Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-01-05
Especial Washington Letter.


"a week Immediately after the cleo
III ton lecturing in Georgia and the
Christmas holidays lecturing in
New England. My various speaking
and lecturing expeditions into the
northeast corner of the republic have
led me to the conclusion that. while
southern hospitality is in nowise over
estimated, northern hospitality in gen
eral, and New England hospitality par
ticHlarly, is much moderated. Nowhere
have been greeted with more warmth
or entertained with more cordially
than in Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont. Rhode Island and Connecticut.
1t is really a pity that every. southerner
cannot spend some time in the north
and every northerner some time in the
south. Many imagined differences and
incompatibilities would vanish as
dream. The people of both sections
are amenable to reason. The lines of
demarcation would disappear could
each know the other better.
When Abraham Lincoln visited Rich
mond at the close of the war between
the states band struck up Dixie"
A superselviceable subaltern undertook
to stop it, whereupon the great enamel
pator said: Let them play it. We cap
tured Dixie along with the Confeder-
acy," one of the wisest sayings of that
wise man. In Boston, Dec 20. my
wife and | went to see George AIDES
splendid comedy. THE County Chair
man" at the fremont theater The
performance began by the band rem
dering a medley made up of sAmeri-
Ca Dixie. "Old Dan Tucker" 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner" Maryland Ny
Maryland" etc Dixie" and Mary
land, My Maryland ware as warmly
received as America and THE Star
Spangled Banner Southern men are
as cordially accepted as southern mu-
sic, all of which is good for the repub-
lie
BY the way. New England is the only
part of the country in which Democ-
racy seems to be on the up grade
Even in 1904. the year of the Repub-
lican flood Massachusetts did herself
proud by electing William L. Douglas,
the great Democratic shoe manufacture
er, governor. If he makes q good chief
magistrate of the old Bay State far
stranger things have happened than
his succeeding President Roosevelt
March 4, 1909 Boston is Democratic
by an overwhelming majority and
comes more and more to influence the
politics of the state. The leayen of
reciprocity is working in Massachu-
setts at a rapid rate and may by the
impulse given to it by the election of
Governor Douglas land the state in the
Democratic column Sixty thousand
Massachusetts manufacturers, mer-
chants and other citizens during the
recent campaign signed petitions favor
ing reciprocity with Canada. OF course
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, the Re
publican boss of Massachusetts, de-
nounced the reciprocity agitation as a
wicked invention of the Democrats or
the devil. he hardly knew which, the
two being about the same in his eyes,
but the people took no such view of it,
as was demonstrated conclusively by
TIE NdIotit! Acf NoNeIHof DouSlas-
The truth is that the New Englanders
conceive free raw material to be nee
essary for the continued prosperity of
their manufacturing industries. If the
stand patters deny them Canadian rec
iprocity and free raw materials they
are certain to double team with the
Democrats. When they do that the
long reign of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge viii draw TO a close. a eonsum
nation devoutly to be wished.
In Rhode Island in 1904 the Demo
Gratis elected one congressman out of
two and came near to rejoicing that
splendid Democrat Governor Garvin.
SO. taken all in all, the Democrats of
New England feel rather cheerful.