The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-09-13
MR. FLANAGAN !; AUTHOR.

Our own Statesman evidently in
tends to heed the advice of the Hon
Peter Egenolf, Of Union, and leave
campaign oratory to the Hon. S. S.
Swackhamer. He has sent out some
twenty thousand copies Of an eight
page pamphlet which is bugle call to
the Democracy for sure. The Sunday
Call has the following in regard to it
which fills the bill -
Hon. Dewitt @. Flanagan, Of Morris
County, for a brief while a member of
Congress, later an unsuccessful as
pirant for a full term in the House of
Representatives, still later a possible
candidate for the Democratic Con-
greSsional nomination. and yet later
still willing to be the candidate Of his
party for Governor of New Jersey if
the banner of leadership is thrust into
his handS-thiS same Mr.. Flanagan
has suddenly bourgeoned forth as an
author He has issued an address in
answer to the appeal to the !" Loyal
Democracy of New jersey Many a
itlQll VIII llftO OCCll tA1OlC VI tCEo u l0tl-
ure in other vocations has proved a
success asa writer of fiction. Recall
the author of Helen's Babies. AS
Ia lecturer he held the platform for
only few nights, but his book had a
remarkable circulation. AS a pOliti-
cal lecturer, Hon. Dewitt G.. Flana-
gan was hardly phenomenal; he had
more hands than he knew where to
place comfortably, and the $50, 900
words of the English language were
quite too many for him. They con-
fused him instead of helping him to
express his profound convictions be-
fore an audience. An author, how
ever, does not have totie uphis fingers
in his watch chain to get them out OF
the way, and if the word he wants
does not come at call, he can wait till
he finds it in the dictionary and then
compel it by main force to do his
bidding. 1t was reasonable, therefore
to expect something very fine in Mr.
Flanagan's first efforts in political
fiction, and in this the waiting public
is not likely to be disappointed
He begins his address with the bril-
liant and once wholly original declara-
tion that 1.-THE fundamental principles
OF government are at stake, and then
calls fW the undivided attention OF
those who believe Sin the immortal
principles of Democracy as set forth by
Thomas Jefferson He demands Of
them the earnest, sincere and loyal
support of the national Democratic
ticket, " for, after an exhaustive study
of the situation, Mr. Flanagan is
ready to assert, without fear Of sue
cesSful contradiction, that 1.-THE one es-
sential and vital prerequisite to The
re-establishment OF a democratic form
of government is the 0verthrowo of the
Republican party in its mad career of
legalized plumber; its overriding the
Constitution of the United States.
creating economic, social and political
conditions that are a menace to our
civil liberties and threaten the very
existence of our American republic. J"
Mr.. Flanagan certainly picked out
his words when he became the author
of that declaration, picked them out
neither singly nor in pairs, but In a
bunch. AS a new author throwing a
new light upon an old question he had
a right to do this and he did it we'll.
He leaves nothing to be said on the
subject except what he may choose to
say himself at some later day.
With reference to the conditions in
New Jersey Mr.. Flanagan finds 1t
easy to write after having exhausted
the national situation. He depl0res
partizan strife, pats on the back
Colonel Price and some others Of Tour
best and most loyal Democrats who
recently issued the scathing Address
to the Loyal Democracy, and hopes
that no sense of injustice, however
great, will induce. any Democrat to
vote for any Republican; because
Y Democracy opportunity Is at hand.
Which hand Mr. Flanagan neglects to
state, but so slight an oversight can
readily be overlooked.
LII Is evident enough that az an
author the former member OF Congress
has a firm grasp on such eternal verl-
ties as are suitable for party campaign
purposes, and that he Is able TO make
use Of them as If they were brand
new. III Hon. Dewitt @. Flanagall's
pen is needed and his pen has always
been mightier than his voice next
November win see one OF the grandest
c0nvolutions ever witnessed In the
political arena. Which party will be
on top when the scrimmage ends Mr..
Flanagan may tell In his next literary
effort.