Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-04-24
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land him outside the senatorial breast
works, but Teddy appears to be deter
mined to have literary men about him.
Getting Sick.
The signs of the times indicate that
certain Democrats who in 1896 and
1900 followed President Mckinley into
the wilderness appear to be growing
sick of their company and are fixing to
return to the old Democratic house
hold. We are ready to welcome the
prodigals. There is no mourners' bench
in the church Democratic. While we
are willing to receive them and will
not too closely inquire into their ante
cedents, they must not expect to have
the fatted calf killed for them and to
be presented with the plantation be-
sides. The Philippine question is the
one on which a good many of them are
preparing to return to the Democratic
party. Others will find other ques
tions on which to get back into the
fold. That nearly all of them will one
way or another find excuse to break
away from their alliance is highly
probable, for if man ever is Demo-
crat once it is likely to break out on
him again at any moment. The latest
prodigal who shows symptoms of re-
turning is Hon. Don M. Dickinson of
Michigan. Recently in speaking of the
Philippines he said:
have never felt that our government
was wrong in taking over the Philippines,
it remaining an open question whether we
should retain them. l have been strongly
opposed to hauling down the flag while
under fire, and have on the whole SYM
pathized with the administration in its
Philippine policy.
But, at the same time, I would rather
give up these islands, lose all they cost us,
lower the flag thousand times and get
out of Porto Rico, Cuba and Hawaii than
to see our civil authorities-note, our civil
authorities-revive the sedition laws the
like of which were SO abhorred and so
hated and whose existence on our statute
books was SO brief and so ruinous to
their authors in the administration of
John Adams.
If this report be true, I don't care what
the offense was, it were better for our
people and nation to haul down our flag
dilu lSdN0 LIE Z IlllIpplilGS 10 the govern
ment of, say, the sultan of Sulu than to
permit the civil authorities to impose in
our name any such abominable relic of
bad despotisnl as this.
Now, that proves beyond all question
that Don is getting ready to flop again,
this time back to the coop from which
he flew in 1896. Let him come Every
little helps.
Still Unhappy.
Our esteemed contemporary the New
York World sagely and sententiously
remarks, 9The first duty of a public
prosecutor is to prosecute''-which is
dig at the erstwhile beloved Jerome
William Travers Jerome-of whom
marvellous enforcement of the law was
expected and predicted And The World
was one of the prophets. Now it turns
out, according to The World, that Jer-
ONE either doesn't know how or is I'M
willing to prosecute in an atrocious
murder case. Jerome was the brightest
and most shining light in the galaxy of
stars in the Low combination-befor
the election. Then he was going to
smite crime hip and thigh and make it
odious. Now the reform press is hop
ping ON to William Trayers in most
energetic, not to say brutal, manner
Man never is, but always to be, blest."
On the Run.
When Matthew Stanley Quay runs
away from the machine and goes back
on machine candidates, things Repub-
lican in the keystone State are in de-
cidedly bad way, and that is precisely
what Matthew Stanley has done
while all the world wondered. For sew
eral months Mr.. Attorney General El.
kin has been an avowed candidate for
governor to succeed Governor w. A.
Stone, who organized the farfamed 'hog
combine" while in congress. Next to
Quay and Stone stood Elkin in the ma
chine Nineteen counties held conven
tions or primaries. Elllin carried sew
enteen of them, as the machine candi-
date when suddenly and unexpectedly
as the proverbial clap of thunder out
Of clear sky came Quay's declaration
that as a delegate to the state conyen-
ton, to which position he has already
had himself elected he could not sup
port General Elkin for governor, which
being interpreted means that the ma
chine of which Elkin is part has gone
squarely back on him. Wherefore?
Because Senator Matthew Stanley Quay
is not a fool and has sense enough to
read the signs of the times, and he sees
mat EIk1n,s nomination would endaD-
gressmen to the Democrats and proba-
bly, elect enough Democrats to the leg
islature to elect a Democrat to succeed
Senator Boies Penrose-all of which
Quay wishes to avoid. The only hope
he saw was to unload Elkin, which he
proceeded to do, so far as he could; but
there's the rub. Quay has learned by
this time of day that it's easier to start
Elkin to running than it is to stop him,
and Elkin, with seventeen counties out
of nineteen behind him, has raised Sen
ator Quay at his own game, refuses to
be choked off and has set up as ''peo-
pies candidate!' He sends forth bold
defiance, which is now echoing through
the mountains and valleys of Quaysyl-
vania. Quay undertook to throw FL
kin to the whale as a tub, but Elllin
refuses to play tub. Evidently he will
have to be disciplined, and no doubt he
will be. The power which gave him his
seventeen counties out of nineteen win
now be dead against him, and be will
find it an uphill job from now on. Mi
Tabile dictu! the Philadelphia papers
have changed base. The Press and
other anti-Quay organs are now indors-
ing Quay, and The Inquirer, his steady
company, still supports Elkin as ''the
peoples candidate" denounces Quay's
bossism and in other ways shows that
it is hot through and through. 1t is a
pretty kettle of fish, and let us hope
that good may come out of it to Dem
ocrats and the country.
Pub. Docs.
1t is strange to what an extent the
impression prevails that representa-
tive or senator can obtain and send
out, free of cost, any number of cop
les, however great, of any public docu-
ment or book. 1t may save a great
many people a great deal of trouble
and worry to state the facts once more,
and they are as follows: Each repre-
sentative and senator has certain