ex-
ponents of the Republican machines in
the various states.
Item.-If the CD. will carefully ad-
just its glasses and read the following
from the Hartford Courant Republic-
AM, under the caption 'Unholy ALI
ance," it will discover evidence of ga
solid Republican column" also the
opinion entertained concerning its an