The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-07
REGULAR DEMOCRATIC NOMlN ATI0NS.
For Governor,
LEON ALBEIT,
WIN rhex Fuse or Refuse.

Will They Fuse or Refuse.
Wanken and Rabe, at the meeting
In Union Hill Saturday night an
nounced the readiness of Bill Kern's
kickers to become an to the
Republican machine in this county.
They had been inviting the aid of
Democrats to their movement by pro-
claiming themselves as Democrats so
enamored of the Democratic party
that it panied them to witness the
abuses which they claimed We're
tenanced and encouraged under the
guise of Democracy. Now that they
have thrown off the Democratic dis
guise, and presented themselves to the
public eye as a little handful of cast
outs eager to sell themselves to the
Republican party, no honest Demo
GRAFT can countenance them any long
er, and the power they might have ex-
ercised is gone from them forever.
Their mere proclamation, however,
that they are willing to be Repub-
licans does not assure them of recog-
milton by the Republican leaders, and
it Is more than an open question
whether the Republican managers
will so far debase themselves as to
make terms with such a rabble. They
propose a compromise ticket. A COM
promise ticket means a combination
ticket. The regular Republican party
will put ON the county and Assembly
tickets some Republican M The
Kern annex will fill up the blank
places with Kernites. And then the
regular Republicans and the Kern
Republicans will join hands to carry
the fusion ticket through.
1t is less likely that the elf-respect-
ing Republicans of this county will
fuse than refuse, because the natural
result of such a combination must be
on generous principles to sacrifice
strength both ways. Republicans
will not vote for renegade Democrats.
Kern can persuade no Democrat to
vote for Republican candidates. 1t
has been demonstrated in tim es past
that if the Republican machine
evolves an ex-Democrat for Repub-
lican suffrages the Republican voter
exercises his privilege of voting for
which of the two Democratic com
petitors he pleases; and hosts of
them, driven to a choice between a
traitorous Democrat and a straight
Democrat, will cast their votes for the
straight Democrat. No consistent
party man has any more respect for a
traitor from the other side than he has
for the traitor to his own causei So,
speaking generally, the Republican
party would be weaker before the
people with some Kern names on it's
ticket, then if it went into the fight
with a straight out Republican ticket.
When the names of the men the
Kern kickers will seek to put in the
field under Republican auspices are
made known, the revolt will assume
the proportions of a revolution. Let
us seel Who will some of them be?
To begin with. Bill Kern, himself,
will insult the Republicans of the
Fourth district by asking them to
help him get into the Assembly. No
one need have the beautiful record
Of this ex-Boss of the Big -Four, who
recently escaped conviction in the
face of convincing proofs, laid
before him, to realize that
he of all men is not entitled
to the public confidence. Wanken
has been a member of the third house
at Trenton for many years, and he is
evidently yearning for a seat in the
Assembly. Do you think that the
Republicans of Hudson county will
aid any movement designed to put so
notorious a lobbyist in . State Officer