The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-22
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"The Echoes and the Babies" Size
Up Mr.. McDermott and Colonel
Wanser.

A reporter for a morning newspaper
had a talk with Assistant Prosecutor
Joseph M. Noonan Saturday on the
Mayoralt5 campaign. Mr.. Noouan was,
as usual, amusing. He said:-"I have
known both mem" (Mr. McDermott and
Colonel Wanser) quite intimately for
twenty years. / have always been n
am still on the most friendly terms with
Mr.. Wanser. He is a jolly. good-hearted.
well-meaning gentleman, but is no more
qualified to be Mayor of this town at this
i~uncture thar if he had just arrived
here for the first time from Alaska.
You ear readily understand tnat
it is no reproach to a man that he
is not qualified to be Mayor of Jersey
City. No man need feel hurt at being told
that he isn't built for that kind OF a job.
Because it is a job that calls for special
and quite exceptional qualifications Tor us
successful performance. You CANNOT
make Mayors out OF people That were IN
makes a very good colonel. probably a
much better colonel than McDermott
would make although / am certain That
McDermotJ would make a much better
general than Wanser, for the same reason
that / think he would make u Detter
Mayor thar Wanser.
.rhere are some places in life that call
for the exercise of higher gifts than mere
AVAILABILITY or a faculty for having fun
with the boys. The office of Mayor of
Jersey City is such a place. Mr. Wanser
has no special equipment for 1t. II he were
elected he would inevitably yleio 10 Tue
pressure tha would be brought to bear
upon him by a ravenous crew of Republic
can spoilsmen, whose only purpose would
be to enjoy the loaves aud fishes of pat
rouage from which they have been 80 long
excluded. No one who knows easy-going
Farmer Wanser can by any effect OF
imagination fancy himself standing up
resolutely against the Huns and vandals
of his party. He would ne a mere cipher
in their hands, a sort of janitor of the City
Hall.
THEY DON'T BELIEVE 1T THEMSELVES.
at is ~laughable to hear such men as
Gilbert Collins and Fiavel MCGEE trying
to make people believe that they really
think Wanser would make u better Mayor
than McDermott. OF course neither Col
Inns nor MCGEE thinks anything OF the
sort. Each of them may think that SO
far as he is concerned the election OF
Wanser would be a good thing, for III the
event one or both of them would probably
capture an office. III they can't expect
sane people to take any stock in these
Wanserian ~rhapsOdies.
Indeed the eloquence of the Republi-
can party in this campaign. HI exhibited
in McGee's address 60 the convention. the
reSOlublOuS duOpbCo oy hA1 CooJ ~
John A. Blair's plaintive appeal. is char
acterized chiefly If not solely by what has
been we'll termed the melancholy mad
ness of poetry without the inspiration.
f"Mr. MCGEE in his speech charged that
Mr.. McDermott has appeared ut all times
as couuse for the ballot-boX suffers and
now more recently for the Gutenberg
Association and those arrested there.
Now, the plain truth is that Mr.. McDer-
mott has never at any time appeared or
acted as counsel for the ballot-boX stuff
fers or any of them, or for any Of the men
arrested at Gutenberg. What, then, can
be thought of Mr.. MCGEE? WHAT excuse
can his paragon OF responsibility offer
for this bearing false witness against his
neighbor? Evidently it would not be I'M
fair to conclude that this gentleman does
not know what he is talking about. 1t
certainly would be distressing to think
that he would be guilty of Intentional
Misrepresentation. But all this abuse of
Mr.. McDermott serves only to show the
desperate weakness of the eneiny.
HIGH AUTHORITY.
''That sturdy and sagacious Republic
can, Major Pan2born, editor of the Jour
nal, practically CAV up the fight when
he warned bis party that no Republican
candidate could be elected, and chat the
only hope of defeating the DEMOCRATIC
candidate lay In an INDEPENDENT cltlzeus'
movement Now, however, that he Is ex-
pected to go through the motiOas Ut sup
porting Wanser, he is doing the best he
eau in that direction by devoting the first