Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-16

OAuSc ease tOlS CHOuSA " duutSSS
few words of admonition to the legis-
lature which recently reelected him to
the senate of the United States, but
it's dollars to doughnuts that neither
Senator Spooner nor Congressman
Crumpaeker will open his chops to pro-
miscegenation.
Surely the Missouri Republicans have
not heard the news that the consulship
at Guayaquil, with salary and perqui-
sites amounting to $4,000, is vacant
and that nobody is applying for it.
Guayaquil is on the equator. Thomas
Mast, consul, died there recently; yel
low fever Indigenous Nobody wants
place! Most assuredly Missouri Re-
publicans have not heard of that, else
one of them. indeed scores of them,
would have offered to sacrifice them
selves on the altar of their country.
What to a Missouri Republican is the
equator, what the yellow fever, when
a good, fat salary is in sight?
Harmony In Iowa.
That delightful and much exploited
Harmony, with a big, big Fl, now ex-
listing in the Republican party is curl
ously illustrated by an unseemly wran-
gle now going on between Governor
Cummins of Iowa and Congressman
Hull of the Des Moines district as to
which of them shall be chief cook and
bottle washer at the Roosevelt festivi-
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city of the Hawkeye State. Those two
statesmen hate each other more ven
omously than did the Montagues and
Capulets. Each is the head of fac
ton, and it's factional war to the
death. Each aspires to be the whole
show-to be lit" Consequently as
soon as it was announced that Presi-
dent Roosevelt in swinging around
the circle would stop at Des Moines
each concluded to make political cap
ital out of that event for himself, and
the scheming promptly began and con-
tinues. 1t is already attracting much
attention. These two enemies live in
the same state, county, city, ward and
precinct. 1t is an open secret that
Cummins has made up his mind to
drive Hull out of public life, and no
man loves public life more than Hull.
in frame of mind to exclaim. "A
plague on both your houses"
The editor of the Washington Post
ought to be arrested under the statute
against cruelty to animals for he
makes this irreverent remark:
The Hon. William F. Harrity is being
mentioned occasionally in the current po-
litical gossip. 1t is about time for Don
M. Dickinson to begin to stand around
and make remarks.
Does not the Post know that in max
ing such a fling at Don NJ. Dickinson
it is poking fun at the most gorgeous
mutton chop whiskers in America
How can the Post be so heartless?
Undemocratic; UnrepubIican.
The Washington Post, independent,
contains this vigorous, scathing and
truthful editorial touching the deplor-
able condition of affairs in Rhode Is
land and Connecticut:
| Inc constitution OF tSnOue 1SiaDu IS al
most as unrepubIican and antidemocratic
as that of Connecticut, and there is even
less prospect of reform in the former than
in the latter state. While each of the two
commonwealths probably meets the re-
quirement of the federal constitution, "a
republican form of government" both are
probably deficient in the spirit of repub-
licanism and contemptuously defiant of
the spirit of democracy. The Posts read
ers are or ought to be, familiar with the
Connecticut monstrosity. but much less
publicity has been given to Rhode Is
lands In the latter state each city and
township, regardless of population, has
one member of the senate. This was not
very equitable sixty years ago. and it has
come to be an abomination through the
| growth of cities. Its injustice is illus
| trated by such facts as these: Twenty
townships, with 1893 inhabitants and
| $500 voters, elect twenty out Of thirty
eight senators. Eight cities and towns,
with a population of 800 600, elect only
eight senators. Providence has 9,0SO vot-
ers but only one senator. The twenty
townships with their 5.620 voters absolute
| ly control legislation. Having majority
| in the senate, a small minority of the peo-
| pie can and do prevent any amendment
| of the constitution that would deprive
| them of plenary power. This minority
| rule is the chief source of the bribery and
disgraced. AS the Chicago Tribune puts
| it:
''The influence of money in elections de-
| pends largely on the size of an electorate.
| 1t would take much money to carry an
election in Providence with its 29Ooa vot-
ers. Comparatively little is needed in a
| town with 800 voters, and the small Rhode
| Island towns are the ones which have
been so completely debauched that they
| invariably elect the candidate who will
| pay out the most money"
The only hope of change lies in the
| creation of a public sentiment strong
| enough to shame the people of the small
| towns into compliance with the dictates
| of decency As the case stands, they are
| either participants in or promoters of in
| famous crimes-of crimes for which the
law prescribes the penitentiary.
| The trouble about reforming Rhode
| Island and Connecticut and bringing
them into harmony with the progress
| sive spirit of the age is that i'll order to
change the present status the small
| towns must voluntarily relinquish their
power, and they will not willingly do
SO. They are about as much Influenced
/ by public opinion as duck is by an
April shower.
Served Him Right.
The following dispatch from Boston
conveys valuable lesson:
kiss that flag" sternly commanded
! Captain Henry b. Rogers of the United
| States revenue steamer Seminole today as
| the entire ships company was mustered
| at general quarters. The man to whom
] the command was given meekly obeyed-
1 No one who saw it will ever forget the
scene with its picturesque setting and its
| solemn meaning, the starry banner alone
| Frightening the spot where the men
stood, contrasting with the dark blue of
| their uniforms and the white coat of the
| Seminole herself.
This is my country; this is my flag.
| Repeat those words" commanded the cap
/ tain. and the shamefaced sailor repeated
\ them.
No one shall ever say word against
| 1t in my presence Repeat that too
/ And 1t was done.
| And then a hem of the ships flag was
| handed the man, kiss IT" was the or
| der. and six times was the ceremony per-
/