The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-22
APPEAL 70 DEMOCRATS
State Organization of Clubs
Points Out the Way to
Victory.

1CbOly
The Democratic Society of New Jersey,
which is composed of the various Demo
cratic Clubs and organizations through
out the State, has issued this address,
JERSEY CITY, NJ, Oct. II, 1884.
The Democratic Society of New Jersey,
being the association formed DIV the
Democratic. Campaign Clubs of 1882, at
a meeting of the Executive mml
and other influential Democrats OF thls
state. held at Trenton on Tuesday, the
second day of October instant, resolved
10 issue an address to the Democrats
of New Jersey, calling upon them to rally
to the standard of our party ana again
win one of those victories for which the
party is signally noted.
The past is dead and buried, and there
lis no reason why members of our party
should now be lukewarm in party al
L~legiance. Events have shown that more
has been lost than gained by the change
last year, in our State Legislature.
REPUBLICAN BLUNDERS.
The limit of an address of this kim
will not permit of our calling attention
10 the many laundering and burdensome
laws by which this Republican Legfsla-
ture has robbed the people of their rights
of home rule and popular government,
but a fragrant instance of their injustice
is to be found in the change made in the
school laws, which deprive each school
district of the right to govern itself, by
electing it's w trustees, and which gives
to the more populous portion of each
township the power to elect the trustees
L azAf n / y -1LAo1 LlictrinfS In IL and TO
imnose such burdens upon and limit the
right of education In AL districts 10
such an extent and in such manner as
TO the voters in villages or boroughs may
Farming community, VINO will be COM
pelled often to go many miles to q
school trustee election or lose their right
to representation. 49,
l. disguised cover for a raid upon the peo-
PIES pockets by a school book trust.
Corporation influence and bossism SO
Sature that it took a recess in May until
October, and when it then met
at great expense to the state,
| there was such an outcry even
from their own party against this
school bill and their other sins-notn OF
omission and com~mission-that the poss.
es had to order an adjournment, wlthouI
llowing anyone to be heard upon the
rights of the people, as against corpora
lions, trusts and monopolies.
The people of New Jersey trusted the
Republicans with power, but when the
OPPORTUNITY was presented they would
not trust the people. Their leaders said
the people cannot be trusted TO make
a The REFERENDUM.
The Direct Legislation League of New
Jersey had presented an amendment TO
the State Gonstttutio oirh Wni tn v w9aia If si he
general election on the question Of max
ing a law, refused by the Legislature,
such as cheap ferriage, a h,e aea Ifs inz
s~urance policies, and FIVE per cent, inter-
est on loans; and would also give them a
/ right to vote for the acceptance or re-
lection of any law which violated moral
right or shocked the public conscience.
or took from the people their right OF
home rule, as does the school law here
tofore spoken of. when a petition Tor
such purpose was signed by such a per-
centage of the voters as the Legislature
might, after the passage of the amend
| right and would serve the best interests
of the people. This the Republicans de-
feated on a vote in the House Of AS
sembly, and postponed in the Senate
'oW q BRoKEN PLEDGES.
The Republicans made promises and
pledges, and getting into power. failed
to, keep them. They now lay great
claim to virtue because they voted to
repeal the race track laws. The Demo
IrCTalS NOlGd " bAlOlA 1OPNoA IL SANN
fered the repealers. Before the Legisla-
ture was chosen, the Supreme Court Of
our State had killed those laws by. de-
claring them unconstitutional, SO there
was no great virtue in kicking the dead.
What offices did they repeal and annul?
What burden of salaries or anything
else did they lift from the people?
They legislated Democrats out of Of
flee and put Republicans in, and in some
instances increased the number of Of
ficials and the amount of money taken
| frnn the nR0nlG TO paw salaries, f
With a p%retence of inquiring into frau
dulent election methods in Camden coun-
to $40, 600 of State funds, leaving large
bills unpaid, and then had no report
tina they dare make to show for this
expense.
Fellow Democrats, today the National
Executive, Senate and House of Rep
resentatives are ours, made so by an
try efT IN WhicRR New New Jersey Je sas proudly MoutH 'b bore
her part. Can the people afford to
DUE TO REPUBLICAN MISRULE.
We have just passed through two
years of depression, caused directly by
the evil system of Republican misrui.%
The 300, 0OO, 600 surplus left in the Treas
ury at the close of President Cleveland's
first administration was, in the next
four years, converted into a deficit near
1y as great. The McKinley-Harrison
rule precipitated a financial panic, and
Republican obstruction prolonged the
distress, Dur manufactures and farm
products were SO largely confined to
4 our own consumption that a surplus
was on hand, and the prices of the farm
ers' products tumbled, while the manu-
| facturers' trusts, by shutting dow and
refusing to employ labor and carry on
manufacturing, were enabled to keep up
prices and use up the surplus they had
on hand.
That the Democratic party. or its pol
icy, had anything to do with the hard
times, we deny. Our policy was not in
operation, and so soon as we could get
a. bill passed framed on more liberal
lines thar the Mckinley bill, the better
ed condition Of the country could be
seen by the greater employment of la
~ Dor and the opening of mills and fac
l&tories. many of which were closed ever
before the election in 1882.
WILSON BILL.
The Republican claim that the Wilson
bill would not produce sufficient reve-
nues, because the tariff taxes were re
duced, has been proven as false as then
policy has been mischievous. The re.
ceipts under it for September show thai
# will give a surplus of about $50, 900, O0(
per year. and will soon put the govern
ment in good financial condition again
and allow of a reform in separate items
j Of the tariff, admitting further free raw
materials, to build up our industries
and o. reduction of the tariff taxes
) where the still bear too heavily on the
people, and this without any disturb
ance of the business interests or those
of the wage earners.
If the Republicans return to power
! Mr.. Mckinley, Senator Hoar, and ex'
Senator Edmunds, speaking for theil
t party, say that they will re-enact the