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

As an unconscious humorist, Gen
eral Grub takes the cake. We re-
printed yesterday from the New York
Herald an interview in which he
discussed his defeat in his own genial
and inconsecntive way.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing
he says is that General Sewell never
thoughts Republican could be elected
in the recent campaign. We have said
that same thing fifty times. We have
said Sewell knew a Republican Gov
ernor could not be elected, and that
he would make no serious effort to
elect one, but would concentrate his
strength upon making one or both
houses of the Legislature Republican.
And this is just what happened. Gen
eral Grubb says the railway companies
contributed no money to help him.
We almost think he is right. We be-
lieve it all went on the Senate and As
sembly contests, and the railways
have in part got the value of their
money since they have secured an OBJ
structive Republican Senate, with
Gardner to lead its opposition to all
efforts in the cause of reform.
We regret that General Grubb i'm
paired the humor and good humor of
his remarks by an onslaught on Hud-
son county. He says
There was no bride on repeating and ballot
box stufing in Hudson county. My party did
everything possible to stop such frauds, but
could not succeed.
We do not know whether the Gen
eral believes this or not. Perhaps he
does. After a close study of his intel
lectual powers, based on his campaign
speeches, we think he possibly may
believe it. But we will just ask him
one question. Was the alliance of his
party with Kern, Noelke and Wankin
one of the things which it did to stop
fraud? But he further says
The normal Democratic majority in Hudson is
between 5000 and 1000, and l see they have
doubled it and are not done counting yet.
Let us remind the General that
Governor Green got over 5000 major
ity. But put that aside. This was
an abnormal year, General, The State
is normally democratic by six
or seven thousand, and this
year the figure runs up to
fourteen Thousand. Ohio is normally
republican-but what is the use of
talking. You are beaten, and you
must account for it in the way least
hurtful to your own vanity, and 30 we
will cen let you talk along in peace.
SOME very i'll advised ladies are
making a great to-do over Vice Presi-
dent Morton's new apartment house
in Washington, or rather the bar in
it. Miss Frances Willard, long known
to fame for her motherly regard for
the concerns of all the rest of the
human race, is very prominent in the
fuss.
Miss Willard is one of those
ladies of strong intellect who are
never happy unless they have a de-
PRAYED being in trousers to denounce.
1t is not often that such a windfaA as
a Vice President ONE in her way,
and thus it happened that when
a dispatch arrived exploding the
whole foolish story over which she
had been worked up, she would not
have it read or believed or entered on
the minutes. Presumably she had q
great many more som remarks in re-
serve than she had had time to fire
off, and she did not mean to be
cheated out of their u~tterance by any
paltry consideration Of fact.
The whole business is ridiculous ir
the last degree, and the admirable
cause of temperance cannot but be
injured through such insane humbue
as its advocates have INDUCED in, in
this instance.
PERSONALS.
Mr.. Mullone's vote for Assembly in the Eight
precinct of the First district was l4s, instead o
4s, as, by a typographical error, we reported
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