The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-13

We are permitted to make the following
extract from a private letter written By a
Republican voter OF this county in reference
to the late election:
sit is a source of joy to ne to know the
annual election is now over. We have
cared for our wounded, buried our dead,
politically speaking, accepted our defeat as
best we can and settled down to business
again. Surely, We Republicans were
S'knocked OUT this time. The causes that
home-ativeness on the part of Republican
voters, Democratic doodle" among the
'scoons, " and free run with the 'foater."
The issues involved were rum against tenn
perance, "Billy" Thompson and the Glou-
cester race track against honesty in places
of trust, the devil against state morals, and
rum. BILLY" Thompson anG the devil won.
The victory was a triumph of the basest
appetites and passions that sway the ac-
lions of men, and an acknowledgment on
the part of the maj ority that the interests
OF the saloon are paramount to the Interests
of society, the church and the home. 1t
was a tangible demonstration Of The fact
that the rum power has become the soul
and brain of the Democratic party in this
state. When think OF the odious excise
law, the child of the Democratic legisla-
ture of last winter. of the debauchery,
prostitution aud k~navery of Gloucester in
open defiance of law, of the subserviency
of our Courts of justice to the rum octopus
that shields within its embrace crime that
has rum back of it, and OF the fact that a
majority of the citizens Of my native state
give c%ountenance and sanction to it all. my
pride as a Jerseyman goes out in eclipse
We are not talking politics now-election
is over and We are done with it, at least for
this year-but we want to ask our readers
what they think Of his item of political
news from the republican mouth piece Of
the party in regard to the corrupt use Of
the public money paid il by all the people
of the state OF New Jersey and the cor
rupting influence exercised thereby over
the press OF the State, 1t says:
The press of the State, the boosted pal
ladium of our liberty, has been reduced to
a position OF seryile dependency. The
designation of the newspapers to publish
the session laws was formerly made by the
Governor and Comptroller. This was de-
signed to and did secure a fair and equal
selection of the representative party news
papers. But the ring Legislature Of 1889
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TO the board with the sole object of turn
ing it into a partisan machine. The power
thus secured has been ruthlessly used. The
board is this year solidly Democratic, and
the Governor has dominated its councils
with unqUestioned absolutism. Both the
Comptroller and Secretary of State are his
appoIntees, and both yield without ques-
tion to the merest hint of his W ishes in the
designation OF the official newspapers.
This is a tremendous weapon placed IN the
hand of the Governor, ard he has used it
without conjunction. The $50, GOO a year
which this service costs 1888, 1850 in
1889, is practically p%rostituted under this
system from its purpose of giving the peO-
pie early information, through the most
widely circulated journals, of the laws
enacted each year, into a huge fund for
suborning or gagging these great engines
Vi puOilC OpliiOn. IL IS designed &Ld
used to put the ring collar about the neck
of every editor who receives this patronage.
1t is the most dangerous and high-handed
invasion Of the rights of the people Of New
Jersey that partisan audacity aud reckless
ambition has ever attempted. With a few
notable and honorable exceptions it closes
the mouth of the sentinels upon the watch
towers Of liberty, and makes them dumb
to the grossts invasion Of the public
rights.
Another Hebrew settlement.
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