Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15


ing the brains of the yictors in
the late election. The revision
tide is rising. and the stand patters
are alarmed. More than that, they are
mad mad as lot of bald hornets,
mad as bull when a red rag is shak-
en- in his face, mad as She bear when
she is robbed of her cubs Didn't they
go up and down, to and fro, in the land
in the balmy autumn days and vocifer-
ously declare that the Dingley bill is
the most perfect measure ever? Didn't
they solemnly asseverate with their
hands on their hearts that anybody
doubling its perfection was an idiot
and anybody proposing to change it an
enemy of the republic? Now, are they
voting for tariff revision downward,
which they declared to be the sum of
all villainy? How about that most ram
pantest patriot of them all, Mr. Nc
Cleary of Minnesota, who. not satisfied
with the perfection of the Dingley bill,
the proposition that the Dingley rates
should be revised upward? Surely if
the revisionists downward succeed Mr.
McCleary will have grace enough to
resign, But will he? Not if Mr. Me.
Cleary knows himself, and he thinks
he does What poker player McCleary
would have made! The way he would
have raised" the boys would have
made mems eyes to bulge.
"The darkest hour is just before the
dawn" and who knows but what the
Republicans will go to pieces OH the
all improbable; indeed, quite probable
The cry for revision downward is COM
ing with such volume and such force
from so many sources - Republican
sources at that-that it cannot be COM
placently whistled down the wind by
the stand patters. If they try that ca
per the Republican party will be rent
in twain. which God grant, and if the
stand pat leaders in congress yield to
the clamor for revision the protected
interests will refuse to furnish them
campaign money in the days to come,
dutl tASf VIII DC AtICdICO. ltCllQCIdlS
taking their places, contamination
deyoutly to be wished. So the Re
publican statesmen are betwixt the
devil and the deep blue sea. 1t is pleas
ant to see them thus situated.
Another element of discord among
the Republicans is the ever present
patronage question The boys in the
trenches are hungry and are holding
out their plates for pap. The men il
office do not propose to be orsted if
they can help it, Most of those now
at the trough are of the Mckinley con-
tingent. 1t seems that hitherto Colo
mel Roosevelt has felt that he was fill
ing McKinley's term rather than his
own and has been much disposed to
make such appointments as he was
made to believe that Mckinley would
have made and had promised to make
Now. however, all that is changed He
will on March begin a full term in
his own right. and it is only reasona-
BILE that he will want to reward his
own friends. That's human nature,
and Col0nel theodore Roosevelt has 2
good deal of human nature in him;
hence the dread with which the hold
ers of divers nice fat berths regard the
coming in Of March. 1t is. indeed, like
ly to be 4 stormy and disagreeable
month for them. All Democrats should
pray that President Roosevelt will
bounce all the AIcKinleyites, for every
one bounced will henceforth give aid
and comfort, openly or coyertly, to the
Democrats. Taken all in all, our pros
poets in life lack great deal Of being
hopeless.