Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-30
THINGS TALKED ABOUT

An eX-preSldent OF our country and a
real live President have been here,
the former to plead his cause for
third official term and the latter to
secure denomination for a second
term. Never before has a two term
President asked for third term, and
never before has President so pub
licly pleaded for second term. The
ex-President came at the even-tide
hour last Friday when the days work
was done and the train loads of COM
muters were returning home, and the
mechanic with his empty dinner pail
was vending his way to his cottage.
The farms, too, were for the moment
forgotten. and the housewife left
preparations for the evening meal,
and all swarmed about the Cooper
street corner where the Terrible
Teddy was expected to make his plea
for votes. At $50 the line of flag
bedecked autos was sighted ,and a
moment later the hero of San Juan
Hill, was in the midst. He came
waving his black felt hat aloft, and
seemed to partake of the excitement
of the occasion. In his very brief
talk, speaking from the auto, he said
he was after the bosses and asked
New Jersey to aid him in getting them
in the style that Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio had done. In other
places he has said he was after the
crooks, crooks, crooks, but here he
is only after the bosses. Senator
Avis, who is eminently qualified to
capture a boss or a County Commit
J,os, M c1n M in
troduced the would-be Third Termer.
AS talk feast the presence of Teddy
was a failure because only half the
crowd could hear him, as he faced
from one side to the other. After a
cheer led by Mr. Avis the auto jerked
away setting the leader of Progress
sive'' policies down hard and quick.
A special train took him to Camden.
PRESIDENT TAFT'S COMING
Was marked by more dignity and
decorum. He arrived on the $50
train from Atlantic City Tuesday
morning and took auto for the Court
House. On Mr.. Danl Steelman' S
beautiful lawn 1000 school children
each bearing a flag, had assembled to
greet the President, and he recog-
nized the honor by stepping from the
auto to the curb and expressed his
appreciation in brief speech. A
stand, decked with bunting, had been
erected in front of the monument
! and from this the President spoke fol
! fifteen minutes. w. H. Albright in
troduced Mr. Taft as the next Presi-
/ dent and he lost no time in getting in
i ponderous blows He said he was
sorry to take the stump in his own
sbehalf, but raising false issues by
Theodore Roosevelt had made it his
highest duty. to present the zeal is
sues. He charged that Roosevelt
was an unsafe man, intoxicated with
lust for power, and his return to the
4 White House would threaten the very
foundations of the government. This
man was demanding what Washington
declined, and advised against and
which jefferson, jackson and all tht
/ great men of the past deemed un
/ patriotic to accept much less seek.
i He declared he had fulfilled ever!
pledge of the Chicago platform ant
was entitled by party usage, to a re
nomination at the hands of his party
He landed the Payne -Aldrich tarif
law, told how its operation had chang
| ed a revenue deficit of $80,000,000 un
der Roosevelt to a surplus of $40,
100000 annually. He told of the pass
lage of the Postal bank bill, the con
Iiservatfon bill, the employers liabilit.
isbill, White Slave bill, workingmen'
compensation bill as proof of hi
stewardship. Mr.. Taft appeared t,
advantage; he talked earnestly ant
lashed Teddy at every sentence.
/. The crowd was probably not a,
large as that which greeted the ex
President, but it was an interested
| one, and the speaker came with /;
message and delivered it in manly
forceful way.
In the Presidents party were
''Davy' Baird, Congressman Brown,
ing, F. F. Patterson, Geo. e. Pier.
son and others, and these made The
rounds of South Jersey towns, wind.
ing up at Glassboro at noon.
ssass
| The sequel to all this campaigning
| by ex- and real Presidents is IL
per cent Republican Primary vote.
| Evidently the people didn't take eth
er seriously--they came, they saw
they heard, and didn't vote. What's
| the matter?
Y. M. C. A. League.
i Several men representing various
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