The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-07
Mayor Wanser's Dire Failure.

Mayor Wanser's Dire Failure.
For a man of the world of consider.
able experience, Mayor Wanser dis
plays the most extraordinary credul-
ity. Nothing is too absurd to believe
if it is only charged against a Demo-
crat. His Honor has got himself into
no small tangle by gravely incorpor-
ating silly chatter in his official docu-
ments without investigation or verifi-
cation. He has made any number of
accusations and has not been able to
prove one of them.
The Mayors campaign has not been
a fair or ingenious one. He has never
ventured to put one of his charges to
a test. He has clustered and threat
ened a%nd-done nothing. He has
taken up certain positions for the sake
of getting sensational political docu-
ments before the people. When these
have been contradicted, he has
quietly receded from his position, and
left the charges which he would not
back up to do all the harm they could.
To hear him and his hackers talk, II
would have expected him to have the
whole Democratic City Government
languishing in chains six wsels aSo
Instead of that, his most active form
of fight sto lie back or his cushions
and say;--"You go to law. You
fight me, if you want to. / have made
all sorts of charges against you, it is.
true, but l have no idea of testing
their truth. l had rather all the
thoughtless people in the city took
them on faith. If you want to prove
them untrue, you must find some way
of attacking me-"
We presume it has dawned upon
the general public by this time that
Mayor Wanser is a failure. Everything
he has put his hand to has been abor-
tive, Not one dollar has been saved
the city; not one reform has been even
brought into sight, and his Tax Re-
duction Board has shown gross dis
elimination against the poorer class
of taxpayers and in favor of the rich.
Tho Hon. Judas Blaine.
The theory which Mr.. Blaine's
friends would have the world accept
regarding his resignation from the
Cabinet is plainly inadmissable. The
notion that the Secretary OF State de-
sired to unload responsibility for gov
ernmental policy which he did not
approve, and to escape from associa-
lions which We're painful and EN-
b~arrassing is altogether too flimsy to
blind the eyes of the public. Why
should Mr.. Blaine, after sharing in
the policy of the administration when
great issues We're in the balance, find
it impossible to tolerate the load at a
moment of absolute peace, when the
ad m~inistration had no particular pol
icy because there was no question
pending to have a policy about.
Why should Mr.. Blaine's associa-
ton with the President and his min
listers become impossible all of a sud
den. and at such a curious political
conjuncture? Mr.. Blaine has held on
0 his office like grim death for three
wears and three months. He has held
on in spite of disagreements which
began within a month after his APP
pointment, in spite of the hints of TIL
President that he was non gTGtd, in
.-:ko - tIa a,Nnn ipSr1ltG of tho DrpGi-
dents son, in spite of the fouts
and jeers Of al the administers
ton organs from the Philadel-
phia Press down to Judge. Seeing
that he has borne all this, why was he
compelled to resign at the moment he
did, All explanations that he has
made or can make, all explanations by
his friends, fail to account for his con-
duct on any basis of honorable or fair
dealing. His resignation was just his
announcement that he vas in the race
for the Presidency, merely this and
nothing more. If any other cause
were behind the resignation, he would
have waited until after the Conven-
ton to hand it in, or else he would
have handed it in months ago.
But, it may be asked, why is Mr..
Blaine's announcement that he is in
the race at this time so ~disgraceful to
him? The answer is plain. 1t is be-
cause the act is the final proof that
Mr.. Blaine has, by a long course of
treachery, been undermining the man
to whom, on all principles of honor,
he owed allegiance; the man of whose
political family he was u member; the
man whom he lulled into a fancied
security only a few weeks ago with
lying words. Mr.. Blaine has re-
manned in the Cabinet for years, not
to help the success of President
Harrison's administration, but TO have
the power of demonstrating its failure
from a commanding position. He has
embarrassed the President at every
turn, and discounted every one of his
official acts with personal opposition
and inspired ensur He formally
withdraw from rivalry in order that