Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-05-14

less it is Montana, and there the doubt
Is so slight as to be unworthy of con
sideration. The following states are
almost absolutely certain to elect Re-
publican senator's: Michigan, Mime
sofa, Wyoming Washington, Maine,
Massachusetts, North Dakota, Yer
mont, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
10. The following states are more or
less doubtful: Rhode Island, Delaware,
California, Indiana, New York, Ne
braska, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Utah, Maryland, West Virginia and
Nevada-13. So that in order to cap
ture the senate in 1905 the Democrats
must hold all the senatorial seats they
have and elect senators in all the thir-
teen doubtful states There is one
factor. not much considered now,
which might defeat the election of
Republican senators in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania. Wisconsin and Michi-
gan, wherever there are big towns,
and that is socialism, which is grow
ing like Jonah's gourd vine, but it is
questionable whether the election of
Socialists would enable either old par
ty to control the senate. 1t would be
more likely to give the Socialists the
balance of power.
A Billion Dollar Country.
The New York World thus discourses
on "a Billion Dollar Country"
The treasury bureau of statistics reports
that from April l, 1902, to March 81, 1903.
inclusive, the imports of the United States
for the first twelve months in our history
reached billion dollars. The exports for
the same period reached 81. Ala, ,7S6, ,954. The
recent increase in them renders it likely
that by the end of the government fiscal
year on June 80 they will have reached
billion and half and so have broken an
other record.
Neither our Imports nor our exports had
reached half billion dollars in 1870. 1m-
ports touched $3.50. 900 in 1890, exports in
1880 passed the same sum, and in 1892 first
passed the billion mark, receding from it
in the lean years that followed, but
since 1897 they have been continuously
above the billion.
In some other respects this is a billion
dollar country We have one billion dol
lar trust and six billion dollar railway
groups" There is billion dollars in the
savings banks of this state. The farm
animals of the country are worth three
billions and the farms altogether twenty
billions.
illinois Lynchers.
Carry the news to Judge Crumpack-
er, the great humanitarian who repre-
sents Hoosier district in the congress
of the United Statesi A lot of enraged.
not embattled, farmers at or near San
ia Fe, ILL.,, unceremoniously lynched a
colored man and brother on Sunday,
April 26-strung him up as ruthlessly
and with as much dispatch as a Mis-
sissippi mob could have done it. Now,
the judge should Introduce a resolution
to investigate this latest outrage and
discrimination against an American
citizen of African descent The judges
careful and prayerful attention is par
ticularly called to the fact that as soon
as the mob had worked OFF, its vic
tim it made rush for a camp of
eolored men engaged in bridge building
and opened fire on them. The press re-
ports say that several of them were
shot down. while none of the lynchers
was injured! Now, If the judge let's
all this pass by without rebuke and
without investigation he will prove TO
all the world that he is only a pinch
beck philanthropist. and my readers
must not forget that this happened in
Illinois, Republican state whose gov
ernor is Richard Yates ii. and whose
senators are Uncle Shelby NJ. Cullom,
who looks like Abraham Lincoln, and
Hon. A. ]. Hopkins. who recently
yanked Billie Mason out of the senate!
Fraud In Porto Rico.
Proconsular government has not been
changed from its evil character be-
cause we happen to be furnishing the
proconsuls. A late press dispatch from
San Juan. Porto Rico, runs as follows:
Governor Hunt today sent letter to
Senor Fajardo asking for his immediate
resignation. Fajardo is the mayor of
Mayaguez. who has been charged with
municipal frauds.
The governor took this step upon receipt
of report from Treasurer Wlloughby,
who made personal investigation of af-
fairs in Mayaguez to the effect that there
had been gross fraud and wrong on the
part of employees and officials of. Maya
gueZ. A further reason was that Fajardo
has been charged by several municipal
employees with carrying the names of
nonexsting men on the police force. as
well as with other frauds against the rev.
enues of the city Fajardo has again left
Mayaguez for San Juan. lie was arrested
a second time and was again released on
bond.
The Republican press still supports Fa-
jardo and charges that the government
investigator resorted to duress and even
to torture to elicit damaging testimony
against him. This charge has little weight
with the better element in Porto Rico, as
Secretary Hartzell and Treasurer Will
loughby have both made personal inves-
tigation at Mayaguez, and there have
been reports from several insular officials
charging fraud.
A Wide Field For Folk.
The fame of Prosecuting Attorney
Folk of st. Louis is extending unto the
ends of the earth. The sapient editor
of the New York Evening Post says:
Is there no way of giving Circuit Attor-
ney Folk of ST. Louis rowing commits
sion to hunt down bribers throughout the
United States? If there were to be new
department of administrative purity he
would obviously be the one man for Sec
retary. BY applying to state scandals the
same methods which he used in hunting
uOWu IcSptCldUle lllAcNCS III ot- A1puAs7 4Ao
has already got some senators under in
dictment, driven others into exile and
keeps still others in mortal terror. Such
| special talent for uncovering bribery
and furnishing the guilty ought to be
given the widest field of usefulness. Post
master General Payne could use Mr.. Folk
to great advantage in cutting out the rot
tenness in his department, but-and
there's the rub-the st. Louis man would
not deal gently with rogues for political
reasons. Short of employment at WASH
ington, Mr.. Folk might seek his next en-
gagement in Delaware. If he were in Of
flee there it would be an open question
whether Addicks could get into the senate
before he got into jail.
SweIIed Statistics.
The New York Press, Republican
organ grinder, edited at one time by
Senator Thomas Collier Platt's right
hand man, Congressman Lemuel
Eli Quigg. is disposed to give the snap
away touching our astounding vol
ume of business The Press thus
soliloquizes:
If the merchant could handle his goods
as many times in year as Wall street
does its securities the business Of the
country would be so enlarged as to re-
quire quadrillions to estimate it. Looking
back over some moves of recent years,
will find that in the operations of