The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-01

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the same spirit which animated
Thomas b. Reed of Maine in his
career as speaker of the House of
Representatives, which caused the
Republican majority in that body to
expel. one after another, Democratic
members, honestly and fairly elected.
1t was this tendency in the Republic
can party which caused the faDrica-
tion of the Federal Election Bill
bristling with armed coercion. 1t
was this tendency that led to the
abominable outrage on the elective
franchise and on the Constitu-
ton perpetrated by Robert P. Porter
under dictation of the Republican
leaders, an outrage by which tens OF
thousands of Democratic voters are
practically disfranchised by be-
ing robbed of their Constitu-
tional representation. This was
the same tendency exhibited in
this State in the u~nseating of Senator
Mcdonald and the substitution of
the infamous fraud Stuhr, for the
chosen representative of Hudson
county-an offence against law and
justice, SO rank that even the Repub-
licans themselves have publicly re-
canted and begged the people to for
get it.
1t seems to us that the Republican
party is steadily moving on towards
one goal, and that is the overthrow in
fact, if not in name, of the Constitu-
ton and of popular liberty, They are
working out the idea of Alex
ander Hamilton, their founder
and tutelary genius. They
are laboring for the establishment
of ar~istocratic rule,-the rule Of a class
over the great body of the people. If
they are not consciously aiming at
this-and we believe some OF them
are-they are blindly drifting to it.
Every important act which as a
party they are responsible for in
the last ten years, is a step, great or
small, in that direction. Blainism,
Reedism, McKinleyism. Plattism,
Sewellism-they are all varying
phases of one great party tendency.
For our part, we should be content
to make the fight OF that issue alone.
We believe that more than anything
else, it Is important to keep it before
the American people. and, we believe,
if the people set the true estimate on
the movement, they would rise up in
their might and annihilate the party
that threatened their institutions.
That is the reason why we would
like to see the people look beyond all
local and minor considerations in this
and every other legislative cam
paign until our National poll
tics are made safer. This is
the reason why we consider 1t la
mentable that any citizens, who loves
liberty and the Federal system as laid
down in the Constitution should vote
| for a Republican to make laws for us.
Republicanism is the national peril.
1t is the duty of every one to aid in
crushing it.
THE Newark Ad0ertiser last even
ing resorted to the execrable mean
ness of urging Cleveland democrats to
help defeat the party this year on the
ground that by injuring Governor
Albeit they would help the ex-Presi-
dents chances OF denomination.
This paper is capable of urging the
Albeit Democrats next year to get
square with Cleveland I'm case of his
nomination.
The Advertiser is true blue Repub-
lican-no conscience, no princi-
pie; anything to win.
But there a never be any advan-
tage to Democracy in the defeat of
the party where party principle is in
volved. What would Grover Cleve-
land say if the Adoertise,'s
proposition were laid before
him. He would scorn it. He
would say, Better a thousand
times, | never again emerged from
the retirement of private life, than
that the principles and leaders of
the Democratic party should be be-
trayed.