Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-02


ernor a. B. Cummins of Iowa has
been elected to attend his own flu
neral while still alive-in the fesh He
is to be one of Iowa's big four
to Chicago. his mates being Sen
ators Allison and Dolliver and Hon. j.
W. Blythe They elected Cummins
after splitting upon his platform and
put him on delegation which, accord
ing TO press reports, is made up of
| twenty stand patters and only six
| liberals. At least that is what the
Globe-Democrat of st. Louis calls them,
and the CD. ought to know The
CD. neglects TO state to which class
Senators Allison and Dolliver belong.
The CD. begins its account of the
proceedings of that convention with
this sentence:
Standing before a Republican stand pat
convention which swept everything before
| it, Governor Cumnins. the leader of the
reyisionist forces in Iowa, accepted his
! defeat in graceful manner. Turning
from his radical speeches of Canadian
| reciprocity and tariff revision, he said he
was willing to stand on any platform the
Republicans of the state should select.
Willing to stand on any platform, eh?
That is a complete backdown for the
valiant Hawkeye reformer and in all
probability is the end of him politi-
cally.
This strange tale has gradually leak
ed out: President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Shaw. together with Senators All
lison and Dolliver, got together in the
White House and formulated plat
form for the Iowa Republicans which,
while claiming all the blessings we
now enjoy for the high tariff, provided
for a reasonable tariff reduction and
reciprocity, and in the story it is added
that this platform was intended to be
the model for the Chicago platform.
But, 10 and behold, when that docu-
ment was exhibited at Des Moines-
the Hon. George d. Perkins, ex-con-
gresham and prospective governor,
presented it in the committee on reso-
buttons it was jumped on with both
feet by the stand patters. Horrible to
relate, only two members stood with
Brother Perkins for the Roosevelt
Shawn llison-D olliyer pronunciamento!
The platform as adopted makes no
suggestion whatever as to tariff re-
duction and does not even mention
reciprocity. It is a whole hog stand
pat creation and is a direct slap in the
face at Messrs. Roosevelt, Allison, Dol
liver and Shaw.
The makers of that stand pat plat
form paid no particular attention to
stating the truth For instance, in their
eagerness to represent the high tariff
as the fount of every blessing they
make statement which every intelli-
gent man in America knows is untrue.
They say that the protective duties
shave furnished the revenue with
which to pay the expenses of a foreign
war;" which is not true. They knew
that a large part of that revenue was
raised by internal revenue taxes and
| by the sale of bonds, and they would
have lost nothing indeed would have
gained-in the estimation of the coun-
! try by telling the truth.
What Messrs. Roosevelt, Shaw, Al
lison and Dolliver think of the pro-
ceedings is known perhaps to them
selves only. Their candid opinion
would make what Horace Greeley
would denominate mighty interesting
reading"
Senator Lodge Criticised.
The country will be dumfonnded to
learn that any boy in Boston has the
temerity to criticise United States Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge. / write his
name in full because to call him Sena-
tor H. G. Lodge or Senator Henry G.
Lodge would be to shear him of half
| his strength and half his glory. He is
| the boss of Massachusetts and has run
| things with a high hand for, 10, these
many years. OF course the word boss
would jar upon his sensitive nerves, and
he perhaps has some more euphonious
term for it, mayhap in Greek or Latin,
| but nevertheless he is a boss, more
| aesthetic, but just as merciless, as MUIR
ply of Tammany, Quay of Pennsyl-
vania or any Of the rest of that tribe.
The signs are that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. boss of the old Bay
State. as aforesaid, topples to his
fall. The Bostonese business men are
kicking vigorously against his DONNA
ton. They seem to think that his
methods are outrageous. The board Of
trade, acting for 10000 business men,
protest against a continuation of his
rule. Should they vote with the Dem:
ocrats, as will the reciprocity Republic.
ans led by Foss, the Republican ma.
chine in Massachusetts may be over
thrown.
The following dispatch from Boston
shows the situation:
The mass meeting In Faneuil hall
called by President Henry NJ. Whit
ney Of the Boston chamber of commerce
/ in response to a petition signed by over