The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-10

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The editorial in this mornings
State Gazette, which we print in an
adjacent column, is evidently inspired
by the powers that be. Hence its i'm
portance as showing the determine
tion of the present Republican bosses
to remain in control of the party to
the bitter end. They have no denials to
make to the charges of mismanage-
ment and cowardice. Their organ
freely acknowledges that their
methods and campaign flags" have
not been what they ought to be. But
there is tschnicality enough to hold
on by. and a technicality is all a
Republican boss wants to hold n to
the throat OF his party or of the pub
lie money bags, OF anything else he
can get hold of. He is of the bulldog
breed Give him a grip and you "a
trust him to stick.
But we wonder how the rest Of the
party viii like this way of keeping
control. The EUening Journal I'M
questionably voices the sentiment of
a very large section of New Jersey
Republicans. They are disguised not
so much with defeat, for the more
sensible recognize that that could not
be averted, but with the trimming
and scheming and Office grabbing
which have marked the urse OF the
party leaders, and the cowardice and
pusiIlanimity which they have dis
played in their public declarations.
Besides, the Blaine-Harrison rivalry
Is very virulent just now in this State.
The general disgust which the Presi-
dent and his cabal inspire has created
leader, who, even if he is a bad man.
is at least a strong and an able one.
The microscopic character of Mr.. Har-
rison's Ideas and the vulgar scoundrel-
ism Of his special supporters have
made the notion Of his denomination
repuanant in the last degree. The
struggle in this State is plainly set
Ting down to a contest between what
ever Of honesty and robustness re-
mains in the Republican party and
the corrupt and selfish influences of
Federal patronage.
In such a struggle the machine
backed by the government is pretty
sure to win. 1t is not possible for in
dependent men to overthrow the or
ganization which controls all the pap,
and the establishment of a rival or
ganization Is not on their programme,
nor could such a move be considered
good politics. So far as we can see.
the only curse the better Republican
element can pursue will be to with
hold all support from the machine
and leave 1t to a repetition Of the de
feats of recent years.
View it as we will, we cannot see
any very clear prospects ahead for
the Republican party in New Jersey.
II a reorganization should be effected,
it is certain that the present leaders,
holding on to the Federal loaves and
fishes, and mastering such personal
strength as they could, would be
bound to secure for the new regime
- crushing defeats as they had
themselves undergone. On the
other hand, if the present faction
continues to keep the upper
hand, there is every prospect that the
discontented element will industri-
ously plan new disasters for it. With
the Presidential and Gubernatorial
elections beginning to loom up in the
political perspective, the prospects,
that the internal state Of the Repub-
lican party holds out, are very cheer
full indeed for democrats to contem-
plafa