Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-05-09
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brush. Who are crawling out
of the brushf The anti-Roose
welt Republican bigwigs They
are beginning 70 show their hands
They are speaking out in meeting.
There is revolt all along the line. Of
course Senator Joseph Benson Foraker
OF Ohio is the Navarro of the Repub-
lican rebels. and his white plume losses
i'll the forefront of the battle, but
there are others-Mr. Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks, for in
stance. and Senator General Charles
Dick of Ohio, and ex-senator John NJ.
Thurston of Nebraska. and e. H. Har-
rinian of New York. and Senator Boies
Penrose of Pennsylvania. and Mayor
Reyburn Of Philadelphia and Senator
Perkins of California, and Lieutenant
still others, as the sale bills run. too
numerous to mention" Why are they
beginning to show their hands and wag
their tongues when they have been
dumb as lambs before their shearers
heretofore? The reason is not difficult
to discover. President Rooseyelt's time
in the White House is rapidly passing,
and his patronage is about exhausted;
consequently these worthless are pluck
ing up courage enough to express those
nti-Rooseyelt opinions which they
have secretly entertained all the time.
The following dispatch is straw
showing which way the wind blows:
San Francisco, April Hunted States
Senator Perkins stirred his audience last
night at the annual banquet of the Oak
land Merchants Exchange by declaring
that President Roosevelt talks too much.
1T is the history of the human race,
he said, that some people talk too much,
and this is the fault of our president. He
wanted to naturalize the Japanese, and on
this point as you all know, he talked too
much, but people forgave him because he
is in earnest and his heart is for the
right"
Now, be 1t known that Senator Per-
kins is one of the smoothest and one Of
the mildest hammered men among the
conscript fathers. Diplomacy is his
forte. He boasts that he is the only
real sailor in the senate, having sailed
before the mast some years. Does any
sane man believe that this gentle
speaking Californian could have been
induced under any pressure, however
strong, OF during any excitement, how
ever tense, to have spoken thus of the
president two years ago or even one
year ago? Not bit of 1t. He thinks
the time has come to unload Colonel
Roosevelt, and he joins hands with the
other recalcitrants.
The Topeka Capital, rabid Roose-
welt organ, recently said:
Z Lieutenant Governor Draper of Massa-
chusetts has advised President Roosevelt
to take months rest; otherwise you
would never have heard of Lieutenant
Governor Draper.
No doubt the president thoroughly In
dorses the Capitals remark. Perhaps
he would have made it stronger.
Of course everybody that reads the
newspapers knows the remarks--bit-
ter, burning which Representative
James w Wadswofth recently made
touching the president. The latter's
newspaper friends say that he ought
to have had more respect for the pres
dental Office than to speak of its oc-
cupant In such rude language even If
he felt so bitter. There is an old saying,
de gustibus non est disputandum,
which applies to that controversy. 1t
must suggest itself to folks in this con-
nection that the president Is not noted
for mild speaking himself. On the con-
trary, he uses the most vigorous words
to be found in our yernacular. This
can be proved by Judge Parker, ex-
Secretary Chandler, the Storers, E. Fl.
Hartman ct id genus omne, a con-
stantly augmenting company. Dead
sure pop, King David did not have In
mind the Republican bigwigs when In
the Hundred and Thirtythird Psalm
he said, Behold how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to-
gether in unity" They dwell in about
as much unity as a lot of soreheaded
bears. # there is any weapon known
to political warfare which is not being
used, have not heard Of it.
President Woodrow Wilson's Discoveries
Not long since In these letters l re-
ferred to the fact that my esteemed
contemporary. the Washington Herald,
devoted column of eulogy to Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson for discovering
that the speaker of the house Of rep
resentatives possessed too much power
and that he ought to be shorn of q
large portion of it. l stated in that
connection that President Woodrow
Wilson was somewhat late with his
discovery about eighteen years be
hind the times, in fact-and that the
Herald bestowed more than his guam
tum meruit Of praise upon him. Now
comes my esteemed contemporary, the
Washington Post, and hestows col
umn of editorial praise upon President
woodrow Wilson for discovering the
fact that our trials in courts are not