The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-12
This paper is democratic in principles
and Is independent IN its vteaos on al
local questions.
Governor Abbett,s ELECTION.

1AOUCb1 A1hCCSAOhs
We rather think the Philadelphia
Press Trenton correspondent has
been giving his Imagination free rein.
His letter, from which we quote the
most interesting passages in another
column, reads uncommonly like non
sense. Most probably the correspond
ent has overheard some whisperings
of Republican plotters, and has hasti-
ly concocted the story alluded to to
account for the current rumors.
But his remarks bear every mark of
forgetfulness if not ignorance. The
process Of throwing out districts to
which he alludcs may indeed be
adopted by the Republican Senate,
and Senator Mcdonald may thus be
ousted from the seat to which he was
elected. Pyino focie it is competent
for the Senate to do this thing, for it
is sole judge of the election and quail
fications of its own members. 1t is
possible. however, that the courts
may hold that the Senate's power
has limits in this direction. But
that rejection Of districts would have
no effect or influence whatever in a
contest for the Governorship.
So little effect would the
Stuhr Mcdonald contest have,
il the very unlikely event of a legal
fight for the governorship being in
stituted, that the whole examination
of the ballots would have to be gone
over again, and all the evidence taken
once more, just as if the recent hear
ings had never taken place.
Then m the talk about the At
lantic vote. If the whole story is to be
judged by this part, it is indeed mere
trash. The correspondent intimates
that in case the Senate throws out
out Democratic districts in Hudson,
the Assembly will reject the whole
vote of Atlantic.
How?
Does the correspondent know what
he is talking about2
Plainly he does noti
Let us inform him that the Assem-
bly, could only deal with the vote of
Atlantic, so far as a member of its
own body was concerned. But the
seal of Mr.. S. S. Hudson is not even
contested. The Assembly may
condemn the glazing illegal
ity of the Atlantic election; but
as matters stand it has no means
of altering the result. There is every
reason to believe that the whole cleo
ton was null and void on account of
fragrant and deliberate informality,
but if its result were overthrow, the
democratic candidate for Assembly
could not be seated, for the infor-
mality vitiates his vote just as much
as that of his opponent.
The correspondent, however, with
out meaning it, tumbles on an inn
portant point. II General Grubb
should be insane enough to institute a
contest for the Governorship, there
can be no doubt but the vote of Allan
tic City, and every other part Of the
county where the facile cigar box was
used, would be judicially thrown out
as the very first step. On the
other hand, it Iis likely that under
examination by an impartial tribunal
the vote of Hudson would come out
in very good shape. 1t is possible
Governor Abbett's 1855 majority
might be reduced acouple Of thousand
but, doubtless, a close scrutiny o.
Camden and Gloucester's votes, and,
probably, PASSAGES. would nearly
counterbalance this.
But why speculate further on such
q ~nonsensical proposition. Nobody
not even the republicans Of the State,
would endure the manufacture of an
artificial Republican majority in this
county. With or without Hud-
son, Leon Albeit was elected Gov
brnor Any attempt to unseat him