The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-18

himself rather discounts it in his clos
ing words, wherein he says "There
is a very strong feeling for a Western
candidate. If General John NJ. Palmer,
of Illinois, were ten years younger
y X y he would inevitably be the
candidate But evidently the West
has no use for Governor Hill, as a
candidate.
And why should it? A candidate,
to occupy a strong position in the
public mind, should be identified with
some great principle OF movement
which he has aided in advancing, and
of which he stands as the representa-
tive before the people. One looks
over Governor Hills career in vain for
any such thing. He has been a good
and useful Governor to New York, he
is a political manager of singular as
tuteness, he has won a good deal of
popularity of the effervescent kind,
has made his name a kind of political
sibboleth, through his celebrated ut
terance, Il am a democrat" But not
one of these elements will take the
place of the high requirement of a
candidate for the presidency to which
we have alluded.
When Grant was elected President
he represented the great idea of Ma
tional unity, regarded at that time as
being still in some peril. Samuel j.
Tilden, who was really elected
President, stood as the repre-
sentative of political reform.
James A. Garfield was chosen as the
exponent of the protection school of
economics. Grover Cleveland stood
again in Tilden's shoes as the foe of
corruption and the defender of
purity and economy. Benz amin Har-
rison again owed his election
to his strong adherence to the
protection policy. Mr.. Cleveland is
fairly a candidate o on the ground
of his advocacy of Tariff Reform.
Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Morrison, Mr.. Mills
might all have standing before the
people as representatives of the same
idea. Leon Albeit is known far and
wide as the champion of another
important principle. He stands before
the people as the staunch defender of
popular rights, the u~ndismayed adj
vocate of equal burdens and equal
advantages for the humble and the
mighty, the poor and the rich, the
weak and the strong.
But so far as we can remember,
Governor Hill has procured no great
legislation, advocated no great cause,
achieved no great results in some six
years tenancy of the gubernatorial
chair of New York. His title to con-
sideration rests purely on the fact
that he has been able to carry his
State in repeated campaigns.
This it is true is material as a point
Of practical politics. But we think the
Democracy will remember that there
are other States besides New York
which must be secured. and also that
lllG SdlllC Ib WIN IlI Will blIC DODuldt
support for the Governorship may not
be able to command it for the highest
Office in the peoples gift. 1t takes a
different stamp of man to make a great
President from what will afford a
good Governor. The people recog-
nize that fact. and they will not be
deceived by snowy DETERMINATIONS
or be controlled by political wire
pulling.
1T can hardly be said that our fire.
men did themselves proud at the fire
at Morrow & Days on Saturday
night. They n not responsible, of
course, for the hardness of the alarm,
but, when they arrived on the scene,
there was unaccountable hardness
in stretching the hose and getting
water on the flames. Once they got
started, the boys did very well, but at
a fire promptitude is the thing that
counts.
Another thing for which they can
not be held responsible is the rotten
condition of the hose with which they
had to work. The line which was
stretched in front of the burning
buildings leaked like a sieve. 1t
threw jets and fountains of spray in
all directions. Probably as much
water was wasted as got on the fire.
That hose would have disgraced a
village in a back county.
Well, we suppose, it was a relic of
an old regime. Tt will be the duty of
the new Fire Board to replace the
rotten stuff as rapidly as possible.
THE sales of THE SUNDAY MORNING
NEWS, yesterday, were three hundred
in excess of those on the preceding
Sunday. Doubtless the Morrow &
Day fire had something to do with it.
PERSONALS.
The Rev. Henry c. Bedinger, rector of st.
Luke's Church of Matawan, rendered his resigna-
tion to the vestry on Monday evening. His
action was due to a church feud, due it is said