The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-22
WEDNESDAY,. NOVEMBER y. 1893.
This paper is Democratic in principles aud is
Independent an its ciesrs on oil local questions
Democratic Party Organization.

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practical prospect of the reform of the
Democratic party in this county and
it's renewed success at the polls. We
do not care who takes part in the re-
form movements; we do not care who
profits by them, so long as they are
genuine and sincere on the one hand
and rational and practical on the
other. We are for party reform
first. last and all the time" and for
party success when the party deserves
to succeed.
On this platform, we propose to
treat, with friendly consideration,
every one of the regenerative move
ments which are the outgrowth OF
the recent party defeats. down to the
point where some Of them meets
the demands of the situation and ap-
pears to have a reasonable claim to
besrseognized ~ the new local party
organization. When some form
of reorganization and reform plainly
holds the favor of the majority OF the
party voters, it will become, we be-
lieye, the duty of all true democrats,
whether they may previously have
favored other schemes or not, to sur
render their own person al ambitions
and preferences and rail- Y to the sup
port Of the party for the general
good and the successful assertion of
true Democratic principles and NJ eth
DDS.
just at present there are two main
movements in progress with the pur-
pose of party salvation in view. One
of these is being engineered by the
members-or at least by some of the
members of the Central Democratic
Committee that is to say, the ''regu-
lar party organization, which was
erected on reform platform shortly be-
fore the recent election, and which
was in control before and during the
campaign. The plan favored by this
body and certain prominent demo-
Gratis cooperating with it, is said to
contemplate the holding Of Assembly
district mass meetings, at which a
provisional committee of eleven of the
highest class democrats in the county
should be selected to conduct the re-
organization work. The plan further
contelnplates, it is said, the holding Of
district primaries under the conduct
of men of unquestionable integrity, at
which delegates to a convention
should be chosen. The convention IN
turn, it is proposed, shall frame a new
systemof organization, devise newrules,
and have the first County Committee
to serve until primaries are held in
the fall of 1894. There are many
notifications of this plan talked of;
but in its main features this is essen
TALLY a correct general outline. 1t
has it's good features, and it has
almost fatal one, we fear, in the sou rec
from which it e~nlanates. 1t is unfor-
~tunately beyond question that the
regular party organization is in seri-
Gus disfavor with the voters of the
party. Among its members are ome
of the best and most respected men in
the county; but, as a body, it is, un-
justly, we believe. but non the less
obstinately, regarded as the creation
and the instrument of Robert Davis
and the other Ring leaders whom the
people rose up to punish only two
weeks ago. 1t is absurd-or it Gems
SO to us--to think that this body. in
whose nominees, in whose leadership,
in whose standard of morals and
aspirations the people showed SO little
confidence so short a time ago, is just
exactly the body to rally the same
people now to the new June of
s'Virtue forever and down with the
Ring 1t seems to us painfully
evident that however we'll meant the
effort may be, however single minded
may be it's purpose, however ingenu-
GUS the conduct of all the operations
growing out of it, the people will
stsii view it with suspicion, and a
very large number of democrats will
refuse to accept it as meaning any
thing real, and will simply be further
estranged than v g from the regular
party organization and its future
nominees.
Another notable plan OF reorgani-
cation. is that in which DIR. Gordon,
Mayor Pagan, George L. Record and
many other prominent democrats are
taking part. Concerning the SINGER
itys Of these gentlemen there can be
no question, and although they in
clude in their ranks more than one
notorious crank and professional
s~poilspors, they combine a very
large amount of brains, education
experience, skill and knowledge OF
the world. That they can do
much to advance the OF
party purity is not to DC
doubted. It is an encouraging sign
to see them actively banded for a bet
tar state of things. But that they can
ID any sense reorganize the party
themselves or build up a new Demo
cratic nachinery-wa use q word u
.;t;,r IN the term "machtne'-