New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-26
NEH-LERSEY DEMAGOG CE.

Ex-Governor Albeit, the Democratic can
didate for Governor of New-Jersey, has Deeh
Theoretically posing the candidate Oh INC
plain people against corporations ana money
sharks. The claim is so surprisingly lmpuueh'
that. even with Democrats of that state, VINO
have stomachs for almost anything, 1t Is hkeiy
70 hurt him. For his record proves that Mr.
Albeit was for many years most uhSrupu
lous instrument of corporations ana money
lenders. -.
The pretence that Mr.. Albeit deserves creu,O
for equal taxation of railroad property mas di.
ready been discussed. Senator GnggS' OIL
Paterson. has exposed in very ehec'iVe
speech, which is being read throughout uno
State. the false charge by Mr.. ALBEIT that ne
struggled for equal taxation, but was defeated
by Republicans Of the Senate, ana has SHOWN
nv citation Of official records that the eX-Gov-
ernor,s attitude was in fact that of an unScrupu-
lous demagogue, seeking public favor as an OPP
moment of the corporations, while at the same
time taking care to favor only measures so
defective and obviously unconstitutional that
they could not be passed. Exactly as Governor
Hill. the New-York demagOgue, has prevented
ballot reform by insisting upon provisions which
every sincere friend of the reform knew would
practically destroy it, so Albeit fought for an
unconstitutional and unequal tax law as to
corporatiOns. or none But if there were ground
for doubt, in any controversy between him ana
so upright and honest defender of equal tax
alton as Senator Griggs has been, that doubt
would be removed by recollection of Mr.. ABB
belts previous record.
Years ago, when a member of the House, ne
was the most conspicuous and INSCRIPTIONS
champion of the schemes of " JIM FISK ana
his Erie Railroad ring. The disgraceful legls-
lation of 1870 for the relief OF the Ere Com
pany from just taxation, by which the burdens
of honest taxpayers of New-Jersey were in
creased, found in Albeit the most effective
agent. When the struggle came over the bill
to reduce the legal rate of interest from TO
per cent, Mr.. Albeit left the President $
chair TO support and voted for an amendment
designed to defeat the bill. In 1876 he voted
for the bill to exempt from taxation mortgages
upon both real and personal property, when
held by inhabitants of the State and at the
same session for bill prohibiting the deduc-
ton from assessment Of any debt secured by
mortgage on real estate. Defeated that day,
he moved reconsideration, but failed again to
pass the bill.
There is no excuse for a man with such a
record posturing as an especial advocate OF the
rights of the people against money-lenderS OIL
corporations. In other respects he has for
feited confidence. TO some it seems waste
| of time to remember his motion to strike out
the name of Abraham Lincoln from resolu-
| non of thanks at the close of the war, on the
| ground that but for Lincoln the war would
have been closed long ago. In this, as in
hatred of colored citizens, votes to refuse col
ored veterans share in the hospital and Other
benefits granted by the State, and opposition
| to the enfIanchisement Of colored citizens, he
was but a representative Democrat-an en-
| bodiment of whatever was most reactOnary il
his party. He it was who voted against and
killed the bill to allow Union soldiers to vote
during the war, and so New Jersey was the
| only State in the Union to dsfIanchse its sol
| dierS in the field.
But these facts from his earlier history might
| be forgiven had not this same eX-GOvernOl
| Albeit been prominent and most active among
| the Democratic leaders who shielded the bal
lot-box suffers of 1885, by whose crimes one
| Turley was enabled to steal seat to which
Mr. Haines, of Camden, had been elected. AnC
il is this same Albeit who holds power now in
| Hudson County to give the plundered taxpayer:
! the fair election for which they pray, and they
| know that the corrupt ring there, against which
voters have upliSen regardless of party. would
not be in existence to-day if Mr.. Albeit had
| on any one occasion seen fit to insist upon an
! honest vote and no frauds.