The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-02
RECORDS Big SPEECH.
He Tells Hobokeners All About
Open Primaries and Mon
opolistie Influence.

A big crowd gathered in st. Mary's
Hall, Willow avenue, Hoboken, last night,
and listened attentively e addresses by
the Reform Democratic candidates for
Congressman, County Clerk and Register
-Messrs. George L. Record, A. P. Hexa
mer and John Garrick.
Councilman Edward Offerman presided,
and first introduced Mr. Hexamer, who
explained that he had entered the race at
the instance of others, who had urged
him persistently.
MR.. RECORDS SPEECH.
Mr. Record was the next speaker. He
said:-sI appear before you tonight to
open what 1 believe to be a new era in
Democratic politics in Hudson County,
and I have even dared to hope, a new
era in the politics of the State. Politics,
as a system through the country have
been growing from bad to worse for the
last fifteen years. The settlement of
issues has seemed to give way to mere
capital desire for party domination, and
this fact has led men of brain and char
acter who used to lead their party, where
fair questions were involved, to leave the
ranks, while in their place has grown up
class of unprincipled politicians who
owe their positions either to skill in
manipulating machine politics or to the
purchase of places by direct or indirect
use of money.
1.-THE issue advanced in the stand of
Grover Cleveland on the tariff question,
I consider equally as grave as that of
slavery quarter of century ago. 1t
is the attractive question everywhere
In my opinion, the time has come when
the new man of ideas. the man who
comes to Democracy from principle, is
drawing line and refusing to enter the
arena unless the political leaders who
will not adhere to principle are thrust
aside 1 want to explain to you the sys-
tenn of primary elections henceforth to
. THEN AND NOW.
1.-The fault with disappointing elections
heretofore has obviously been In the
primaries. AS they have been conducted
run by single man or CLIQUE, no6satls-
faction OF. redress could be had. The con-
vention system is bad, because when you
go to the primary you don't know what
reliance you can place upon the man
you vote for He Is subject to corrupt
Influences: BY the plan now g 9nperatttbbg. 1la n g.
he will be a candidate or not. All you
have to do is to get twenty names signed
to petition, addressing It TO the secre-
tafv of the Democratic Committee, re-
uuesting that your name be placed on a
list This has brougG forward a raft OF
candidates. AT the primary lIlese hdlIies' 1 ,
are voted for, and the one obtaining the
plurality is the candidate In TINS way
every candidates owes his position to
the party who selected him, and not to a
machine. When you strike a power
dominant, there you find coffuptlo4-ilot
in the minority, but the majority pro-
pose, # possible, to get the present prim-
ary plan permanently adopted the peo-
Die who have given you the hrst chancs
in twenty-five years to pick your own
candidates are those behind us, ana i ~ we
are defeated in this election, predlct
that you will be trampled under worse
than than you ever were.
.D1ring the last, Twenty-Five years
there has developed tremendous ag-
sregation of wealth in monopolistic cor
55oraafions. but the masses who. have la
bored year after year are sttll poor
make living now. The infamous