The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-03
Mr.. Aliens


The New York World, this morn
ing, after sizing UP the situation in
this city, says Mr.. Charles w. Allen
is SO far in the lead in the ace for the
Presidency of the Board of Aldermen,
that his election is regarded by his
friends as a matter of certainty. This
is true. The betting is ten to one in
favor of Mr.. Allen. All the reason
able probabilities are that he will be
elected.
Out of this certainty, however, it
will not be proper for Mr.. Aliens sup
porters to develop a tendency to indls-
erection of speech. Mr.. Allen himself
is a circnmspect and conservative gen.
tleman with a just idea of public af-
fairs. But besides having a large fol-
lowing of the very best people in the
city, lie has, as supporters, a certain
number of factions and offensive par
Gisans whom he cannot control, n
who may take this opportunity TO
crafty the r~uffianly instincts of them
selves and their tuppenny boss by viii
frying Mayor Wanser and Governor
Werfs and praising the Bad Legisla-
ture, without rejecting on the harm
that they may thereby do the Demo
cratic party.
For instance, if the Bad Senator,
MI. w. d. Daily, should go upon the
stump and repeat some of his published
utterances in respect to Governor
Werts' yetoes of his vicious measures,
he might lose Mr.. Allen more votes
than the Democracy can well spare at
this time. Mr.. Allen belongs to the type
of democrat that Governor Werts rep
resents, and it is that well recognized
fact that will win him the peoples
favor and the peoples votes. Daily
and the thug element generally
had best be kept in the background,
this campaign.
To the honorable and thoughtful
element of the Democracy, Mr.. Allen
is not running on Mayor Wanser's
record, but on his own. Mayor Wan
ser has been a good and faithful pub
lie official for the past year, and his
influence has been most beneficial to
the public interests. He will be just
as useful in the coming year, likewise.
But he is not a candidate for Office
against Mr.. Allen. Mr.. Reuben
Simpson is the Republican candidate,
and assuredly Mayor Wanser's record
does not fall upon him, even as the
mantle of Elias upon the Prophet
Elijah.
Mr.. Allen is running upon his own
record. He has been a faithful,
painstaking, conscientious, useful
public officer for four years. He is
today and he will be for the coming
two years, the same honest man, the
same industrious servant of the pub
&c, the same conscientious worker
that he has been in the past. He is a
4 democrat as long as Democracy is
right and good he is an honest man
all the time.
For these reasons, his name APP
pear at the head of our editorial
! column. We support him because he
4 is a democrat on the same high plane
w+ssWerts and Albeit. We support
Because he is an honest man. We
sport him because his personal rec
ord is deserving OF endorsement. 1t
is on these grounds that WI invite the
suppor Of the people for him. 1t is
onffhese grounds that we believe he
will be elected.
But be it we'll understood that in
supporting him, We give no aid or-com-
fort to the abuses Mayor Wanser has
assailed. or to their perpetrators.
We believe Mr.. Allen will afford TIL em
no aid or comfort. We give no aid or
comfort to those who would cripple
Mayor Wanser's power to do good.
We give no aid or comfort to ring or
boss methods. and when the time
coInes we shall give Mayor Wanser all
the moral aid we can in prosecuting
the good work he has begun, aud we
are very certain Mr.. Allen also will
coincide with the Mayor for economy,
honesty and efficiency in the public
service