The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-24

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1t is reported that the Italians of the
Fourth ward of Hoboken have endorsed
Kerr for Congress- This alone should be
sufficient reason why every citizen who
cares for his American manhood should
bury the Hoboken cur so deep that he
would never be resurrected, by voting on
election day for the regular candidate of
the Democratic party plain, honest and
Jealous William McAdoo.
One of the correspondents of the New
York Sun abused the confidence of the ed
itors of that conspicuous sinner for all the
other day, by making request from him
for information on the labor question the
pretext for an attack upon Robert Stock
ton Green, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of the State. 1t was a tissue of
Misrepresentation from the first to the
last. 1t represented the laboring masses
as opposed to Mr.. Green, and perfectly en-
afnored of Mr.. Howey, the Republican
candidate. The article was more noticeable
It was particularly careful to abstain from
all reference to the adverse labor senti-
ment Howey's vote for the Chinese Bill
has aroused against him. The Sun is
presumed to be a Democratic paper; but
the correspondent who abused his priv
lege is one of the narrowest Republicans
in the State. He is Mr.. Ernest o. Cham
berlain, clerk to Speaker Armstrong two
years ago, and last winter clerk to Senator
Griggs, the President of the State Senate
IT is not SO much matter of surprise
that the Episcopal Convention at Chicago
determined not to change the time honor
ed title of the Church from Protestant
Episcopal to American Catholic, as that the
attempt was defeated by so small ma
jority-73 votes. AS showing the rapid
growth of the idea that the old name should
be dropped it is simply necessary to recall
the fact that when the proposition was
first mooted in the General Convention of
1877, it only received three votes in the
affirmative. Six years later those who ia
vored the project numbered 70; and, after
the lapse of three years more, the friends
of the change numbered 112 An analysis
of the vote shows that the New Jersey del
egations, clerical and lay, from both Do
cesses, voted unanimously for the innova-
ton 1t is sincerely to be regretted that
the name of the church is distast eful to so
large body of its members, but it is very
certain that the substitute that has been
rejected, or, indeed, any other title that
might be proposed, would be equally I'm
satisfactory to that larger body of the Epis-
copai communion who revere the existing
title
General John Ramsey is in favor of Re
form! General John is opposed to all
abuses in our municipal government.
General John has confded this extraord-
mary condition of his mind to his friends
by means of circular, il which he also
assures them that he is candidate for the
Republican nomination to the Assembly
in the First District The Generals DO
litical ambition may have had something
to do with his attitude in relation to Re-
form and to municipal abuses. Of course
a candidate for the Assembly ought always
to be in favor of something and opposed
to something else. Otherwise he would
not have an tissue" or which to conduct
his canvass. The General astutely real
lied this fact and set about picking out
something that he might favor and some-
thing that he might oppose He could not
very well announce as his platform that he
was in favor of s.fulls" beating s.fushes,'
and is unalterably opposed to opening
Jackpot on two deuces. These sublime
principles command the assent and rever-
ence of all intelligent men, but as there
can be no controversy about them they lack
General bethought him of great many
other things that he might openly favor
or oppose, but he had favored or opposed
all of them so leng and with such wretched
luck that he abandoned them in disgust
Finally it occurred to him that, as Reform
was the only thing he had never favored,
and that official rascaiity was the only
thing he had never opposed, it might be
good idea to see what he could do by fa-
voring the former and opposing the latter.
And this led to the preparation of his cir
eular addressed to the people of hisDistrict
According to the circular we are informed
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hat General John pledges himself