The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-18
Who the Kickers Are.

The attacks that are being made upon
Surrogate McAyoy, in certain quarters, IN
stead of accomplishing their object will do
more than anything else to secure his cleo
ton by exposing the real object of his enc
mics. The opposition to him comes al
most entirely from the dudes and cranks
Of our local politics and is largely inspired
by that Know-nething sentiment that would
exclude all foreign-born citizens, and es-
pecially those of Irish birth from public
Office. Intelligent Americans have no
sympathy with this Absurd and illiberal
sentiment. 1t constitutes direct threat
and insult to our foreign-born population.
It amounts practically to saying to them
ssBecause you were born in Germany or in
Ireland you are not as good as we are and
you can never expect our support for any
political preferment.' Happily for the
Democratic party the number of American
born citizens who hold these narrow and
bigoted views is small, but some of them
are to be foundi in almost every community.
n this County they are arrayed under the
banner of F. G. Wolbert and are making him
and themselves equally and supremely
ridiculous by advocating his election to the
Surrogaey. Mr.. F. G. Wolbert's well-known
Know-nothing procllyities and his ire
pressible bumptiousness, the senile vanity
of theold chap and the character, or more
properly-for the greater part-the utter
lack of character of his followers are sufi-
cient to reduce his candidacy to mere
connical exhibition. Why this fossilated
statesman should have entered the race is
to many persons profound mystery. No
body wanted HIM to run except himself
and the excellent Mr.. Martin Ward and the
pure and guileless Mr.. Michael Kilcauley.
We have a large pity for Mr.. Ward. If the
remarks contained in the. Good Book
touching the subject of usury ara at all
reliable, there must be particularly tlopi-
cal temperature awaiting the advent of Mr..
Wards soul in the next world. We wish
the dear old bald-headed gentleman no
harm. We should be pleased to lsee him
repent, and We are quite willing to pray
for his reformation. But why this aged
nete-shaver and salary discounter, this
amiable Shylock who wrings wealth out of
the necessities of the poor, should have
been selected by Mr.. Wolbert as his best
man and political guardian is something
that no fellow can understand. And then
there is the immaculate Mr.. Michael Kill
cauley. In the old days of the corrupt
General Committee this spotless patriot
was the chief engineer of the Machine.
When the Democrats of this county be-
came disguised with that system, and
abolished it they incidentally abolished Mr..
Kilcauley as a political factor. Since then
he has been floating about like SO much
fotsam and jetsam on the sea of politics,
no'one in the least needing him save when
perchance he drifted in some mans way
only to be kicked out of it. He is now
eswhooping it up" for Mr.. Wolbert because
no other candidate is quite crazy enough to
allow Mr.. Kilcauley to have anything to do
with him. This is about the size of the
Wolbert party-a party of Know-nothing
ism, crankism and curmudgeonism. dump
ing off dock is about the best use for this
party. Still, if it survives until after cleo
ton, we should like to buy it for three
shillings or thereabouts and have it stuff
ed. Another element of opposition to Mr..
McAyoy is found in the argus. The Argus
has aaght, Of course, to oppose MIR. McAvoy.
The mere fact that newspaper opposes a
candidate is of no moment except in SO
far as the opposition is based upon facts.
Now it is notorious that the only fact upon
which the argus bases its hostility to MIR.
McAvoy is that several years ago Mr.. Nc
Avoy was instrumental in depriving the
Argus of some lucrative State printing.
That Mr.. Mullone, the proprietor of the
Argus, should feel some animosity toward
Mr.. MeAvoy for this, is natural enough.
Almost any other man, certainly any man
of Mr.. Mullone's positive character, would,
If he had MIR. Mullone's grievance, feel
precisely as Mr.. AIullone feels. The mis-
take that Mr.. Mullone makes is in assum-
ing that anybody cares how he feels. That
Mr.. McAyoy has displeased Mr.. Mullone
may be very good reason for Mr.. Mullone
to oppose Mr.. McAvoy, but it can scarcely be
considered o good reason for the people of
Hudson County to oppose Mr. McAvoy.
They are not at all interested in Mr.. Null
lone's resentments. So paIpably is this
hostility of purely personal nature that
the Argus land the same remark applies to
the Jouradl--has been unable to produce a
single legitimate or public objection to Mr..
McAvoy's reelection. 1t says in general
way that his denomination was brought
about by machine methods. Nothing
could be further from the truth. 1t is per-
fectly well known that the old County
Committee that brought disaster upon the
party in the last Mayoralty contest has
long since ceased to exist. The presel t
Committee is composed Of entirely differ
emit timber, and has frequently been COM
'plimentea by the Argus for its honesty and
responsibility. Its conduct in reference to
the recent primaries was above any sus-
picion of wrong-doing. 1t heard all con-
tests in open session at Humboldt Hall to
which all citizens were freely admitted and
its decisions were so eminently fair as to
compel the assent of all persons con-
cerned. Indeed, even il the Committee
had been utterly corrupt there would have
been no motive for it 70 resort to improper
methods since every delegate except eight
was from the outset in favor of Mr.. Nc
.Avoy. There really was no fight against
him. His right ID denomination, same