The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-21
Our Trenton Argonauts.

Our Trenton Argonauts.
We are filed with Indignation by
the assumption that the party OF
gentlemen who went to Trenton last
evening represent in any sense the
Democracy of Jersey City. They
were democrats, it is true; some few
were good democrats. But, as a body,
they represented nobody but them
selves, or perhaps the Democratic
Office holders who make up h
machine in this county, that same
machine which Allan L. McDermott
denounced Immediately after the last
State election as the most eff cient
instrumentality for NOT getting
votes that he had ever come in con-
tact with.
The pretence that this pilgrimage
was undertaken in behalf OF b
Democratic voters of Jersey City is an
impudent falsehood. Where were
the real democrats of the city, the
men of thought and position Where
was Charles H. Winield2 Where was
E. F. G. Young2 Where was Chan
cellor McGill? Where was Judge
Lippincott? Where was ex-Judge
Garretson? Where was ex-Judge
Garrick? Where were DR.. Gordon,
DIR. Edge, and DR.. McGill? Where
was ex-senator Brinkerhoff? Where
was General Heppenheimer3
Who was there in that party OF
petitioners who does not either hold
an Office or o contract under the city
government
If the name of the Democratic peo-
Pile of Jersey City we repudiate and
disavow this Office holding raid upon
the Legislature and the Governor.
We protest most earnestly that the
attempt to control the law-makingpow-
er by an immoral coercion is as much
abominated by our people as it must
be resented by those upon whom it is
sought to place an unwarrantable and
unprecedented pressure. We re-
spectfully urge the Legislature to pay
no regard to the menaces or misrep-
reservations of these misguided
gentlemen who have made this lament
able visit to the Capital. We ask
them to be guided wholly by
their W wisdom and sense of right.
WHAT a position do the "argu-
ments'' of these same Trenton visit
ants place the Democratic party in!
Here is their plea
We come here on purely partisan
grounds. Unless you ave to us the
public patronage, we can no longer
carry Jersey City. Then Hudson
County is lost and, with it, the State.
The endless opportunity which this
monstrous statement affords the Re-
publican press to assail the Demo-
cratic party, must fill every honest
democrat with rage. 1t is the basest
and meanest thing that we have ever
known democrats to say. For our
part, we reply to it, if Democratic vic
tory is not a thing of principle; if it is
not the product of public opinion; if
it Is a mere gaud bought with politi-
cal spoils, let US be beaten and beaten
again until the party is scourged into
a regard for public decorum and be-
comes incapable of such insane and
wicked displays of unreason and i'm
morality.
% But the statement is in every de-
tail a lie. The carrying of Jersey City
is not a matter of controlling the
Offices. If the Republicans could
carry it without owning an office, we
a do the same thing with good
nominees.
~ The carrying of Hudson County
is not dependent upon the issue in
Jersey City. This was amply proven
in 1890, when John J. McPhillips lost
the city by about 1900 votes and car
ried the county by about the same
figure.
() The carrying of the State is no
longer dependent in any degree upon
the result in Hudson County. The
State is Democratic without Hudson.
BUT the whole proceeding is just a
huge tactical blunder. 1t is a BOOM
erang of the worst kind. 1t is just
one more proof of the utter incom-
petence of Mr.. Robert Davis to deal
with the Legislative problem. In the
methods of Trenton and the principles
that govern legislative work he is as
ignorant as a baby. His attempt TO
apply TO the Legislature the methods
of ward politics has hoodooed every
thing he has touched this session.
The present is simply the most stu
pendous example of all of his infatu-
ated idiocy.
Two Democratic Governors.
Two Democratic Governors of great
States have, in the few short weeks
since January 1 Of this year, won the