The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-18
MILLER ON MCDONALD.
The Social Scientist Advocates His EIec-
tion as a Rebuke to the Ring.

The Social Scientist Advocates bis EIec-
tion as a Rebuke to the Ring.
To the Editor of the Jersey CitD NeUs:-
Is it not well to impress upon the voters
of Hudson county the fact that every
vote cast for Mcdonald and against the
Ring measures the real strength of the
Democratic revolt against Ring ruler
The defeat of the Ring ticket would not
mean any weakening of the Democratic
party in this county. What does the
Ring care for the party? They would
cheerfully sell Congress or a Presidency
to maintain their grip upon the city.
We radical Democrats regret that Nc
Donald does not represent all that we
would like to have. Mr.. Mcdonald is
not u free trader-at all events not now.
But he is a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Observation-Disclosures, and that is suffi-
cient. He will be with his party in their
assault upon the protection m~onopolies
which, in the language of their great
leader, Grover Cleveland, are "Chal-
lenged to the death" AS the party moves
so will Mcdonald move.
The most important question of today
is not the destruction of a municipal ring;
it is the destruction of a national ring.
The city robbers take a little, but the
national plunderers are the grand larcen-
ers. bob" Davis is not a desirable head
for a city, but Tom Reed is a more grandly
impudent rascal. Our city taxes are too
high, but our national taxes top them like
an Eiffel tower.
Let us elect Mcdonald by a vote that
will show plainly that the Democrats of
Hudson are opposed to the doing by a Re
publican ring for h nation what a So
called Democratic ring is doing for a
locality /. G. taxing the masses into pow
erty and a few favored ones into wealth.
Liberty to all; special privileges to
none.n That is good old Jeffersanian
must come to stand upon such a platform,
he IS q good enough candidate for q
Democrat who believes in Democracy.
What about his opponent, Richard AL
len? A clean, honest man, but having as
much knowledge upon economic ques-
Democrats should have wisely refrained
from nominating a Congressman, or If
they wanted to nominate Q Congressman
why take Il Republican and protectionist?
Why not have taken u jefferson Demo-
crat?
What would Jefferson nave thought OF
sixty per cent. tariff? How can a Jeffer-
oman organization nominate a sixty per
cent tariff man? The tariff Of 1924, which
Prof. Thompson. the leading scholastic
teacher of protection absurdities, and
professor in the University OF Pennsyl-
vania, calls "the first really protective
tariff startled the sage of Monticello in
his retirement, and caused him to con-
denim the measure in the strongest posi-
ple terms. But the tariff of 1924, followed
everywhere BY distress among the manu-,
facturers, wasn't a patch on the tariff OF
1890. Yet a Jaffersonian Democratic As
s~ociation nominates for Congress a be
lever in the tariff of 1S90l
Wouldn't it be well to circulate among
the members of that OF ganization a shorl
lire of Jefferson, and some statement in
brief and compact form of the principles
in which he believed?
JOSEPH DANA MILLER.
Pickerei fishing is now at its best il
any Of the lakes where these Shiny pirate.
bound They take the spoon readily
but Ii is always best to supplement thu
spoon with q piece Of plckerel belly.