The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-11

11S ulOHSy uluSG De IOIbIlCOAHAbS, GU
the same. Whyg Because, if posi-
bic, the Legislature must be made
Republican, so that Leon Abbett's eff
forts in the cause of the people may
be strangled.
Hand in hand with this denuncia-
ton of corruption in elections, comes
a hearty condemnation of trusts and
other capitalistic combinations hostile
to the people. These are the or
CARNATIONS which have their
grip upon this State. These
are the organizations which the
Democracy will reduce to their
proper level of equality before h
law with the other interests OF the
Commonwealth, and these are the
combinations in whose interest the
Republican campaign of corruption is
being marshalled by General Sewell
and his l~ieutenants. If they found
in the prospect the slightest hope OF
beating the Democratic candidate for
Governor, money would flow like
water, and all the forces of corruption.
coercion and deception would be
called into play. We believe, how
ever, that they read the signs
of the times too plainly. and
will not attempt the impossible,
and therefore we expect Leon
Albeit and the other Demo
cratic leaders will be obliged to
concentrate their efforts during the
campaign upon securing a Legisla-
ture which will support him
in the work of reform and
popular defence to which
he will unquestionably devote
a large portion of his energies.
When the platform discusses the
question of State taxation, it speaks
with a clearness and precision to
which no language can add. Every
man who reads the following ex-
p~ressions, must be convinced OF
the openness and good faith of the
party which thus definitively lays
down it's position; but in fact the
sincerity of the Democratic party or
OF Mr.. Albeit upon this head is not
open to question; it is a matter of
historic record. The platform says
That we favor equal taxation, and declare thai
reform in that direction should be followed upon
the lines laid down in the inaugural address of
novar,oor. 7 ~ Abbott r,o+fI +ba nnfiro 6ictrih11-
ton of public burdens shall square with the CON
stitutioaal requirements of fairness and equality.
Under o. partial adoption of the recommends
lions Of that address a general State tax has
been rendered unnecessary during the past five
years, and we promise the people of New Jersey
that the affairs of State shall be so economically
administered, while entrusted to the Democratic
party, that there shall not be any general State
tax necessary. We denounce the attempt
made by Republican members of the Legislature
of 1889 to impose a general State
tax, as tending to extravaganza in
State expenditures, and we declare the
undercurrent of that movement to have been a
desire to relieve corporate property from the
payment of its fair proportion of taxation.
Under the system of taxation instituted in re-
Spouse to the recommendations of Governor Alb
bett, the sum of $7,T49,742 has been assessed
within the past five years upon corporations
many of which, prior to 1884, enjoyed exemptions
from taxation, and thereby increased the tax
upon private owners. In the same time there
has been assessed, upon railroad and canal prop
erty, Heretofore wholly exempted from local
taxation, the sum of 81, $685. 83, for the use of our
cities, towns and townships. This amount repre-
sents a clear gain to the municipalities of the
State.
The concluding paragraphs of the
platform which define the relations of
the Democratic party to the in
dustrial and agricultural inter
ests of the State, speak for them
selves, showing the party to
be the party of all the people. The
pledge of aid in the great work of
municipal reform is amply backed by
the action of the party in relation
to the government of this city. The
measure adopted by the Democratic
Legislature this year, and approved
by Governor Green, has led to re-
forms which even the Republican
press is forced to acknowledge with
approval.
Altogether the platform is a strong,
clear, honorable definition of the
party's position. 1t is just such q
declaration of principles as We hoped
for and expected. 1t is a fitting adjunct
to the action of the convention in
nominating the great leader who is
one of the best personal opponents in
the country Of the true democratic
idea-the maintenance of equal laws
and equal rights for all the people
and for all interests.
SIS it because this oma has no
political pull that you deny her a
licenses' asked Alderman Jordan last
night, speaking of Mrs. Behrens and
! the cold Stone House, Is it because
this woman has a political pull that
six Aldermen voted to license so no
torious a resort? the public may ask
this morning.
1T is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. Yesterdays wind wasn't so i'll
as that. 1t blew much good to the
matters. There were more nice, new