Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-11-22
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Especial washington Letter.1
EEa i HE ST. Louis Globe-Democrat,
M one of the rankest Republican
M organ grinders in the land, in
an elaborate editorial abusing
William Randolph Hearst in a most
outrageous manner, says, among other
things, that he has debased journal
ism. If he has excelled or even APP
proximated the editor of the CD. in
debasing journalism he is hummer
in the debasing business. The GID.
has debased journalism by denouncing
William J. Bryan as ''fakir' and a
"hypocrite" No man with two ideas
above mud turtle believes any such
stuff The man who wrote it, pro-
vided he is not insane or idiotic,. did
not believe it, Bryan is unquestion-
ably the greatest unofficial citizen of
the republic. During his tour abroad
he increased the prestige of the name
American everywhere, and the decent
Republican papers SO say. The CD.
has hurled at the head of Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, every vile epithet it
could find at hand, yet Gompers is
man of high character and splendid
capacity. The GID. and others Of its
ilk will never forgive him for coming
so near to defeating Hon. Charles e.
Littlefield and for soaring Uncle Joe
and several other big bore Republican
statesmen within an inch of their lives.
Mr.. Gompers fought nobly for the
friends of labor and against it's enc
miles, That was the head and front of
his offending.
Day in and day out during the last
campaign the CD. asserted in every
way it knew how that Missouri is a Re
publican state when every intelligent
man knew to the contrary and also
knew that the result in the state in
1904 was a fuke, produced largely by
the revolt of Missouri Democrats
against Judge Parker. This year, even
with stay at home Democratic vote
of large proportions, we carried thestate
by a good margin and elected a Dem
ocratic legislature and twelve repre-
sentatiyes in congress out of sixteen,
missing the thirteenth by less than a
hundred votes He was lost by the
overconfidence of his friends, who were
so certain of his election that they
snapped too many of his votes for
sheriff. These results were obtained
in face of the fact that the Demo
cratic state committee had practically
no money and the Republican state
committee had all it needed. Having
made the Republican national commit
tee believe that all the congressional
districts carried by the Republicans in
Missouri in 1904 could be held and
some of the Democratic districts car
ried, Uncle Joe, Vice President Fair
banks, Secretary Shaw and others Of
their clan were induced to go to Mis-
souri, and waste their time in that i'm
perial commonwealth.
The CD. paid more attention to my
district than TO the fifteen others COM
bined, vet / increased my majority by
more than 1900 1t carried on a sys-
tematic system of Misrepresentation
If my opponent had a dozen people to
uGdI lliIu Sljedh, Ills duQlGuC0 WAS rep
resented as immense" etc. The
GID. repeatedly asserted that / would
be defeated when all persons of intel
ligence conyersant with the facts knew
better. 1t even fixed the majority
against me at from 500 to 1000. As
matter of fact, my majority was over
3,400 The morning before the cleo
ton it printed it's canard as to my
impending defeat conspicuously, which
canard caused enthusiastic Republic
ans in the district who believed the
CD. to lose lots of money betting on
the result Even the morning after
the election in one dispatch it said
that was probably defeated, notwith-
standing had 1,571 majority in 1904
and its own news columns of the 7th
of November showed that | was in
creasing my majority at nearly every
polling place in the district. / submit
that with such record as the forego-
ing the CD. is in an unfortunate posi-
ton to be accusing Mr.. Hearst or any
body else of debasing journalism. It
should set its own house in order by
telling the truth itself.