The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-23
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER %. 1891.
This paper is democratic In principles
and is Independent IN its Vietos on all
local questions.
The Louisiana MIDDLE.

The Louisiana Middle.
The Republican party i'm Louisiana
seems to have killed two birds with
n stone. The cobble that was to
bring down the Democratic goose also
prepared the Republican gander for a
dressing OF sage and onions.
When the Republican party
first began it's fight against
the Louisiana lottery, and used
all the Federal appliances at it's com-
mand to ensure success, its action was
inexplicable to those who knew the
situation because the Louisiana lottery
was prominently a Republican in
stitution. Perhaps some of the gen.
tlemen who engineered the fight did
not know this, but it hardly seems
possible that they could have been
ignorant Of the fact seeing that the
lottery managers were prominent in
the party, one of them having been
Chairman of the Republican State
Committee. while nearly all of them
were prominent in the party coun-
ellis.
OF course no one gave the G. o. P.
credit for being honestly opposed to
the Louisiana lottery as a fraud, and
it soon became apparent that the
movement had for it's object the di-
vision of the Democratic party upon
the lottery issue. So far it must be
admitted that the movement was a
success. But in splitting the Demo-
cratic party the Republican party has
also split itself on precisely the same
issue.
There will be two full Democratic
tickets in the feld-and two full Re-
publican tickets to oppose them.
That either wing of either party can
secure a majority under the circum-
stances is highly improbable and the
chances are that the lottery men, ig-
noring politics altogether, will make
up o combination that will defeat the
anti-lottery men unless they fuse up
on the same basis.
Altogether the Harrison Republi-
cans have the worst of the situation.
They have antagonized the lottery
element OF their own party upon the
only matter that that wing had any
interest in, and the dissatisfaction will
bear fruit next year when the party
will have most need for harmony.
The defeat of the lottery, if accom-
plished, will only emphasize the bit
terness,
Still, it will teach the G.. o. p. a
lesson-never try to be good. That u
party that so long has pursued the
ways Of corruption and fraud should
at last choke to death in trying not to
swallow a lottery is indeed a marvel.
The Pathetic Side of Christina as.
Christmas is generally pictured as a
seaso of joy and good tidings. But
unfortunately the great festival has
its pathetic side. This is sufficiently
indicated by the numerous epistles
mailed at the post offices of the coun-
try, q particularly in the great city
of New York, directed to Santa Claus.
in which the little writer's tell their
patron what they want for Christ
mas.
We can conceive of nothing more
pathetic than this. These little
children, in the plenitude of their
faith, appeal to Santa Claus to send
them the toys SO dear to the childish
heart, that they know they are not
likely to get unless Santa Claus brings
or sends them to the poverty stricken
homes they occupy. To them Santa
Claus is a reality. What a pity it is
that the Illusion must be rudely shat
tered. 1t is sad when a man IN
thus to grief, but in the case of a
child it is truly pitable.
II some one of the wealthy men in
each city would ask the postmaster to
send all such letters to him and then
see to it that Santa Claus responded to
the Christmas appeals, his Christmas
Eve dreams should be the happiest of
the year. But the men of wealth. will
in most.cases be the last ones to think
Of such things. The men who do
think of them are not likely to be-
come Of men of wealth. 1t is in the