The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-13
FOR GENERALIZATION.
The Local Republican Conventions
This Month, Shows the General
Party Tendency.

That continually increasing des ire to
centraIize and monopolize in the Repub-
licRn party requires no better Illustration
than the proclamation that party In
this county has just issued. 1t is a call
for The election of delegates to Repun.
lican Constitutional Convention to be
held at Woods Hall on September 20 at
three O'Clock.
To hold constitutional convention is
the right OF every public body, but the
purpose for which it is held is BY no
means always a desirable Que. So 1t Is in
this case. The published advertise ment
says the convention is ito establish rules
which will govern party affairs in the
various Subdivisions of the county. maxi
ing it obligatory upon nominating con-
ventions in county, city, district. town
and townships to place in nOmlnatioA
Republican candidates."
In other words, ii a manis Republic
can he must exercise no Judgment ia his
selection OF men to govern, except the
Judgment of the County Committee of
Inat party. A Republican IN excellent
standing with he party said 10 me last
night:-"1his thing won't do II is go-
ing too fnr. The man IS a fool who be-
lieyes that party discipline, must
De enforced With I1EDE 10 e4eES ~ pS4La
keeper or road master in little coun-
try town. That is what the leaders of our
party mean by saying they want TO es-
tablish rules which will govern party az
fairs.
IRON HANDED RULES.
1T is proposed by the Executive Com
mittee to rule this county With an iron
| hand. This city il completely In their
grip. The members OF the City Commit
| tee are ALSO members Of the County Com
mittee, aud "a a matter Of course the
City Committee never antagonizes the
other parts OF the county it has
always been simple case OF
local government. In the past
II bad man has been
a candidate for a Republican nomination
and he has been opposed by good DEM
can conventions has frequently ignored
the Republican aud endorsed the Demo-
GRAFT This was done last spring in Ho-
boken when o majority of independent
Republicans, in convention. publicly en-
dorsed the Democratic candidate tor
Mayor. No Republican will vote for
Democrat If his party places in nomina-
tion an equally good candidate, but it is
only fair TO delegate that he should not
endorse man Wnom he believes to be
unfit to represent his party. This con-
vention means that delegate elected by
Republicans to represent them will only
represent the three or four men who con-
troll the machinery OF that party. IL is a
pure case OF GENERALIZATION of power and
n monopoly over the Offices to be filed.
Let this convention adopt the proposed
rules and three or four men VIII own The
Republican party in this county, and
every one knows how.distasteful bossism
is
THE NEW ORGAN.
To carry out the plan OF centralizatiou,
the Republicans seriously propose, as THE
NEWS said yesterday. to establish an or
gan. This paper will be controlled by
the diclators in the County Committee,
and will be devoted to whipping indepen-
dents into line. The leaders believe that
an out aud otlt organ will aid them
greatly in keeping conJrol OF the party,
and if they can raise the necessary cash
the paper will be started.
The fear and trembling caused by the
Constitutional Convention has proven ted
those anxious to become Republican cam
didates this fall from declaring them
selves. There rs positively no one yet
suggested as a candidate for State Sen
atOr. Surrogate or Directorate Large.
Perhaps the utter uselessness in hoping
to be elected to these offices has had con-
siderable to do with the apparent apathy
of ambitious Republicans.
The same thing may be said of all the
Assembly districts but two. They are
the new Second and the Tenth. The Second
is overwhelmingly Republican and will
probably return j. Herbert Potts. The
Tenth district has Democratic majority
of about 300. Republicans are endeayor-
ing to persuade Billy Let's TO be candi-
date there, for it Is claimed he is the
strongest Republican i'll the new district.
Director Large A, N. Bruggemann
has evidently been alarmed at the pre-
diction in The NEWS severa. days ago
that he would not be renominated, for
he has sent circular letters to each mem
Der of the Democratic County Committee
asking, yen begging. them to support him
for second term. His pilifuL plea has
afforded much fun aud many jokes
among the committeeman. In his letter
he eudeavors to show how much benefit
he has been to his party, but the effort is
failure. Everyone knows his demo-
gogic attitude on the Park question. and
they also know that he had his head so
sssweiledH with his own Importance that
he had bill introduced IN the Legisla-
ture giving the next sDirector-at-Larg
veto power. Bruggemaun at the time he
did this expected he would have sec
ond term and the manipulation OF the
veto power for good or evil.