The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-06
The Carnegie Wharf.-The Republican
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local questions.
The Carnegie Wharf.-The Republican
Party Versus the People.
The responsibility for an awful
tragedy rests today upon the Repub-
lican party. Many men lie dead about
the Carnegie iron works at Home
stead, and their blood is upon those
who have made monopoly and indus
trial tyranny the goal of their politi-
cal efforts.
1t is not far fetched to place the
blame of this slaughter upon the Re-
publican party. 1t is that party
which has SO surrounded the business
of the Carnegies with protection. that
it finds itself in a position to begin the
fight to crush the laboring element of
the community. The men who are
heading this subversive movement
against the working men of the
country are the chief apostles of Re-
publicanism, they are the men who.
year after year, have deceived the
workfngmen into rivetting the chains
of monopolistic tyranny upon their
own necks.
1t is too late now to disclaim party
responsibility for this struggle. Mr..
Carnegie and his fellow iron masters
have started out to crush labor union
ism among their men, and the party
which has lived on the money OF
these iron masters and on the votes
which they have brought to it by CO.
ercion and persuasion, must now as
sumo the responsibility for their
latest acts.
The Carnegie war is the fight of
the Republican party against the
people.
the National Guard.
Tomorrow evening a meeting of the
field officers of the First Brigade will
be held in Newark to elect a Brigadier
General. The outlook is that there
will be two candidates and only two,
Colonel Campbell of Newark and
Colonel Wanser of Jersey City.
Nobody Seems to know exactly
whether either has a certain majority
of the votes. When the Republican
clique played its snap game in the
regimental election in Hoboken, it
was thought the operation had Sc
cured a majority for Colonel Wanser.
This has since been disputed, and
that somewhat INSCRIPTIONS party
organ, the Newark Ad0ertiser,, sheer
ingly remarked a few days ago that
the issue of orders for an election was
proof that Colonel Campbell was GER
tain of victory.
Now there has been a great deal of
talk, on the Republican side, of politi-
cal influences and purposes in this
election. IT sworth while to glance
at the facts. Colonel Campbell is a
Democrat, and Colonel Wanser is a
Republican. But if there is any politi-
cal Significance in their rivalry, it is
unquestionably caused by Colonel
Wanser's personality. Colonel Camp
bell is not a politician. He is not in
politics in any sense. He is not an
oMceholder. an ex-oficeholder, or a
candidate for political Office, past,
present or prospective. He is not a
party worker, nor ever a party talker.
His Democracy has no more to do with
his position in the National Guard
than his religion or his taste in music,
or the cut of his hair.
With Colonel Wanser, it is very
different. He is, was and always will
be, an active, aggressive partisan, a
bitter critic of the party he opposes,
and an eager propagandist for his
own. Under his Colonelcy, the
Fourth Regimentsof this city became
a strong Republican campaign club,
and he neve failed to work it for all
it was worth in his various campaigns
for Office. The viruleney of the par
tisanship of the Regiment under his
command, could not be more conclu-
siveiy proven than it was in that
shameful Hoboken election, wherein
the job was put. up to elect the Col
onel General 1t appears to us that
the election Of Colonel Wanser to the
command of the Brigade can have no
other result than the conversion of
the National Guard into a huge po-
litical organization, an annex to the
State Republican machine.
There is another aspect of the