The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-15
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
The Republican Programme 80 "A
Startling Revelation.


With its customary enterprise, THE
SUNDAY MORNING NEWS lays before
the public today the secret plans of
the Republican State bosses. Read
ers of this paper, who have had an
opportunity to judge of its intimate
and accurate political information
will not be astonished at the revela-
tions made; and to the general public
of this city it will be real treat to see
a paper published in their midst
possessing this keen insight into pub
lie affairs.
The information which we print In
our local columns is of the most pre-
else and authentic character. 1t has
been obtained through careful and
persistent effort, and it may be said
to come from the inmost circle OF Re-
publican councils, though doubtless
its publication at this time and in a
Democratic paper will be a surprise
and serious blow to General Sewell
and his associate bosses.
All day yesterday and today, we
learn, the resources of threats and
cajolery were being exhausted upon
George A. Halsey to induce him to
accept the fatal honor of running on
the Republican ticket He did not
wish to do So He was-not reluctant
but absolutely rebellious under the
application of the party lash. But it
was hoped that he would have to yield
to the goad.
We are sorry, in truth, for Mr.. Hal
sey. He is in a most trying situation.
On the one hand, as shrewd polite
ian. he must know that the Republi-
can nomination means only humilla-
ton and defeat. A long and bitter
experience. too, must fill him with a
shrinking adherence of Sewellite
promises. Well might he take that
old Virgillian line as his maxim
ssIInieo DanaoS ct dona fere'stes.
On the other hand the threat OF
political assassination levelled not
only against himself but against all
his friends and dependents is the lever
applied to break the bolts OF his de-
termination, while all sorts of honeyed
words and specious promises are used
as wedges to assail his intelligence
We can well imagine the inducements
and arguments that were addressed to
him all day. He has once said No, ="
and has said it emphatically. Has he
the courage of his conviction2 Can he
stand by his negative9
The turpitude of Sewellite politics
IS well illustrated besides in the Fish
Jackson episode of the campaign.
There is no straight line in their
course. TO see the purpose Of any
act or undertaking of the party des-
pot, one must be able to look around
a corner.
Even on the liquor question, about
which there has been so much pom
pous defamation, an honest position
will not be taken up. There will be
a liquor allusion in the platform of
the party, but it will be a juggle, a
wriggle, cowardly evasion of the
issue, an unprincipled desertion of
General Fisk and the other misguided
enthusiasts who earlier in the year
were enticed away from their own
party by hollow engagements.
1t is hard to see what the Republi-
can wire pullers hope to gain by this
double dealing. Assuredly neither
liquor extremists nor even those mod
crate cool headed people who consti-
tute the great majority Of the voters
of the State will be attracted by an
unprecise, evasiye or unintelligible
expression. On the other hand the
fanatical anti-hquor section who ex'