The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-10
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and Is Independent in its viel0s ON all
local questions.
A Campaign of Principle.

The Democratic party In the State represents
liquor and the lowest principles.-W. j. SEwELL.
This is the sort of campaign the
Republican party proposes to wage-a
campaign of m~ud-slinging. The hope
lessness of advancing any sound argu-
ment in favor of putting a tool of the
Camden statesman and the corporate
interests he represents in power, com
pels a resort to the weapons of vulgar
abuse and SANDER.
Does the Democracy represent low
principles? VIII the people 10 con
sider2
Is opposition to outrageous corpo-
ration greed the result of low principle?
Is an effort to control the liquor traffic
by moderate laws, which can be en-
forced, and which the general moral
sense of all the people will support, the
result of a low principle2 Is the aboli-
ton of municipal abuses and the es-
Enlistment of healthy systems of add
ministration the result of a low princi-
ple?Is the refusal to burden the people
of the State with oppressive taxation
in order to maintain expensive inutili-
ties a result of low principle?
On the other hand let us see what
the Republican party represents, and
let us see what sort of principle in
spires its policy.
What then shall we say of the raj
torous betrayal of the sovereign
Government to forward party ends
that base memorial of defeated legis-
lators, in which they prayed the pun
ishment of their colleagues who had
done the peoples will? Was this the
product of a high principle?
What shall We say, too, of the party
which lent the official sanction of it's
caucus to the most comprehensive
measure of spoliation that corporate
rapacity ever dared propose2 Was it
high principle that animated that in
famous proceeding?
Was it high principle that guided
the editorial pen of the Republican
F7edonian when it traced that exigent
appeal, mot next year, Mr.. President,
but now2n
Was it high principle that trampled
on the spirit of the Constitution
and robbed the Governor of those
prerogatives which are innate in
his high Office, and which dragged
them into the arena OF caucuses and
combines in order that party advan-
tages might the more easily be pur-
chased?
General Sewell does well to talk of
principle. Lut MS make the next cam
paign on that basis by all means. The
Democracy stands upon it's principles
and treats the ISLANDERS of General
Sewell with the contempt that they
deserve.
THE best sentiment in the State OF
Indiana very properly favors the re-
newal of efforts to give Mr., Blocks-of-
Five Dudley his deserts if he returns
to the State. Nothing worse than his
deserts could ever be given to this
creature, and probably a part of
them, iudiciously administered, would
satisfy the merciful. He is still in
Washington, but he says that he will
soon go West. Now the peculiar
part of this affair is that he
is going out with a party of Grand
Army men, bound for the convention,
and a Washington despatch, yester-
day, represented it as a sort of escort
which would guard him from arrest,
by moral force, of ourse There is
something wrong about this. We
don't believe the sympathies of the