Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-06-19


Globe-Democrat is, especially
of one which arrogates to it.
self the title of 1.-THE great re-
ligious daily" which the CD.
does, is to tell the truth, which the
CD. sometimes does not do. Recently
it contained this editorial squib:
Champ Clark says all who do not sym
pathize with his bigoted attack on Secre-
tary Hay are hunting a postmastership.
Champ ought to know that there are not
900 postoffices.
Yes, Champ knows that there are not
75,99900O postoffices, aM Champ
knows something else-to wit, that the
first sentence of the above quotation
| from the Globe-Democrat is lie made
! of whole cloth, and the man who wrote
it also knows that it is lie and that
he wrote malicious lie to exc out his
wit. Now, mark how plain tale will
put down the CD. Here is what l
did say: 81 recognize very clearly that
to oppose the passage of this resolu-
/ ton subjects the man who does it to
the adverse criticism of every editor in
the United States who is also post
master and every editor in the United
| States who hopes to be a postmaster or
to secure federal Office. / am equally
clear that in opposing it l am doing
right" There is no resemblance in
what I said to what the CD. says l
said except the use of the word post
master A position which needs to be
bolstered up by falsehood is an unten-
able position, and that's the kind the
| CD occupies in this matter. 1t so
| happened that 1 was the first person
in the United States who called atten-
| ton to the un-American quality of
| President Roosevelt'S action in ap-
| pointing an extraordinary embassy to
do the funky act at King Edwards s
coronation. The CD. and all other or
| gan grinders promptly jumped on me
| for so doing, but I survived and have
| lived to see nearly every decent news
| paper in America denounce that spe-
| cial embassy. So universal was the
| denunciation that one of the embassa-
doris declined the appointment, thereby
| raising himself immeasurably in the
estimation of all true Americans.
| So it will be in the matter of the
| resolution of thanks to Mr.. Secretary
Hay. Every man who reads his ad-
dress will thoroughly understand that
he violated the proprieties by injecting
| into his eulogy of Mr. Mckinley a
| Republican stump speech. The bust
ness of the CD. and other organ
| grinders Is twofold-first, to play the
lickspittle and indorse everything and
anything that a Republican says or
does; second, to condemn anything and
| everything that Democrat says OF
/ does, however wise, courageous or pa
triotic I do not hold my commission
at the hands of or with the permission
| of the CD. answer for my acts only
| to my own conscience and my own con-
| stituents. / do what 1 deem my duty
and construe as a certificate of good
/ character the abuse heaped upon me
! by the hired scribblers of the Repub-
| lican press for so doing. If they
praised me for anything do or say
/ in congress- I would carefully recon
slider my action or utterance to dis
| cover if I had not made mistake.
When I made my very temperate re-
| marks against thanking Colonel Hay
for violating the proprieties and max
ing a partisan Republican speech
/ when, according to all the canons OF
good taste, he should have confined
himself to the language of eulogy,
knew that would be abused by every
timber legged sycophant in the land;
that would not be popular with either
our aristocratic and imperialistic -Four
| Hundred or with the innumerable
army of political pothunters; that
would sacrifice many invitations to So
| cial functions. But did my duty and
| do not care a baubee what anybody
| says in the way of legitimate criticism.
| I draw the line at downright lying.
If Colonel Hays address had any
/ politics in it, was right; if not, | was
/ wrong. To settle that question for all
| time to come I make this fair, square
/ proposition to the Globe-Democrat: Let
the editor OF any one else connected
| with the CD make affidavit that Colo
| mel Hays Grafton contains no politics
] or political remarks and send the af-
| fidavit to me- I will institute criminal
| proceedings against the maker of the
! affidavit and conduct the prosecution
| myself before a jury If an acquittal
is obtained on the charge of false
swearing, am to resign from congress
| and never to hold another office but If
| conviction is secured the CD. is to
! shut up shop and go out of business.
! That's a tangible proposition. Will
! the Globe-D Democrat shrink from the
ordeal? Will it duck? Will it dodge!
| Will it hedge? Will it back out from
| the contest which it has invited? 1t is
rich and powerful; / am poor and, ac-
| cording to it's standard, feeble. There
fore it ought to be willing to abide the
result of such trial. Will it do so?
Rank Hypocrisy.
Certainly the rankest hypocrites the
| world contains are the Republican or
gan grinders. For example, this same
Globe Democrat has the impudence to
publish this paragraph:
Boer immigrants will be warmly well
coined in the United States and allowed a
'front.' seat at shooting matches.
OF course Boer immigrants viii be
warmly welcomed in the United States
but if the Republican administrations
in the last three years had lifted a
finger or spoken word in behalf of
the Beers they would not have fell
like immigrating to the United States
or to any other country. They would
have retained their independence anG
would have remained contentedly il
! their South African homes, which they
conquered from the wilderness ant
/ from savages. Not one word, however
could the pro English administration G.
Washington be induced to speak IL
favor of or sympathy with the two
brave little republics which made tht
most astounding fight for freedom re
corded in the annals of the human
race. Now that they have been over
whelmed by sheer force of numbers
the Globe-D Democrat and others of its
ilk have the unspeakable gall to try tx
make it appear that Republicans arr
! friendly to the Beers. President Roose
welt could find no way to show th'
friendship of this greatest of republic'
for the two little republics which wer'
murdered by Great Britain, but whil'
II fhav wore hrnathinp o11t their lives b.