Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-31

follow his evil advice? Well, hardly
not till people have lost their memory
At one point in his speech strange
thing happened. The Globe Democrat
says:
A cup of water was handed to the
speaker; but, with the tragic air of a
Kentuckian when offered water to drink
he spurned it, saying his machine was
run by wind, not by water, and his state
uses only wind and not water
Yea, verify; Burton's machine is run
by wind. He did right to say so. An
open confession is good for the soul
1t remained for Senator Burton to
claim that the appropriation made by
congress for the st Louis worlds fair
was made for political effect by Il Re
publican congress to induce Missouri to
go Republican-at least that is what
the Globe Democrat reports hi.a us say
ing. If he said anything of the sort.
he stated what was absolutely false
If the Republicans in congress voted to
give $6000,000 of the public money in
order to induce Missouri to go Repub
lican, they were badly hoodwinked by
somebody and will be sorely disap
pointed when the election returns come
in. Perhaps they will repeal the bill
making the appropriation for the
worlds fair! That is evidently what
Burton would advise. Perhaps there
has been at some time somewhere, a
viler statement made by some monde
script and irresponsible Republican pol
itician. but Senator Burton of Kan
sas is certainly the first person holding
so high position to intimate that the
congress of the United States would
pass such an important law as the
worlds fair bill for the purpose of in
ducing state to quit one political
party and join another. What other
Republicans in congress will think of
Burton'S bad break remains to be seen.
A Rising kentuckian.
The Hon. James NJ kehoe of the
Ninth Kentucky district has been
unanimously renominated, an honor
worthily bestowed. Kehoe is one of
the brightest young men in the house,
an indefatigable worker, most ex-
cellent public speaker and Democrat
without guile Kehoe redeemed the
district in 1900, which for several
terms had been misrepresented by a
Republican. In fact the Republicans
have elected more representatives from
that district since the war than the
Democrats.
Kehoe carried it by the skin of his
teeth in 1900. He ought to be re-elect-
ed by large majority, for more
faithful representative never sat in the
house in Washington. He looks after
the interests of his constituents, Demo
Gratis and Republicans too. He attends
faithfully to his duties in the house
itself and looks after the wants of his
constituents iii the departments.
A Brilliant Young Nebraskan.
One of the most promising young
men in the house of representatives is
the Hon. A. G. Shallenberger. In addi-
tion to being a very able man, he is
very handsome man, in the flower of
his years His style of delivery and
the modulation of his voice remind
one somewhat of the Hon. William
j. Bryan. Shallenberger has Il great
career before him if he stays in con
gress long enough. There never was
more systematic or successful fight
made in the congress of the United
States than that made by the adyo-
Gates of the great irrigation scheme,
and no one among the advocates of
that great enterprise conducted him
self to better advantage than did Shall
lenberger. He had evidently studied
the subject from every conceivable
standpoint and took the house by storm.
In discussing the proposition that rri-
eating the west would be detrimental
to the eastern farmers. he delivered
himself of the following passage, which
is well worth reading for many rea-
sons:
Let me illustrate: 1 remember that when
1 started eastward for this capital l wait
ed with great interest the hour when 1
should enter the historical confines of the
great state of Pennsylvania, because my
N,ope had settled there amid her noun
n, 5 almost 200 years ago. and | had
often heard my father tell of the riches
and glores of that grand old common
wealth. had been told by a gentleman
in whom I had great confidence that in
the southwest corner of that state were
centralized more productive capacity and
material wealth than in any other spot
on earth that there was built up that
colossal fortune that has spread nDrar1ea
all over these United States and has made
its owner almost despair that in spite OF
his utmost eIldeavors he will yet be dis
graced by dying rich sfssd which has final
ly eliminated in the most StupendouS in
dustrial combination ever known to man
the United States Steel corporation.
But when 1 looked out of the car win
dow on a dreary November morning and
caught my first glimpse of Pennsylvania
soil and saw her bleak and barren hills,
her rocky valleys, her stony farms and
her rivers red from the wash of her clay
and sand, ] said to myself no wonder my
father left this cheerless region as soon
as he was able to travel alone and sought
the fruitful and fertile soil of Illinois, and
the thought came to me that if I were to
bring steer from the green pastures Of
beautiful Nebraska and turn him out to
fatten upon these mountains / would
never dare to look a steer in the face
again. But that was only my provincial
ism asserting itself.
had judged the situation with a super
fetal eye | was q son of the prairie. born
on the levAt stretches of Illinois and rear
ed on the great plains at the foothills of
the Rocky mountains, end when the train
soon dashed into the limits of that great
center of titanic industries and CONNER
cial aetivtty-the city of rittsburg-aad
then odt and across the hills and down
those historic valleys and rushing rivers
where great manufacturing cities are
strung one after another along her rail-
roads like beads upon a string, | began to
understand what it was that made all
these seeming worthless and barren lands
so valuable and how completely dependent
upon these centers of industry the rest
of the people of that great commonwealth
are and to know why she is indeed and in
truth the keystone State, second in pop
ulation and wealth among all the states
of the Union. and when think that these
distinguished gentlemen who represent
Pennsylvania upon this floor would tell
us that all this Industrial activity, this
world of wealth, this great home market
has been made possible because a kindly
government has given a fostering care to
her manufacturing Industries and know
that her products find their chief outlet
not to the east. but to the south ana
west, the thought comes to me that it i'll
beseemeth Pennsylvania representative
to protest against legislative encourage
ment to western enterprise and develop
rnent.