Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-11-20

, III llS issue OF NOV. D, I'VE hasten to
forward our sympathy to the valued
st. Louis Globe-Democrat and suggest
that perhaps some other year Missouri
may go Republican" Poor old Globe
Democrat!
An Unnecessary Handicap.
| In the recent campaign Democratic
nominees had to carry an unnecessary
handicap by reason of the jabber of
Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama to
the effect that it would be bad thing
for the Democrats to have the next
house of representatives By such
twaddle Senator Morgan Intentionally
increased the load of every Democratic
candidate for congress. The word Gin
tentionally" is deliberately used, for the
law presumes-and Senator Morgan is
renowned lawyer-that every man
intends the results which naturally and
inevitably flow from his own acts or
words. Senator Morgan cannot plead
ignorance, for he is not ignorant 1t is
very easy-indeed easy as falling off a
log, and a slippery log at that-for a
man who is just entering upon a six
year term in the senate to say that
some other man of the same faith who
is struggling for a two year term in
the house and against whom no charge
of lack of fitness is urged should be de-
feated. 1t is an easy thing to do, but
very ungracious one. What would
Hon. John Tyler Morgan have thought
if when he was last up for reelection
to the senate the good people of Ala
bama had said, '"The Democrats should
not control the senate" and had there
upon elected Republican to succeed
Morgan? Does anybody believe for
one moment that Senator Morgan
would have been enamored of that the
ory? Not bit of it. He would have
paved up the earth and made the vel
kin ring with his believing. Very
much depends on whose OK is gored.
The senator, having safely made a
comfortable port himself was willing
to see his party brethren sink. Indeed
he was willing to help sink them. for
that is precisely the effect that his dec
larations had on all who were running
for congress.
By what right did he assume to say
that Democratic house would be det-
rimental to the party? There are those
by no means obscure Democrats Ell
ther-who believe that some of Senator
Morgan's utteranceS in the senate and
out of it have been more detrimental to
the party than a Democratic house
would have been. How does Hon. John
Tyler Morgan relish that sort Of talk 2
The senator should peruse "Put Your
self In His Place" Evidently 1t would
do him good, and the next time 1856
Democratic candidates are fighting an
uphill battle he may at least be in
duced to extend to them if not help
ing hand at least the charity of his ST.
lence, If silence is not with him an ut
ter impossibility. If he must talk dur
ing campaign, he should seek the Sc
clusion of primeval forest and not
the society of reporters. Then he will
do less harm.
The Presidents Status.
The signs of the times indicate that
only one man of eminence in the Unit
ed States has improved his status this
year, and that is President Roosevelt.
He is a much more commanding figure
now than he was when congress ad-
journed in July. Then his chances of
securing the nomination. to say moth
sDr oF +I1 oIo
one out of three. Now they are easily
two to one. He may not have a cinch
on it, but he comes very near it. A
great opportunity came to him. and he
seized it with resolute hand, thereby
saving his party from utter rout and
ruin In the eastern states. The next
house is Republican because, and only
because, Theodore Roosevelt settled the
great anthracite coal strike whereas
his masterful great rival, Senator Mar
Gus A. Hanna, tried to settle it and
failed 1t will be amusing now to
watch the supple Republican courtiers
fawn upon Roosevelt-the very same
Republicans who in July and August
were cursing him under their breath as
"marplot," "bul in the china shop"
etc. '"ro shout with. the multitude con-
stitutes the wisdom of this world" is
bit of cynical philosophy which the Re-
publican leaders believe in and act up
on The world shouts for Colonel Roose-
welt now, likewise the Republican
chieftaipR. Three months ago they were
against him almost to man and were
busy grooming Senator Hanna for the
highest Office In the world. AT this
time it seems that President Roosevelt
has his destiny in his own hands and
unless he does something later on to
knock the fat into the fire will be nomi-
mated.
Amazing Cheek.
For unadulterated and monumental
gall commend us to Hon. John Barrett
of Massachusetts, late minister to ST.
am and now worlds fair commissioner
general to the effete east. He had
some sort of an audience with the en-
peror of China, and here is the way his
secretary, Hon. Theodore Hardee, de-
and dumfounded world:
The unprecedented honor of being in
vited on the dais itself of the Son of
Heavens throne to engage in personal
conversation with the emperor and en-
press dowager of China has just been
shown John Barrett, formerly American
minister to Siam, now commissioner gen.
eral to Asia for the st. Louis worlds fair,
and Minister Conger, who presented the
commissioner general to their majesties
on July rs. This innovation in royal pro-
cedure, where heretofore conservatism
has made the Chinese court known as
the most exclusive in the world, is strik-
ingly interesting and significant.
Not content with granting Mr.. Barrett
the first audience in the history of Pc
king ever given to foreign commissioner
on similar mission. the emperor and
empress dowager took advantage of the
about American President Roosevelt and
the character and extent of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. To do this they
violated all precedents and astonished the
array of princes and courtiers present by
requesting Commissioner Barrett and Min
lister Conger to step upon the sacred
throne platform itself. For ten minutes
or more their majesties exchanged words
with these two American representatives
while the surrounding officials looked on
in apparent surprise that no harm befell
them for daring to approach SO near to
the Son of Heaven. Their majesties an
nounced that they not only would issue an
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