Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-11-05

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Thoughts on the Ohio Campaign.
Good Old Missouri
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lowing anecdote. found in Chicago
dispatch of recent date. places him in
the most pleasing light:
Mr. Cleveland had few callers during the
morning. While he was at breakfast he
met Colonel Tom Lowry, the street car
magnate Of St Paul and Minneapolis, and
they cracked a joke or two.
sHow's the folks? r. asked Colonel Low
ry in his characteristic way.
Fine, said Mr.. Cleveland s was just
talking about my boy. He asked mel
call him Mclean Man--if / intended going
to st. Louis. Would you like to go to ST.
Louis2 I asked, and he answered. Pa.
how do ( know when / never have been
to st. Louis !? "
A Statue to Hamlet.
The newspapers tell that the Danish
people have erected a statue to that
fine figure that sprung full armed from
Shakespeares brain Tor Bacon's), none
other than Hamlet, prince of Denmark.
People wonder why the Danes should
thus seek to honor the memory of one
who never trod their soil, who was at
best created of the bluest sky and the
thinnest air. a creature of the poets
pen and the actors fancy, and who
was made to say things not compli-
mentary to the land where for stage
hour he was a prince and lived and
suffered and met his fathers ghost, as
good princes sometimes do though the.
ghost often comes in the shape alb
horred' of one of the old mans credit
ors.
Hamlet is the mouthpiece for the
words. There's something rotten in
the state of Denmark" An American
would hardly erect a statue to such
slanderer Of his country, but perhaps
the Danes are well Supplied with
bronze and have but few heroic char
acters to counterfeit and place upon
PEDESTAL
Several years ago the Hon. Wallace
j. Davis, representative of Missouri's
great county of Pike in the state leg
islature, introduced a bill to appropri-
ate money to erect a statue to Joe Bow
ers, the hero of song that has been
sung for half a century by Missourians
everywhere, having its beginning in
the days when thousands of young
Missourians became argonauts and left
their homes in search of the golden
fleece, going to California in streams
by land and sea. Many laughed at the
idea, for it has never been thoroughly
demonstrated that Joe Bowers ever
lived. But Joe Bowers stands for
sentiment dear to the hearts of every
native son Of Missouri, and, like John
Browns soul, it goes marching on.
Missouri has been mother to the
great west and has peopled it to the
tune of Joe Bowers and has yet had
time and strength and resource to-
grow strong and great at home, and
one Of these days she will make bare
her patriot arm of power and place a
Missouri Democrat in the White House
while the bands play ''Joe Bowers"
Then. | have no doubt, every fellow
who wants fat appointment viii go
mounting about the country proposing.
to erect a statue to Joe Bowers.
Democratic Prospects.
Daily the outlook for Democratic sue
cess grows brighter. There has been
no political happening in several
months past that does not contribute
to the strength of the Democrats and
to the undoing of the Republicans.
Chief among these events we might
mention;
First. The Booker Washington Incl
dent.
Second The scandals in the depart
ments.
Third. The unearthing of the mass
of official corruption among st. Louis
Republican officehoIders.
Fourth.-The unearthing of corrup
ton in nearly all the Republican cities
of the country.
Fifth The fact that the only effec-
tive Doodle lighting has been done by
Missouri Democratic prosecutors. Folk
and Grow.
Sixth. The Miller ease in the govern
ment printing Office.
Graft seems to be the watchword
Of the Republican officeholder II all
the facts were known not a single bu-
reau of any department in Washington
would be found entirely free from IT.
A thorough cleaning out is needed. and
it will be hard to convince an intelli-
gent man that the party under which
the system originated is the proper one
to exterminate it.
SANDER Of Missouri.
Since first began to cogitate upon
men and matters many diverse prob
lens have come within the range of my
speculation and my wonderment.
have wondered much at many things,
have speculated on cause and effect
in a thousand instances but no eff
feet that ever presented itself to my
astonished and incredulous gaze has
seemed to have as little real cause
and ais little real Foundation in fact or.
truth as the bad name OF Missouri in
the mouths Of the people Of certain
other states. have reached the con-
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