The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-05

God grant that we and he may be sue
cessfull lAppiause.]
"Ihe banner which he carries repre-
sents the American deH-[applausel --of
government. which is that public office is
pnolic trust-[great cheering that
government by the people should be for
the oenent OF all tine people-[cheersI-
which exacts. fidelity, honesty, purity
and economy both in legislation and in
In Observation-Disclosures pro-
claims that in the exercise of the powers
OF federal taxation the money which is
TAKEN from the peoples pockets under the
plea of public necessity shall find its way
into the public Treasury instead Of into
the pockets of the protected manufac-
turers. lApplause.l
The Democratic idea of the sover-
elgniy is a sovereignty based upon the
national and the State government.
[Cheers1
The Democratic party, therefore, must
ever De opposed to centralized govern
ment far removed from the people. with
all It's attendant corruptions and tyran-
MES, for the real power in such a govern
ment may be the secret slave of tyranny
while 1t is the professed lover of freedom.
IL had been supposed until our time that
tyranny was odious under whatever form
II appeared, but it is q sad discovery of
these late days that there may be such a
thing as legitimate tyranny if exercised
Ia behalf OF private rights and yelled
under the protection of the public good.
tApDlause.] The Democratic party, my
friends. must ever be at war against the
Force bill [cheers], because it Is despotic,
and no government can be a despotic
government and Il free government at the
same time lapplause and cheersl; because
1t confers dangerous power upon the
dominant party. by which there is re-
tanned control of it's certificates, control
over the registration, ard casting and
counting OF the votes, and also the Gus.
tody of the ballots. In this way the Will
of the people may be neutralized, and
when this is accomplished the end must
be revolution.
FOR THE HONEST PENsIoNER.
Nov, my friends, am aware that the
Democratic party has been accused of
being free trade party. We in Hudson
county know that is not SO. No Demo-
cratic national convention has ever de-
clared for free trade. No Democratic
statesman in recent years has advocated
such policy, but all, without exception,
have advocated the policy of tariff re-
form. 1t was called free trade by the
malicious letter Mr.. Blaine sent from
Paris. Call it free trade was Mr.
Blaine's cry, and the cry was echoed by
the Republican press and orators. Free
trade it was called, and through this
false. this dangerous issue labor became
American citizens and laborers became
mere voting tool. Applause The
end sought was reached. q snap iudg-
ment was obtained-a Judgment which,
two years later, was regretted, and the
attitude of the people today remains the
same, as the election on the eighth day of
November will show. I know that we
are charged with being opposed to the
pensioner.
"Well this, too, is false. We are rails
ing $3.50, ,O00, 600 per annum to pay the pen
sioner, and let me saw to Yon that there
will be no payment of this $3.50, 900. 000 if
Mr.. Cleveland is elected, unless thu pen
sioner is worthy and is entitled to receive
it. Applause. Aud let me say further
to you that the Democratic party believes
that the pension roll should be made the
roll of honor-[applausel- full of gallant
and worthy soldiers who stood the bur-
den and the heat of the Gay, aud in order
to make IL roll of honor that roll must
he purged of all the ames of bounty
jumpers, skulkers and frauds GCheers.1
And if the Democratic party succeeds il
will make the attempt on che 4th day of
March next. If II, | say, succeeds. then it
will have the credit of honest pensioners
and honest citizens alike.
NEW JERSEYS STANDARD BEARER.
Now upon this platform stand our
candidates for President and Vice Presi-
dent and also our distinguished and gal
liant candidate for Governor, the Hon,
George T. Werts. Loud cheers1 1t is
my pleasure and my good fortune to have
known Mr.. Werts for the past thirty
years, and during that whole time l have
never heard word said of him except in
his praise, Applause and wild cheer
ingl Able. manly, independent, pure,
and unchaltenged i'll his character as a
citizen, faithful and true to the cause
and the principles or Democracy, he has
been made our trusted and accepted
leader. [Cheers.] New Jersey has no
son more worthy to wear the mantle
which is SO soon TO fall from the should
ers OF the> twice houored Governor.
[Cheers.] If you elect MIR. Werts, and I
know you intend to do it. because you in
tend to elect the electoral ticket, the
State ticket and the local ticket-if, say,
you should elect Mr.. Weits as your Gov
ernor promise you you'will reflect honor
and glory upon him, upon the
party that nominated him. upon
the people who elected him. and upon the
State of New Jersey. ICheersl You
have als1 Senator and Congressman to
elect and want Il Democratic colleague
[Applause]. You have a. Congressman
to elect and let me here pause to express
my symDathy with him in his dire and
great afiictiun. You have your State
Senators and Members of Assembly to
elect. and l ask you TO see TO it that they
are elected.
"Now, my friends, we are OH the eve of
one of the most important elections in our
history. Upon the vote cast upon
the eighth day of November
may depend the life of the nation, the
success and the prosperity of the State.
If in the opinion of any Democrat, party
mistakes have been made, if IN the
bosom OF any there turks disappointed
ambition. letsme say TO that man stop
and consider that the emergency is too
great. The perils which confront us to-
day are too imminent to justify any good
citizen in frittering away his strength by
private griefs and Gisappointments.
PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN.
Remember. my friends, that men are
inconsequential. Remember that the
name of candidate, whoever he may be,
is an 1nconsequential feature of this great
contest. In this great war of principle
which we are waging. and in the fight in
which we are engaged, the thing to vote
for is principle, and it means this-a
Legislature and an Executive. [Cheers1
In Republic like ours, where the
franchises and liberty are almost abso-
lutte, where the citizen is sovereign and
therefore entitled to no better govern-
ment than he makes for himself, there
should be no apathy among the people,
[Applause.] 1t is the duty of
the political affairs of the country. 1t is
the duty of every man to ally himself
with one of the great political parties in
this country. for it is only by and through
these great parties that great reforms can
be made In govern ment. 1t Is the duty OF
the citizen to study carefully the record
OF the parties and the policies of the par