The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-15
Democracy and Mugwumpery.


The Newark Press thus absurdly
discourseth:-
OF all independent Democratic newspapers
THE JERSEY Cry NEWS poses as the foremost in
feariessnessa and righteousness. 1t pommels the
Mayor, or alleged Mayor, Cleveland, without
mercy and cries out against anyone who shows
him the least favor. OF course Cleveland de-
serves nothing at the hands of virtuous men.
But the condemnation Of the newspapers and
public gatherings at Jersey City have had no
perceptible effect on the sanity Mayor. indie
pendence counts for very little at Jersey City
Cleveland is the Democratic Mayor and the de-
mocracy will stand by him, be his character
black or white. The NEWS should turn mug
wump. repudiate the party, and it's attempts at
independence would seem less ~farcical.
No, neighbor, there is nothing mug
wumpian about us. We are straight
out Democratic.
The mistake of your narrow
craftsmanship is that you cannot real
ize the idea of reform within party
lines. Your own party is SO hope
lessly rotten, the leaders of it are so
hopelessly corrupt, that the notion of
amendment has no place in your
mind. Now the Democracy is a party
founded on eternal principles of right.
Its leaders in this and other states are
among the most enlightened and pub
lie spirited men of the country. The
aim of the party today, as it always
was, is the assertion of the rights of
the people, of the great majority,
against the schemes and the attacks
of the few.
But because we adhere to the prin-
ciples stated by Thomas Jefferson,
and upheld by a long succession of
statesmen, because we are proud to be
the followers of Grover Cleveland, of
Thomas G.. Carlisle, of Leon Albeit,
of John r. Mcpherson, it does not
follow that we are in sympathy or
alliance with mike" O'Mara, and
Family Rum Seller Norton, and the
Fraud Mayor, and the other
scoundrels and toughs, who, for the
moment have control Of the local
machinery of the party.
The Press speaks of us as posing as
fearless and righteous beyond other
papers. This pains us a little. What
we seem to be, we are. W. do not in
dulge in posing. We believe in party
supremacy, and the proper use of
public patronage for party ends, al
ways on the understanding hat the
good of the Democracy is the good of
the people. But when the public in
terests are s~ubordinated to the greed
whether of money or power-of a
boss or a ring, then we revolt, and
the boss or the ring becomes more our
enemy than even the Republican
party. That is about the measure of
our Righteousness.
AS for our fearlessness-well, we
leave it to the Press to tell us whom
we seem to be afraid of.
ARats" Knocked Out by Boston
Beans.
The echoes of His Fraudulency's
Boston speech have not yet reached
us. They are probably coming back
packed in His Fraudulency's gripsack
and will first see the light of day in
the columns of the Ring organs. In
the meantime His Fraudulency seems
to have been completely overlooked
by the newspapers. No mention of
him a be found in any of them.
Nothing but a sudden attack of
modesty II summer complaint could
have kept RATS away from the
newspaper correspondents, and as he
al never known to be afflicted
with the former, the conclusion is in
evitable that Boston beans and water
did not agree with him. 1t must be
hard lines to have ones head throb
with great thoughts and a war record
while ones stomach pains with the