The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-11
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and is Independent IN its Uteaos on all
local questions.
A Solid Platform.

"A SOllu FIaCIOFIn. I
We heartily congratulate the De-
mocracy of the State upon the pro
ceedings of the Convention, and upon
the results which it accomplished.
The dignity and harmony which char
acterized the regular representatives
of the party do them them highest
honor, the candidate they nominated
is the man of the peoples choice, and
the platform which they enunciated
places the party before the public in
the most honorable and advantageous
light.
The endorsement of the National
Democratic platform is manly and
straightforward, and at the same time
escapes being controversial. Doubt
less the Republican organs would
have desired to involve the Democ-
racy in disputes and contentious upon
the tariff and other irrelevant issues
in order to conceal the worse
than weakness of their own position
in the State canvass. But the leaders
of the Democratic party very properly
refused to allow the eyes of the peo-
pie to be blinded in that way. At
the proper time the Democracy
of New Jersey is ready to join
issues upon National questions,
and to vigorously defend the right.
But this year the contest is a State
contest. The policy involved is purely
and simply the policy of State admin
istration. National interests cannot
be advanced by dragging them into
the field of fight, and the decision by
the people of important matters af-
fecting our domestic welfare might be
imperriled by the complication of
disputes.
The condemnation of the corrupt
methods by which the Repub licans
carried the Presidential election is,
however, timely and proper. The
denunciation of fraud and dishonesty
is always the duty of a party which
has the interests of the people and
the perpetuation of our free institu-
tions at heart. 1t is true, as the
platform sets forth, that the Demo-
cratic National Administration was
endorsed by a large majority of the
voters of the country and only our CON
stitutional method of voting through
electors prevented the continuance
of the party in power. Even local
preiudices, acting through this sys-
tenn, would not have sufficed to
defeat the will of the ma
jority but for the scandalous use
of money In New York, Con-
necticut, Indiana, Ohio and
Illinois, and probably other
states. 1t is hardly too much to say
that from twenty to thirty thousand
votes in these States-votes of the
most ignorant and INSCRIPTIONS
classes of our citizens-were obtained
by dishonest means for the Harrison
Morton-B Blaine Wanamaker electors,
and now the providers of the cor
ruption fund are reaping the reward
of their yillainy.
The condemnation of this infamous
fraud upon the Nation is especially
proper at the inception of this cam
paign, which, we are plainly given to
understand, is to be a campaign OF
Doodle. The Republican candidate,
we are plainly told, must be
able to furnish money himself, on an
extensive scale, and he must have
wealthy friends who will bleed liber-
ally, too. Besides, he must have the
confidence Of the railway and other
corporations 80 that they will put
up" money to help him to win.
There is every reason, it is