Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-12-04

free silver moyement-perhaps there
were; they are generally connected
with every great movement-but Sena.
tor Teller was not one. He did what
he thought was right. He followed his
conscience. lie left his party with
tears i'll his eyes and sorrow in his
heart, and he deserves fair treatment
at least.
Little Rhody."
The results of the recent election,
while not showing anything like
landslide for the Democrats, did show
a growing sentiment in their favor.
Everybody talks of the close finish in
New York simply because the Empire
State of the north is so big; but, while
Brother Coler is in position to think Of
Whittier's couplet
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these-it might have
been
Governor Odell no doubt finds conso-
lation in the old saw, "A miss is good
as a mile" Coler did not grow, and
Odell shrank.
Little attention has been paid to the
revolution i'll Rhode Island simply be-
cause she is so small, but the Demo-
cratic victory i'll the smallest of states
means much more than the Democratic
defeat in New York, for. while New
York is normally Democratic state,
Rhode Island is normally Republican.
There is one unusual feature of the
Rhode Island election which has been
little noted, and that is that her DEM
ocratic governor elect, Hon. Lucius F.
c. Garvin, is a southron by birth, a
native of Tennessee. There are only a
few instances of the kind i'll New Eng
land history-in fact, only one that I
can now recall, that of General Haw-
ley, senior senator from Connecticut,
who was born in North Carolina Both
the Republican senator and the Demo-
cratic governor were Union soldiers.
strange for southern or northern man
to be elected to any office, but it has
always been rare for southerner to be
elected to Office in New England or for
"A New Englander to be elected IN the
south, while in Greater New York little
or no account is taken Of nativity.
Futile.
The effort being made to establish a
"Lily White" Republican party in the
south is utterly futile. The sad case
of Senator John L. McLaurin is the lat
est evidence of that. The scheme has
been suggested many times, but has al
ways been abandoned for the simple
reason that so long as the negroes can
vote at all there can be found no con-
siderable material from which to con-
struct Lilly White" party When the
Republicans for purely selfish purposes
enfranchised the negroes ell masse,
they established such a condition in
several states that no large number Of
white men will affiliate with them any
more forever. Just why some able ne
gro has not forced the Republicans to
nominate him for vice president is in
comprehensive, because without the
negro vote, the Republicans could not
carry enough states at any election to
give them president and congress.
Again Bah.
1t would appear that after awhile
people would grow weary of the Bah
cock interviews; but, like Tennyson's
Brook they go Oh forever. His most
recent suggestion is that the tariff is al
ways revised at an extra session, which
statement is wide of the mark, and he
gives several reasons why it should be
.hus. He is decidedly hazy as to when
his proposed extra session will be call
ed ut may be for years, and it may
oe forever" most probably forever il
Brother Bah and his political partners
are not turned out into the cold where
there is weeping and wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth. There are few things more
certain i'll this world than that the Re-
publicans will never cut down the tar
IF rates. many of which Governor
Dingley himself said were Intentionally
made too high to be cut down by reci-
procity treaties.