The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-15
The pemocracy,s victory.


will be made by Mayor Cleveland in
the personnel of the Finance Board.
The appointive Commissioners whose
terms expire this month are Mr..
Edelstein and Mr.. Peterson-the latter
filling the unexpired term Of Mr..
Bray. 1t is believed that both gentle
men will be renominated, and thus
the Board will remain unchanged for
another year.
1t may therefore be expected that
the large lots of bonds falling due be-
tween this time and June. 1892, will
be provided for in general after the
same fashion as those refunded last
month. 1t is to be presumed that
Mr.. Allen will again be made Chair
man of the Committee on Finance,
and thus the refunding transa ctions
will come under his direct supervision.
If the spriug brings an improvement
in business and a relief in the tension
Of the money market, doubtless even
better terms will be made for the city
than last months, and we may hope
to see the coming series of bonds
fioated to pay only 4 1-2 per cent. in
terest.
We offer u very hearty congratula-
tions to Mr.. Allen this morning on his
victory. We congratulate the Demo-
cracy, too, on once again securing its
old time majority in Jersey City. We
believe the public may safely be con
graduated too. We are sure Mr.. Al
lens term will show him worthy OF the
confidence displayed in him in his re-
election.
THE smallness of the vote yesterday
is to be deeply regretted. 1t was the
lowest polled in this city for years,
being nearly 5000 lower than in the
Mayoralty election of 1890, and
nearly 10, 900 lower than in the
exciting contest of last fall. 1t
is true there was nothing SEN
sational in this contest to bring
out the vote; but it is none the less re-
grettable that the sense of duty of the
citizens vas not strong enough to
make them come out and cast their
ballots.
One thing is quite evident. The
stay-at-homes were not all of one
party. Indeed the Democrats seem
TO have done worst in this respect,
for while the Fifth and Sixth give
fair to middling returns. the First
and Second are conspicuously low.
There. will certainly be very little
chance found in the figures for ''ex-
planning away" The Republican
party must take the situation as it is.
They are beaten because, normally,
this city is overwhelmingly Demo
cratic.
THE Republican newspapers, led by
the State Gazette, are doing some figuT-
ing to prove that the Congressional
reapportionment, just approved by
Governor Albeit, is q huge Democra-
tic blunder, and that pretty nearly all
the districts will be carried by the Re-
publicans in 1892.
We are sure we are glad our friends
can find some comfort n their own
iInaginations, even in the most I'M
promising situation. We are quite
willing that they should capture the
whole earth and the fullness thereof
lin their minds. But when it comes
to Election Day. we guess they will
have to do some hard scratching to
hold two out of Jerseys eight seats in
the House of Representatives.
THE North Bergen Reformed
Church Chassis is evidently not will
ing TO become an annex of the Repub-
lican machine. DIR. Suydam's New
York Tribune race track resolutions
struck a dead frost, when that some
what unpopular and out of date gem
tleman proposed them. OF course
they were adopted by a perfunetory
vote; but the .'enthusiasm" which
they were to have aroused did not
materialize. Hardly a comment was
uttered. The Chassis just got the sub
ject ont of sight as quickly as posi-
bic, and that ended it.
The 7ribune's campaign shrek has
proven a most dreadful failure. Two
important clerical bodies have met
and adjourned without being cap
tured. The Methodist Conference
and the Chassis alike saw the political
negro in the wood pile, and simply
refused to mix their churches up in
the schemes of offensive partisans.