Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-08-13
Especial correspondcnce.l


throughout the Rocky mountain and
coast states, fact by reason of which
good Democrats will rejoice every
where.
In Colorado the efforts of the Repub-
licans to steal the seat in the senate of
that illustrious patriot and statesman
Henry NJ Teller have left bad taste
in the mouths of honest folks of all
shades of political belief and have
given the Republican machine in the
Centennial State a severe if not fatal
jolt The strange antics of Governor
Peabody have split the Republican
party of Colorado in twain and give
the fusionists fine opportunity to re-
deem the state. Consequently they are
not disheartened by their defeat last
year, but are already lining up for the
great contest of 1904.
In Utah Democrats are taking heart,
and confidently expect to swing that
young state into the Democratic col
umn at the next election.
In Nevada we have the governor and
other state officers, the representative
in congress, the legislature and one
United States senator. The Democrats
of Nevada are waiting impatiently for
the next election of senator of the
United States so that they can retire
Santa Claus" Stewart to the shades of
private life. He would not have been
elected the last time If he had not pre-
tended that he was better silver man
than Francis g. Newlands. Soon after
he was reelected he went back to the
Republicans bag and baggage, horse,
foot and dragons. "Ichabod" is in
scribed above his senatorial habitation,
and his finish can be easily foretold.
Francis G. Newlands.
The most prominent man in Nevada
today is Francis G. Newlands, who,
after ten years of distinguished serv-
ice in the house, on the 4th of last
March succeeded Hon. John P. Jones
in the senate of the United States,
where he will cut a wide swath. He
Is the father Of the Newlands irrigation
to the population of the arid region.
President Roosevelt did Newlands and
others rank injustice by stating that
Mr. Mondell of Wyoming deserved the
lions share of the credit for passing
the irrigation bill, and that Mr.. Reed
er of Kansas, whom he was pleased to
denominate as Irrigation Bill Reeder,"
was second only to Mondell. l would
not detract from the just fame of Mon
dell or Reeder in the estimation of
hair-they are good men and did what
they could; SO did many others-but
the truth should be told though the
heavens fall, and it is this: The men
who deserve the most credit for the
irrigation scheme are Francis G. New
lands of Nevada and John G. Bell and
John Shafroth of Colorado. Others
aided them in an able manner, but
they were the head and front of the
enterprise, and were so recognized by
everybody conversant with the facts.
Able, insistent in season and out Of
season, vigilant, tactful, courageous,
harmonious, they won what five years
ago seemed hopeless fight, and should
have their due mead of praise. Presf-
dent Roosevelt has the ear of the coun-
try, and his praise no doubt helped
Mondell, while the nickname he be-
slowed upon the Kansan of Irrigation
Bill Reeder" made that brawny states
mans political fortune, being thing
that will stick Newlands, Bell and
Shafroth are the men who led the
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California.
Everywhere in California l found
the Democrats in fighting trim. Last
year they came within few hundred
votes of electing a governor and took
three representatives in congress away
from the Republicans. The truth is
that had the ballots been counted ac
cording to the intention of the voters
the Democratic candidate for governor
would have been elected, but by reason
lots enough Democratic ballots were
thrown out to give the election to the
Republican candidate, with whom there
is now great dissatisfaction among the
Republicans. Therefore the Demo
Gratis are anxious to get at them again,
feeling confident that they will in the
next beat pull under the string winners
by at least Il neck.
At Los Angeles / addressed the Iro
quois club, and never saw a more en-
thusiastic set of Democrats.
Those who count the electoral vote
of California certainly in the Republic
an column next year reckon without
their host. Party lines rest loosely
and lightly upon Californians, and the
Democrats are as apt to carry the state
as not.
Oregon.
Everybody knows that Oregon is Re
publican by about 10000 majority;
nevertheless she has a most excellent
Democratic governor in the person of
that splendid citizen Hon. George r.
Chamberlain, who appears to bear a
charmed life politically and who is
a veritable Democratic mascot. When
ever things political III Oregon get so
bad that they are intolerable enough
decent Republicans turn to Chamber
lain as political purifier and vote for
him to elect him to some big office In
that way and for those reasons lie was
elected attorney general of the state
when it went Republican for congress
man by about 10000 In that way and
for those reasons he was elected prose-
cutting attorney of Multnomah county,
in which Portland is situated. when the
rest of the Republican ticket was elect
ed by 5000 or 6,0OO majority. In that
way and for those reasons last year he
was elected governor. while the re-
mainder of the Republican ticket was
elected by rousing majority. Conse-
auently Governor Chamberlain must be
taken and accepted as a man of great
possibilities He is In the flower of his
years, tiptop campaigner, first rate
lawyer and the idol of the northwest
ern Democrats. The national conven-
ton could 60 farther and fare much
worse than to nominate Governor
Chamberlain for president or vice pres
ident. He has the capacity and the
address to fill either position with hon
~. n, fhe cotIntrv and himself