Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-05
Especial Washington Letter.

s. toric county of Pike, in the i'm
b perial state of Missouri, where l
III now reside, there lived a man
named Sidney Shaw, called "Sid'
for short, who was much of a wit and
somewhat of sport. One night, being
in ST. Louis, he bucked the tiger in
his lair and lost every cent he had.
Next morning about sun-up Sid, dead
broke and chopfallen, ventured forth
in quest of breakfast. He met a friend,
who, noting his woebegone expression
of countenance, said, sid, what on
earth's the matter! In lugubrious
accents Sid replied: 'Oh, the deuce! 1
have been playing the fool and have
nothing to show for itp' That is pre-
Republicans, headed by ex-senator Ed
ward o. Walcott, who endeavored un-
successfully to rob Henry M. Teller
of a reelection to the senate of the
United States.
Teller is an honor to the human race.
He is the one great historic parsonage
given to the world by Colorado. He
was a Republican so long as he could
be and at the same time retain the ap-
proval of his own mind and conscience.
When that could no longer be done, he,
with tears in his eyes and anguish in
his heart, left the party to which he
had devoted the best years of his life.
AS Republican he had not only held,
but had honored, the positions of sena-
tor and cabinet minister. That he
changed his political affiliations be-
cause of the purest motives nobody
whose good opinion is worth having
has ever doubted. Nevertheless, the
Republican press has pursued him with
a rancor that disgraces it and not Hen
ry NJ. Teller
The Wolcott Republicans of Colora-
do resorted to methods that would
have been revelation of violence to
the toughest ward meeting held in the
Tenderloin district of the toughest city
in the world, yet Republicans claim to
be the apostles of light, sweetness and
purity; but in spite of all their machi-
nations, in spite of Senator Marcus A.
Hanna's brazen and impudent telegram
begging the Colorado Republicans to
elect a Republican senator when he
knew that a Democratic legislature
had been elected honestly and fairly, in
spite of all the skulduddery to which
his foes resorted, Teller and truth and
right and justice have triumphed. The
grand old man who bravely stood by
-, n da,.lva hnT1r frntC
another term in the senate, and Ed
ward O. Wolcott, who deserted them
when their need was the sorest, is once
more relegated to the rear.
Again, -Addiclss.
Indeed this Colorado election muddle
is not the only senatorial imbroglio in
to which Senator Hanna has recently
poked his nose only to get it mashed.
| He has undertaken to line up the two
Republican factions in Delaware so
that they will elect Hon. "Gas" Ad-
dicks from his faction and somebody
no matter who from the other fac
ton, notwithstanding that ex-United
States Senator Anthony Higgins has
repeatedly made charges against Ad-
dicks which. if true, ought to land him
in the penitentiary and which, if not
true, ought to land Higgins in the
stocks. But Mark is SO anxious to
have the Republicans elected that he
is willing to have the odoriferous Ad-
dicks sit among the conscript fathers.
The anti-Addicks Republicans claim
| that the gas statesman has spent a
| quarter of million dollars in corrupt
ing the Republicans of Delaware and
that his supporters claim the senator
| ship for him because he has paid for
| it! 80 tempora! o moresw How
are the mighty fallen! How would
| Sumner, Lincoln, Chase and the great
men who founded the Republican par
| ty regard the Hannas, "Gas" Addickses
and Wolcotts could they return to
earth? Endeavoring to steal sena-
torship in Colorado, endeavoring to buy
| two senatorships in Delaware! Fine
record, surely!
SqueIched.
Some time ago the attention of the
readers of these letters was called to
the astounding capers of one Peter Ar
lund of Louisville, Ky, who claims to
/ be an officer of the Danish army. In
| the Planters House at st. Louis he
personally assaulted Colonel Moses G.
| Wetmore, tobacco magnate, the re-
nowned trust buster, and then he chal-
lenged the aforesaid Moses to mortal
/ of ocsf lln A riI1n6
alleged in the newspapers that he did,
| all because, us he claimed, Nose had
/ insulted Mrs. Arlund in st. Louis at
| the very. moment when Mrs. A. was in
louisville, Ky The woman in the
case, as it turned out, was not Mrs. A.
this Arund of the Danish army was
the prize ass of the age for committing
penitentiary offense by sending i
| challenge to the Falstaffian WetmorC
and then publishing the fact to the
world. 1t was also pointed out to him
that if he was really thirsting for gore
/ he was domiciled in the most favorable
spot on earth to find it in great gobs
| and that he could not stand on his
front doorstep in Louisville and give
one warwhoop without arousing the
chevaliers and knights errant to pitcl
of fury which would astonish him.
We were correct in this latter point
ing out, at any rate. for not long since
Mr.. Peter Arlund becoming obstreper
GUS and "nawsty." a citizen of Louis
vile sans ceremonie proceeded tt
black his eyes. mash his nose, pomme
his face and twist his jugular. On dill
that Peter Arlund aforesaid of the
Danish army aforesaid was a specta
Gle, sad spectacle, for men and an
gels. So Colonel Nose has his reveng'
by proxy.
i A Level Headed Missourian.
All the big bore statesmen in the
country have been trying, or have beer
pretending to try, to devise some plar
to circumvent the trusts. The presi
dent has suggested one remedy; At
torney General Knox has suggested
another; nearly every senator has sug
gested one Of his own; ditto in th'
house. 1t has all ended in suggestion
and smoke-as was intended in mos
cases no doubt While all these higl
and mighty functionaries have beer
pestering their puissant and angus
hoods In hafchino schamps and in keen