Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-23

California is to elect Hon. James J.
Jeffrfes, the renowned boiler maker, TO
succeed Senator Bond, and New York
might send "Red Robert and .Pompa-
dour Jim" or the mighty John L. to
succeed Plat and Depew.
Has the turn come in the matter OF
prosperity? That is the question which
Every sensible man will PROFOUND to
himself when he learns that the quar-
terly earnings of the steel trust have
fallen off S2,000000. Let us hope that
the inevitable turn has not yet come.
Hon. Carter H. Harrison came near
being in position to comprehend in all
its mournfulness King Solomon's re-
mark about carrying ones pitcher to
the fountain once too often. As it is
he may congratulate himself most
heartily that miss is as good as
mile.
SociaIistic Massachusetts.
There is Massachusetts, Behold her
and judge for yourselves! Those extra
smart editors who have been larruping
David Bennett Hill for placing a gov
ernment ownership of anthracite coal
mines plank in the New York state
platform last year ought to turn their
fearful optics on the Massachusetts
legislature Republican both branches
whose committee of investigation has
recently reported a set of resolutions
recommending that the anthracite
mines of the United States be placed
under government control or super
vision and if this prove Ineffective
then the government is to take such
measures as will lead to national own
srship! Socialism, pure and simple, is
therefore taking deep root among Mas
sachusetts Republicans!
We are not the adviser, spiritual,
legal or political, of G. c., but it seems
to us that such a paragraph as this
from the New York Press would make
''the sage of Princeton" utter words
not to be found in any polite letter
writer. The Press says:
| If by any strange perversity of fate Mr..
/ Cleveland should be nominated for the
presidency the main interest of the DEM
ocratic party will lie in the vice presi-
dency, on the theory that so old man
cannot live out his term. Mr.. Cleveland
would be sixty-eight in March, 1905. which
! would make him the oldest of all our
presidents except Harrison, who died one
month after his Inauguration. Here's a
possible chance for bright young man.
The Hobsons In Politics.
That gallant tar, Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson, has aspirations to
break into congress- He will most
probably find that the politicians are
harder fighters than the Spaniards. A
desire for Office runs in the Pearson
/ family of North Carolina. The cap
tain's maternal uncle, Hon. Richmond
Pearson, now minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary to Persia, had
the official mania in such virulent form
that he stole seat in congress; but he
was Republican, while his nephew,
Captain Hobson, is a Democrat.
Hon. Golden Rule" Jones appears
still to be ''the top of the heap in To-
ledo, for he was reelected mayor by a
comfortable majority, but he does not
seem to attract attention any more
| outside his own baiIiwiek. Wherefore?
Nobody knows, or if anybody knows
he has not taken the world into his
confidence,
Certainly after the ridiculous row
among Governor Cummins, Congress-
man Hull and Mayor Brenton as to
which of them shall ride in the car
riage with President Roosevelt when
he visits Des Moines the men should
| take rest from poking fun at the
women for squabbling about matters
of precedence. The president would
serve that quarrelsome trio right to re-
fuse to ride with any of them. A good
long walk of some ten or fifteen miles
would help the governor, congressman
and mayor.
The scandals in the post Office de-
partment at Washington, which get
worse the farther the investigation is
extended, show what wise thing it
would have been to have elected
Democratic house last year. 1t would
have overhauled and investigated ev-
cry department of the government,
which would have been a rafting good
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