Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-04-14

~ known rs cllnDlnS INTO
band wagon''-one now much
practiced by Republican statesmen and
politicians of every degree. They,
great and small, are crowding each
4 other in the mad endeavor to get into
Colonel Roosevelt's band wagon. OF
all who have got into that vehicle
General Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio
has performed the most remarkable
feat Hereafter he will be rated as
the long distance high jumper Of the
/ age. He did not climb Not he. Oh.
no. He simply spit on his hands, oiled
up his joints and took a running jump
which not only landed him in the B. w,
but on the drivers seat. with lines in
one hand and whip in t'other. Like
Jehu of old, he driveth furiously. The
general belongs to what was known as
the Mckinley Hanna faction of Ohio
Republicans until their death and what
has since then come to be known as
the Herrick-Dick faction. Until Sen
and hope to nominate him for presi-
dent. With him persisted all open OPP
position to Colonel Roosevelt for the
nomination, but General Grosvenor
made up his mind not to be left in the
lurch. His repentance came at the
eleventh hour-in fact, just few min
utes before II but evidently, when
he saw the light, he proposed to Guido
and eclipse all others as a Roosevelt
whooper up, and, to do him justice, it
ought to be said that he has thrown
all others completely into the shade.
April 4 he devotes twenty-seven and
half pages of the Congressional
Record somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 words-to a gloriication
of the president. There is little else
in that ''speech''-not one word of
which he uttered in the house. On
March % he asked leave to extend
his remarks in the Record without
having made any remarks whatsoever.
That request was granted, and the
April 4 speech is the result. 1t is
so fulsome in its fiattery of the presi-
dent that the Washington Times in
Sinuates that President Roosevelt
wrote it himself or had it written I'M
der his eye at the White House. This
insinuation does injustice to both the
president and the general. The latter
probably deserved the credit such as
it is-of evolving it out Of his own in
ner consciousness.
Not satisfied with that notable bid
for foremost place at the pie counter,
General Grosvenor, on April 5, in a
speech which he actually delivered in
the house, went into Mysteries over the
president and elevated him to the pin
nacle of human glory-all of which
demonstrates that the general thinks
he knows ON which side his bread is
buttered
Troubles Of the Stand Patters."
In my tariff speech, March %, l said
inter ALA:
Within the last few years a thrilling
slogan has been given to Republicans,
'tStand patti" which is suggestive of the
shibboleth of the old time chevaliers dim
dustrie, '.Stand and deliverr' And, mira
bile dictu, in their ranks has arisen a tar
if reformer who is causing Republican
big wigs to have insomnia from Fostering
their heads in the vain endeavor to in
vent ways and means to squelch him or
to circumvent him, as Weller pere would
have said His theory of tariff reform has
been heralded far and wide as 1.-The Iowa
idea His habitat is Des Moines, his
name is A. B. Cummins. and he is Re-
publican governor of the Hawkeye State,
serving his second term, having been re-
elected last year after his idea had
been thoroughly exploited.
A comet with tail of fire 1OO00,O 900
miles long did not create greater con-
sternation among the ignorant and super
stitious idolaters of antiquity than this
mild tariff reformer has carried into the
ranks Of the stand patters."
Stand pat" organs have applied to him
/ all sorts of opprobrious epithets, most
common among which is that of traitor. .
Nevertheless in 1903 he was renominated
1 for governor by reclamation by the Re-
! publicans of Iowa and reelected by an
overwhelming majority and, unless all
the signs of the times fail, he will head
the Iowa delegation to the Chicago con
vention.
If he is as bad a man as the stand pat
/ ters" represent him to be, why was he re-
elected governor of one Of the strongest
Republican states in the Union2 Was it
/ out Of superintendent tenderness for an
erring brother, or was it because the
| Cummins following in Iowa is too strong
to be turned down with impunity? Why
is this TRAITOR to Republicanism to go
| to Chicago as the bellwether of the dele
gation2 Is it because he represents not
only the Iowa idea" but the true Re-
/ publican idea also, or is it because the
| Iowa stand patters, fear him and would
placate him at least till after the Novem-
Der election7
What is 1.-The Iowa idea as expounded
by Governor Cummins? 1t is this, as ex-
pressed in the Iowa Republican platform
1 of 1901, adopted by the convention which
nominated him the first time:
1--WE favor any modification Of the
tariff schedules that may be required to
prevent them becoming shelter for mo-
| nopoly.'
That is the head and front of his Of
Tending That is what has created such
a futter among the faithful
behold, how great a matter a little fire