Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-19

City journal diScOurSeS as follows:
WARES EARLY RHYMES.
1t is shocking how the indiscretions of
youth will sometimes rise to confront a
man in his respectable old age The Fort
Scott Monitor is reproducing matter from
its files of a date when Gene Ware was
its editor. And here is poem by Ware
depicting the woes of a reporter:
Oh, that some burglars
Into stores would break
And heaps of "swag
FeloniouSly take!
Oh, that two houses
Would take fire in town
And one of them burn up
And one burn down.
Oh, that some one would strike
With angry frown
A seven foot manor coal bank
Near our town!
Oh, that some person
Who despaired of life
Would run away
With some one elses wife!
Oh, that some fiery
Horse would break loose
And like a gambler.
Play the very 'deuceW
Oh, that some politician
Would take pride
In killing rascals off
By suicide!
The gold of Ophir
We may oh and owe for,
But now just now.
It's locals we must go for.
Another Kansan.
Indeed Madam Rumor has lately been
busy with Kansas statesmen. She now
reports that Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow is to resign.
This piece of news may be true, as it
is coupled with two other rumors
which may explain the fact that he is
to resign. One is that he is to go on
the Dawes commission, and the other
is that he is to run for congress in the
big Seventh Kansas district, now rep
resented by Chester I. Long, senator
elect. Now, while nobody can believe
that Pension Commissioner Ware is to
resign, one can readily understand
that Bristow may resign, as he is slat-
ed for a fatter job. Out in Pike coun-
ty, Mo-, where reside, the cry of 'Ro-
| tation in officer went up and disar-
| ranged things political at great rate.
! File.-@.ToIn tsus-sl, a cotStd-
cradle wag, was filing the Office Of
assessor and at the same time was
candidate for recorder, a much more
desirable position While he was on
his electioneering rounds somebody
asked him how he stood on the rota-
ton question, whereupon he gayly and
automatically replied, "Oh, yes, 1 am
| in favor Of rotation in office-that is,
Of rotating out of one Office into bet
ter oner' Uncle Tom was Democrat,
but he enunciated platform on which
all Republican statesmen stand. They
rarely perform the Improbable caper
of giving up good, juicy bone in the
vain hope of securing better one. They
make certain Of the juicier bone first.
A Certain Telegram.
"Who sent that telegram is likely
| to become as famous a question as
"Who struck Billy PattersonY The
| particular telegram herein referred to
is the one which came to divers sena
tors on Saturday, Feb. Z, in the year
of our Lord 1908 and signed "John
D. Rockefeller" protesting against any
| hostile action by congress against the
trusts or, more properly speaking, which
| purported to be so signed, for it does,
not stand to reason and to common
sense that Mr.. Rockefeller would do
such an idiotic thing. He probably
| could not do anything which would be
more certain to precipitate drastic anti
| trust legislation than to send such
telegram to senators, provided such tel
egram became public property. OF
| course there are senators to whom he
could with perfect impunity send any
| request or command by telegram, letter
or otherwise, but the average senator,
even when willing to do Rockefeller's
bidding. would prefer that the matter
| be kept secret.
! But, whether bogus or genuine, the
| aforesaid telegram has created great
excitement not only in newspaper Of
| fees, but also among statesmen, great
and small. 1t will probably end in an
investigation to ascertain who sent the
| telegram. Perhaps such investigation
would turn out to be bogus. The prob
abilities are that the Rockefellers are
| we'll pleased with the antitrust legisla-
ton, so called, which has been or may
be enacted by this congress. It's ten
| to one shot that the number of trusts
| or their profits will be in no way re-
duced by the legislation aforesaid. In
| deed, some persons are so cynical as to
4 claim that the trusts dictate the said
| legislation.
A Tiptop Speech.
The speechmaking on the trust ques-
| ton was not confined to the members
of the judiciary committee. In fact, a
tiptop speech-one of the best and most
thoroughly consideration that absorb
ing and vexing theme was deli7ered by
Hon. Charles Randolph Thomas of
North Carolina. Congressional service
and congressional reputation are hered-
| itary in the family, the father of Mr..
Thomas having been an honored men,
| ber of the house years ago. l wish 1
| had room for Mr. Thomas entire speech,
but I can give only the following ex-
cerpts:
Mr. Chairman, the pending bill is the
result of the popular demand for some
further legislation to correct and restrain
the trust evil in this country.
More than twelve years ago the Sher-
man antitrust law was enacted, and, al
though we have been repeatedly informed
by the distinguished gentleman from Ohio,
| General Grosvenor, and others on the Re-
publican side of the house that this law
afforded an adequate remedy against the
existence and growth of those monopolies
which the people by common consent
have denominated trusts. the president and