The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-09
For Senator, Leon Albeit.

year to serve the public in the field of
National politics as United States
Senator from New Jersey. His cleo
ton to that office is now a certainty
and vet it is curious to think that he
may not take the seat to which he
will be chosen. There is at least an
ever chance that he will be invited by
President Cleveland to take a port
folio in the Cabinet.
In either capacity he will do the
same splendid services to the people
that he has in all the high trusts that
New Jersey has imposed upon him.
He will do honor to his State and his
party and will aid in perpetuating
the reign of liberty and Democratic
principle which was inaugurated last
night by the emphatic mandate of
the people.
1t is plain that the people of the
United States are not tired of the
republican form of Government. They
are not tired Of the Federal system.
They do not desire to establish a die
tatorship, a despotism, an oligarchy,
a plutocracy, an aristocracy, or any
form of government except that which
they inherited from the fathers of the
country. This is the meaning of yes
] terday's election.
All sorts of people are prepared to-
day with all sorts of explanations of
llathe triumph of Mr.. Cleveland and the
e. democracy, and the downfall of Mr..
Harrison @RWp1e crew of subversion-
lists who have recently been in control
of the Republican party. There is the
snarling old Major who can see
nothing but the work of corrup-
ton in the defeat of the ideas
which he chooses to espouse. There
is the free trader who says that
the Mckinley bill did it. There
is the Union printer who thinks that
the $4,000 members of the Topographic
cal unions of the United States did it.
There is the shrewd and observant
man who thinks that John |, Daven-
port did it. There is the honest work
ingman who thinks that Homestead
was the centre about which the entire
contest revolyed.
All these theories, save and ex-
cept that of the snarling Major, are
in a large degree true, but behind and
beneath them all-rather we might
say forming part and parcel of them
all-is the revolt of the popular mind
against the tendency of the Republi-
can party toward what its seers and
prophets call ''strong government"
which really mean in plain English,
a drift toward the rulership of the few
and the political bondage of what GER
tain people are pleased to term the
slower classes"
The Republican party has become
of late years a party of class and of a
class. 1t has held out to the gilded
youth of the country the bauble of
ascendency which some of the more
unthinking and the less patriotic
have been hasty to grasp at. 1t has
held out to those who have secured
the superlative power of wealth
through the peculiar happy condi-
tions which the country has afforded
during the last decade a prospect of
lasting supremacy which they in their
selfish greed have rushed to realize.
The question solved in Yesterdays
election was whether these two ele-
ments, together with such dupes as
they had been able to draw to their
standards, had grown to a ma
jority among the people and Sc
cured a preponderance of political
control The answer happily is that
woeful day for American liberty has
rot yet arrived. The spirit Of Wash
ington. Franklin, Jefferson, Adams
and the other heroes of the revolu-
tionary epoch is still alive, and with
it the republic continues to breathe
and live.
FREE Trade wins a great vic
tory"