The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-10

foresight and skill, and man who leaves
ne stone unturned in the discharge Of the
trusts committed to his care. He has been
in the van in many of our local contests,
and his power and value as a leader and
organizer are anply demonstrated by the
countless successful movements be has in
augurated and accomplished. BY virtue of
his position as Chairman Of the state Con-
vention Judge NcDermott will be at the
head OF the State Committee. With him
and Mr.. Edelstein working together for the
success of the ticket, Hudson will doubt
less give Robert Stockton Green one Of
her old time Democratic majoritiss.
No Party gains anything by underesti-
mating the strength of the candidates op-
posing it; and it will not become theDemoc-
racy of the State to deceive itself as to the
elements of 8 possible success that the
nomination of ex-Congressman Howsy for
Governor by theRepublieans may have in it.
He is one of then Hill and Joel Parksr
kind of campaigners. In the rural dis
tricts he makes himself solid with the
women at the sewing circles, with the chill
dren at their schools, and with their far
msr fathers at thsir local fairs.
He is an iadefatigabls worker and will
leave No district that time gives him an sp-
portunity to reach sunvisited. That kind
Of campaigning tells. He is free from all
railroad alliances, and Of the class Of can
didates who, to use homely vsrnasular,
grow on the people. He has carried the
Democratic County of Warren fer the
Shrievalty once; and later on was elected
to Congis ss in enc fths most dysd-in-th
wool Democratic districts in the State. It
may be added, however, that his capture
of the district when be ran for Congress
was due to combination of fortuitous
circumstances that are not present in this
campaign; and the fact that his personal po-
pularity contributed but little TO his success
is proven by the other fact that whsa he
rar TIVE years later, evan against Pidsock,
he was overwhelmingly beaten. At the
same time it is beyond question that if all
thescandidates who went to the Convention
in pursuit of the nomination, he was the
strongest, except ia the one respect of
wealth; and John I. Blair, the Sussex
County millionaire has promised to repair
his weakness in that respect by opening
"barl" for him.
The Republicans of Essex County know
that the Local Option plank in the State
Convention platform threatens to sacrifice
every German vote in that county; and the
Newark Advertiser has ,been labering hard
during all.the week to dissoeiste the plat
fern from the candidate. The Governor,
it urges, is an executive and not legisla-
tive officer; and really the rum question has
no relevancy to his campaign 1t fails to
explain why, if that is the case. the State
Convention went out Of its way to make
| deliverance on the subject, unless it were
to lay the nsminee out cold before the cam
paigR had fairly begun. The local optic n
plaAk has, of course. great relevancy to
the Governorship, however much the Id
Uertiser msy protest that it hasn't. The
Newark papers plea that the Governors
| functions are purely executive is not true.
His veto makes him a part OF the legisla-
| ton of the State. If the Lsgislatur g
passes local option law. or any other Law
| for that matter, the Governor will have to ap-
prove it before it can go upon the statute
beeks for enforcement. Bat beyond an
above that, and more potent than it proba-
] bly,, a local option Governor can give aid and
comfort to that movement by the distri-
/ button Of the vast patronage that viii be
at the disposal of the next Chef Magistrate
] Of the Commonwealth. If Mr.. Hovey is an
Rstive temperance nan he can help a
1 stringent temperance act through the
Legislature, for instance, by buying votes
| fer such an act with Office for members of
| the Legislature or for their friends. So
that even if he had no legislative functions
| the Governor can make himself a power
/ in the passage of any pending law he may
espouse, by a judicious exchange of Elk
| ecutiys favors for legislative fayors. 1t is
a matter therefore of the most vital i'm
| portance whether the Governor is with or
against any legislation that is within the
jurisdiction of the state Legislature; and
the Advertisers effort to dissociate the Gov.
ernor from his Conventions onunceeson OF
a State policy on heliquor or any other
I question, must be as fruitless as it is weak
and foolish.
The Ward Legion.
The Ward Legion will hola a meeting on
| Wednesday evening. tae 18Th instant. at
the Castle Hall Of Jersey City Lodss No
| IS, for the purpose OF eiecting psrmanent