The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-08
a Game.

Such is the third party situaIioh ia '"''
county under the new ballot law. In most
of the other counties OF the state ltis SUN
worse for them than here. Their leaders
are indiouant. of course. But thoughtful
nersons who have seen that the course
they have pursued in New Jersey has been
fruitful of nothing but evil in its effects
upop the body polite, would rather rejoice
than shed tears if it should have happened
that they were even more completely
''frozen out than they appear to be under
the provisions of the new law.-1he Jersey
man.
The above is taken from a leading Re
publican newspaper of Morris county. AS
it represents the average newspaper senti-
ment of the two old parties We would like
to see it passed around in order that every
body may have a chance to study up Its
contents and Judge of the animus OF Its
author. THE provisions of the new law
are embodied in the following:
Nominations may be made in any dis
trict or political division Of the state upon
the petition of legally qualified voters re-
siding within such district or political Oh
ision to the number of 200 for a county
office, and to the number of fve Tor every
one nunQreu NOleS cast az bho i1oe
for members Of the General Assembly in
any division less than a county; but these
petitioners must declare and set forth IN
their petition that they DESIRE and are
leqallg qualified 10 cote for the candidates
whom they ask to be placed III nominal
ton"
Yes, pass it around carefully and slow
ly, and allow your boys and the other
boys Of the country, who are just coming
up to the dignity of an American voter, a
chance to observe it thoroughly. Hand 1t
to the old man, the party veterans OF the
Republican and Democratic ranks, and
tell them hat their party has taken from
their neighbors about them the birthright
of an American eitizen-the right to a
vote, Never mind the scowls, on with the
paper. Thrust it before the eyes of the
soldier of the late war, and tell him That
the four years struggle for his lie anu
the life of his country was in order that he
might secure a pension and vote the Re-
publican or Democratic ticket. What oil
the flush of anger, or may be the pallor OIL
shame that comes over the face OF the ola
man: he can't help himself now anu is oil
no more account than a heather hin
unless voting the Democratic or Repnbli-
can ticket. If in very shame ne attempts
to shift the responsibility of the outrage
on to other shoulders, tell him that his
party. whether Democrat or Republican,
is accessor to the act. Yes, show the
paper by all means to everybody, and show
up the author of the fiery philippe and his
gall.
Tell them this paper emenates from one
of good standing in the SO called God
and morality party" and that his bear
ings are all taken from the party stand
point. Tell them that his tiendish invec-
tives are aimed not against the Nihilists,
not against the Chicago anarchists, not
against ~plotters of treason north or south
or anywhere else, but against those more
than his peers in every good and distinct
lively American quality. Tell him the
men lie would so brutally outrage com
pose a larger percentage of the better ele-
ment of the country, according to their
number, than any ~politieal party in the
land. Tell them and tell him that there
is not a saloon keeper or drunkard and
scarcely a corrupt politician among them,
and that more preachers and teachers and
good men of all classes are camped within
it's ranks relatively than among any other
organization outside the Christian church,
- - 49,. o,o +Na NON hfs ma rtV nrn-
pose to ''freeze ont, aud over which he
~reioices with such ghoulish gee.
Tell him that the men thus assaulted are
not hangers on the political crib, but OF
the kind who do and suffer for conscience
sake, and whose only offence with him is
that they don't vote the Republican ticket
and 50 fasten such barnacles as he on the
ship of State. Tell him that the fair
minded men of his own party are even
now excusing the infamy of an act that
eompels free American citizens 10 go to
the polls with hat under an arm and a
quarter of a dollar in hand begging the
privilege accorded negroes and ignorant
foreigners, and not denied any except cul-
prits before the law, Chinese and the In
dian-and, oh yes, the women. Tell them
that when the reaction comes, as come 1T
must, that it will hurt the parties to it a
great deal more than benefit them. Tell
them that this particular bowler after the
Southern outrage pattern, and red hot
shrieker for negro franchise South, would
gladly destroy the franchise of the white
man North and South that fails to vote the
Republican ticket. Tell them all this and
as much more as may suggest as you re-
cite the count, and then remind the author
that the system of Russian serfdom does
not maintain in this country and the day
of its political Poland is not as yet.
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