The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-10-05
DAVIS PUPPE'Y.
Johnny McPhillips to Be
the Ring Nominee
for Sheriff.
II WILL Be BEATEN.
Respectable Democrats De-
termine 10 Let Him
Go It Alone.
FIAT or 4FARny wAssERs
'0ne People Fear Him, and He Has
Rivals in his Own Party-Gen-
eraI View of Politics.
II WILL BE BEATEN.
Flat or aFARMv WANsER?

Il Is settled. after all the movement Ia
'ther directions. that John McPhllIips is
q be the candidate of the Democratic
Convention which Is to meet on Friday
pext. There has been d good deal of talk
shout Denny Mel Laugh lin and some Of his
importers measuring lauces with
Davis in convention Tor another
sanuldate, and The talk was justi-
Red bg their movements. But that
y ended now aud the elements that were
& disposed 10 oppose have made up their
minds to let the joker boss have it ali hts
swn way The only other candidate that
me threatened opposition talked about
bringing to The front was Sheriff Helntze.
he delsyed IN Europe too long for his
own good
he people," said one we'll known
anti Ring fighter yesterday, "are to be
congratulated on this turn in affairs.
They will not be at the disadvantage Of
lighting the Ring in disguise. Bob
Davis stands boldly before them as the
master u theIconyention ana the issue is
squarely and sharply defined. Shall Bob
Dsvis be sheriff Of Hudson county any
lengers TO that question this community
can return bat one ans wer.
IS FRAUD IN VIEW?
The joker boss assurance IN thus defy
ing public sentiment is arouslug the
echoes OF opposition throughout the
eo1iisty. TO where You viii you encounter
but the one sentiment. For once the rich
and poor, the humble and the great. meet
the question, Where do you stand in the
iishtS" with the one answer. II am for
:. fl0Wiii3l9 the Kittv -
NJ bile Davis holiness helps to empha-
ssz= lie pllblic protest against The con-.
Eaua0ce QI Ring rule. il also arouses APP
plehenstons that the suffrage is 10 be
- ain Defouled BY his methods. How
sWoAla be dare--theso apprehensions as
kAsfS Tie fuEals Of tnis intersoKa-
tory bow would no dare 10
force man whom tile people
are evidently prepared to repu-
diate Upon them. unless he knows or q
plan by which he can be elected in spite
of them? kumors, to which currency was
first gwen in these columns, that he has
employed experts TO devise method Of
beating the new election law, gain
credence anew; and those interested are
turning tho new systen over and over,
aid examining it top and bottom and
sides. 70 see II It is weak at any point,
Or II there are loop holes for fraud in it
anywhere.
KALLoT REFORM WEAKNESSES.
Wei, there IS The plan of buying voters
10 stay Ut home. That produces only half
the result that the practice of bribery
achieved under the old system, and it is
u little too expensive to be popular
Then there is the Iasmanian DEVICE as
it is called, which can be worked
with single official envelope
The production Of another official
place would be proof positive that a
purchased vote had been delivered. The
misfortune of that is that the envelope is
10 be voted open, and the buyer has no
guarantee that the ballot the bribee may
iave been paid TO deposit was not
stitutcd for it. Next is the
scheme of coionizing votes, and that is
said 10 have been commenced on an ex-
tensiye scale in some Of the lower sec
lions of the city. The story is that the
Ring men are buying foreirnerso to
locate here now ana TO stay here Ill cleo
tion day, so that the registry officers, when
they make their house to house canvass,
may take their names and put them on
the books And finally it is suggested
that The Ringsters may, in the districts
they cannot otherwise control, terrorize
the citizens from the polls, or block the
RAPID reception OF ballots. 50 as 70 Keep
that vote down TO its minimum.
All OF these schemes have been
tulksd of as Election day possibilities;
AID there Is feeling OF distrust abroad
1 il the community that popular uprising
ever big enough TO produce q local revolt
u;son may practically accomplish nothing,
after all
The announcement that there are to be
no United States marshals has dissatisfied
Republicans. But 1t must not be forgot
ten that citizen watchers, VINO are
abused Or who see frauds commits q. are
eral grand juries for the punish
th them 4 vigiisn liant and honest bbs s Of
watchers at the polling places can do as
much to stay the hand OF fraud as the
marshala could do.
Then, too, by way Of reinsurance TO the
timid and skeptical, some rumors that
have crept into the wind lately IRE of
special interest and Importance.
Some people, u 10 said, are disposed to
let Bob Davis nominate Mr.. McPhililps
And then they are going TO let him elect
Suppose Denny McIsAehlin suppose
John p, Feeuey; suppose Eddie Dugan,
suppose Charley Birdsall droDthetr hands
BY their sides ard become spectators in
stead Of participants in the Iruy-where
would little Bob be then, poor fellow?
That is not an inlpcssihllity. In fact IL
Is q strong probability. These men have
made Mr.. Bob Davis what he is. They
have been the strength OF his lo1ns III
they should happen to care more for the
Assembly men than they do for the Sheriff,
n IL they should be more interested
III backing the joker boss con-
tem,,lated raid M the jail fees than in Sc
caring Mr.. McI,hillips' election, where
would the amiable Under Sheriff be In
Hfhc fightf From being Under Sheriff he
ss,.uld be under dog 70 an alarming ex-
& ' III II nnase Inst suppose. that they
7.ltphillins. II elected at all, shall be
7 c;txiotl honestly Whaf then Eal Mr..
I3av.sl Ekf Mr.. McP hfilipfl
rnEY III ar THEIR FINGERS.
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