The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-27
Huason's Political Crimes
the Coming Issue in
State Politics.
CLEEELAND'S USURPATION
Unless The Democracy Purges It.
self Of the Stain Defeat in
the Fall is Inevitable.
Social o Tie sl.nli1u uolaiag mems.

"a hSt 4oStti pu4ttiCS ID cDuuIeu 10 EleE Ast-
Eitory alone it may as well be abandoned.
Tho airing that Hudson county methods
have had within the last few months has
aroused concern as to their success and
perpetuation Ia all parts Of the State.
The Hadson county influence has been so
potent in the direction Of State affairs
that here i tear in Democratic circles
elsewhere THAT the Democratic party CT
the State may be held responsible for
thems and that the Democratic sins of
Hudson may be visited on the fathers
and sons Of the party in other sections OF
the commonwealth. The Hudson bosses
seemed, during the last session OF the
Legislature. to set themselves up as State
bosses. They NOT only paraded their I'M
holy persons in the presence of all the
people in the halls of legislation as pro-
motors OF the legislation Hudson
ants@ her municipalities needed,
bur when affairs that were of
State wide significance We're under con-
sideretion they were the busiest toaus in
the pool and offended the better sense OF
the outside Democracy by posing as mas
tiers of ceremonies. Nor did they even stop
at interference with matters of interest
local to Hudson or general to all demo-
Gratis. They even went so far as TO
tto5AhfC W QACtttb5 liz pOA1CS I31dL SHOULD
be followed IN the conduct of affairs that
affected only the local interests of other
counties.
ACTION DEMANDED.
1t is pretty hard work to realize how it
it was that the State leaders did not
wave these arrogauG rascals to the rear;
that they never saw that this display of
bumptiousness must nave a preiudicial
influence upon Democratic prospects all
over the State. The general policy of the
New Jersey Democracy was given shape
by some of the legislation of last winter,
and less keen witted gentlemen than
those who are at the helm in State affairs
should have been aole TO have seen the
danger there might be to Democratic pros
poets if the people got the idea into their
heads that the great Democratic party of
the State had committed itself 10 an an
prevail, il not to a general adoption, of the
disgracefuI Hudson county methods
They have had their eyes opened by the
turn public discussion has taken since
the Legislature adjourned. They have
come to realize that unless they are TO be
suspected of being in sympathy with such
methods. and TO be punished because of
the suspicion through the agency of the
next election, they must take steps to in
dictate their disapproyal of the methods
and their contempt for the men who have
employed them, and there are indications
on all sides that by the time the fall cam
raign shall be actively begun the State
aders will take hand in Hudson
county politics hat with satisfy every
body that they are not part and parcel Of
the Hudson county conspiracy. This step
must be taken as Il matter or seif-preser-
walton. Such men as Leon Albeit Allan
AIcDermott and John r. Mcpherson can
not afford to remain idle while reforms
that they alone can successfully accom-
pltsh are 1mperatively demanded by the
honesty and intelligence of their party
followers.
WILL THERE BE ANOTHER CoMNlITTEEs
just how this reform is TO be accom-
| plished no one eau say just now. Some
/ time ago there were suggestions that
perhaps the men who are not in svnlpathv
with the Ring will step into the arena
and command u change in the personnel
Of local leadership. They would demand
tine resignation OF the men on the County
Committee. for instance, who have
brought the party into such horrible dis
repute-so it was said. II that method of
setting their foot upon the scandal did
not succeed, it was limited that perhaps
they might use their influence in estab-
fishing another County Committee repre-
senting the Loyalty, the honor and the
brains of the Democratic party of the
county. It is conceded that the present
machinery Of the party in Hudson repre-
sents neither the loyalty nor the honor
nor the brains OF the party; and it goes
without the saying that new organiza-
ton such as thus proposed would attract
the support of the Democratic masses,
and that it would have little difficulty in
securing recognition as the properly con-
stituted machinery of the party.
Suppose this new movement were to
embrace men of the stamp OF Leon Alb
bett, Edward X. c. Young, Colonel John
|. McAnerny, William Brinkerhof,
Charles H. Winfield and Job II. Lippin-
them, whose names are not just now re-
called. What chance would there be of
the disgraceful crew now in command
holding on to the sceptre of powers
Such a movement would do more than
take in the respectable attachments of
at the New County Committee contingent,
whom the expressions and wickedness of
the Ring drove into open revolt last fall.
1t would make no terms with such self
seeking fellows as "BilI" Keen, .fBili"
Stuhr, tBill' Ranken or Charley"
Noelke: but 1t would hold out induce
nlents TO the crowd they persuaded or
deluded into following them, in the hope
of accomplishing some part at least, of
the reform, every body realized the stu
alton demanded Such movement as
is suggested would purge the party and
consolidate its strength. and so open the
only path to victory that is within its
reach.
The heat of the summer has paralyzed
an effort for the time being. Public men
us all other men, require seasons of rest
from their labors They are taking it
now just wait till they resume work in
the cool days of the early September
Something is going to break, surel
THE CHARTER AN ISSUE
The suppiementing III the spring of the
disgraceful work of last fall, even after
it had been exposed to public view in all
its revolving details, enforces the demand
for purging activity on the part of the
State leaders. Cleyeland's election as
the result of gross frauds; his. defiant
clinging to the position for which the
people Enthusiastically repudiated him:
his cynical boast that the slow machinery
Of the law cannot put an end to his
usurpation before the expiration of the
term he is lawlessiy serving; the wicked
ness OF his administration; the waste of
the public moneys, and his loosening
a pack OF official wolves upon the public
domain, are circumstances whose effect
on general politics the thinking Demo
Gratis of the State cannot deDreciate.
DalIiauce with this crime upon the lib
critics OF the people OF Jersey City must
lead to dlstrust Of the patriotism and
honest decency Of the Democracy party in
other sections OF the State. Nothing but
the want of opportunity, the skepuics say.
will preveat q party that will permit or
f-,J1 VI ten ;. f1(.a eucn an outrage in drla