The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1892-05-03

n htDuDllCdu COuRIC66 HAS hCPb ehO
promise of the Republican party to re-
wise the tariff in the interest of Amerl-
can industries, American wages and
American homes, and it has furnished to
the country an example of what cour-
ageous and patriotic party majority
should be and do. With industry, fair
ness and the highest craftsmanship it has
dealt with the great questions of tariff
and currency, it has provided for the re-
building of our navy, and in appropria-
tons of money it has maintained happy
mean between extravaganza and parsl-
mony. In marked contrast to its mag
nifcent record of great things done is the
cowardice and duplicity with which the
present Democratic house of representa-
tives is treating the great questions which
engross the attention and affect the in
terests of the people.
We declare our constant and abiding
faith in the wisdom and benifcence OF
the protective tariff system. We believe
the tariff act known as the Mckinley bill,
in spite of misrepresentation of foreign
manufacturers and free trade doctrin-
aires, is approved and will be sustained
by the calm Judgment of the American
people. Under its operation our foreign
commerce has risen in the year just closed
two thousand millions of dollars an in
crease of one hundred and seventy mil
lions beyond the highest point heretofore
reached, notwithstanding the fact that
the protection given by it to agricultural
products has resulted in a largely de-
creased importation of such products and
a corresponding benefit to our agricultur-
al classes. The great manufacturing in
dustries which add to the resources of our
state, and annually distribute millions OF
dollars in wages to our people, are the
splendid product of the protective sys-
tenn and must not be sacrificed to the
clamor of the American free trader, or
the interests of the foreign manufacturer.
We are uncompromisingly opposed to
any and all attempts to debase the ma
tiona1 currency. We stand with Presi-
dent Harrison and the Republican party
in firm and unyielding opposition to the
free coinage of 70-cent silver dollar.
We want no silver dollar that is not
equal here and everywhere to any other
dollar
We denounce the present regime of
Democratic despotism In this state. Un-
der the rule of an ambitious and unscrup-
ulous governor, surrounded and aided by
a coterie of professional lobbyists, every
branch of the state government has been
transformed into an instrument for the
support and perpetuation of selfish and
arrogant political ring; the legislature
has surrendered its constitutional func-
tons; laws have been passed in utter
disregard of the public good and in vio-
lation of every principle of home rule
and local self-government; taxes have
been increased Offices have been multi
piled public salaries have been raised !;
useless and expensive boards have been
created; the annual expenses of the
state have been enormously increased !;
judicial and executive officers have been
legislated out of Office before the expira-
ton of their terms to make room for
subservient partisans; charitable and
educational institutions have been put
under the management of partisan
boards, and are controlled for unworthy
partisan purposes the purity of the bal
lot (the mainstay and safeguard of the
republic) has been openly and shameless
ly outraged in the interests of an unsav-
DRY partisanship, and notorious and con-
victed "ballot box suffers" have been re-
warded with public Office. We appeal to
the people to bear witness that though
publicly pretending to stand as the foe
of corporations, trusts and monopolies,
the Democratic legislature has been the
ready and subservient instrument of cor
porate schemes of the most objectlona-
BILE and pernicious kind. Every promise
made by or in the name of the present
governor, whether for the relief of the
wage-worker, the farmer or the manufac-
turer, has been broken, and the leeisla-
ture, under the dictation of the governor
and the Democratic state committee, has
astonished and scandalized the whole
state by passing bill to legalize a COM
bination of corporations to control the
price of coal, one of the chief necessaries
Of life, and this has been done under
so disgraceful as to make
the very name of the New Jersey legis-
lature an object of public scorn. We do
not charge these offenses against all the
Democrats of the state, but we maintain
that the ring which now dominates and
controls that party in this state is the or
ganized ally of law-breakers the pro-
moter and defender of crimes against the
ballot box, and the maintainer and de-
fender of system of public plumber, 80
vast and notorious that political revo-
luton is needed to drive them from
power.
We congratulate the honest voters of
all parties in Jersey City upon the SPLEEN
did success of their recent great effort to
crush the combination of political crimi-
nails who, by their outrages upon the bal
lot, had practically abolished the suffrage
in that city, and in place of honest mu-
nicipal government had successfully es-
tablisbed an organized system Of public
We call upon the lovers of good and
honest government of all parties in this
state to unite with us in the coming cam
DaigD, in the effort to perpetuate a wise
and benefcent conduct of national affairs
md to overthrow the band of conspira-
ors who now disgrace New Jereey by
'elfish and scandalous misgovernment.
Then the convention wrestled for a
lalf hour over the proposition to change
he composition of the state executive
committee SO as to give all the smaller
ounties a representation of one each,
md Passaic county two, while Essex and
hudson should have three each. After
pirited debate, in which the large coun-
les were getting the worst of it. COM
PROMISE was effected by giving Hudson
md Essex each two committeeman and
he other counties one each.
The following were thereupon appoint
ID
Atlantic county-John j. Gardner
Bergen c0unty-C. E. Breckenridge.
Burlington county--Robert G. Hutchinson.
Camden county-Davfd Baird.
Cape May county-Dr. Walter S. Leaning.
Cumberland connty-M. l.. Teller.
Essex county-(Not yet agreed on.l
Gloucester county--H. G. Loudensfager
Hndann Y Gax ANN IrT.r t1f
Hunterdon county-R: B; Reading.
Mercer county-Col. w. II. Skirm
Mlddlesex county-John II. Conger
Monmouth county-Matthias W ooley.
Morris county-George w. Jenkins
Ocean county-A. NJ. Bradshaw
Salem county-Hon. George Hires.
Somerset county-Edward J. Anderson.
Union county-E M. wood.
Sussex county-James Andrews.
Warren county-D. q. Blair.
Four committeemen-at-large are also
0 be selected by the chairman of the
ubernatorial convention. The district
delegates to the Minneapolis convention
we're then announced as follows:
First District-David Baird Camden; Da-
i'd Elmer, Cumberland.
Second Washington A. Roebling,
fercer; Henry Il. Thorn Burlington.
Third District-B. f. Howell, Middlesex;
Vm. Il. Hoffman, Monmouth.
leorge w. Jenkins, Morris.
Fifth District-John +. Miller Bergen
William Barbour, Passaic.
sixth District--Dr. w. Herold and Frank
'arlker, Essex.
Seventh District-Gilbert Collins ana Thos.
lcEwan, Jersey City.
Eighth Observation-Disclosures Gilbert, Union;
HAS M. Condit, Essex.
Congressman Horr was then introduce
d, and, after listening TO a witty parti-