Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-26
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tain points of view-al1 this would seem to
be almost farcical. But even these farce3
sometimes have a solemn side, and can
imagine how the old negroes of the south.
male and female will now be the prey of
the shsrkS who in order to promote
legislation, in order to bring in the millen-
MUM, in order to hasten the coming of
the good time promised in this bill-prom-
ised also otherwise and in other ways
will give up their small earnings from
their scanty boards and then in their time
of want will do as they have been doing
these many years, as they long since
learned to do and as they long will do
turn to their natural and best friends, the
white people of the south, for substantial
relief, entirely free from the politicians
frills and furbelows, which are designed
simply to catch the eolored voter and not
to help him.
De Mortuis.
The ancient saying, ''De mortuis nil
nisi bonum' (.'Concerning the dead say
nothing unless good'0, does not apply
to the Crumpacker resolution. 1t Is
dead as a smelt-that is, if a thing that
was never alive may be said to be dead.
Its days were few and full of evil. 1t
was a fraud from the beginning. No
body ever believed that it could be
passed, but on one or two occasions it
was held in terrorem over the heads of
the southern Democrats. 1t did the
negroes no good. So far as it had any
effect on them it was harmful and put
notions in their heads which can never
amount to anything. Its most notable
effect was to make its author, Mr..
Crumpacker of Indiana, familiar to
the country Whether the judge was
seeking notoriety = merely that and
nothing more-this deponent saith not,
because he knoweth not. If that was
his object, he succeeded wondrously
we'll Why the southerners should
have ever feared the Crumpacker resO-
luton is strange indeed, for nearly
every business man in the north is Op-
posed to any more southern disturb
ances.
A Bright Future.
The gossips are busy with the name
of Hon. George B. Mcclellan, repre-
sentative in congress from Greater
New York He is an exceedingly capa-
bic man and popular in the house.
The gossip about him is all of a most
pleasant nature and runs in this wise:
That he will be nominated and elected
mayor of Greater New York this fall,
not only elected, but by such a tre-
mendous majority that he will be
nominated and elected governor of
New York state next fall, and in the
event of the Democrats electing leg
islature he will be elected to the sem
ate of the United States in lieu Of
Chauncey Mitchell Depew. That would
be going it with a rush, but some Of
his friends. viewing his career through
rosy spectacles, predict even higher
things for him. 1t may be safely pre-
dicted that he will prove equal to any
station, however high.
Improving.
The late municipal elections, especial
| ly in Pennsylvania, show that Demo-
| cratic prospects are improving. In
Philadelphia the Republicans, like Eph-
rain of old, appear to be Joined to
their idols, but in other cities, particu-
larly in Pittsburg. the Democrats and
reform Republicans working together
1 swept the Helu. hepuDllcdulSu 10 seen
| in it's worst estate in Pennsylvania
| and the fact that thousands of Repub-
licans are cooperating with Democrats
to secure various reforms, most nota-
BILE of which is election reform. Ev-
erywhere Republicans are quarreling
among themselves, while Democrats
are drawing closer together.
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Rumored Changes.
Uneasy rests the head that wears a
CROWN ditto the head on the shoul-
ders of the pension commissioner. OF
all the appointive officers in the gov
| ernment the pension commissioner has
the hardest job. Colonel II. Clay Ey-
ans, who once received respectable
vote for vice president in Republican
/ national convention. tried it and was
! glad to get out of it. The Kansas sol
dier, poet and lawyer, Colonel Gene
Ware, has tried it for a few months,
| and the rumor is that he is weary of it
and will soon swap 1t off for a good fat
consulship. There is another rumor to
the effect that General Powell Clayton,
now ambassador to Mexico, will sue
reed him. Nous verronS