Saint Mary's beacon., 1903-11-26
hows that all the talk about Wall

shows that all the talk about Wall
Street and the Morgan interests be-
ing opposed to Roosevelt viii no
longer go down the throats of a
hitherto over-credulous public.
They are all together now in one
happy band Of commercial free
booters and Bashi Bazouks. and tits
singularly unfortunate that Senator
Germans leadership in the Senate
has failed to get the democrats
in that body to refuse to have
anything to dowith the new opera
bouffe republic and defeat any
treaty that may come before it
for ratification. The man who
votes in the Senate to ratify a
treaty with this Roosevelt-made re-
public will find himself confronted
with the charge of endorsing a dis
honorable action.
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It is generally conceded that the
democrats must carry the States of
New York and New Jersey in the
next presidential election in order
to win. Conceding that those two
States are absolutely necessary for
democratic success next year, it may
be interesting for the country to
know the kind Of democracy that
must control in the State of New
Jersey next year il we would win
that State.
An illustration drawn from the
last Congressional election in that
State last year will suffice to give
them this information. Inoneof the
Congressional districts that was
democratic, the democrats nominal.
ed man named De Witt Clinton
Flanagan, a man Of wealth, refine,
ment, culture and social distinction.
He represented only those things
that republicans like and of which
| they are not afraid. He was indor.
sed by Grover Cleveland, who lives
in his district, and made q speech
for him, the first he had made since
his retirement from the presidency.
Notwithstanding all this and the
further fact that Mr.. Flanagan spen,
large sums of money, he was defeat.
ed.
On the other hand, in another
district that was normally republi
can by about 1000 majority, and in
which the republicans nominated
the millionaire thread manufacturer
Barbour, and in which the demo
cratic nomination went begging, the
democrats won splendid victory.
After the nomination in this district
had been declined by a number oi
democrats young democrat named
William Hughes, a lawyer without
money, but with character and brains
and real democracy, accepted the
nomination as q matter of party
honor. He announced from the
beginning of the campaign that he
had no monev with which to buy
votes, and said he did not want q
vote that had to be purchased. He
also said that If he were elected il
would mean real democratic
triumph and a slap in the face OF
monopoly and trust domination and
the rule of the predatory rich. He
roundly denounced all those things
from start to finish of the campaign
and the result was that he was elec.
ted by the honest men of the dis.
trict by $500 majority, q change oI
5000 votes in the district.
That should teach the democrats
OF the country that # they hope to
carry the State of New Jersey in the
next presidential election they must
nominate a man for president who
stands for the things and the kind
democracy that Billy" Hughes
stands for or they may as we'll hang
their harp on a willow tree. A look
over the field of men mentioned for
the nominated on the democratic
ticket will discover to the acute OBJ
server OF the times the man who
fills the bill.
CHAs. A EDWARDS.