Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-30

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boom is growing. Former Vice Presi-
| dent Adlai E. Stevenson helped it
along somewhat at the Des Moines
| gabfest by saying:
| The appeal will be to the young men OF
our country, upon whom will soon rest the
/ burdens and responsibilities Of govern
| ment. l deeply regret the necessary alb
| sence tonight of one who would have been
an honored guest at this board William
| r. Hearst, a splendid representative of
the young Democracy, one who would be
| welcome guest in any Democratic as
i semblage. Only those who bore the brunt
/ OF the last presidential contest know to
the fullest his untiring devotion to our
| cause and of his splendid service from
/ the beginning to the close of that mem
| orable struggle. AS representative in con-
gress from the great metropolis and the
| greatest journalist of the age. his field OF
| usefulness is enlarged. and the past is
/ but the earnest Of what he will yet ac-
complish for his party and his country.
1 From the foregoing extract we may
/ fairly conclude that Adlai is not sit
| ting up O. nights nursing the presiden-
| tial boom of bis old running mate,
/ G. G.
Well, well, politics not only makes
/ strange bedfellows, but it causes di.
| vers and sundry persons to indulge i'll
many queer remarks! But of all that
ever fell from human lips surely Mark
/ Hanna's objection to Tom johnson
heads the list easily Uncle Mark OBJ
| jects seriously to Tom because Tom
has used his position to build up "a
! yolitical machiney The next thing we
know President Roosevelt will be out
in a brochure lambasting Nimrod be
cause he was a mighty hunter or lar.
ruping Marshal Ney because he some
times led cavalry charge Was there
ever such rank and patent case Of
the pot calling the kettle black as for
Uncle Mark to object to Tom on such
grounds?
Hire a Hall.
The News of Newburg, N. Y, solemn
" AYERS and vociferously asserts that
President Mckinley offered cabinet
portfolio to Hon Thomas w Bradley,
congressman elect from the Newburg
district. AT the rate things are going
it will soon be in order for the emf
nent persons who refused to accept
| cabinet positions under Mckinley to
hire Il hall and hold a convention Mr.
Mckinley is dead and cannot enter a
denial; consequently any Republican
statesman may with impunity enhance
his own standing by alleging that he
was stendereds a cabinet job By the de-
ceased president.
Chickens come home to roost some
| times. A Republican national admins
| tration established a press censorship
in the Philippines. Patriots who pro-
| tested against that un-American per-
/ formance were denounced as traitors.
We said that such bad example
would return to plague the inventors,
and we were right. The Republican
| legislature of Pennsylvania, at the be-
hest of Republican governor cousin
10 Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, is
incubating press censorship bill. Per-
haps and most probably other Repub-
lican legislatures will follow suit Can
any American defend such a perform
ance? We think not.
/ Governors will be elected in eight
states next fall-Ohio, Iowa, Maryland,
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Ken
lucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. There
can be no question that Kentucky, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana will elect Demo
Gratis and that Iowa will elect Re
| publican Iowa ought by all the rules
of logic and common sense to be the
| ctronUocf noDnoorn fic ctofo in fho TYn
ion, but through some freak of fate
she is about the strongest Republican
| commonwealth. While the trend is to-
ward the Democrats in Massachusetts,
1t is hardly to be hoped that she will
elect Democratic governor this year,
though she is liable to swing into the
| Democratic column in 1904 The
chances are that Ohio will also elect a
Republican governor, though if Tom
| Johnson is the Democratic nominee he
is apt to be elected. The governors of
Rhode Island and Maryland are Demo
Gratis. If the Democrats carry both
| this year it will augur well for 1904,
and vice versa.
Taxes and Public Expenses.
Public Policy says:
During the ten years from 1890 to 1900
| the growth of state taxation in Ohio was
| 1917 per cent. In Illinois it was 1921 per
cent
During the same period the growth OF
| local taxation in Ohio was POS per cent.
| In Illinois it was 4S rs per cent.
| This is a serious matter. The time has
| come when halt must be called on plac-
| ing additional burdens on taxpayers. In
| stead of seeking the means of securing
more taxes it will be the part of wisdom
| for general assemblies to seek ways and
| means for getting more material and
| work out of the money that is raised by
| taxation for the support of state and local
/ governments.
| We know we voice the desire of every
| taxpayer when we say the growth of
! taxation must stop,
Why does no Public Policy turn its
eagle optic on Missouri, where the
Democrats have cut down taxation
| from so cents on the $100 of valuation
| to is cents within the last ten OF
] twelve years? The Missouri state tax
/ is cut down cents on the $100 of val
uation this year. There is an object
lesson for Public Policy to talk about.
The same issue of Public Policy con
tains this vicious jab at Mayor Seth
Lows wonderful reform administra-
ton:
The secretary Of the Citizens Union in
terjected some significant statements re-
garding the present service Of the city Of
New York into the discussion of the mu-
| nicipal ownership question when he de-
ciared that thousands of our employees
/ actually average about twenty-five hours
| week the year round, deducting holi-
days, and give very inferior service al
4 that This is under a reform admins
| tration in which the heads of departments
are assumed to be making honest efforts
to secure efficient and economical service
The same speaker said that with proper
supervision the government ought to bt
run at IS per cent of the present outlay.
Nothing in luck, eh? Let some be
lever in that idea go out to Oregon
and interrogate Hon. Bingo Hermann
on that vexed subject. He served ac