The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-19

ques ton, when the Legislature at the behest of
the saloons, repealed the law and said, You
must ut some price continue the open saloon.
This outrage upon freemen should be condemned:
1t is true that the late Legislature blundered
into some wise enactments, now much regretted
by the magnates Of that body, hut the repeal OF
Local Option, imperfect as the measure was,
deserves the condemnation of every honest
democrat, republican and prohibitionist.
Whatever misgivings were born of his
absence were forgotten, however, in the
explanation that personal business had
called him suddenly to Detroit, and when
his name was announced for place in
the party organization, the delegates rose
to their feet and with one voice cheered
him to the echo.
General Fisk" cried one enthusiast,
when the welkin had ceased to ring,
whats the matter with him?"
"Oh." sang a chorus of voices in re-
sponse, "he's all right"
Which was undoubtedly an expression
of the suspicion that he's not ''all right. I"
THE CANDIDATES.
The several committees were directed
to meet for organization at once upon the
adjournment of the Convention this after
noon. The main interest centred, of
course, in the deliberations of the COM
mitteeS on Organizations and Rules. In
that on organization would be the
struggle between the aspirants for the
nomination over the Organizations and for
the control of the convention. In the
other would be the differences over the
policy of the party.
AS to the candidates the names of
Richardson, wealthy Camden Quaker;
Joel w. Brown, the Jersey City foundry
man; ex-senator Thomas e. Chattle, a
physician of this county; Bank President
of Warren, and William H. Nicholson, OF
Haddenfeld, are mentioned. But Dr..
Chattle seems to be the most aggressive
one in the list, and the whole struggle in
the Organization Committee is to defeat
him. The trouble with the Doctor
is that he caucussed with the
Democrats when he was in the
Senate, and so foreswore his allegiance to
the Prohibition party. The Voice sets up
a plea for him, however, and even allows
him to tell how he is so strong in Mon
mouth that he once beat the regular
Democratic nominee, and subsequently
compelled the Democrats to endorse his
what notable fact that all the leading
competitors in the race-Chattle, Morrow
and LIE Monte-are Democrats.
THE POLICY.
The Committee on Resolutions has
talked a good deal about the platform. Il
may be assumed that high license will
get black eye, because, as the motto al
1eges, License gives legal right to do 9
moral wrong" Local option is a bone OF
contention. 1t is conceded to be local pro-
hibition where it can be enforced, but the
committee will probably get around
specific endorsement of II
by denouncing the concession to the rum
powerthat its repeal betokened. A letter
from George Henry, vice president of Jer-
sey City's Branch.of the Catholic Temper
ance Legion, asked them to embrace the
local option and high license idea in their
platform. Some in the committee even
desired to recognize the good the Werts
bill has done for the cause of temperance!
but their voice was not potential. And
the indications are that all the original in
tolerance and bigotry of the party will
ring out in the tocsin of war when it is
sounded tomorrow. w. +. ).