The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-25
ANTI.MoNoP6LIsT q, MEWAN.

From the Central New Jersey Herald.
ssrom', McEwan, of Hudson County.
late reform leader of the defunct brig
and Legislature of New Jersey, is now a
full-fedged Republican candidate for
Congressional honors in the Democratic
stronghold of Hudson.
Strange as it may appear, this "leader"
of a corporation Legislature, whose vii
lainies were so fragrant that its own
controllers ordered its unceremonfous
suspension rather than be weighted with
it's further odious acts, is now posing
in Hudson County as a w~orkingman's
candidate, soothed and sustained by a
Republican endorsement or nomination
for Congress. The irrepressibie Tom"
however, must stand by his record sas
leader of the bogus reform" Assembly.
Al Horace Greeley remarked, once upoh
a time some of Mr.. McEwan's ante-nom-
ination utterances are mighty interest
ing reading and well worthy of preser-
walton at a crucial moment like this.
Since the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture Mr.. McEwan, knowing the incapa-
city of the Republicans to carry Hudson
County, wooed the Democratic reform
movement there, and went about the
county saying very Independent things
and criticizing, with bitterness. the very
Assembly of which he was the leader.
In the Eleventh ward of Jersey City
he made a flaming speech on somewhat
non-partisan lines, and during the
speech he gave utterance to some allie
cations that we regard as the everlast-
ing, ~irrefutable truth. Accounting for
-. ~ b;l;txy thn1ioh s1oaGar'' of the
House, to enact into law some notable
bills which the people of Hudson County
demanded, he said
81 am a workingman, and in order to ben
eft US all l did my best to get a water
bill through the Legislature that would
have put the water under control of the
State and not under a few avaricious men
who would make half a million apiece
out of a new supply. and thus rob our
city.
'"Then, again, 1 tried to get a two-cent
ferriage and cheap gas bill through, but
the monopolies proved too much for me,
all my efforts were in ain.
We endorse every word Tom then
said. He only referred to local bills that
the monopolies of his own party had
either throttled in the recesses of COM
mittees or o%utrightly murdered on the
floor of the House in open day. But
where did cEw himself stand? Did
he not either vote for or permit to pass
insurance projects tina ~defrauded the
policy holders, statutes that looted the
treasury, increased the franchises of troll
leys, aided giant railroads, and many
other fragrant wrongs against the peo-
pie?
Mr.. McEwan was merely enacting the
bombastic role of the demagogue, for he
had voted for and stood by, as leader"
and let pass bills that were dictated by
the monopolies requiring increased fran
chises or the preservation of former
~tyrannies. lie McEwan say he is a
w~orkingman, not one line was put upon
the statute book of the House he lied" to
protect labor, but numberless bills to In
crease the powers of capital and forge
the chains which bind the poor were
painfully frequent and full" He used
his position as legislator to stab home
rule in the towns and cities of the State
by continuing autocratic commission
which the people elected him to rend into
fragments and distribute to the four
winds OF heaven. Out OF MS own hAou
is Thomas McEwan, the Republican can
didate for Congress in the Hudson dis
trict, convicted, and he can make no
defense for his unfaithfulness to former
trusts committed to his keeping by the
honest voters of Hudson. 1t is not proba-
BILE that they, viewing his acts and know
ing his u~tterances, are likely to be deceiy-
ed by his hypocritical palaver in favor OF
the interests and rights of the working
classes.