The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-26

and Is Independent IN its vjetps on all
ocal questions.
The Case Against the Republican
Party.
In the campaign which is now near
ing its close a persistent effort has
been made by the Republican party
to befog the real issues OF which the
people are to decide. In New York
the Tammany howl has been raised;
in this State the Newark Board Of
Works is all the cry. The effort of the
wicked and INSCRIPTIONS party,
which holds the destiny of the
try in it's hands through monstrous
frauds, is to divert attention from it's
W villainy. By raising the cry Of
corruption about things altogether
local and petty, it endeavors to escape
the penalty of that broad and far
reaching wickedness which threatens
the prosperity and even the freedom
OF the whole country.
Grant, for the sake of argument,
that Tammany is as bad as the Re-
publican party claims, of how little
consequence to fifty millions Of people
is it when compared with that party,
or rather with the dominant clique in
that party, which killed the right of
free debate in the House of Represen-
tatives, which passed the Mckinley
bill. which tried to pass the Federal
Elections bill, which lavished I'M
counted millions in bounties and sub
sides, which wasted and dissipated
the public treasure without advan-
tage to the people? What is Tam
many in comparison with that dom
inant clique of the Republican party
that allowed John Wanamaker to buy
acabinet Office, that allows him to abuse
that Office for private ends, and to
bring shame on the country in doing
it; that clique that placed Tanner in
control Of the Pension Bureau, and
when the country would no longer
tolerate his reckless criminality, put
in his place, Raum, the vilest and
meanest scoundrel who ever dis
graced an American administration;
the clique that placed Porter at the
head OF the Census with the deliber
ate purpose of stealing representation
from Democratic citizens, and which
backed him up with all its might in
the psrpetration of that crime.
Take the single case of the Chicago
Fair, and all the crimes alleged
against Tammany Hall and all the
crimes alleged by their worst enemies
against all the local politicians in the
State of New Jersey are as a drop Of
water to the ocean in comparison
with it. Here was a huge conspiracy
embracing all the controlling spirits
of the Republican party and having
for its tools the Republican delega-
ton to the Legislature of the State of
New York, and a large portion of the
Republican majority in Congress,
banded to infiict q deadly
wrong on the greatest State
and the greatest city in the
country for daring to be u~nalterably
opposed to the wicked imperialistic
policy OF the conspirators. What does
a little jobbery or a triHing display of
nepotism-assuming such things to
be proven-matter in comparison with
such a crime as this?
And how is jobbery less guilty in
national than in local affairs? Is the
conduct of Benjamin Harrison in fill
ing the governmental offices with his
relatives and those of his wife a great
er or q less outrage on decency, than
the payment of loyal party service in
New Jersey and New York by APP
pointment to public Office of faithful
and capable Democrats, whose con-
victions inspire them to active eff
fort in politics. Can any
thing in the history of New
Jersey or New York politics be found
at all comparable to the land jobbery
in which Mr. Vedder, Mi. Raines, Mr..
Quay, Mr.. Dudley and other distin-
guished Republicans INDUCED when
the fiat went forth that the Fair
should be located in Chicago? Can
anything in New jersey politics be re
called equal in scandalousness to Mr..
Raum's refrigerator deal OF to the