The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-11
just a Last Word.

just a Last Word.
In q few last words, we wish to sum
up the various arguments which have
been used in this most important and
exciting campaign, as q means of help
ing voters, who may still be in doubt,
towards making up their minds.
Grave interests are inv olved in to-
morrow's contest, and a serious re-
sponsibility rests on every voter. To
Democrats in particular it is a mo-
mentous occasion, for in the issue
there is the possibility of a deadly
disaster to the party supremacy in
this State, and consequently to the
party prospects in the coming Presi-
Dental campaign. We most heartily
and sincerely believe that Allan L. Nc
DermotJ will be elected Mayor tomor-
row; but we believe that his election
will be accomplished mainly by Dem
ocratic votes. 1t is quite certain on
the other hand that he cannot be de-
feated by Republican votes alone.
Unless there should be an enormous
detection in the Democratic ranks,
his election is certain. Republican
organs and campaign managers affect
to hope that such a detection will take
place. We utterly refuse to believe it.
If the great leader of the Demo-
cratic party, who has so often led the
party to victory in all parts of the
State, should tomorrow be made the
victim of Democratic disaffection, a
blow would be struck at Democratic
hopes which would be hailed with
joy by every Republican paper and
every Republican organization in the
Union, and which would carry dis
may and dependency to the hearts of
Democrats, not only in this State, but
all over the country. If the Democ-
racy had nominated a weak man, an
obscure man., or a bad man, a
man of slight ability, or
man of evil repute. his defeat
tomorrow would be an insignificant
matter; but the Democracy has put
forward one of it's most shining spirits.
one whose name is inextricably iden-
titled with the party history and the
party fortunes in this State; a man
whose ability. energy, courage and
honor place him on a plane with the
highest statesmen in the country; a
man whose future career his fellow
citizens hope to see traced in the high
est places and among the best and
greatest men in the land. The defeat
of this man, we say, would not be a
small or a temporary matter to the
Democratic party. At this time it
would be an almost irreparable dis
aster.
Make no mistake, Democrats, the
Republican organs urge you to ignore
all higher considerations than those
of street sweeping and sewer tinkering
at this time; but if they, by any
strange m%ischance, should gain the
day, you would see their columns
filled on Wednesday with shouts of
good omen for the greater contest in
November.
But to come down from the duty
to the State and the Nation which
every Democrat owes tomorrow. to
the needs and prospects of this very
city, let us once again look at the two
men who are candidates, and try to
decide which offers the people a bet
ter prospect of wise and economical
government.
First, there is Peter F. Wanser, a
life long politician without a record,
a good fellow, and, as men go, a very
honest one, a chronic postulant and
predestined failure. The Colonel has
been a failure in everything he has
undertaken. He has run for Office
over and over again, and failed to get
it. He became Assemblyman and de-
veloped into a non-entity. He has
nothing to show for his forty years of
life even in the matter of private
business. He is the sort of mar whom
svery one is glad to shake hands with,