The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-03-28
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The Republican voters Of Jersey City
can be no more persuaded to follow the
advice of the TATTLER than to do any
other sensible thing; and perhaps we may
90 beyond our legitimate jurisdiction in
assuming to lay down the law to them as
to their primaries. But candor and
regard for the orderly progress Of things
compel us to say that we think that all
arguments are on the side of the Republi-
can City Committee which is chaperoned
by Assemblyman Seymour and Counselor
John w. Herbert. The language of the
resolution by which the last Republican
City Convention constituted the City Com
mittee provided that they should conduct
not merely the then pending canvass of
Mayor Collins, but future canvasses as
well. The meaning and purport and effect
of this language are so PLAIN that they can
scarcely be changed, even by Hon. Frank
o. Coles understanding of them. Mr..
Cole must look at the English language
obliquely if he understands that future
canyasses means single canvass in the
present. John Ramsey's County Commit
tee men who now arrogate to themselves
the functions of City Committee must
have had forcible realization of the
changed order of things, under the resolu-
ton in controversy; for John Ramsey not
only assisted in the organization of the
newly selected Committee, but even sur
rendered into their hands the money that
lay in the hands Of the discharged Com
mittee. No one will ever suspect John
Ramsey of letting go his hold on any
money that he can by any possibility hang
to; and the surrender by the old County
Committees City Committee of the funds
in their hands is the most conclusive evil
dence that they knew that the Convention
had destroyed their auton omy. The philos-
ophy of politics tends, as well as the action
of the old County Committees City Com
mittee, to sustain the claims of Mr. Sey-
mour's Committee to recognition. 1t is
the design to have each of the Aldermapic
districts represented in the Committee.
The unit of representation in the City
Committee ia the Aldermanic district. The
unit of representation in the County Com
mittee is the Assembly district. The First
Assembly District takes in parts of three
Aldermanic districts--the first, second and
third. The gentleman from the Second
and the gentleman from the Third Assem-.
bly, District in the County Convention
had, under the old rule, as much right to
stand sponsor in the City Committee for
the First Aldermanic District as the gen.
tleman from the First. In the Seventh
and Eighth Districts the complications
arising under the old rule were more seri-
Gus. The man in the County Committee
who stands for one cad Of Hoboken repre-
SCENTS section of Jersey City; and another
County Committeeman, who has constitu-
ents way out in East Newark, stands also
as the representative of parts OF four wards
in Jersey City. If the one should happen
to be Hoboken and the other Harrison
man, by what rule could he be cut off
from his right to dabble in Jersey City
politics if he chose to assert it? The
scheme of making up the City Committee
with County Committee men is not an
intelligent one; and it was probably be-
cause the last City Convention realized