The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-28

~ 800" '-L
he came before the people with o hur-
rah and a flourish of trumpets that
made some weak-kneed Democrats
fearful of the issue. A gallant, snowy
soldier, speaking to the people in the
not over wise but honest and hearty
phrase of the camp was an at
traetive feature. People liked him for
his looks, and they mistook a certain
heartiness of manner for high political
honor. But how are the mighty fall
len. To what a sad depreciation has
a better acquaintance led, Day by
day the grotesque upftness of General
Grubb for any high office has become
more and apparent. The
puerility of his efforts to deal
with political questions has created
pity while 1t estranged respect.
The aristocratic exclusiveness of the
Lord of Edgewater has made itself
apparent through the thin veneer OF
studied good fellowship. Bitter sec
tional feeling has cropped out through
the appeals to the old spirit Of camp
association. The fine Italian hand
and likewise the hoofs and horns OF
General Sewell have been disclosed in
every phase of the campaign.
Really General Grubb's candidacy
has been a lamentable thing. He has
made a sad parade of his lack OF
knowledge and understanding upon
any subject outside the range of pub
lie affairs, and he has suffered
deeply in honor through fig
uring as the tool and the
puppet of the most unscrupulous
partisan the State has ever known.
Not merely the public fight has
proved disastrous to him; but in the
confidence of private conversation his
name has been mercilessly handled as
that of a man in all respects unit to
represent the dignity of the State.
Much less has been heard of Can
didate George La Monte than might
have been expected. Certainly in
this part of the State his cam
paign has not been aggressive.
The present indications are that
the Prohibition vote will ' be
small. Should the result prove differ
ent, the rebuke to the shutting dis
honesty of the Republican party will
be all the more marked. We cannot
see that Mr.. la Monte and his follow
ers have done anything to secure a
large vote, and if they get a consider
able one, it can only be because the
temperance element of the State de-
sires to accentuate its anger against
the party which tried to trick it.
In our judgment the campaign has
been fought and won. The battle is
over, and the polling of the vote to-
morrow week will be simply the re-
eording Of the Democratic victory.
| The contest has been waged mainly
on the chosen issue of the Democ-
racy-the demand of the people for
| equal taxation. The issues proposed
by the Republican Convention have
been abandoned by the party
largely because no tangible position
was taken upon them. As might be
supposed, the party which forced the
issues has won the day.
The only ground for fear or doubt
is in the Legislative contests, and we
have an earnest confidence Of success
there too. 1t certainly is the duty o.
every Democratic citizen to take uT
this phase of the struggle with vigol
and see to it that no halfway victory
results from this great contest. # thu
aid of a Democratic Legislature car
be assured to the Democratic Gov
ernor the State will at once enter on {
new period of prosperity surprising
anything in its past history.