Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-05-05
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with the Catenudfi cfoWded. WILL III pull
tant bills. with the committees loaded
down with others as important, the
Republican majority, recreant to duty
and interested only In escaping from
the minority. turned its back and fed.
A certain president nameless here for
evermore- once uttered a pitiable wall
because he had congress on his hands
The Fifty eighth congress has, no doubt
worried Colonel Roosevelt no little, but
it is now off his hands by its own
cowardice. of its own motion, at the
earliest date for years, and he has free
rein till December Therefore he is
probably happy But what Of the peo-
pie? How do they like to see a Re-
publican congress abandon its post of
duty and scud away in search of votes
lin April?
Hearst Versus the Trusts.
Hon. William Randolph Hearst, edi-
tor of several great newspapers, rep
resentative in congress and candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
president, manifests an honesty of pur.
pose and persistency Of action most
admirable and most unusual in pur
suing the trusts. Some men criticise
his motives, but he keeps on fighting
the trusts an example which it would
be much wiser to initiate than to carp
at. Horace Greeley once said, 1.-THE
way to resume is to resume" Hearst
evidently believes that the way to bust
trusts is to bust them. So he keeps
on humping them. 1t viii be remem-
bered that recently he scored a great
triumph over the anthracite coal trust
in the supreme court of the United
States. Not satisfied with that, on
Saturday, April %, he fled with Mr..
Attorney General Knox complaint
alleging that combination Of the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad and
the Central Railroad of New Jersey, I'M
der a common mana cement has shifted
competition, and petitioning the de-
partment of justice to proceed against
them under the Sherman antitrust
law The complaint asks that the ac
ton be taken to restrain the Reading
company, while the owner of the stock
of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
way company, from owning, holding or
voting upon the stock Of the Central,
ETC.: finally that the guilty parties be
prosecuted criminally.
His detractors have tried to make it
appear that Mr.. Hearst is a mere dunn
my. charge which never had any
foundation in fact and which he tri-
umphantly refuted the other day by
appearing before the house judiciary
committee and delivering an argument
of which any man might well be proud.
The great Republican lawyers on that
great committee tried to confuse him
BY cross examination. but he held his
own and came out with flying scolors-
On that point his critics should in COM
mon decency shut up. Good for Will
liam Randolph Hearst!
In arguing his question before the
committee he used these two very Wig
orous sentences THE attorney general
has been brooding over that evidence
like a hen on a doorknob for eighteen
months. He has not acted in any way
and won't let anybody take it away
from him."
This language indicates that Mr.
Hearst can express his ideas in vigor-
Gus and picturesque speech. Per-
naps it also indicates that his bump
of reverence is not abnormally deyel-
oped. His words are not calculated to
make him persona grata in the attor-
ney generals Office, but are well cal
culated to make the attorney general
squirm. To refer to any man as sit
ting hem is considered in all countries
an expression Of contempt, but to de-
scribe him as sitting on doorknob'
is to express contempt in a superlatiye
degree. If Hearst does not look out
be will get himself prosecuted
Benton on the Tariff.
The Washington Post pays the fol.
lowing high and well deserved compIi-
ment to the Hon. NJ. 3. Benton, one of
the representatives from Missouri
Representative Maecenas E. Benton of
Missouri, recognized as one of the ab1est
and most Industrious members Of the
house. seldom devotes any Of his time to
oratorical efforts on the floor. although
he is acknowledged to be one of the best
informed men in the body on public cues
tons and one Of the most forceful speak.
ers on the minority side. In the debate
upon the merchant marine Mr.. Benton
took occasion to advance his views on the
general tariff question with a force that
has attracted wide attention
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MED the Republican contention that Pre-
lection is the settled policy Of this coun
try. 4 insist. said he, that you cannot
finally settle anything in a government
like ours that is not just in its makeup
to all classes of our people. The wage
Garner Of every class and in every part
chance in the race Of life. The profes-
sional man, the merchant the farmer
the miner and the day laborer are en-