The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-25
MCDONALD TALKS.
He Tells What He Thinks
of the Senate's Des-
potic Action.
ALLAN M'DERMOTTs VIEWS.
The Republican Party Has Made a
Record That 1t Will Have to
Take Before the People.

IHE JERSEY CITY NEWS.
what have You to say OF poIitics2n
asked as he shook hands with me-
Thinking for a moment he replied
"The Republicans in the New Jersey
Sanate have established precedent such
as the Democratic party in this State has
never paralleled no matter whatrhe oppor.
tunity. In regard to Hudson county, there
can be no question in the minds of impair
tial observers. 1t is certain that the ma.
jority of the people of the county are de
voted to the principles of Thomas Jeffer-
son and opposed to the methods which
can scarcely be called the principles OF
the Repub lican party. In the future we
shall seek By every honest effort in our
power to arouse the people to the situa-
ton OF affairs that now stares them in
the face.
1.-THE issue, when the next campaign
begins, viii be whether the voice of the
people of New JERSEY shall be heard and
their will obeyed, or whether in the in
terests of hide bound partisan admins
tration their will shall be ignored, and
contradicted as of no account
II believe that When the issue is thus
presented to the people, and clearly ex-
planned, they viii realize and appreciate
the danger that impends over them as
free citizens. whose principle Of life is
that they govern themselves
with the gain that the Republicans
have made in the Senate by robbing
Hudson county they will not accomplish
anything, for there are six Democratic
Senators who will hold over and we need
only elect five out of eight Senators at
the next general election to organize
the Senate. With the opportunities
afforded us by the result Of the last cam
paign, it is safe to say we will carry Es-
sex. Monmouth. Union and Somerset,
now filled by Republicans, and we will
retain Salem Warren county is as a
matter of course Democratic at all times,
like old Hudson. With the election of
five Of these Senators there will be
eleven Democratic Senators in the next
Legislature.
1.-THE Senate will not be long in session,
with this array Of Democrats in 1t, before
the wrong and outrage just committed by
the Republican Senators will be rebuked
and the evil work undone.n
ALLEN M'DERMOTT's VIEWS.
Soon after left Mr. Mcdonald l met
Allan l. McDermott, chairman of the
State Democratic General Committee.
g Mr.. McDermott, I want to
ask you what you think of
the tendency of the Republican party
toward Capitalization and aristocratic
form of government The ex-Judge
smiled and repiied:-"The general ten
been toward Capitalization for great
many years; in fact when the slavery
issue was eliminated from POLITICS the
Republican party adopted Jnf2e hav-
ing undercurrents toward centrali-
cation, and the overt acts OF
OF any elections that could De
brought under Federal jurisdiction have
Justified the frequently repeated charge
that the Republican party desired a
strong government, strong at central
point, | do not believe the Republican
party tends toward an aristocracy or that
any great number of those who constitute
that party believe in an aristocraey, as
we commonly use the word.
The Haniltonian theory was in
favor OF the government by the few,
the Jeffersonian theory was in favor Of
government by and for the people as SUCH
Hamilton believed in an aristocracy, but
he believed in it because he thought it
would be for the best interest of the peo-
pie. He differed with Jefferson on the
question as to which was the best avenue
to arrive at an object that they
held in common. that is,
the preservation of the public
good. think the Hamiltonian theory
has been eliminated from American pol
itics and that there is not any fear of an
aristocratic tendency, that tendency will
be confined to the social side by the
people OF this country.
s'In its place, as an opposition to the
JeAersonian doctrine, the Repub-
icac party oo has 70 adopted ser.,zs
ton of power and the great
support of that policy is found today in
| the fact that it will advance commercial
propositions which call for governmental
protection in order that they may reap
the greatest harvest. The obliteration OF
the Independence in the States in the
matter of commercial regula-
tions Of the States has been
carried to an extent that was
never contemplated by the trainers Of the
constitution. l might sum itup short this
way. In the absence of any extraordinary
incentive to political action the politics of
the country is governed by its commerce,
and the main object of the Republican
party today is to control that commerce.
| To do this requires Capitalization"
M'DoNALD WAS FAIRLY ELECTED.
| What do you think of the unseating
of Mr.. Mcdonald"
"Mr. Mcdonald was in every way
| fitted for the office of Senator. He did
not seek the position; it sought him.
| There is not a man of common sense in
| Hudson county who does not believe that
| Mr.. Mcdonald received a very large MAJ
| jority of the legal votes cast for Senator
at the polls last November.
/ Inc people IN Inc cuttFc Dldlt
| believe it, and l think that the Repub-
| lican party has made the worst kind of q
| political blunder in unseating him That
| there were ballots Illegally cast seems by
the testimony taken by the committee to
| be beyond question, but the casting OF
those votes cannot be charged
to the Democratic party. Illegal
voting never has been and never will be
| done for the advancement or the protec-
| ton of principle; it must OF necessity
| be traced TO the designs and plottings of
| individuals as distinguished from par
| ties.
ssrhe unseating Of Mcdonald stands,
however, in the same political aspect as
a plank in party platform.
| The casting OF fraudulent votes
| in Hudson county belongs to the records
of individuals, the unseating of McDon-
aid becomes part of the record of the Re
publican party; the Democratic party
| joins in the denunciation of the frauds
| that were committed. There is no
| issue there. The Republican party
through its chosen and sworn represen-
| tatives has presented as an issue, that
| upon which it s willing to be judged for
the sincerity and purity of its political
motives, the question as to whether Mr..
| Stuhr was elected to the Senate.
ELEVEN GUILTY CONSEQUENCES
Under oath eleven Republican Sena.
| tors have said that he was. The Demo
cratic party joins issue here and declares
| that the evidence did not ana could not
| form presumption upon which tho ac-