The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-05
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fight.

local questions
The McPhinips-wanssr Fight.
Disgusting as the main result of the
~shrievaIty contest of yesterday must
be to those who hate Ring rule, there
is one strong redeeming feature.
The absolute unqualified condem-
nation of the Ring and its boss by the
people of Jersey City is a healthful
sign and one which affords promise OF
a better era in the future.
Taken together, all the voting pre-
cincts in Jersey City give a majority
Of more than /, 700 votes against John
J. McPhillips, and the Second, Third,
Fourth. Fifth and Sixth Assembly
districts all give signal m~ajorities for
Wanser, while the First is carried for
McPhillips by a merely nominal adj
vantage.
Not only does this showing indicate
the hostility of the voters of Jersey
City to the Ring, it still further en-
phasizes the discredit into which Rob
ert Davis has fallen. All that section
Of the city in which, but a little while
ago he was supreme, gives crushing
majorities against his candidate,
while the only section which keeps up
anything like the normal Democratic
vote is hat in which Dennis McLaugh-
lin is leader. a striking commentary,
by the way, on the cowardly charges
OF party disloyalty which Davis,
through his Ring newspaper, uttered
against Mr.. Mclaughlin only a week
ago.
What the political effect of Davis
defeat in his old strongholds will be,
it is too early. as yet, to speculate.
Primaries are not run under a strin-
gent ballot~law, and he may once
again crowd the County Committee
with his heelers. But, it seems TO us,
thinking Democrats, honest Demo-
Gratis should read serious perils to the
future of the party in the attitude of
Jersey City's voters, and should en-
deavor to reform the local organiza-
tion by the eradication of the thug
eleinent from its councils.
The odd phase of the election is
snat while jersey City went signally
against McPhillips and the Ring, all
the outlying sections of the county
gave him large majorities. Assuming
these to be honest. the conclusion to
be drawn is obvious. These outlying
districts have not felt the evil effects
of Ring rule with the same intensity
as the rich municipality Of Jersey
CITY.
The ring has in an especial manner
fastened its fangs upon this commu-
nifty. They have the millions here to
steal, and here the thieving CON
tractors and the thieving Office
holders get in their fine work. The
rest of the county is comparatively
unframed as yet, and its voters so
long as their own pockets are not
reached, remain either blind or in
different to the wrongs of this city.
In truth the situation for the moment,
is just this, that Bayonne and Hobo
ken and Harrison and Gutenberg
have set the foot of the Ring more
viciously than ever on the neck of
this eity.
How was this result brought abouts
Largely by the imbecility of the
anti-Ring managers. These worthless
relied almost entirely upon the Tim
ken element to take care of Hoboken-
and North Hudson, while they seem
to have thought that Bayonne and
Harrison were not worth looking after
at all.
The faulty of this policy is now
evident. Bayonne and Harrison to-
gcther give McPhillips about 900 ma
jority. There can be no doubt but
earnest work would have cut this
down to 500, but no work was done.
The Assembly contest In the Eighth
was hopeless from the Republican
point OF view, and so no work worthy
Of the name was done in that district.