Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-10-29
Especial washington letter.


| ~ it is crime to defer action. Down
there are half million people without
any firm or well regulated government
most of them good people at that A
crow never few over finer country.
The great question in both Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory is state
hood" single or double which? There's
the rub. If all hands We're agreed on
one sort of statehood, the chances are
that it could be speedily accomplished
but they are not agreed. more's the
pity. OF course, as q rule. the east is
opposed to any statehood. but certain
Fly we cannot much longer keep out
of the Union a million American citi-
zens, and there are fully that many
in the two territories. United, the two
would make one of the greatest states
in the Union, a glory to American in
situations. The agricultural and min
eral wealth is incalculable. a country
that raises corn equal to Missouri,
wheat equal to Dakota, cotton equal to
Texas. is well worth looking after. The
Indian children have fairly good school
facilities, but the. whites outside the
towns have practically none. was
told by men who possess and evidenced
every sign of reliability and veracity
that most of the criminals are young
men who have grown up in ignorance
and under the vicious lack of govern
mental control heretofore and still ex-
isting 1t is hard to tell who is to
blame for this condition, and am not
trying to fix the blame or to apportion
it. / am stating the plain, unvarnished
truth-that congress ought to find a
speedy remedy.
Perhaps the great aggregation Of
congressional talent which accompa-
MED Hon. William R. Hearst through
Arizona, New Mexico. Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory may be able to de-
wise a plan whereby statehood can be
conferred upon them all. If so, bless
ings on their heads! But whether
Hearst's great undertaking is q sue
cess or failure he deserves great credit
for instituting it. No harm can come
Of it, and let US hope that much good
will result therefrom.
Another Warwick.
1t is done. The thing is settled.
There's another Warwick, not another
Richmond. in the presidential field
Now comes the great and good Dr..
Harper of the University of Chicago
and SHES his castor into the ring as
president maker. It is well. The more
the merrier. His candidate for presi-
dent is Hon. Seth Low, present mayor
of Greater New York and fusion nomi-
nee for reelection against George Brin
ton Mcclellan, the regular rammany
nominee Now President Harper is a
most excellent gentleman no doubt,
but an expectant and amazed world
would like to know. don't you know,
whom the good doctor represents in his
bold venture into high politics Does
he speak for himself alone? If so. that
would be very interesting, but not very
important. Does he speak for the
Rockefeller interests the president of
whose university be is? If so, that
would be both very interesting and
both what the late lamented Simon
Cameron denounced us them d ID lit
teray fellers.N OF course there is be-
twixt them feeling OF comradeship
entirely honorable to each. but that
would make no delegates for Low in a
convention, as the chances are 100 to
that the practical Republican politi-
clans Of Illinois would not even permit
Dr. Harper to be elected a delegate
himself, and the only chance for him
to put his great and good friend in
nomination would be to speak as a
proxy for some other delegate who was
for Low, ii such one could be found
But If DR.. Harper's pronunciamento
was made on behalf of the Rockefeller
interests it means mucli-to wit. that
Low is the man upon Whom Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt must keep his eye
If the Rockefeners are in it the plain
meaning is that Roosevelt must fight
if he would win the nomination The
programme will be TO purchase tie
mayoralty for Hon. Seth Low. yciept
"the reformer by admiring friends. and
then to purchase both the nomination
and election TO the presidency for him,
So there may be precious little or u
vast deal in President Harper's nom
ination Of Mayor Low
Too Pessimistic.
Judge John H. Reagan of Texas Is i
great historic parsonage His years
have exceeded the psalmist's extreme
allotment. He has played many great
parts on the worlds stage and played
them all well. He was a judge in Tex
as and d representative in congress
prior to the civil war. He was post
master general of the Confederate
states and is the only survivor Of JET
ferson Davis cabinet. Subsequent to
the war be was a representative in
congress. a senator Of the United States
and railroad commissioner for Texas
He owes IT to the world to write a book