Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-08-25

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90, 100

Some prominent Democrats here who
have been in exalted Office and may be
again, are warmly enthusiastic over Mr..
Davis speech Of acceptance at the White
/ Sulphur Springs but express some fear that
Congressman Williams speech of ratifca-
ton was too delicate to be generally under
stood. Such objections have been accus-
toned to the slang whang, sledge-hammer
style of denunciation and are startled by
the sarcastic rapier thrusts of John Sharp
They would not appreciate poetry. E. F.
Whipple says of this method of attack:
Irony is a condemnation conveyed in the
form OF a compliment; insinuating the
most calling satire under the phraseology
Of panegyric; placing its victims naked on
bed of thorns covered with rose leaves;
adjoining his brow with crown of gold,
! which burns into his brain, teasing and
fretting and Kidding him through and
through with incessant discharges of hot
shot from masked battery; laying bare
the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of
his mind, smilingly priclSing them with
needles. This is fair definition OF the
machine-gun play INDUCED in by the little
black haired gentleman from Yazoo 1t
may be added that those who cannot COM
prehend that his purpose is ridicule when
he hays alive the Republican pretensions,
declaring that of course our forefathers
ought to have had good stiff tariff, if such
a tariff is blessing; that of course they
ought not to have made teapot of Bos-
ton haFbor, if men have not right to
self-government, ard when King George
was simply treating rs as we are treating
the Filipinos; that OF course the Puritans
ought to have invited the Indians to par
ticipate in their town-msetings because one
man is as good as another without regard
! to color or race; that OF course, ii Mr..
Parker is elected it will be his duty to
make laws by executive decree and usurp
the functions Of all the branches of She
Goyernment;I say that If the average
reader cannot understand the application
of this verbal bombardment he must be.
scarcely able to understand anything.
Gen. John Black former Pension Com
missioner and now Civil Service Commits
sioner has stirred up mares nest in Bos-.
ton by declaring that she Presidents de-
/ cree giving pensions to all soldiers of the.
! Civil War above the aye of 90 years,
fought to be crystalized into law by act
of Congress The Republican contention
/ is that the Presidential decree is already
good law, in that it simply defines a law
already on she statute book, and that no.
meddling whatever by congress can make
it any more s.sidifed or crysbalized. Gen.
Black is in j position to know whether
this contentlssl is valid or not Having
been Pension Commissioner for four years,
he now decides and publicly proclaims that
/ it is not--that tile Presidents decree,
under which millions Of dollars have al
ready been disbursed is not law, and can
not be until it is crystalize9. ? It would
be interesting to know what the President.
thinks of his efice-holder in this connec-
ton
Summer visitors to Washington are
greatly surprised at the Improvements
in progress. A thiIly-six ineh railroad has
been constructed straight across the plaza
at the East front of the Capitol and car
loads of earth are being whisked across
from the site of the new marble palace
ha;,,,, oraotod for tho rico IF 4I,o IN, Ioyo oe
the House, to the required filings of the
progressing Union station four squares
North. All aboard for the Union Station
site, y shouts the conductor, and the little
sdinkey'' engine puff and pulls its train
load of dirt from Southeast to Northeast
Some 80, 600 cubic yards of earth are to be
excavated and removed. There is no regu-
lar time table as yet, but the schedule
says Every now and then The square
from which the earth is taken is historic
Il Henry Clay lived there once. Thad Stew
ems owned and occupied house that has
Just been torn down to make room for the
new palace, when be was member of the
House, and when he was so badly crippled
that he could not walk or stand. Boys, I"
he said to the two Irishmen who were
carrying him from his home up the Capitol
steps, "what shall / do when you are
dead?n Judge Hollis sumptuous and spa
cious home few doors down New Jersey
avenue has just been laid low. In this
square lived Jean Davenport, the actress,
widow Of General Lander, and Mrs. Lip
pincott, best known as "Grace Greenwood. .
Here lived Judge Springer, long member
of Congress from Illinois. and from board
ing house near by went John Randolph
long ago to fight his duel with Clay.
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