Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-09-10
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Especial washington Letter. ]

Especial Washington letter.
TWNHE jingoes have dragged our
Uncle Samuel into decidedly
bad company Russia justities
her grab bag policy in Man
churia by citing our doings in the Phil
ippines and Great Britain's conduct in
South Africa 1t must be admitted by
all candid persons that the three cases
are very similar to each other. Wonder
if we are to share the fate of Old Dog
Tray?
The Colorado Springs Gazette which
recently Topped to Republicanism, in
dorses the idea of the Nebraska Re
publicans that the west is entitled to
the Republican vice presidential nomi-
nation What is far more important,
the Gazette serves notice on all con-
cerned that in that connection ''the
| west does not mean Indiana, Ohio or
Illinois, but the great and gorgeous
country west of the Mississippi All
this will not be pleasant reading to
Governor Durbin of Indiana, who is
assiduously incubating a vice presiden-,
tial boom for himself on the ground
that from the safe retreat of the guber-
Material office in Indianapolis he is
sued a blood and thunder manifesto
against the lynchers of Evansville, Ind.
Nor will this wild west talk delight the
heart of Colonel Myron t. Herrick,
who is casting sleeps eyes at the vice
presidential nomination solely because
he is the protege of Senator Marcus
Alonzo Hanna.
The Omaha orld-Herald, edited by
Congressman Elect Hitchcock, helps
the Cockrell presidential boom along
with these kindly words:
No member of the United States senate
stands higher in the public confidence
than does Cockrell of Missouri. Should
he permit the presentation of his name
for the national convention Missouri
Democrats will rally around him, and not
only Missouri Democrats but Democrats
of other southern as well as western
states.
Governor Benjamin B. Odell of New
York is busiIy engaged in denying that
he ever said that he would not be
candidate for a third term. Of course
he never said it. He need not strain
his vocal chords denying it. Nobody
ever believed that he had said anything
of the sort, for it is not a Republican
habit to let loose of a teat until choked
loose; consequently B. B. o. may now
conserve the breath he is expending in
denials.
If Samuel Gompers and the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor, with 2000,-
oo0 of voters take Il notion, they can
give President Roosevelt a lesson
which he will not forget during his
natural life.
The sapheads who do not believe
that the federal government is prac-
ticing paternalism run mad should
carefully ponder the scheme now
broached for raising green turtles.
The next move will probably be to
start ranch for propagating canvas
back ducks.
The Republicans of Illinois are fine
exemplars of that Republican harmony
which exists on paper, and on paper
only. For example, the Chicago Trib-
une, Republican organ grinder, calls
the friends of the Republican govern
or 'the Yates astrologers and sooth-
sayers."
Not Necessarily Final.
Touching the proposition of his null
titudinous friends that General Fran
senator, shall become a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency, he says: IF the choice now
lay in my power Of being either the
president of the United States or SEN
ator from Missouri would choose the
latter. l would rather be senator than
president"
Perhaps Cincinnatus would rather
have continued blowing than to have
become dictator of Rome but all the
same he left the plow in the furrow,
assumed the dictatorship and saved
his country.
Perhaps Saul, if left TO his own de-
vices, would never have dreamed of
being king of Israel and would have
been contented to continue herding
asses till the day of his death. Like
wise David might have elected, If the
matter had been submitted to him, to
continue as a shepherd rather than to
sit upon throne, wear diadem and
WELD a scepter. Nevertheless both
Saul and David obeyed the summons
to the higher and more difficult posi-
ton, accepting it as a duty they owed
their country and their kind
1t must not be concluded from Gen
eral Cockrell's remark that he is less
patriotic than Cincinnatus, Saul or
David. The good gray general is ac-
customed to the humdrum life of the
senate and likes it, but that is no rea
son why he will shrink from the siren
uous life in the White House if his
countrymen demand that he serve
! them as chief magistrate of the repub-
lie. The general has not declined, and
he is too good citizen to decline if
he sees that it is his duty to accept
Tiptop.
Buckeye Democrats did good days
work for themselves, for Democracy in
general and for the country in adopt
ing the right sort of platform and in
nominating that great Democrat, Tom
r. Johnson, for governor. He ought to
be elected and If elected governor he
is almost certain to be nominated and
elected president of the United States.
an office which he would honor and
adorn. Tom Johnson is one of the most
brilliant and remarkable characters of
this age. He is in the flower of his
years. and, while he has already at
tained great eminence and distinction,
he is just beginning his great career on
the national stage. No man in America
has more splendid future A Ken
tuckian by birth, Democrat by ma
ture, multimillionaire by his own ex-
ertion, honest as the day is long, in
thorough sympathy with the masses,
patriotic to the core, he will make a
great governor and great president
As to the Moros.
King David exclaimed in his wrath,
"All men are liarsr' When he uttered
that sweeping declaration he probably
had in his minds eye American jim