The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-07
DISGUSTED With SMITH
Leading Democrats Ask Him
to Straighten Out
His Record.

The leading democrats of the State
are indignant at the conduct of United
States Senat James Smith, and to
make their ~disapproval of his attitude
on the tariff bill, they are signing and
circulating a protest which will be sent
to him asking that he shall make good
the promises he made before his election
to the Senate He expressly declared his
opposition to boasts and the principles of
McKinleyism. Upon the head of these
promises to his party he was sent to
the Senate, and leading democrats have
eagerly loked for the realization of
their expectations. Their ~disappoint-
ment of Mr.. Smiths recent u~tterances
and conduct is widespread. The best
democrats feel deeply hurt that the very
things Mr.. Smith promised to oppose, ne
has upequivocaly supported. Conse-
quently they propose to call on him and
ask that he shall at once ~straighten
MONTCLAIR DEMOCRATS AROUSED.
The following. signed by all the leading
democrats of Montclair has also ben for
M%oNTcLAIR. Aug. 8. 1894.
Hon. James Smith, Jr., United States Senate,
Washington. D. c.:
Dear sir-In your remarks to the Demo-
Gratis of Englewood, published lin this morn
ingss papers. you say that their protest is
the only one received by you bearing more
than d single signature. but that you have re-
ceived numerous communications in favor of
LIE VI HIGH pTOleCllNe Tie
1t may be that those whose votes elected,
as a Democratic Senator on a tariff-reform
PLATFORM, a man IN whose AFFINITY ana SIN
certify they had heretofore c%onfided, have not
considered it necessary to further express to
him their views in the same way and to the
same extent as those who were endeavoring
to tempt him to violate the pledges of his
party. To have asked that Senator to vote as
party platform and his own expressed princi-
pies required, would have been, in the absence
of a hostile declaration from himself, little
less than an insult to him.. Since it seems,
however, that you have been more impressed
by the communications of those who find their
present interest in the maintenance of the Nc
Kinley bill or of a tariff equally. constructed
upon the principles of favoritisrn- and rob
berry, the undersigned Democrats of Montclair
desire to express to you the opinion of the
Democrats of their town, and as fthey believe
of Essex county. We are convinced that the
letter of President Cleveland to Chairman VIII
son declares most justly the duty of every
Democrat in this crisis, and that the failure
of the present Congress to pass without de-
lay a tariff bill. or the passage by them of
q bill retaining burdenseme taxes upon raw
materials, or whereof the schedules are die
tated by a Trust whose only object is the use
of the forms of law to enrich itself at the
expense of the people, can result only IN the
loss of hardly gained Democratic supremacy
in our State and nation, and IN the dlsnon9f
of the Democratic name throughout our lanu.
The issue is not one of the income tax. The
House can readily adopt the modification OF
that tax proposed by the Senate. The ques-
tion which it is in your power to decide is
whether the Senate will join the House IN
uphoiding the principles of the Democratic
Dl1tIOrn OH Liz 1dlth VI "N-S
intrusted with power by the people.
An opportunity is today presented to You
which has been offered to few men in our
History. This situation is in your personal
control, and it iseyours to decide whether our
Marty shall deserve the, gratitude or the male
ddietions vi our fellow , C nd1,y1rS w 1n ef IS
uo1r home, we wish to remind you with what
difIieulty Democratic suprema ;s th IN 1l lIS5ed
Stetas has been won, and how certain 1t is II
our chosen leaders forfeit the confidence when
49, 1--a r1oaad in them a very Few
Iii Zee the transfer to our political opponents
Of ali the powers of government WITHIN tne
;,nn,adiate reach of the people, not soon II
aver to be regained. The considerations OF
n,,bIic honesty and of party expectancy aaRs
senr,ire every Democrat in this crisis 10 stano
hy the President and by the House OF Repre-.
sentatives in the position which Is als psm u
nosition of the great majority OF the Demo
Gratis Of the United States Senate and OF the
ho nos n,ono tbe signers are all the Monte1air
members of the County Gom namoera tic
President of the Montcfair I lem nartv
organization.