Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-06-18
Especial Washington letter.

A pFeleu the nanuWrlIlng on tnt
~ wall, yielded as gracefully tt
the inevitable as circumstances
would permit and took his presidential
boom in out of the wet, and since Sen
ator Matthew Stanley Quay, who car
see as far into grindstone as the mex
one, carefully observing the signs Of
the times, caused his neges in Pennsyl
yania to declare for Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt in 1904, the president bids
fair to break all records by succeeding
himself as presidential nominee. Nc
other man in like situation ever per
formed that caper. He is the fifth vice
president to succeed to the presidency
by reason of the death of president
The other four most ardently desired q
nomination to the highest political of
flee within the gift of any peoples a
most laudable ambition, to which they
bent all their energies and used all
their patronage. They failed-two ig-
ANONYMOUSLY failed. John Tyler and
Andrew johnson were not only moi
nominated for the high Office by the
parties which elevated them to the vice
presidency, but they were not even
mentioned in the nominating conven-
tions. If they had been mentioned at
all, it would have been with contumely
and scorn, with loathing and savage
hatred. Lieutenant General Winfield
Scott easily defeated Millard Fillmore
and James G. Blaine Walloped Chester
A. Arthur after hot contest. Hap
pier or luckier or more deserving than
Tyler, Fillmore, johnson and Arthur,
Colonel Roosevelt will be nominated
unless all signs fail, and will thus add
new distinction to the long list which
he can now proudly enumerate.
Why is it thus? No man can tell
Colonel Roosevelt could not honestly
tell, even if he were so inclined.
That he has conquered the statesmen
or politicians in his own party is known
of all men of intelligence. Originally
they were dead against him-and he
knew it. None better. They regarded
him as too cocky, too rash, too precipi-
tate-as unsafe" to use their peculiar
A1ASO-Out lIOlu TIC llOL lAG IdAA anu
file of the Republicans were for him.
When he interfered in the coal strike
the plain Republicans came to love him
and intimated that they would make it
redhot for Republican statesmen who
opposed him, and the Republican states
men aforesaid concluded that it was
not profitable to kick against the plain
people. So they caved, and Colonel
Roosevelt, who was supposed to be
shelved in 1900, will be nominated by
acclamation in 1904!
Why do plain Republicans love him
and why do plain Democrats respect
him? Because he is one Of them. He
is a good father and delights in his
children. He is good husband and
enjoys his home. He is an American
equally at home in the White House or
on ranch. He has opinions and is not
afraid to express them. He is not
squeamish; he is plain and simple-in
love with the world and proud of his
position, as well he may be.
OF course l am, like all good Demo
Gratis, for some good Democrat to beat
him with after he gets the nomination;
but, as his personal friend, I am glad
he is going to get the nomination of his
party, as he seems to me to be a clean
man, strong man. an unconventional
man, as good man as Republican
can be. OF course he is in bad political
company and is not as good as a good
Democrat.
Republican Harmony.
Our Republican friends have much to
say about divisions and feuds in the
Democratic party. They are always
prating about the Harmony, with big,
big III, which exists in their own ranks.
Before they attempt to remove the
mote from the Democratic optic they
should have surgical operation per-
formed and remove the beam from
their own eye.
If there is any place on earth where
Republicanism displays all its features
it must be in Pennsylvania, which rolls
up anywhere from 100000 to 100000
majority for the Republican ticket.
Last year Senator Matthew Stanley
Quay, finding a vast deal of dissatis-
faction among the rank and file, took
his cousin, Judge Pennypacker, off the
bench and had him nominated and
elected governor. Stones administra-
ton had made a reform candidate a
sine qua non to success, and Penny
packer was labeled Reform Candi-
date" and his election was hailed as a
great reform triumph.
Another Republican reformer OF re-
nown is my brilliant and delightful
friend. Hon. Charles Emory Smith, ex-
postmaster general of the United
States and editor of the Philadelphia
Press. Here is what Reformer Smith
thinks of Reformer Pennypacker:
In the unparalleled storm which Gov
ernor Pennypacker has called down upon
himself even his Beotian mind must
realize by this time that he has made
monumental and irreparable mistake
Within four months of his Inauguration
he has hopelessly blighted his adminis-
tration. Not by the mere fact that he has
signed the new libel bill. In any event,
trous to him. but under other circum-
stances it might not have been fatal. The
fatal thing is that in the way he has
done it and under the conditions surround
ing it he has made revelation of his
from the deadly impress
sion and effects of which he can never
escape.
More Republican Harmony.
The Washington Post, whatever else
it may be. is not Democratic 1t claims
to be independent. but it generally ad-
yocates Republican politicians and sup
ports Republican measures. Therefore
it cannot be justly accused of being
nm unfriendly witness when it testifies
about the Republican situation as fol-
lows:
There is a great clamor among Wiscon-
sin Republicans for harmony. A good
many people are heartily sick of the quar-
rels of the half breeds, whose leader is
Governor La Toilette, and the stalwarts,
whose leader now seems to be Representa-
tive Babcock. Compromise talk is widely
heard to the end that some new leader,
who will be fair to both factions shall be
chosen Warnings are INDUCED in that
the party is rapidly going to the bowwows
as things are now, and unless the hatchet
Is buried the time will come when Demo-
Gratis will get sufficient support from
their warning opponents to sweep the
state.
Republican Hypocrisy.
When Brigham m. Roberts of Utah