The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-09

ana is Independent in its viclos on all
local questions.
The Sum and the Speakership.
The New York Sun gave the
Democracy some excellent advice
yesterday. In an ebullition of glee
over the election of Mr.. Crisp to the
Speakership, it said in substance,
Now let us have 20 more Crisp men
or Mills men in the House. Let us
have a United Democratic phalanx
working for victory in the Presi-
Dental elections next year"
The motive specified may not be
high, but the advice is good common
place practical sense, and the Demo
cratic Congressman will do well to
follow it. But is it not worse than
doubtful ii the Sun would have given
it, had MI. Mills secured the victory.
We are inclined to think the Sun
would, in that event, have recon-
mended uncompromising war.
Indeed, it is very far from taking its
OWL duvlCG, ctcl III VIEW Vi DlIC SuC-
cess of Mr.. Crisp. Its three leading
editorials today are devoted to sour
rilous abuse of Mr.. Mills, his adher-
ents, the principles they abide by or
which the Sun thinks they abide by
and of the great party leader whom
Mr.. Mills and his friends are proud to
follow. Comment on the guilt
of the Suns course would
be as useless al unnecessary.
The San is far beyond the reach of
shame, and its reputation for reckless
party treachery has long ago deprived
it of all power for evil. Those who
are influenced by its political counsels
must be already hopelessly depraved.
Those who are not, cannot be affected
by anything it can say.
Disregard of honor is, even on the
surface, the main characteristic of the
Suns political theories. The high
est word of praise it has to say
OF it's hero, MI. Crisp, is this:-
"He would rather succeed than
fall This sententious dictum ir-
resistibly brings to mind another
saying which has become a watch
word in American politics and
American history. In shin
ing contrast with the Suns
fundamental principle of success is
that famous utterance 1T is better to
be right than be President which
has animated generations of our pub
lie men, and which made the exit of
the last Democratic President from
the White House even more honor
able than his entrance into it. >
Disregard of truth seems to be the
second characteristic of the Suns po-
litical code. With an amazing cyni-
cism it twits the Times for telling the
truth in its advocacy of Mr.. Mills. Its
services in defeating Mr.. Mills by
telling the truth, the Sun remarks,
were such as could have been rem
dered only by an exceedingly simple
minded journal" 1t was ''puerile
enough to give away the game" the
San elegantly goes on to say. Plainly,
the Sun believes that anything, even
falsehood, is fair and right in political
war.
1t has the courage indeed to resort
to that weapon itself without stint.
1t proceeds to make a ferocious on
slaught on the gentlemen who sup
ported Mr.. Mills candidacy. 1t calls
them q band of ex-office holders or
ganized by Grover Cleveland to con-
duct his personal fight for the Presi-
dency, and it attributes to them the
lowest of all motives, a desire to get
into Office. themselves.
Once again, we say, comment and
condemnation of such u%tterances as
these would be su~perfuous. If they
were given forth in the heat OF the
contest, even, there might be some
~palliation for them. But their post
mortem inutility deprives them of
even the poor excuse of being said in
considerably in the heat of passion.
They are the cool, deliberate products
Of a mind wherein all the moral facul-
ties and instincts are diseased and
perverted, wherein truth, honor and
faith are dethroned in favor of malice,
greed and perfidy.
WE desire it t. be we'll understood
that none of u remarks are intended
to reflect even remotely on Mr.. Crisp.