Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-08-16

Our leaders have never entered cam
paign with greater encouragement.
General John G. Bates. late lieutenant
general on the active list, now On the
retired list, was one of my constitu-
ents, having been born in St Charles
county, in my district He is the son
of Edward Bates. attorney general un-
der Abraham Lincoln, and nephew to
Governor Frederick Bates, second gov
ernor of the state of Missouri. Now
comes the news, good news, that Colo
ael Arthur Murray, another of my
constituents, is to succeed General
Mills as chief of artillery. General Muir
ray is as fine an officer as there is in
the army. He was born and reared in
Bowling Green, Pike county, Mo-,
the town where | reside, and was APP
pointed to West Point thirty-five or
thirty-six years ago by Colonel Pat
Dyer, one of my predecessors in con-
gress, who is now United States dis
trict attorney for the western district
Of Missouri General Murray's ances-
tors were prominent Virginians His
father, Judge Samuel F. Murray, was
prominent pioneer lawyer in Missouri
and held many positions of trust and
honor. His uncle, Edward c. Murray,
was state senator. He and Colonel
w, A. Harris. the next governor of
Kansas, are first cousins. 1 congratu-
late both General Murray and the
county Oh his promotion
News dispatches inform US that at a
soiree given by Hon. James Z. Wat
son recently in honor of Mr.. Speaker
Cannon Uncle Joe seemed to be partic-
ularly impressed by certain old fash
toned hymns which were sung for his
benefit After the Democrats carry
the election this fall the hymns which
will be most in consonance with Uncle
Joe's feelings will be Come. Humble
Sinner In Whose Breast and 'Hark
From the Tombs, a Doleful Sound"
The signs of the times indicate that
be has Watson in training for the
speakership should the Republicans
| continue to hold the house-a most i'm
| probable event-and should Uncle Joe
BE promoted to the presidency. Wat
son is a most amiable man and would
do as we'll in the speakers chair as
any other Republican.
Fame is vapor," said Horace
Greeley When my brilliant and anna
BILE friend Hon. James E. Watson of
Indiana. the Republican whip. reads
the Missouri papers, he will most
probably agree with the sage of Chap
paqua, for after travelling hundreds
of miles to give the Missouri Repub-
licans a thriller" the papers speak
| of the entertaining HoOsier as Mr..
warner" of Indiana. Notwithstand-
ing the fair Juliet propounded the
far resounding query, whats in
name?" and answered it by saying,
THAT which we call rose by any
| other name would smell as sweet"
statesmen like Brother Watson who
are chasing the bubble reputation by
making speeches this hot weather
would rather be called by their right
names.
One by one the roses fall. One by
one prominent Republicans are quit
ting the stand pat gang even as rats
leave sinking ship. The latest of
| them to turn reformer is Hon. Elmer
| Dover, secretary of the Republican
| INIT O
stand pat campaign to be idiocy On
Saturday, July %, the st. Louis Globe
| Democrat, Republican organ grinder,
| in an elaborate editorial announced
| with much gusto and a great flourish
of trumpets that the late conference of
| Roosevelt, Cannon, Sherman & Co.
had defed the Democrats by announc-
ing stand pat campaign, but the next
day. the 29th of July, it showed. for
the CD was compelled to announce
that Mr. Secretary Dover had declared
in favor of tariff revision. Poor old
| CD.
The Philippines have been paci-
fed once more, this time by killing
| $50 Pulajanes. Pacifying the Philip
pines is a continuous performance.
peace reigns in Warsaw is sen
tence of sinister meaning, calculated
to chill the blood, when one remembers
how that peace was obtained and that
is the only peace that will ever reign
in the Philippines peace of death.
In the meantime the st. Louis Globe
Democrat insists that our army of 49,
600 in the archipelago is too small and
wants it increased. AS it costs $4,000
a year to keep soldier over there, it
is easy to figure out that our Philip
pine whistle comes high. When will
the American people have sense enough
to give them away?
Those palpitating admirers of the
Japanese who went about during the
Russo-Japanese war declaring that