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

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pointment-always by appointment;
never by election. Having filed it
and drawn the salary attached, he
lapses into long period of obscurity.
The mystery is this: Why does any
president disturb him in his obscurity?
Yet three of them have done this in
explicable thing. Garfield made him
attorney general, Cleveland sent him
as ambassador, now comes Roosevelt
and appoints him to represent us at
The Hague. The chances are that
Wayne could not be elected pound mas
ter in his ward, but for some unac-
countable reason he is prime favorite
with presidents. His renowned father
in-law, old Simon Cameron, the Win
nebago chieftain, and his autocratic
brother-in-law, Don Cameron, general
ly appealed to the people when they
wanted office, though each was secre-
tary of war by appointment. Simon is
to have statue at the expense of the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania. It's ten
to one shot that Don doesn't care a
rap about a statue. What he wants is
a good time in this life.
Secretary Of the Treasury Leslie NJ.
Shaw, who appears to be the chosen
mouthpiece of the administration (when
the president is silent), seems to have
carried his oratorical pitcher to the
fountain once too often. He got along
all right as long as he went about as
serting that the panic of June, 1898,
was caused by the Wilson German tar
iff law, passed in August, 1894. His
Republican hearers thought that sort
of oratory smart, but he took it into
his head to depart from that sort of
sophistry and to make few epigrams,
whereupon the critics of the press de-
clare that he is fiat failure. A man
must, in order to be a success at cpl
grams, be endowed with the faculty.
Epigrammatists. like poets, are born,
not made. Mr.. Secretary Shaw should
remember the old adage that "the shoe
maker should stick to his last
Hon. Seth Low, reform mayor of
New York, is in what his eminent
friend, G. c., would denominate "a
woeful plight" 1t was to be expected
that strict party men would look
askance at his administration and, fol-
lowing the Missouri rule, would de-
mand to be shown, but Seth must have
been amazed-not only amazed, but
1isgusted Hon. William Tray
ers Jerome jumped on him with both
feet lately. Jerome is the bowling
swell reformer of the whole lot. While
these reformers wool each other GER
tain dairyman at Vantage. England,
smiles among his crooks.
Pennsylvania clevelanders.
The Boston Herald. Independent
Democrat, gold buggish, etc, thus en-
phatica1ly expresses an opinion:
The suggestion that Grover Cleveland
may again be a candidate for the presi-
dency of the United States has had its
natural effect upon Colonel Henry Wat
terson of Kentucky. 1t has set him to
writing again upon this always, to him,
irritating theme. But he need not respond
half so promptly or so profusely to the
present waving of the red rag. Another
symptom developed by this Cleveland en-
terprise and queer one. is the starting
of q movement in Pennsylvania for Mr..
Cleveland in this connection. Pennsylva-
mia of all states! Pennsylvania to take
the lead in Democratic politicsi Pennsyl-
vania which hasn't any Democrats who
amount to anything except those who en-
ter the service of Matthew s. Quay!
There Is something exquisitely absurd in
such a state starting out to give instruc-
tions, or even advice. to the Democratic
party of the nation.
After reading that the Pennsylvania
will go away back and sit
down.
The Flag Covers Slavery.
The Boston Post thus discourses upon
slavery under our flag in the Philip
pines:
This, undoubtedly, is one Of the awk-
ward situations in which the United
States is placed by the imperialist policy
which Mckinley forced upon the republic
but it is none the less intolerable. 1t has
been our boast, ever since we established
human liberty at the awful cost of our
civil war, that the flag of the United
States waved only over free men. The
policy of the dominant party in the gov
ernment looks to the surrender of this
great principle to the semibarbarous
practices of yellow men in some of the
islands of an Asiatic archipelago. There
the stars and stripes cover slavery. and
the constitution which that glorious flag
represents is made subordinate to the
practices ultimately connected with the
religion of people whom we hold in
r., to
ignominious.
Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles
may be great soldier, but his ideas as
to diplomacy are crude = decidedly
crude. For instance. in his round the
world junket he visited Peking, and he
thinks that our diplomatic establish
ment there Is not sufficiently fortified
to stand SIEGE Great C;esar's ghost!
Who supposed that 1t is? And why
should it be? Is a diplomatic estab-
lishment part and parcel of hostile
invasion? BY no manner of means. 1t
is precisely the reverse. an evidence Of
friendship. If we are not welcome in
China. oIlr remedy is plain-eomp home
and LET the Celestials severely alone.
A False Prophet.
The Globe Democrat is at it again
engeged in prophesying In an ex
cathedra sort of way it settles the pres
idential election eighteen months in
advance. It says. Under no condi-
tons have the Democrats a chance to
win in 1901 !" Important If true. but
the CD. has proved itself such a fall
ure in the predicting line that nobody
believes word it says as to the future.
AS prophet it wears its headlight
behind Last year it iterated and re-
iterated the false prophecy that the
Republicans would carry Missouri, and,
10, when the votes were counted the
Democrats had an increased majority.
All over the land are idiots who went
through the winter without overcoats
because they believed the CD. true
prophet.
Poor old Cincinnati! No longer the
metropolis of Ohio, she clings to Boss
Cox with the tenacity of a mud turtle.
While her successful rival, Cleveland, is
progressing rapidly and increasing her
lead undpr the nlayoraIty of that splen-