The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-23
This paper IS democratic IN principles
and is Independent in its UteUS on al
local questions.
Mr.. NTcAdoo's Boom.

One of the sheets which appear to
have been subsidized to initiate the
McAdoo boom is the Summit Record.
Unfortunately for the boom, the
Record has no influence whatever in
Hudson county, indeed except to
newspaper men and a few politicians
it is wholly unknown.
This is the odd thing about the
McAdoo movement. 1t is all on the
outside. Various papers in the rural
districts. especially Republican
ones, have been urgent that MI.
McAdoo should be renominated
for Congress from Hudson, but with
the exception of one obscure little
sheet in a 'way-off corner of the
county not a voice has been raised in
the district which he pretends to rep
resent, for the bright young man from
Virginia.
The Record dwells on Mr.. McAdoo's
course in Congress and his brilliant
speeches as reasons why he should be
returned, and, while admitting that
Hudson has the closest interest in it's
representative, argues that the whole
State is in some degree concerned in
his personality. Let us glance at
these arguments a moment. MI.
McAdoo was elected as O. DEM
ocrat, and his course in Congress
has been consistently Democratic. So
much we admit. But is that anything
more than a negative merit? Is the
mere fact that a man has not been q
traitor sufficient reason for giving him
an unusual reward? 1t would hardly
seem SO; yet this is substantially the
amount of the claim for Mr.. McAdoo.
AS for his brilliancy-well Mr.. McAdoo
has quite a flow of language and a
good faculty for presenting acceptably
the arguments for or against q propo-
sition. He is a very good talker, and
no doubt a useful man in Congress, so
far as he goes. He has, however, no
special originality OF force of charac-
ter, and we do not think he would set
the Potomac on fire in more than two
or three places at the utmost, even
should he be returned to Congress for
the rest of his natural life.
We would be sorry to deny the in
terest of the State at large in all of
its representatives at Washington,
and indeed its general opinion ought
to have q strong influence on local
thought. But we may be pardoned
for doubling that the Democratic
sentiment of the State is with Mr..
McAdoo to any extent worth con
sidering, and, even if it were, the
local considerations are altogether too
strong to be disregarded. MI. Me-
Adoo in the past made it a point to
be independent of the Democratic
party in Hudson county. He snapped
his fingers at it, and by trick and de-
vice set himself above it and blew in
the face of its will. He is preparing
to repeat the operation now. His
scheme is to create discord at the out
set, to take up a faction, make it's
leaders his catspaws, and pull some
sort Of nomination out of the result
ing turmoil, trusting to splurge and
glitter and the forbearance of other
democrats for his election.
But, besides his very ugly and
wholly selfish course in local politics,
there is a strong feeling against Mr..
McAdoo as an alien, a carpet bag
candidate in Hudson County. He has
neither home nor headquarters here.
His personal connection with the
county consists in a recollection and
a name painted on a doorin the Vel
don Building. He is never seen in
the place. He take S no part in its
business or social life. He appears in
its politics only when he wants some