The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-03

for him to have an assistant in the shto
of a private clerk. The Board of Finance
objected at first to the expense, but finally
hired new quarters at large expense in the
Fuller Building for Judge Randolphs
Court, fitted up his Old court room in the
City Hall. at more expense, for his Honors
use, and gave him Mr.. Daniel McAghon for
a clerk, at still more expense. The result
proves that the Mayors woeful solicitude
for the dignity of his place and for the in
terests committed to his charge was due to
his desire to have place of seclusion at
the taxpayers expense, where he might
confer, without observation, with his polit-
ical allies. and to his desire to have the aid
of an amanuensis in conducting his cam
paign for the Senatorship. Almost the first
public duty he found for his private sscre-
tary to perform after his appointment was
the penning of the following ''officialP'
communication to the several members of
of the &c lnty Democrat; COMMITTEES:
MAYORS OFFICE
PRIVATE JKnsEY CRY, July II, 1896.
MY DEAR SIR: desire to be candidate fer the
State Senator It the mex. election and il you wiz
county convention from your precinct are favor
able. I will never forget the kindness. but will
h0a %, ready to DO % srs.x y You on
elsewhere. am yours very truly,
ORzsTRs CLEVELAND.
This model little missive is open TO criti-
cism on every side. In the first place the
delegates to the County Convention are
presumed to be elected by the people, and
by the ordinary rule of political three
the County Committeeman has nothing to
do with their preference. 1t is for him
to order the election. 1t is for the peo-
pie at the polls to say by their ballots
vvh1 ahnH h. IL Rr1S thu Maunr'u
missive shows utter contempt for the
voters and plainly implores the County
Committeeman to make Favorable" men
elected without regard to the ballots cast
at the primaries. The result is that hosts
of Democratic voters to whom the letter
has been shown express their determine
| ten to go to the polls next Thursday even
ing and see that tksy have something to
say about the choice of delegates.
The Mayor also promises to be "ready
to be of any service" to the County Com
mittmen @'tAat may be in his power either
| in Jersey City or elsewhere He is Mayor
| and he is citizen. He his right to put
his citizenship at the disposal of anybody
to whom he chooses to surrender IL, but
it is scarcely In keeping with his public
professions for him to pat his functions
| as Mayor, as he does in this letter written
| feet of these gentlemen whom he begs to
set the popular will at defiance. His plain
offer is to exchange the peoples interests
as far as they are entrusted to his keeping
| for personal favor to himself. and 1t
may have been observed that quite in
keeping with the tone of this letter, we
hear no more of the noisy promises of re-
form through all the departments of the
city with which his administration opened.
The whole character of the canvass the
Mayor had made for the Senatorship has
helped to sacrifice support on all sides,
and the friends of Mr.. Edwards are wager
ing two to one, with no takers, that the
young counselor will be accorded the
nomination on the first ballot and by an
overwhelming majority.
| The developments at the State Conven-
| ton have served more strongly than ever
to draw the lines in the Senatorial contest,
and it is every day becoming clearer that
| the proportion Blodgetts strength in the
| Hudson delegation at Trenton showed to
| the whole delegation represents the pro-
| portion of Cleveland's to Edwards strength
| in the comfy CONTEST