Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-22
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.

lHe pOHLlcdl cOnu1I1OnS IN county,
State and the country at large
are puzzling the wise men Of the
Republican party, because they would
like to know where they stand at,
and know now
A stand-pat Republican will assert
with all seriousness that the Moose
velt movement don't amount to any
thing-that it won't last until elec-
| ton, etc., but in the next breath he
will acknowledge that he is all at
sea. The AIoosevelt followers de-
clare that the Tafy end Of the party
is all in, that there is nothing of it,
and after election it will be shown
that the Republican party is the real
Third party.
Democrats have no such troubles
they know that Governor Wilson's
candidacy has e1thused every men,
Der of the party and that hundreds
of Republican admirers of the Coy
ernors independent, progressive
stand, and clean, open, straightfor-
ward ways, are going to vote for
him on November 5th
| The coming campaign is sure to
be the most exciting and interesting
battle of the ballots in many years,
and the outcome is sure to be big
with the fate of the old Republican
party. OF course nobody expects
/ either branch of that party to elect
National, State or many Congress
ional candidates this year, and very
few county candidates, because a
House divided against itself cannot
stand.
Before the campaign is much older
the significance of the above will be
more apparent than now.
***
The bitterness of the attack of SEN
ator Penrose,. in the Senate yester-
day on Mr.. Roosevelt and the big
leaders of the Bull Moose party, is
but the beginning of the bitterness
this campaign is to develop.
**
In our own State Ex-Governor
Stokes, in trying to harmonic the
factions, has brought on his head the
enmity of both. He is trying to re-
main a Republican and play Moose,
but the Stand-patters won't allow
him to. They propose to kick him
out of the regular camp, and the
Moosevelts look on him with suspic-
ion, Thus has a great leader fallen
between the upper and lower mill
stones OF his party. Republicans
must either ride the bucking elephant
or the Moose, or take a quiet ride
i with the long-eared animal who is
travelling the open road to peace and
prosperity.
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Between the heat and the rain the
country is Just steaming, and grass
and weeds are growing prodigiously.
= :
Chester Valley. Pa, has 25 cases of
/ typhoid, the source of which has been
traced to the milk supply. We have
had fewer cases IN Woodbury., but
tracable to the same source In
order that we shall have no more of
it, the Board of Health is going to
enact a milk ordinance, and Council
is going to expend $4,000 more for
new water supply. It's queer how
traries is this a hint that the
water spoils the milk.
There is a big peach crop, but
prices keep high.
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Moose Day at Alcyon Park is going
to be "a big county event. See adj
vertisement on the last page of this
paper.
Fred c.. Dunlap, whose written
/ opinion on our water problem is pub
/ lished in connection with Council pro-
ceedings this week, is Chief of Phila-
/ delphia's Water Bureau. Woodbury.
/ people ought to read that letter to
Councilman Bayer carefully and draw
their own conclusions. Chief Dun
lap is certainly not favorable to ar
tesian water and he no doubt knows
4 of other objections than hardness,
ETC., which people overlook" It's the
tstrongest argument against abandon
ing our present plant we have yet
iseen.
Crispin Family Re-UniOn