The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-23
MDONALD'S MARTYRDOM
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plause, which was quickly suppre ssed by
the president.
HI POPULATION QUESTION.
Senator Mcdonald then turned his at
tention to Senator Gardner. HE has
told us" he said. that where the vote in
Hudson County was free from fraud it
was found TO be right. With due respect
to the Senator from Atlantic, he is mis-
taken and inaccurate. The increase in
the vote and the Democratic majority
was in those districts where no indication
of fraud was found.n
He then drew a comparison between
the vote of Hudson and Essex county to
show that the vote was greater in proper
tion to population in the latter than it
was in the former. The population of
Hudson county was 240,342; that of
Essex, 213, 764. Hudson cast 42,317 votes
and Essex As. 734. Thus it appeared that
although Essex had 26,57s less inhabit-
ants than Hudson, it had 3.417 more
votes. At the same time Jersey City had
1858 inhabitants and Newark 152, 1888.
Jersey City cast 24,527 votes and Newark
Ss,soy, ~ ana there ere was Newark e,s $40
S,742 more votes. Yet nobody had heard
anything about frauds in Newark or Es-
sex. But it may be said, continued MI.
Mcdonald, that Essex has more native
born citizens than Hudson, and he quoted
statistics to show that Hudson had 3 1858
UlOI6 udblN6 UOEn Willie daQ QldCk GlllZGQS
than Newark.
Some of the men who appear SO
anxious to clear the political atmos-
phere," the Senator went on, chad better
look to home" and he alluded to the
frauds in Camden and Atlantic, where
Virginia negroes voted when they had
no business to do so. The Senators in
adopting this report would do what they
dared not do in private business and be
considered honest.
He said he would not leave the Senate
Chamber to die. Turning him out of his
seat could do him no harm; but he had a
constituency and he would not do his
present II he went out without a protest
against the outrage and crime which the
report proposed to commit.
The committee, he declared, lost sight
of the true inwardness of the frauds,
which were committed in the interest of
the candidates for Freeholders. If the
men who committed these frauds should,
by any possible means, sit in the Senate,
and a question should arise which would
benefit their party, they would bring
in just such a report as the committee,
because they had no conscience. 1t
was not the friends OF Mr.. Stuhr who
made this contest. He was a man of no
political standing. But the contest was
made in order that joint meeting might
be averted and two men retained in
power by fiimsey tenure of office.
SIT is to do this and for no other reason
the report is made" he went on. eff
yoh think it wise that the gentlemen
State should hold their positions by such
means as this, all / can say is you make
a most egregious mistake. / cannot help
feeling keenly the limitation your report
puts upon me Has anyone accused me
of completely in these frauds? Have /
sought TO condone those frauds? Has
anyone whispered in public or private
tina / was interested in them? My whole
life has been spent near the place where
I now live and / defy any man to say that
/ was ever interested n fraudulent prac-
tices.
THE VOTE.
A ripple of applause broke out at the
conclusion of Mr.. McDonald's speech.
Then the vote was taken amid a breath
less silence. Adrain led off with a re-
sounding no. which was followed by
Local Methodist Preacher Carter's weak
faye" Cranmer choked over his ''aye,''
which was SO feeble that had the clerk
not known how he was to vote he would
have had to call his name again.
The eleven republican Senators voted
to confirm the report and nine democrats
voted against it. Senator Mcdonald did
not vote.
Stuhr was in the cloak room, rubbing
his hands in Uriah Heap fashion, and
wanted to be sworn in right away. But
even Gardner frowned on this haste, and
the browning disgrace was put off until
this morning.
The Senate adjourned amid all sorts of
denunciations from the Democrats and
the occupants of the gallery.
HI ASSEMBLY PROTESTS.
At the evening session of the House
these resolutions by Mr.. Boyle were
adopted
Resolved, That the House Of Assembly deeply
sympathize with Edward f. Mcdonald, late SEN
ator from Hudson county, and takes this oppor-
tunity to assure him of their entire and unbound
ed confidence in his honesty, and that this House
sincerely regrets that he was made the victim of
cent, but which, from his well known high char
acter, he would be in no sense a party to or, of
his knowledge, accept any of the benefits aris-
ing from any distortion OF the election franchise.