Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-30

ceptably in the national house of rep
resentatives for ten years, but in 1896
his constituents defeated him for re-
nomination with Thomas H. Tongue
Mr. Mckinley appointed Hermann
commissioner of the general land Of
fee in March, 1897. Tongue was elect
ed in 1896, $685. 1900 and 1902. He
died last February, leaving vacancy
of full term for the Fifty eighth con-
gress A few days before Tongue died
Hermann resigned from the land Office
under pressure and was Statesman
out of a job," to use the felicitous
phraseology of John James Ingalls,
Now Hermann has been nominated for
congress, vice his eonqueror Tongue,
deceased. Nothing in luck, eh? Go
to! Tell that idiotic tale to the ma
rinesl
"lowa Idea' Is "Groggy"
''The Iowa idea' appears to be be-
coming ''groggy,'' to borrow a word
from the vocabulary of pugilism. Pres
ident Roosevelt, Secretary of War
Elihu Root and Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie M. Shaw have pounded it
into insensibility. It's great champion.
Governor A. B. Cummins, is so thor
oughly discredited that he will be lucky
if he secures his own denomination.
Unless he has a majority of delegates
already instructed for him he will have
to haul in his horns to do that He
ought to have had sense enough to
know that there can be no cutting
down of tariff rates by Republicans.
Going to Republicans for tariff reform
is very much like going to "a goats
house for wool''-a performance which
has been considered ridiculous from a
time whereof the memory of man run
meth not to the contrary.
Nothing in name, eh? Everybody
that believes that is fond of quoting
Shakespeare's famous question and
answer: What's in name? A rose
by any other name would smell as
sweet" Nevertheless and notWith-
standing it would require a good deal
Of augmentation to convince the TWEEN
ty-nine Kansas statesmen whom Victor
Murdoch showed under the other day
in the congressional Republican con-
vention Of the Kansas big Seventh
that he was not most fittingIy chris
tened. BY the way, the editorial fra
ternity will show up in great shape
in the Fifty-eighth congress = Hearst,
Livernash, Hitchcock, Murdoch, Brown
low and others. 1t seems really as if
the lawyers in congress will have to
look to their laurels
Can Stand the Heat
When the old woman heard that the
COW had eaten the grindstone. she
joyously shouted, Il told you sor'
Likewise l say, 81 told you sol' That
is to say, when it was given out that
since the death of Thomas Mast the
immortal caricaturist, who was our
consul general to Guayaquil, Ecuador,
nobody could be found courageous
enough to accept that post of emolu-
ments and danger on the equator l
said that as soon as the Missouri Re-
publicans heard the news there would
be divers applications. No official
place is too dangerous or too hot for a
Missouri Republican. He wants an
office, and he wants it even as the Mis-
sissippian wanted the revolver-.like
the deuce" The consul generalship at
Guayaquil is no longer vacant Hon.
Herman R. Dietrich of Attica, Mo-,
has applied for and been appointed to
that position. He can stand the heat
benevolent Assimilation"
The Boston Herald. independent, has
this to say:
The Manila Times, newspaper which
is certified to as hitherto having been in
favor with the authorities in that quarter.
gives discouraging view of present Phil
ippine feeling toward this country 1t
says that the natives in the island are
only little less hostile to the United
States than they were when the insurrec-
tion among them began, between three
and four years ago. and is even inclined
to believe that a large part of the $1,000.
900 which congress appropriated for their
relief from the lack of food and other
comforts will be used to buy arms with
which to attack Americans. 1t looks very
much as If we were far from reaching a
stage in which it will be appropriate to
consider if the Filipinos can be Ameri-
canized. The difficulty is in assimilating
them enough to counteract their native
tendency to be in warfare against our
dominion over them.