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Alton and the Burlington railway COM
panies for overpowering, disarming and
delivering d train robber to the officers
of the law. The insignifcance of the re-
ward would lead one to think that an
act less daring than volunteer battle
for life against great odds would entitle
a conductor to a ham sandwich wrapped
in tissue paper and tied with baby ribbon.
Surely that's hot right off the shovel
and to the point Perhaps Colonel
Moran never read that rich and racy
passage wherein William Makepeace
Thackeray describes how the noble
tutor of the Prince of Wales was made
an earl for a mistake in prosody and
Horatio made baron for winning the
battle of the Nile, one of the greatest
naval victories in the history of the
human race, but nevertheless Moran
and Thackeray's minds seem to have
been running in the same channel. Mo
rams paragraph is likely to be widely
quoted, as it deserves to be. No man
at any time or place OF under any cir
cumstances ever performed more
heroic action than did Conductor Hey
wood. If Andrew Carnegie fails to
give him hero's reward, he will miss
a golden opportunity to prove that he
knows genuine hero when he sees
one.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

The very latest political gossip from
Ohio is that Senator Joseph Benson
Foraker Is about to throw General
Senator Charles Dick overheard as a
sort of tub to the reform whale and to
form an alliance, offensive and defen-
sive, with Representative Theodore e.
Burton, which BODIES no good to Dick.
Indeed. it means that his finish is In
plain view. AS Foraker controls Ham
llton county, in which Cincinnati Is sit
uated, and as Burton controls Cuya-
hoga county, in which Cleveland is To-
Gated. they are. If they join hands, in
position to partition the Republican
Buckeye world betwixt them and to
leave Dick out in the cold.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

Senator Reed Smoot, the Mormon
senator from Utah, could with great
propriety have wished himself, or,
more properly speaking, could have
congratulated himself, on merry
Christmas. Clearly he was in a posi-
ton to do so. He is quite likely to die
of old age in the senate if he remains
there till he is unseated or expelled.
Julius Caesar Burrows may tune up
his aeolian voice to concert pitch and
say all manner of things about Reed,
but the latter knows he is safe by rea-
son of the entente cordiale entered into
between the Republican leaders and
the Mormon hierarchy. 20 Temporal
o moresr'
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

The statesman who fails to be men
toned for president will soon be a dis
tinguished citizen for that very reason.
The latest to have his name mentioned
in that high connection is Senator Win
throp Murray Crane of Massachusetts.
The mentioning was done by Con-
gregationalist minister at a Congrega-
tionalist ministers meeting of some
sort Just how much Senator Crane
had contributed to the festivities is
not known. 1t must have been stable,
for the reverend mentioner not only
declared for him, but pronounced him
to be the logical candidate. What
about the boom of Senator Henry Ca
bot Lodge?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03
What to DO.

convincing proof that the kidneys and blad-
der are out of order.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

u y - hiAtiCA
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these 1t might have
been,
Those lines must come to the mind
Of every Democrat in the land as he
thinks of how easily we would have
elected majority Of the members Of
the Slxtieth congress had the president
fred the colored troops and expressed
his opinion about the Japanese middle
ten days before the election We would
have carried the country hands down
and not only had the next house, but
would have had twenty-five or thirty
members to spare. There is no way
of getting at the precise figures with
any reasonable amount of labor and
trouble, but there must be from thirty
to fifty Republican members of the
next house who would have, been de-
feated but for the colored vote, which
as rule is cast solidly for the Repub
licans That vote counts for little in
the cotton states because In one way
and another it has been eliminated to
d large cAtCtAt, Uul 1LOll Lie 6OotA4CkA
line of Kentucky and Missouri north
ward the colored man votes as freely
as the white man, and his vote is
counted. It's in that region where his
influence at the polls is felt most. But
for the colored vote Missouri's delega-
ton in the Sixtieth congress would
stand fifteen Democrats and one Re-
publican instead of twelve Democrats
and four Republicans; the Kentucky
delegation would contain only one Re-
publican instead of four; the Indiana
delegation would have not to exceed
two Republcans-per not that
many; the Ohio delegation would show
up with majority of Democrats, and
so on to the end of the chapter. The
presidents illumination as to the Japs
would have given us a full complement
Of Democratic officers in California
and majority of the California dele
CATION in congress. That was case
in which representation saved the ba
con of the Republicans. Too bad, too
bad!
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03
Plain Talk.

Clearly the adequacy of the Chicago
and Alton Railroad company's reward
Of merit to Conductor Haywood for
knocking down, overpowering, disarm-
ing and capturing train robber does
not commend itself to one Of my most
esteemed constituents. Colonel J. B..
Moran, editor and proprietor Of the
Wellsville Record, and he is not at all
mealy moufhed about expressing his
opinion, for be says:
4 gold watch and $500 was the reward
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

Sediment or SET
ting indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; If it stains
your linen it is
evidence Of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire TO
pass it or pain in
the back is also
=
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know it.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours;
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03
Gratuitous Advice.

Whatever effect Mr.. Secretary of
State Roots monarchistic speech before
the Pennsylvania Society of New York
may have had in this country, it seems
to have set English editors on fire.
With one accord they agree that we
have outgrown our constitution, and
they unanimously urge us to discard
it, make one up to date and thereby
break into really first class royal So
ciety. This advice is entirely gratui-
tous. In fact, it is superfuous, pro-
vided Root can induce the courts to
construe the constitution out of exist
ence. His plan would be much cheap
er, and, as it Is more insidious, 1t
would perchance be more successful.
In a convention Roots scheme would
stand the same chance that Hamilton's
monarchic scheme stood in the con-
vention of 1887 and not one whit bet
ter. There is an old saying, Beware
of the Greeks bearing gifts" dictum
applicable to the Britishers advice to
us to get us a modern constitution.
Truth to tell, they never did like our
prevent our being in a position to
make one Certain American states
men mixed up in that performance
were honored by having their names
in bills of attainder and would have
been immortalized by being hanged if
the forbears of our present British adj
visers could have laid hands on them.
Throw physic to the dogs" is a ia
miliar comment, and in this instance
we are likely to throw advice to the
dogs, it is so cheap, don't you know.
These British advisers are only repeat
ing the ancient performance of the sly
fox who advised all other foxes to
have their tails cut off because he had
been forcibly separated from his own
caudal appendage The foxes had
sense enough to reject his suggestions,
and surely we have as much gumption
as foxes have No doubt Gar Nicho-
las, Kaiser Wilhelm, King Victor En-
manuel, the sultan of Turkey, the all
koond of Swat, Leopold of Belgium
and all the rest Of the crowned heads,
great and small. will join in the advice
of the British savants that we go
straightway and get us a new and
more fashionable constitution. While
the constitution needs amending in
some respects and will in all human
probability be amended in due time,
we don't need new constitution. We
have managed to wigwag along with
the old one, made by the fathers, for
III years, and, notwithstanding the
opinion of the Britishers and all other
monarchists, we can wag along with 1t
for good while yet. Signs are not
wanting of determination on the part
Of the American people to return to
democratic principles. Mr. Secretary
Root and his British admirers misread
the signs of the times that's all.
Plain Talk.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

and discussed so many subjects there
in. In utter abandon of speech Presi
dent Roosevelt himself does not 60
ahead Of him A more independent
man never lived There was no half
way business about his opinions touch
ing men and things. He spoke right
out in meeting His nay was en-
phaticalIy nay and his yea emphaticals
~ yea Positive himself in all things
his pet aversion was trimmer. Per
haps his bluntness made him enemies
unnecessarily, a thing about which be
seemed to care not at all, though he
was kind hearted and amiable, with
his intinates even playful and humor
GUS The word policy seemed to have
no place in his lexicon. Had he been
more charitable in constituting the con
duct and judging the motives of those
who differed with him he might have
gone further and accomplished more.
He was a stanch partisan and hard
fighter, qualities which commend them.
selves to yirile mind.
His Christian name, Charles Ere
mont, puzzled me for some time
Knowing that he had lived long in
Kansas, / concluded that his father
must have been a Republican. When
had become well enough acquainted
with him, asked him to solve the rid.
die, and here is what he said: MY
father, DIR. Cochran of Missouri, was
a rampant Democrat. Thomas A.
Benton was his bette noire, and he hated
the Great Missourian' so intently that
he rejoiced at any calamity that befell
him. 1t so happened that John Charles
Fremont eloped with Jessie Benton
the coloneps daughter, about the time
/ was born, and my father dubbed me
Charles Fremont because the young
Pathfinder had done Old Bullion a
bad turn" So for sixty years Colonel
Cochran was living, breathing monu-
ment to the bitterness of the Benton
and anti Benton feud, which rent the
Democracy of Missouri in twain and
which wrecked more careers than did
the siege of Troy.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03
They're OFF.

Mr.. Vice President Charles Warren
Fairbanks would do well to look to his
laurels as the corraller of the colored
vote. Senator Joseph Benson Foraker
of Ohio is after it hotfoot. The papers
have been telling us that the V. P. has
a cinch on the colored man and brother
for 1908, but he will be able to learn
something to his advantage in this
crisis of his fate by perusing John
Sherman's book carefully and prayer
fully, in which there is pathetic story
as to how John after rounding up the
colored delegates to the Republican
national convention of 1888 was cruel
~ hornswaggled out of them by Gen
eral Russell A. Alger of Michigan, sub
sequently secretary of war and now a
senator of the United States. Joseph
Benson is using strategy and language
to win the colored man and brother
from the v. P, but if John is to be
believed General Russell used more
powerful, if more vulgar, persuader.
True, John and Russell A. were mem
bers subsequently of the same McKin-
ley cabinet, but he never did retract
the statement as to how he was ''cir-
cumwented' by the plutocratic Mich
igander. AS before stated in these let
tiers, Senator Foraker introduced res
olution of inquiry in the senate ask
ing Mr.. Secretary of War William II.
Taft, whom he loves as old Montague
loved old Capulet, to give the facts
touching the unceremonious dismissal
of certain colored soldiers. 1t will be
remembered also that for some occult
reason Senator Boies Penrose intro
duced a resolution of inquiry touching
the same subject matter, his resolution
asking the president for information.
The president took his pen in hand and
furnished that pair of inquisitive sen
ators with lots of information in about
as vigorous English as has ever been
used in state paper justifying him
self and his war secretary Thereupon
Senator Foraker took the floor and I'M
dertook in fiery style to answer the
president and the secretary of war.
He did not mince words, but used Ian
guage calculated to provoke breach
of the peace-in fact, many breaches.
Evidently the war is on, and it is to
be a war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt. 1t may be that up to the time
when the president fired the colored
troops aforementioned Vice President
Fairbanks had the colored voters cor
rallied If So the chances are ten to one
that Foraker's trumpet blast will cause
them to break through that corral and
to range themselves under his defiant
banner. The v. p. will have to get a
hustle on himself or he will be in as
woeful plight as was j. S. at Chicago.
Foraker denies the presidents facts,
denies his construction of his constitu-
tional right and runs amuck generally.
Joseph Benson is playing for big
stakes, and, whatever else may be said
of his performance, he is playing his
hand boldly above the table and for
all it's worth.
In the meantime poor Penrose seems
to have been lost in the shuttle, and it
is well.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

Once more Governor Charles Evans
Hughes has issued pronunciamento
to the effect that he proposes to do his
own talking and to be his own boss
1.-THE lady doth protest too much"
Really that is what he was elected to
do. SO far as is known, nobody is try
ing to speak for him or to boss him.
The only justification for bis sundry
declarations of independence is that as
rule the governors of New York are
the merest figureheads or marionettes.
Once in awhile the New York Repub-
lican bosses are forced to nominate a
man they do not want in order to win.
Roosevelt and Hughes are samples,
but Roosevelt's record of reform in the
gubernatorial chair was nil, just as
that of Hughes is quite likely to be.
Now he is dreaming of the presidency.
Two years hence he is liable to be de-
prived of his yellow Jacket as govern
or.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-03

The last gale which swept from the
northeast brought to our ears the as
founding news that Ex-Governor and
ex-Boss Benjamin B. Odell shows signs
of coming to life. He is moving, with
his family, from Newburg to the Fifth
Avenue hotel, in Greater New York,
so as to have a better chance to min
gle with the passing political throng
1t is said that Mr.. Hartman has de-
clared that if needs be he will spend a
cool ten millions to resuscitate Bonnie.
Perhaps that is apochryphal, but If
true and old Ben Franklin is cognizant
of the affairs of this mundane sphere
he must be thinking that Harriman's
political whistle comes rather high. So
far no multimillionaire has shown any
disposition to squander any considera
BILE quantum of his wealth to resurrect
Lemuel Eli Quigg.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-21

chances were sold at five cents each
On Saturday evening band concert
opened the exercises.
At o o'clock yesterday morning there
was distribution of clothing and food
to the poor, both men and women. AT
10 'clock pontifical mass was celebrat-
ed by Father Stephen. This was pre-
ceded by procession through the
grounds by the Brotherhood with the
crown and banner, the crown being car
ried by Bishop Libert, Within the
cathedral seats had been specially re-
served in "A body for the Brotherhood.
At ] o clock the twelve poor men,
plicated-twelve Portuguese and
twelve llnwaiians-w conducted to
the decorated table, where fruits and
flowers were not the sole furnishing.
The dinner provided was Of substan-
tial and satisfying charaeter-with
soup, chicken and vegetables. The men
were not only fed but had been sup
piled with new clothing, including hats
and shoes, Before they were served
the food was solemnly blessed by the
Bishop.
Those who were successful ~ the
drawing lefi the cathedral grounds aft
~ the concert, tired but happy. One
woman carried proudly large black
velvet cushion emhelllshed with heavy
pattern NJ yellos iufled waol, which,
no doubt, Will aeaeeforlh be amongst
boz mosl valued possessions
The Brotherhood eapsuded 10 FOOD
apd slalhiHg shaal fhoo Tbs exercises
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-21
SON OF NOTED
MAN DEGRADED

Major Francis p. Fremont. of the
9Th United States Infantry, who was
tried before a general court martial
which began on April / in the Army
Building. has been found guilty on
seven out of twelve specifications
against him.
The sentence of the court is: And
the court does therefore sentence him,
Major Francis p. Fremont, 9Th United
States Infantry, to lose sixty files in
military rank on the list of majors of
infantry"
In forwarding the report of the court
martial and findings and his approval
of the sentence to Washington, Major
General Grant incloses the following
comment:
I'm the foregoing case of Major
Francis p Fremont, 9th United States
Infantry. the alleged false representa-
tions-excepted in its findings by the
court-as to his being owner of prop
erty, having been, according to oral
testimony. made at different times to
different persons and having been made
In writing at another time in language
incapable of being otherwise con-
strued, seem to have been established
beyond any doubt that In reason could
exist.
1.-THE facts found by the court that he
borrowed money on promises of pay
ment from his official pay, which pay
ment he has neglected and evaded to
the scandal and disgrace of the mill
tary service. undoubtedly constitute
conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman, in violation of the 61st Ar
ticle OF War, and should have
been so found. The finding that
such conduct il only prejudicial TO
good order and military discipline
tends, by the force II gains from
the length OF service and high rank
of the members of the court. to lower
the standard OF integrity 10 which oii-
GERS OF the army should be held, and
to detract from the benefit which
should flow from this trial.
I'm order that some punishment may
be imposed, the sentence Is approved.
and VIII be forwarded TO the War De-
partment for execution"
Major Fremont, who In a son OF Gen
era John G. Fremont. the Pathhnd-
er," was charged with conduct unbe-
coming an officer and a gentleman The
charges Involved IA number OF financial
transactions,
Creditors OF Major Fremont COM
planned 20 the War Department that
he had obtained money under false pre-
fences, In May. 1909, Major Fremont
went Into bankruptcy proceedings IN
this district, declaring that he had
only s2s Ia cash ana that his Habit
Ties were 81 2oI,- New York Tribune
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-21
DISASTER To
CRAFT PREDICTED

Where is the yacht Shark, now out
twenty eight days from San Francisco
for Honolulu? Is the question which is
agitating the minds of local water
frontiers.
Granted that she is taking her time,
she should have been here long before
this. People are beginning to shake
their heads obviously when Jack Lon
don's little craft is mentioned.
That there are those in San Francisco
who do not take much stock In Lon
don's boat designing and seamanship Is
evidenced by the following, taken from
the S. f. Newsletter:
1.-THE press has emitted a good deal
of gush lately about the Shark, the
nondescript craft In which Jack Lon
don has started on a world tour. Some
Of London's friends and admirers have
held the vessel to be a monument to
Londons ability, both as a ship de-
signer and a seaman. She Is nothing
of the kind. II she reaches Honolulu
in safety / shall be much surprised,
for there has seldom been craft which
embodied such combination OF lub-
berly awkwardness and plain nautical
ignorance. A genuine sailor would run
from her as fast as his legs would
carry him. For example, the hauling
part OF the main sheet leads from the
deck block instead OF from the boom.
A novice knows that that arrangement
involves not only a loss OF power To
the purchase. but gives an awkward
lead and increases the chances of foul
Ing. Then there is Il searchlight. for
what earthly use / can not conceive
Gin IA vessel OF her kind. and II is
mounted on the rail forward In place
where an unruly jIb-sheet is apt To
knock II overheard In the first blow.
The galley funnel-or Charlie Noble
as sailors call it's In such Il place
and OF such low height that the first
good sized sea the Shark ships IL al
most sure to pour down into the gall
ley. The Shark is. indeed. quite In
keeping with London's other produce
tlons, In that she In an index OF dis
ordered mind. The socialist novelist
may be a good fisherman seal hunter
and foremast hand but he IN not a
naval architect or quarterback oificer'
| hope no serious mishap may beset
the party which N Drawing the sea In
the shark but fear the worst"
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-05-21
RHEUMATISM MAKES LIFE MIS-
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