The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-22
Republican False Hopes-Davis Can
Down Them.

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Republican False Hopes-Davis Can
Down Them.
The enthusiasm that inspired the
Republican workers at the meeting of
their City Committee last evening
shows their confidence in the success
Of their ticket at the approaching
spring election. The apathy with
which they usually go into their city
canvasses, gave place last evening to
active preparations for a big fight.
They have found no such inspiration
in the local situation since they rallied
around Collins to beat DR.. McGill.
One contingency may make their
canvass this year even more promis-
ing than 1t was that year; and
they are evidently going on the
assumption that the contingency is to
arise. The denomination of Mayor
Cleveland is evidently the folly they
are banking against. We believe that
their calculations are to be disap-
pointed by the selection by the De-
mocracy of a more suitable stand
ard bearer. Mr.. Cleveland has not
been nominated yet, and We cannot
bring ourselves to believe that the
Democratic party of this city will be
so fatuous as to openly defy public
sentiment by presenting him to the
people for their suffrages again.
If Mr.. Cleveland should be the nom
inee on our side. there is the broadcast
ground for the hopeful activity with
which our friends, the enemy, are
preparing for their Indeed,
if ne is to be the nominee they have
already won their fight with their
nomination. The pretext that justi-
fled a popular fight against DIR. McGill
did not begin to match the situation
OF affairs in this city today.
DR.. McGill was an honest man; and
in force of intellect quite up t. the
acknowledged high standard of Mr..
Cleveland. There was no breath of
suspicion against either his integrity
or his ability. He had been some
what overexacting, perhaps, in the
discharge of his public functions. He
had not been true blue in his party
attachments. He had kicked oven
the traces sometimes. and had, SO,
won the antagonism of a faction in
his party. This, combined with the
solid Republican phalanx, put Mr..
Collins in the executive chair of the
city.
But the Democratic handicap of
that year was nothing compared with
that which Mr.. Cleveland's nominal
ton would put upon the party this
year. He has sought to make him
self dictator. He has attempted to
build up a personal party of his own
with the great powers the citizens
have entrusted to his hands, and he
feels himself so thoroughly entrenched
that he unblusningly declares that he
can be Mayor for his lifetime. The
echo of the Vanderbilt refrain, sThe
Public be damned follows in the
wake Of that shout Of triumph.
The character of the personal gov
ernment he has established in Jersey
City indicates how much more he has
employed his prerogatives for his'own
purposes than for the public interest.
Large increases in tax bills; great out
lays OF public money without any
perceptible returns; public cormor-
ants feasting on the body polite;
! attempts to turn public benefactions,
like the City Hall improvement, TIC
his own personal advantage; the gift
0 fpublic plhcesto men wh6gm Che
cases OF the election officers, have
brought the city into shameful scan
dial; these are some Of the things that
give a vigor and life TO the contest
against Mr.. Cleveland that did MOI
and could not appear in the canvas
against Dir. McGili.
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