The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-04
Mcpermott the Only Candidate.

ana is Independent In its Vteus on AZ
local questions.
McDermott the Only Candidate.
Mr.. Robert Hudspeth has spoken,
and his utterances are just what we
expected. He completely repudiates
the "Three Hundred" and with char
acteristic m~anliness and good n
gives in his adherence to Allen L.
McDermott as the Democratic candi-
date for Mayor.
This, we believe, ends the last show
of opposition to MIR. McDermott's
candidacy. 1t is hardly probable that
the ''Three Hundred" will take up a
new standard bearer after the rebuffs
they have received from Mr.. Fielder
and Mr.. Hudspeth. Certainly he
would be a very small sort of man
who would now consent to be their
catspaw. The hour of the "Three
Hundred as an organized force in
local politics has come, and from
this time the control of public opin-
ion begins.
Every effort is being made by the
Democratic leaders to bring the best
element to the front all through
the campaign. The primary tickets
will be mainly made up of men who
are totally disconnected with the party
machinery and who are above the sus-
picion of machine influence Whom
soever they choose to nominate, the
party will have to accept, and it is
very sure that the man of
their choice will be the man
for the Office, and the man
for the people. OF course their choice
-. will be free and unfettered, but we
have no fears as to where it will light,
for public opinion will be their guild
ing force.
And public opinion demands the
nomination of Allan L. McDermott in
tones that ring from one end of the
city to the other. He will be the only
candidate heard of in the convention.
The 'JournaFs' Campaign of SLAM
j. der.
The Journal and it's ally, Mr.. Frank
O. Cole, having failed to sell out the
Republican convention in the interest
of Mayor Cleveland and the three
hundred office holders, that vile and
traitorous sheet reluctantly has made
UP its mind that it will have to fall in
line with its party and fight a straight
out Republican battle this campaign.
But even this it is unable to do with
decency or honesty. Having honesty,
ability and popular favor personified
in its opponent, it took up yesterday
the weapons of falsehood and malice.
Where no genuine accusations could
be framed, the fetid invention of the
Journal editorial genius was set to
work, and a base and outrageous far
rago of lies was prepared to deceive
public.
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS exposed
the main falsehood yesterday on the
testimony of several gentlemen who,
the Journal alleged, had been present
at its fake conference. MI. McDer-
mott, in the interest of truth, sent an
emphatic and unreserved denial of
the whole story to the Journal itself.
He said
Editor Of The Journal.
DEAR SIR-Ir your issue of this evening you
ay:-"McDermott called together a number of
we'll known. silk sto cking Democrats for a con-
ference. The confab was attended by such
gentlemen as George L. Record, DR.. L. j. Cor
don, DR.. Benjamin Edge, Riparian Commits sioner
Fisk, Counsellor Barricklo and Counsellor Otto
Grouse AT that conference McDermott APP
peared personally and announced his desire to
Do Mayor of Jersey City" Justice to the
gentlemen whose names you connected with
mine requires me to say that there is not a word
Of truth in that statement. ! never told the
gentlemen you name, individually or collect
vely, that l desired to be May or of this town. l
nave not called or attended any meeting on
that subject. 1t is difficult for me to believe
hat your informant did not know that he was
ying. Respectfully,
March 2. ALLAN L. McDERMoT OFT.
1t might be supposed that this frank
and manly statement would have
,hamed the Journal into silence if not
INTO decent retraction of it's ISLANDERS.
Not SO. The Journal finds in the ex-
posture of its turbulence the inspira-
ion of new malignity. 1t simply al
;ers the lie a little and repeats it with
lprodigality of iteration which proves
1t least one thing-the bitter rage it
aeels at the prospect of an honest gov
rnment taking the place of the cor
upt combination of which it has So
ong been the willing slave.
Allan McDermott combating with
he Journal reminds us of nothing so
much as OF st. George in the old fable
LONG knightly battle with the drag