Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-09
NUMBER 49

cream accounts for many things,
among them the Crimean war and the
war Of 1877. On the latter occasion
the Russians got within sight of the
spires of st. Sophia, but Disraeli dis
played his feet in the Golden Horn, thus
saving ConstantinopIe to the Turk
temporarily, for it is as certain as fate
that Peter the Greats dream will be
realized
A Possible President.
One of the most eloquent and impas-
stoned speeches ever delivered in q ma
tional convention was that Of Hon.
Thomas NJ. Patterson of Colorado at
st. Louis in 1888, nominating General
John G. Black for vice president 1t
thrilled that vast audience like an cleo
trio shock and left an indelible impress
upon my memory. 1t stamped Patter-
son as one of the greatest living ora
tors. He was leading a forlorn hope,
and he knew it-none better. The red
bandanna, the Thurman orifamb, was
fiuttering everywhere, and it was in
evitable that "the old Roman would
be hitched up with Grover. Patterson
began by describing the Thurman
movement as "a cloud no bigger than a
mans hand" as it had appeared a
week before, and then in burning lam
guage described its rapid growth.
/ wish to suggest to president makers
that there is another cloud not bigger
than mans hand now which is liable
to grow and grow and grow until it
enyelops the land, and that is the
movement 10 give William Randolph
Hearst the Democratic nomination for
president. He is easily possible pres
ident. 1t would not be overstating the
case much to say that he is a probable
president
If he is nominated he can be elected.
He has always been a consistent Dem
ocrat. He is friend to the poor. He
owns and edits three great metropoli-
tan papers in three great doubtful
states. He is the champion of organ
lied labor, and, what is more, organ
lied labor recognizes him as its cham
pion
The Labor Compendium, one of the
organs of organized labor, is enthusi-
astic and vehement in it's support of
him. Suppose the Democrats should
nominate Hearst and the labor unions
should support him. Then what? Why,
he would be elected hands down. Sup
pose another case. Suppose the labor
organizations should conclude to go in
to politics in body, should hold a
convention and should nominate
Hearst before the Democratic national
convention meets. Can any sane man
doubt what the Democratic convention
would do? Unless fit for bedlam it
would nominate him by acclamation,
and he would be elected with whoop.
But he's young! Oh, yes, he's young!
So is Colonel Theodore Roosevelt But
Hearst is younger than Roosevelt and
all the veteran candidates and their
friends viii swear that he is too
young. Hearst can't help being young,
and it may be a consolation to those
who deem him too young to remember
that he will outgrow that fault Since
"a terrible cornet of horse named Will
liam Pitt dressed down Sir Robert
Walpole for referring to his youthful
ness it hasn't been considered much Of
a sin to be young.
I suppose that Hearst is not bother
ing his head much about the presi-
dency, as he is enjoying his honeymoon
in Europe. but his friends are quietly
at work.
Roosevelt and Hanna.
Washington dispatches say that Pres
ident Roosevelt is insisting that Sem
ator Marcus A. Hanna shall retain the
craftsmanship of the national commit
tee and conduct the next campaign. II
Senator Hanna complies it will be a
hopeful sign of the millennium, for he
will be practically obeying the injunc-
ton contained in the sermon on the
mount, which runs in this wise: 'tWho-
ever shall smite thee on the right cheek
turn to him the other also" Seeing is
believing. and we will believe that Sem
ator Hanna will manage Colonel Roose-
velt's campaign when he is actually
engaged in SO doing, and not till then.