Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-01-15

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ency, If persistency in bad cause
may be properly denominated a virtue.
True, the bankers associations Of Mis-
souri, Minnesota, Kansas and Okla
homa, all nonpartisan, have resoluted
against the Fowler monstrosity, but
what do Messrs. Fowler & Co. care for
that? William H. Vanderbilt voiced
the real Republican creed when he ex-
claimed, s'The people be dr.
There are faint whispers to the eff
feet that If congress does not enact
antitrust legislation this session Presi-
dent Roosevelt will convene the Fifty
eighth congress in extraordinary ses-
sion before the roses come again. Since
that vigorous and able Democrat from
Georgia forced the Republicans into
hole with his proposition to appro-
pirate money enough to leave the attor-
ney general no excuse for not prosecut-
ing the trusts there has been feeling
growing among Republicans that they
must at least go through the motion of
doing something against the trusts;
hence all the bills and all the oratory
by Republicans on that vexed and fer
tile subject. The course of the anthra-
cite coal trust came SO near wrecktng
the Republican party last fall that the
Republicans feel cold chills chasing up
and down their spinal columns every
time they think of that narrow escape
from the fate of Mr.. McGinty; conse-
quently they play at fighting the trusts
The Tariff and Principle.
One by one the roses fall. One by
one the rantankerous high protection
shouters demonstrate that they are free
traders in Spots The old Scotchman
who was engaged in the red herring
industry and who wrote to Sir Robert
Peel indorsing his free trade policy ex-
cept as to red herrings, was, after all,
the typical and normal man instead Of
the exceptional and abnormal man.
For instance, no man has been more
offensive in season and out of season In
worshiping the protection fetch than
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Where
fore? Because it enriches certain New
Englanders at the expense of the rest
of the people. A great many folks will
therefore be astonished to learn that
the aforesaid Henry Cabot Lodge is
yociferously advocating the repeal or
suspension of the blessed tariff on an
thracite coal. Wherefore? Because
the tariff is unjust? Not at all. He
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The reason he is believing for repeal
or suspension Is that the present high
price of anthracite prevents his people
from making as much money out Of
other people as he thinks they ought to
make.
A Coign of Vantage.
Few people ever consider what vast
advantage aspiring citizens of close or
pivotal or doubtful states have over
the denizens of dead sure thing states
in the field of presidential politics.
This is true even where the closeness,
pivotalness or doubtfulness is fiction.
Any man, no matter how great a dolt,
who happens to become governor, no
matter how, of New York, Ohio or In
diana Immediately becomes a presi-
Dental possibility, If not a probability,
Notwithstanding the fact that Ohio has
not gone Democratic in presidential
years since Franklin Pierce's amazing
victory in 1852. The nearest she came
to it In half century was in 1892.
when the Republican plurality was
very small-so small indeed that the
weakest Harrison elector was defeat
ed by the strongest Cleveland electOr.
In fact, the disposition to magnify
the public men of those states In COM
parison with the public men of other
states has increased in these latter
days and has taken on the COM
plexion OF superstition. Why Da-
yid Bennett Hill preferred Coler to
Parker for the New York gubernatorial
nomination last year is probably not
positively known to anybody except
the Sage of Wolfert's Roost, but people
do say that he believed that any Demo-
crat could be elected and that he fear
ed that If Judge Parker was elected
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president and that he had no fears as
to Coler in a presidential connection.
The chances, however, are that no mat
ter what Mr. Hill thought about Coler's
being too small for the presidency,
Coler would have thought himself large
enough, and, what's more. the multitu-
dinous idiots who think that every
citizen of Ohio, Indiana and New York,
native born, over thirty-five years of
age and of the masculine gender is ex
officio a presidential possibility, would
have been whooping it up for Coler.
A still more remarkable manifesto
tion of this superstition as to Ohio,
New York and Indiana has disgusted
sensible persons very recently. Hon.
Myron I. Herrick of Cleveland has not
yet been nominated for governor by the
Ohio Republicans, but Uncle Mark
has decreed it, SO it is settled unless
Herrick should die, go crazy or should
be kidnapped before the convention
meets. Last week he and General
Charles Dick were worrying the life
out of the Buckeye boss as to which
one of those two, and no more" should
be nominated for governor, for it ap-
pears never to have occurred to any
Of the illustrious trio to consult the
people of Ohio touching the matter.
Only last week Herrick and Herrick' s
friends were beseeching "Uncle Mark
to choke General Dick off and give the
Cleveland man a clear field, which was
done. Now, by reason Of the prospect
for the nomination for governor, Her.
ricks friends are booming him for
president! He's from Ohio. don't you
know Could anything be more pre-
posterous? l trow not Mr.. Herrick is
no doubt most estimable gentleman.
He is the president of bank with $40,.
100000 deposits. but it Is safe to say
that not one person in thousand In
the United States ever heard Of him.
OF course he will not be nominated for
president, because Senators Hanna and
Foraker both rank him in Ohio, and
then there's Colonel Theodore Roose.
veIt, a New Yorker! But the very fact
that single human being out of the
80,COO, 900 Americans, white. yellow
black, red or copper colored. should
link his name with the presidency
shows to what proportions this Ohio