Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-04-09

subcommittee which / appointed to re-
duce the bill to proper shape, and to-
gether we piloted it through the legis-
lature. This was in 1889. 1 suppose
the bill has been somewhat amended
since then, but it is substantially the
bill of 1889. Now, if Mr. Attorney
General Knox will secure a few con-
victions, people will begin to think that
the trusts are not bigger than the gov
ernm
Senator stnne's Opinion.
The following Washington dispatch
must 16 ssssterest to all persons in
terested e next presidential cleo
ton:
Willie J. Stone, junior senator from
Missouri and vice chairman of the Demo-
cratic national committee, said tonight
when asked as to the future of the Demo-
cratic party:
Il prefer not to make prophecies as to
paramount issues for 1904"
Asked as to the probable makeup of the
next Democratic presidential ticket SEN
ator Stone said
81 do not think Mr.. Bryan will be NOM
poets or desires the nomination. If any
effort is being made to eliminate him, it
Will fail for ne is still undoubtedly the
most commanding individual force in the
party. He cannot be eliminated, and any
effort in that direction will recoil on
those attempting it, The business of
eliminating people from the party is NOT
the business l want Democrats to engage
In. It would be more profitable to get
men into instead of getting them out of
the party. We have plenty of able men
who would make SAFE conservative presi-
dents, although they might not indulge in
such erratic strenuosities as would keep
the country on the tiptoe of some dread
expectancy.
The Democratic candidate for president
must be a Democrat who has always sup
ported his party ticket--a party man,
who, if elected, would give US stalwart
Democratic administration.
ut is not necessary that man should
have subscribed Internationally to every
declaration of the Chicago and Kansas
City platforms. 1t is sufficient If he has
always stood Loyalty by his party flag.
Talk of recognizing the Democratic
party is puerile and silly. Some men may
need reorganizing. but the party does
not
Wher asked what he thought of the re-
cent talk to the effect that the regular
Democrats were insisting on too many
cessions from gold Democrats who
wanted to come back into the party, Sen
ator Stone said:
$50 far as people getting into the party
is concerned | want every one there. 1t
is no question of repentance, sackcloth
and ashes. The doors are open, and if q
man wants tc cooperate with the Demo-
cratic party all he has to do is to get into
line with the party. There is no form of
doing it that know of except to do it,
Under Cloud.
1t is pity-indeed it is pitiful-to see
an old public servant like Assistant At
torney General Tyner of the postoffice
department retire under cloud after
long life spent principally in the pub
lie service. He has cut wide swath
in Republican politics. He was post
master general under Grant, being ap-
pointed by that irate president to sue
ceed the great Connecticut tanner, Mar
shal Jewell who had become enamored
of the Bristow reform idea, thing
which was an abominatiOn in the sight
of the Silent Soldier. Tyner was also
one Of the main instrumentalities in de-
feating Blaine for the presidential NOM
nation in 1876. He claimed that Blaine
had promised him great chairman
ship in the house provided he would
support Blaine for speaker, which he
did, and that Blaine failed, neglected
and refused to deliver the goods though
frequently requested so to do. The
thing alleged against Tyner is that in
his rulings i'll the postoffice department
he has favored the swindling turf in
vestment companies which have fleeced
the public out of millions of dollars. It
is even claimed that young man re.
lated to him resigned position in his
Office to accept service with said com.
panies, as he could use his knowledge
of postal affairs greatly to their ad-
vantage.
Hungry.
If the news from Kansas is true, then
the Kansas Republicans are the hum
griest set of politicians on top of
ground 1t is said, for instance, that
thirty palpitating Republican patriots
are struggling for the congressional
shoes of Chester l. Long. Hungry
Joe" must be the progenitor of the
Republican statesmen in ''the big Sew
enth," rendered famous by Jerry Simp-
son.
Again. that vociferous Republican
jingo, Senator ]. Ralph Burton, has
hardly warmed his curule chair as yet,
and still has four years to serve if he
lives; but wicked Republicans are al
ready scheming to yank him out.
Among these aspiring Jayhawkers is
Governor Bailey. How Burton must
have gnashed his teeth when he found
that Bailey was lunching with the pres
ldent in Washington, a performance
which will be worth a great deal to
Bailey in his impending tussIe with j.
Ralph.