The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-10-18
THE METHODS COMPARED.
TIRE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES OPEN
AND FAIR TO ALL RzNDS.

But Justice Wanser's Nominal iou' Cram med
Down the Threats of the Republican
Party, bv Secretly Elected Delegates who
Met a Few Hours after the Primaries,
Before the next issue of the SUNDAY
TATTLER makes Its appearance, the County
canvass will have become mighty hot and
interesting. The County ticket is complete.
John Ramsey has nominated Justice Wan.
ser. The Democrats have renominated
Surrogate McAvoy, and Wolbert has nom
mated Wolbert. The probability is that
Wolbert viii draw few know-nething Re
publican votes; but he will not have enough
weight in the canvass to affect the contest
between the regular party candidates. A
little handful of kickers are trying to raise
q howl against Surrogate McAvoy. Their
alleged grievance is that the County Con-
vention did not fairly represent the party
The fact is that the primary meetings for
the selection of delegates were never SO
fair. They were advertised in every dis
trict or township that supports a paper,
and the hearing given to those opposed to
the successful tickets was public for
friend and foe. The kickers have
fallen back on the claim that the hours were
short. The polls were open from to 9.
An examination of tie previous calls for
County Conventions shows that the poll
ing time, in times past, has been even
shorter than that, at some places. The
call for the primaries that chose the dele
gates who nominated Hon. Dennis Nc
Laughlin last Fall, shows that z to was
the universal polling time.
The fact Of IL ia that fha Convention
howl is only pretext, and that the secret
of the opposition to McAyoy, such as it is,
is purely personal.
The utter lack of sincerity en- the part of
the howlers Is shown by the fact that they
are aiding and abetting the very system of
bossism that they allege for their party
disloyalty. They are playing, or trying to
play-straight into the hands of the Re-
publlcans. The influences that brought
about the nomination of Justice Wanser
were shown up in last Sundays TArTLER.
The nomination was crammed down the
throat of the party. The primaries were
held one night, and by midday of
the next day, the Convention was
assembling. No opportunity was afforded
those who were not satisfied with the re-
suits to find out whether they had been
properly achieved or not, or to make con-
test if the methods were known. The
delegates carried their credentials in their
bosoms till they handed them in to Secre-
tary McKeown ten minutes before the Con-
vention met, and no one knew who had
been selected to make the nomination till
it had been made. On the other hand the
Democrats elected their delegates on Mon
day night, after full notice; had lists of
delegates filed Tuesday with the Secretary,
where everybody could see them; gave the
dissatisfied an opportunity to present their
objections at public meeting on Wednes-
dey evening, and did not hold their Con-
vention till Saturday-which gave those
who were disposed to find fault whole
week to nose out all possible irregularities,
and prepare their objections. No man who
compares the methods pursued by the two
parties can honestly object to the Demo-
cratic method of making the nominations
and support and sustain the Republican
method