Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-23

Globe-Democrat Colonel Bryan has a |
thistle patch on his farm. He is ar
ranging to go into the Angora goat |
business. At any rate, he is trying to |
butt in" Clearly the first two of those |
side splitting sentences were written
to make excuse for working in the |
third.
A Tale of Two Cities.
For some weeks the mayoralty cleo |
tions at Cincinnati, in southern Ohio,
and2 at Cleveland, in northern Ohio, |
have attracted national attention be- |
cause it was understood that if Tom |
Johnson won in the city by the lakes |
he would be candidate for governor
Of Buckeyedom this year and, success
full in that race, candidate for presi-
dent next year, and that should Nell
vile e. ingalls,, president of the Big
Four railroad, win in the mayoralty |
race in 'sthe Queen of the West, in her
garlands dressed, on the banks of the
beautiful river, he would be a candi-
date for governor of Ohio this year
and, successful in that race, candidate
for president next year. Well the day
big with the fate of Cato and of Rome
lin fact, of two Catos-came. Tom
was triumphantly reelected mayor of |
Marcus A. Hanna's town, very much
to Uncle Marks chagrin, no doubt, and
Mr.. Ingalls, was showed under. So he
is out of the running, while Tom is
strictly and largely in it. He is most
certainly and most emphatically per-
sonage with whom all aspiring Demo
cratic statesmen must reckon. The
prestige of two mayoralty elections is
not to be sneezed at or poohpoohed out
of the way. His enemies call Tom a
mountebank, fakir and other pet
names, and they disturb him about as
much as a gentle April shower dis
turbs a full feathered duck. His
friends and admirers denominate him
q statesman and the friend of the peo-
pie, and, judging from the election re
turns, his friends are increasing while
his enemies are fading away. Evi-
dently his star is in the ascendant, and
Uncle Mark will have to bestir him
self or Tom will sit in the White
House, which would almost break Tn
Gle Marks heart.
The strange thing about these two
city elections was that nobody seemed
to care anything for the Republican
candidates. Not one intelligent man
in fifty can tell at this moment who it
was that defeated Mr. ingalls, in Gin
cinnati and not one in a thousand can
recall the cognomen of Tom Johnson's
latest victim!
There is one Republican statesman
up in northern Ohio who is no doubt
busy congratulating himself, and that
is Hon. Theodore e. Burton, represent
ative in congress from one of the Cleve-
land districts. Burton is capable and
ambitious as Lucifer Some two or
three months ago the Republican lead
ers on the lake shore took Theodore
up to the top of high mountain and
offered him the dominion of the polit-
ical world, mayoralty, governorship,
senatorship and presidency, if he would
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him in the municipal election. Twas
a great temptation, no doubt Burton
considered, hesitated, cogitated and
declined! He knew on which side his
political bread was buttered. A great
noggin has Burton! 1t is not known
whether Senator Hanna was at the
bottom of the Burton movement. There
is no love lost between them. Quite
the contrary, and it may have been
that Hanna, seeing that Toms triumph
was inevitable, made up his mind that
it was golden opportunity to rid him
self of Burton, who has long been
thorn in his side; but Burton did not
take the bait, and he did WELL The
chances are that he would have re-
ceived more votes than the man who
tackled Tom, but the chances are ten
to one that he would not have been
elected.
OF One Mind.
First and last at least three distin-
guished men have agreed on one propo-
sition Sancho Panza. George Wash
ington and Theodore Roosevelt. Sancho
naturally led off. He declared that
peace is the time to prepare for war"
Washington elaborated the idea some
what, and now comes President Roose-
velt and clothes it in language as fol
lows:
1t is too late to prepare for war when
war has come. and if we only prepare suf-
fieiently no war will ever come. We wish
a powerful and efficient navy. not for
purposes of war. but as the surest guar
antee of peace. If we have such navy,
If we keep on building 1t up. we may rest
assured that there is but the smallest
chance that trouble will ever come to this
nation. and we may likewise rest assured
that no foreign power will ever quarrel
with US about the Monroe doctrine.
The president also delivered himself
Of the following philosophical remarks,
well worth remembering and ponder
ing:
This last point, my fellow citizens. is all
important and is one which as people
we can never afford to forget. | believe
In the Monroe doctrine with all my heart
and soul. am convinced that the i'm
mense majority of our fellow countrymen
SO believe in it. but would Infinitely pre-
fer to see us abandon it than to see US put
it forward and buster about 1t and yet
fail to build up the efficient fighting
Etrength which in the last resort can alone
make it respected by any strong foreign
power whose interest it may ever happen
to be to violate ii.
Boosting and clustering are as objec-
fionable among nations as among indi-
viduals. and the public men of a great ma
tion owe 1t to their sense of national self
respect to speak courteousy of foreign
powers just as a brave and self respect
ing man treats all around him courteously
But though to boast is bad and cause
lessly to insult another worse. yet worse
than all is it to be guilty of boasting,
even without insult, and when called to
the proof to be unable to make such
boasting good. There is homely old
adage which runs, Speak softly and car
ry a big stick; you will go far
If the American nation will speak softly
and yet build and keep at pitch of the
highest training a thoroughly efficient
navy. the Monroe doctrine will go far /
ask you to think over this. If you do,
you will come to the conclusion that it is
mere plain common sense SO obviously
sound that only the blind can fail to see
its truth and only the weakest and most
irresolute can fail to desire to put it into
force.
The truth is that when he is making
American speeches as contradistin-
guished from Republican campaign
speeches the president is at his best.
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