The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-27
SALT OF TIE EARTH.
New Jersey seems to Have
More than its Share
Just Now.
NINE AGENTS Al WORK.
Farmers Are In the Majority But
Socialists and Prohlbitionists
Hold Up the Agricultural
Robes.
Special to the Jerssv civ N.,o,.

Special to the JERSEY City Neics.
TRENTON, Sept 81. 1892. This is a great
year Tor reform movements iu New Jer-
sey. is indicated by the fact that
this State has two more candidates for
Governor than ever before. These new
movements are for the purpose of purify
ing politics. simplifying the common in
iercourse of society. and Tor the equaIiza-
ton of the good things of earth.
At the present time there are in the
State of New Jersey nine bodies of men
and some OF women who seek to better
their condition through organization.
The farmers. or rather some classes of
farmers. have brought into existence the
mi Jor1ty of these reform partle1. These
are the Farmers Alliance, Farmers Ma
tional Political League. Farmers Ma
tional Industrial Union, Patrons OF
H~usbandfy and the Peoples Party. The
Industrial Senate, Soeialistic Labor party
aud the Mutualists are a species of labor
organization The Peopie's patty and
the Socislistic Labor party both have
candidates in the held this year tor Gov
ernor. The ALLIANCES aud the Political
League are expected to rally 10 the aid OF
lie Peoples party and the labor organ
lzation. particularly the trades unions 60
tue standard of the Socialistic Labor
party.
1T is hard to give statistics of any of
these orgauizatlons and to estimate from
the meaRre facts that are gathered on the
outside of the camps just what ana for
whom they will 60 III the coming cam
palgh. TIL statements that are offered
would indicate that every one of them
holds the balance of power, and collective
ly their forces would be sufficient o STAN
pede the old parties. but closer analysis
shows differently. The Farmers ALI
ance, which has a membership OF 2, GOO or
less IN the State. was the first IF the organ
lzaiious that made p~retences TO political
power and threatened the old line parties
with annIhilatIon unless theywere pledged
TO the peculiar ideas of the Alliance. For
four years the Alliance has been trying
to establish itself throughout the State of
New Jersey. 1t has had Industrious Or
g MIXERS, but the farmers of New Jersey
are slow to leave the old parties.
PURPOSE OF a FARMERS ALLIANCE.
Although the publications OF the Ali
ance show that there were many local
Alliances in the State, on inquiry in sew
eral OF the localities 1t was found that
their numerical strength is very small.
In Warren, Huaterdon. Cumberland aud
Salem they have succeeded in organizing
county Alliances. A few weeks ago the
New jersey Farmers Alliance met in
Trenton, and this offered the best oppor-
tunity of ascerl aiming now strong the
body mad become after four years of work.
4aO 6QOhEALDk was NCAE 6i1h1i.l I6EG HUI
being over thirty delegates present, and
not all OF the counties were represented.
The Alliance of New Jersey, of course,
endorses nearly all that the National AL
lance afirms. Very little has been said
in this State about the Sub Treasury
plan. for it is unpopular n deemed i'm
practicable. The Alliance has prepared a
declaration of intentions, in which it
states that its purpose is TO labor for the
education Of the agricultural classes in
the science OF economical government
in a strictly non-partisan spirit; to
endorse the motto: "Iu things es-
sential. unity, aud in all things,
charity" to develop a better
State, mentally, morally. socially and fl
nancially; to create a better understand
ing for sustaining civil officers in main
tanning law and order; TO constantly
strive to secure harmony and good will
among all mankind. and brotherly love
among ourselves; to suppress personal,
local, sectional and national prejudices,
all unhealthy rivalry and selfish ambi-
ton; to care for the widow and educate
the orphans and exercise charity to all
offenders.
WANT LoW PAY.
The further believe, but do not declare
1t In their tract, that In this State they
the salaries of the officials reduced
to a fair compensation, particularly that
of the Governor;they want the ceutraliza-
CAO wv tAO III 6EHOE
and placed in the hands of the people, so
that the various officers can be elected
and not appointed; they want the luxuries
of the Governor Knocked of, such as the
camp at Sea Girt. aud more money spent
on good roads. and some nave even gone
SO far as TO want a fund created from
which money can be loaned to the farm
ers on GOOD security and low interest.
The Alliance in politics goes to the en-
dorsement to such candidates as will
pledge themselves to the various needs of
the Alliance in their particular locality.
A~sselnbiyman Van SICKLE of Cumbsr-
land, who sat two years ago in the House,
was the first Alliance man thai ever sat
in the House of Assembly. He introduced
a number of their measures and nearly
ali of them were given a black eye. AS
semblyinan Ernst Of Ocean is q member
of the order, and he sat as an Alliance
mai last winter.
Two years ago the Alliance tried to
elect AssemblymeD, and tried ia many
places to put straight cut Alliance men
in the field, but they were far from being
successful. Tnis year they are expected
TO cooperate with the new PEOPLES
party, aud for the purpose of getting SO
complete a cooperation, this party, at its
recent convention, nominated one of the
most prominent Alliance meu in the
State. Benjamin Bird, of Hunterdon
county. The Peoples party is strictly in
sympathy with the Alliance on moral and
political questions, only. of course, they |
go further and will allow anyone in its
membership who seeks reform in National
and local government. aud they are max
ing particular effoits to have the work
ingnan become interested in the move
meut.
PEOPLE AND PROHIBITION.
The test that is to come with the Peo-
Plies party ticket is IN capturing the Pro
hibiticn wing of the Alliance party. 1t Is
estimated that two-thirds of the members
of the Alliance vote the Prohibition
ticket, and Que of the questions of the
new party is how to win them over to
their idol. An effort was made at the
recent convention to insert a Prohibition
isr plank in the platform, but IL was in
ef~fectual, as the plank proposed was the
one adopted by the Ohio, Minnesota and
Massachusetts Peoples Convention, aud
it Is to The effect that the State control
the sale and manufacture of all liquor,
aud that tie liquor be sold TO
at cost
This is said &c be one of the ideas adj
V 'qced by Inc conservative Prohibition
lists, who claim that by removing the