New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-01
7HE SHINE or NEW-JERSEY.

Now-JcIscy has become the swindlcl>' own.
Thorcat many good citizens are rising up IN
wrath. laboiiou>ly shutting the stahc-door
after the horse i stolen. But how many ci
them can cry with truth. "Thou oan>t not say
! did IT,? How many ~ them have done what
they could 10 prevent this victory of vice?
These = ID citizens were warned years agD
that the open alliance between the Democratic
party and the knayc>. the election thieves and
and the saloons. would put the State govern
m,nt into the hand, Of the dangerous classes
Nevertheless. some Of them went straight en-
voting the Democratic ticket Il, if ID were not
against their oathS OF citizenship t. uphold any
Ialty in an alliance 50 Infamous. Others who
tn eught themselves puicr and more holy than
the minority preceded t. help the Democracy
Of crime and fraud by voting for Prohibition
tickets II was their duty to put down the
shameless conspiracy e Democrat" politicians
with the baSc>t elements in the state and they
refused Verify, they have their reward
These good citizens will not now deny t.
their own conSci"nccs. if they do to the pub
lie that the responsibility for AbbcttS vie
tories and for the complete overthrow of de-
ccncy and right in New Jersey rests with thcm.
Tho ballot was in their hands trust. Their
first and nest sacred duty was SO T. use il
aS t. secure honest elections and honest GOV
eminent They did so Use it as to make the
thicving rings and their executive instruments
complete masters Of the State Possibly they
salvcd their conScicnccS then with the notion
that the swindlcrs of hudson and other coun-
ties, the saloons and gamblers and the Demo
cratic politicians who had appealed 3, them
for aid, would never venture ~ ailront the
dcccncy and morality OF the state, and that the
dcplorabc alliance with the bases: and worst
elements WAS only one Of those tricks of poll
ties which truly good men must dcplore but
must sometimes wink nj. They had NJ bust
ness so Il think. Every gambler and swinllcr,
every election thief and public pundcrcr, every
voter Of the dangerous and diSrcputabc classes
was perfectly well aware that the victory of
the Albeit Democracy wa; his victory
TO be blind when one has accepted sacred
trust for millions living and millions yet I'M
born. Is sometimes Il crime. lIu; il can hardly
be claimed that good citizens OF Ncw-Jclsey
who continued to vote the Democratic ticket
after this infamous alliance was formed were
in any way blind. Neither can it be said that
the other good citizens who pcrsistcniIy threw
ddatcs who had no chance of election. for the
declared purpose of forcing the Republican
party to accept their opinions or furnishing it
because it would not. were blind to the con-
sequences. They were AL warned, not once
but many times not by words only. but by
the vsibly and rapidly increasing picdominanc,
of vice and crime with each succeeding year
Of Democratic triumph that they were deliver
ing over that State to the mastery Of its bascst
and worst.
II is sometimes called a species of blindness
when men persistently stick to party. though
they know that its success is dangerous and
IFS tendencies bad. BIT it is something worse.
The support OF a party under such circum-
stances is a wilful betrayal of virtue into the
power of vice. for the sake of that pcis nal
satisfaction or pride of opinion which partisan
victory gives. Men may say to themselves that
tho Tariff policy or some ether policy of a
dangerous and corrupt party is so important
that even the assistance Of the saloons and tho