The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-10
McDERMOTT'S FOR ALBEIT.
He Corrects an Expression Attributed to
Him by a Country Republican Paper.
The Morristown Jerseyndn (Repub-
liooul nr1h1icbad fl,iu "a fa1,, Jo,,o orro.-


Him by a Country Republican Paper.
The Morristown Jerseyndn (Repub-
lican) published this few days ago;-
Allan L. McDermott, the chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, and one of ex-
Governor Abbett's warmest friends, is evidently
growing little doubtful of the wisdom of nonli-
mating him for second Gubernatorial term this
fall. Mr.. McDermott is quoted as saying that it
would be fatal TO the Democracy next fall to
commit it too strongly in favor of the interest
which dominated the last Legislature" :" and as
the Ex-Governor is the idol and the counsel of
that interest this may be regarded as a very
strong hint that he had better retire.
/ called at Mr.. McDermott's house, adj
joining the Court House, yesterday, and
showed him the clipping.
"The editor of the Jerseynlarl must
have drawn his inspiration from the State
institution in this county . he said, when
he had read it. 81 believe that the act
passed by the late Legislature regulating
the sale of liquor meets with the approval
of an immense majority of the people of
the State, and that it will grow in public
favor. My own ideas are that local OPP
ton is local tyranny; that prohibition
cannot be carried to an effective conclu-
sion, and that high license is humbug,
and the fact that the humbug is quite
popular at present does not shake my be-
lief. | think the number of licenses lie
each community should be regulated be
the population, and that saloons should
be kept reasonable distance apart. Any
one who will take the trouble to read the
"Werts bill" will be satisfied that the
ast;Legislature.' Taken as q whole, the
work of the late session will COM
pare favorably with that of and
Legislature that has ever met
at Trenton. Some of the members
talked too often and too much; some
were negligent in their attendance, and
thereby unnecessarily prolonged the ses-
sion, and both parties possibly presented
Legislators who were not governed by the
highest estimation of official duty. But
this can be said of every legislative body
that has ever met The true test is to by
found in the Laws of 1882 For the
record in that book the Democratic party
is responsible, and l say that there is
not statute in the volume which reflects
discredit upon the men who voted for it..
That it was not an extravagant Legisla-
ture is shown by the fact that the ap-
preparations and incidental expenses are
the lowest that have been voted in many
years. A Democratic caucus defeated the
railroad land grab bill' and squelched
the proposition to encourage extrava-
gance by the imposition of State
tax If these two actions stood alone on
the credit side, the people of New Jersey
might well afford to forget the shortcom-
ings of the Legislature of 1889, and heartily
clap hands, Recurring to the article in
the JerSeynG4l, never made use of the
the expression there credited to me, or
anything that could be tortured into the
quoted sentence. / am in favor of the
nomination of Leon Albeit, and believe
that he will be inaugurated Governor of
New Jersey on the third Tuesday of next
January"