Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-02
NUMBER 48

royalty unusually wise in his day and
generation. He IS a man with an I'M
pronounceabIe name, but a decidedly
level head According to his own tale,
he is by descent king. BY occupa-
ton he is wine merchant. This is not
as sublime a job as being a king, but
In his case 1t is decidedly safer The
throne which he claims the right to sit
upon, but which he is not seeking just
at this time, is the Servian throne His
philosophy probably teaches that live
wine merchant is better than a. dead
king.
The Vice Presidency.
The Washington Post says in an edi-
torial paragraph:
People are apt to place a rather cheap
estimate on the vice presidency when
they learn that Governor Yates does not
want it.
Yes, some might do so, while some
others, remembering the recent expe-
rienee of President Roosevelt, might,
on the contrary, place the cheap esti-
mate" on Yates judgment Some with
longer memories will recollect that
Daniel Webster twice refused the vice
presidency. If he had accepted either
time he would have become president,
which was the goal of his ambition,
but which because of these two re-
fusaIs he never reached. The truth is
that there are but two men in the Unit
ed States who could afford to decline a
nomination for vice president they are
Theodore Roosevelt and Grover Cleve-
land. The vice presidency is some
what overshadowed and oyertopped by
the presidency, but is a great office,
full of great possibilities. and Governor
Yates is in very poor position to-
sneeze at it.
Long Speeches.
The Washington Post has a new edi-
torial paragrapher since the death of
the great but gentle Merrick, and he
executes some slightly tart acerbita-
tions. For instance, he says:
what will Mr. LittIef1eld talk about
this summer?' asks the New York Press.
About two hours and a half if the audi
ence does not become too restless.
We protest that this is hardly treat
ing the great successor of the Hon.
Nelson Dingley with the proper rever-
ence. But two and a half hours
speech is merely a warmer up COM
pared with some long speeches made
many years after the great Burke
spoke for thirteen consecutive days in
the impeachment trial of Hastings. Let
the new man on the Post go read
Macaulay's great description of that
event, where, in solemn impressiveness,
he begins, "On the third day Burke
rose" Let him then turn to the rec
ords of the first session of the Fifty
third congress and read the speech of
Senator William Vincent Allen of Ne
braska, delivered in fourteen and a
half consecutive hours, and nowhere in
that speech did the great Nebraskan
slip down from plane of high states
manship and dignified, sound reason
ing Let him then read the thirteen
and half hours speech of Senator
Thomas A. Carter, another great and
effective effort, found in the records of
the final week of the Fifty-sixth con-
gress If Judge Littlefield ever reaches
the usually dull and musty atmosphere
of the senate speech of two and
half hours will be considered merely as
the opening of his argument. And he,
viii entertain 'eln,
Muddled
When Mr.. Representative Babcock of
Wisconsin finds himself lining up with
the .:stand patters'' or whole hoggers'
among the Republicans on the tariff
question he must feel about as COM
Portable and as much at home as did
the old hen that hatcbed out a gosling.
Everybody remembers her consterna-
ton when her gosling went a-swimming.
She was in most dreadful state Of ex.
element Now, if a man were ever
the father Of any idea in politics Bah
was the father of the 'Iowa idea" He
indoctrinated such innocents as Gov
ernor Cummins and Senator Dollivef
with that idea and then goes over to
the enemy, abandoning them to THEN
fate. Alas and alacki