The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-10-30
The Democracy ArraIgned.

IEe Republican STATE Committee Las
prepared AID zs1ed : long sszs=usEt SCI
t5Bg fo.tb ire oatrzges committed D. tie
Democrats ring .. TIE State CAPITA, and
severely zrrzigDiIg tie Uuserupalous poll
tlciaDs sEo have seized upon tie State
Government and assd Is machinery for
tie benefit 9f : fes individuals. The
s4tsmentis addressed to the voters ofNex
Jzrsey. From i tie f5lIosiD log extracts
are made:
Tie a~uscruPui5us rig no~ II control Of
tse STATE government IS pa.Euing : course
rev % tAe experiences Of CIR people. vio-
lztiYe Of established and tims-h9porsd Gus
ton,, zabversirs Of the principles Of repre-
sentative government. contrary . tAe
spirit aud genius Of orr Constitution and
dangerous 70 the rights AID Liberties Of =
free people. Like > gigantic and r~apAcious
political octopus, with head aud body in
the Executive Chamber, is arrDs extending
70 eyery par Of the State. and IS tentaeles
fastened upon every source Of public
emolument, this oligarchg holds NeE JeF-
ssy within Ks grasp, and gorgss Itself upon
the public substance. Jerseymen are con-
frouted with the alarming spectacle Of the
entire government Of their STATE, and those
Of several great municipalities. erected
into a huge machine for the promotion Of
the selfish ambition Of . single man.
The functions oftbe legislature asa law
making body, have disappeared. Bills are
devised and drawn il the Executive Cham
her and sent 10 the Legislature, with orders
that they shall be passed. Bills introduced
By members Of the Legislature are sub
mitted to the supreme authority before
action Is taken upon them, and they are
amended. rejected Or passed. in accordance
with the Executive orde-.
In the puFsui: Of lis selfish ambition. the
Governor has even trampled upon tie safe
guards thrown By the Constitution aud tie
laws areuud the choice Of members Of tie
Legislature. IL 1856, when midnight bur
glars r.fed q ballot-box in Camden county
and substituted bogus ballots . reverse
the will Of the people, tie House Of Assem-
big, At the orders Of the dictator, endorsed
the fraud, il the face OF tie most positive
evidence Of the commission Of a great poll
tical crime. IN the game year. in Mercer
county, when the Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court, after a patient examin4-
ton, had declared that an election lad
resulted In a tie, the sabserEient Assembly,
under Executive orders, reversed the
judgment Of the Democratic Chief JUS
tice. and seated the Democratic claimant.
who o5sdieutly occupied the seat during
the session Of 1887, in spite Of the fact that
he bad never been elected. Ia 1890, after
a long and careful investigation. Il was
found that, through stupendous and uu-
heard OF frauds, which have now become
historic, Edward F. McDonald WAS de-
clared Senator from Hudson county, when
William s. Stuhr had been duly elected TO
the office. Mr. Stuhr was seated, but il
the following year, there being a Dem
ocratic majority il the Senate, the order
was given from the Executive Chamber to
unseat Stuhr and Teseat Mcdonald, and
like ali the orders Of the master TO the
henchmen, this was promptly and implicit
~ obeyed. In 1890, the Democratic
party 10 Somerset county nominated aud
elected as Senator. William ]. Keys, who
under tie Constitution, was Ineligible TO
the Office, but the subservient majority,
while freely admitting his iaeiigibility ser
yilely followed the Executive dictation,
n 10 arrogant defiance Of the law. the
Constitution and common deeeney, foisted
the Ineligible Keys upon the people as a
Senator from New jersey. Two Senators
(Marsh, Of Union, and Adrain, OF Middle
seq have, during their term Of office, been
appointed to other offices, Notwithstanding
the plain constitutions provision that a
Senator shall hold no other State office.
One Of these (Adrain Of Middlesex) is now
a candidate for reelection, aud should he
and Hudspeth, in Hudson, be successful,
there will be In the next Senate, four so
called Senators Marsh, AdraiD, Keys and
Hudspetb) who will have no lawful right
to be there, and who will only sit there
because of the slayish obedience Of the
majority to the commands Of the ambitions
and inscriptions dictator.
Ia the exercise of their functions as la "