The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-21
HepublIcan organ Grinding.

We hardly know anything cal
euiated to dispel a fit of the blues
better than q hours perusal OF the
State Gazette. Its sportive inventions
are calculated to promote hilarity and
excite wonder in the superlative de-
gree. Here is a pleasant specimen
from this mornings issne-
In all the states for parceliug out the
honors and plums in the gift of the Legislature
and Governor everything worth having is
assigned to North Jersey and largely to Hudson
and Essex counties But where do we come
INF" ask the astonished and hungry Democrats
Of the southern part Of the State. In the
SOUP Is the e~xultant shout of the ravencus
r~ingsters of Hudson
OF III we do not propose to re-
flute or even to contradict this wild
invention. Indeed it carries its own re-
~futation on its face. Wemerely present
1t to the public as a specimen Of the
falsehood which constitutes the Re-
publican stock in trade. That party
In later years has lived on prejudice,
falsehood and error, and to judge
from the utterances of its organs it
will live on the same kind of brain
food to the end OF its history. The
people, however. are not imposed on.
They know well that Governor Albeit
is the Governor of the whole State and
that in all his official acts he will care
for every part alike.
Here is another specimen of Gazette
wisdom; it is in reference to Captain
Graham's evidence in the recent cleo
ton trial.
This Is interesting. 1t must give rise to all
sorts OF conjectures, and suggests startling
possibilities. Is Hudson county justice strong
enough TO probe this election iniquity to the
bottoms Turn on the light
This is not written in good faith.
1t is designed to injure the Democ-
racy in the persons of MI. Winfield
and Judge Lippincott by creating the
false notion through the State that
the election crimes would be in part
condoned- The bitterest disappoint-
ment New Jersey republicans ever
experienced was in the rigid prosecu-
ton OF these offences, and the Repub-
lican press constantly tries to injure
and embarrass the prosecuting officers
by such inuendoes as these. OF course
the Gazette knows well that the
crimes will be sifted to the bottom,
and all concerned in them will be
sent to State Prison.
The Gazette also has a hack at the
tariff question. 1t says
But was the passage of the MeKin ley Dill a
mistake: How dc, you know that it was? Do
you hold that the people so pronounced 1t in the
recent e~lections We deny it. They couldn't.
How could they! 1t hadn't been tried.
The Republican party win not repeal or nullify
the Mckinley tariff until it has been given a full,
fair trial. II a thorough test shall demonstrate
that il is a bad measure. and does not promote
the material welfare Of the country, it will be
time enough to talk about its repeal. Bnt it has
had no such test yet, and the Republican party
believes that it will triumphantiy sustain the
ordeal.
the people are masters in this country, and
when they have placed the free trade party in
control Of the entire law-making power of the
Government, Il win be evidence that they want
c revenue only tariff bill passed. But not be-
fore.
The mingled rascality and absurdity
Of these observations fairly beat the
record If the people did not pro-
nounce against the Mckinley bill in
the last election, what did they dol
Does the State Gazette desire us to be-
sseve that they endorsed it? The one
way that the people have Of directly
ignifying their will under the Ma