The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-12

to which the people have elected them, ana
are willing and desirous to transact the busl-
ness which the people sent them to trenton
to do, and they are content to let the matter
remain in the hands of the citizens.
The truth is they are more than content.
They are tickled; almost tickled to death
over the action of the Democrats, and the
hardest task they have on their hands is TO
restrain themselves from some extravagant
demonstration of joy They were afraid
that they would be unable to restrain
that largely predominant element in their
party, which, blinded by the visions of that
political promised land flowing with the milk
and honey of patronage, would rush on TO
some extreme which would so disgust the
people that at the next election there would
be complete reversal of last falls verdict.
But now they say all danger OF that is past
by the action of the Democrats during the
past week, and they see ahead OF them
United States Senator of their own persua-
sion, and long lease of power. They are
noB at all disturbed by the Forthcoming
opinion of the Attorney General, which,
from inspired utterances of Trenton paper,
they say, will declare that the Democrats
have acted lawfully and in strict accord
ance with the Constitution. The peo--
ple they say, will not be deceived
or hoodwinked by any hair splitting
contentious of an able and experienced law
yer, arguing to bolster up lost cause. On
the contrary, they will look upon the course
of the Democrats as an attempt TO Keep
themselves in power after they-the people
had most emphatically and unmistakably
turned them out, and will see to it next fall
that they are SO deeply buried that no ex-
perienced grave robber, however expert, can
bring them to light again
DEMOCRATS DON'T LIKE IT.
The Republicans are not the only ones who
look at the situation in this light. The DEM
ocratic Senators are most heartily de-
nounced by many good Democrats, and men
who have held honorable and exalted posi-
tions in the party Others who for good and
sufficient reasons are not so outspoken, admit
that as matter of policy it was great mis-
take. Even the Senators themselves. with
the exception of Daily and Adrain, do not
attempt to defend their course. These two
go about like walking encyclopae-
dias of law, with sheepskln bound
volumes under their arms, which tney spring
upon you at the slightest provocatlon, spout
ing the Constitution and the precedent estaD.
lished by the Republicans in 1887. Love OF
the Constitution and deep reverence Tor
law and precedent comes with exceedingly
bad grace from the man who glories III ms
private grave yard in which every bill winch
does not please him, no matter of how much
public benefit it may be, is buried out OF
sight, and who trampled so numerically
upon the constitutional rights of the people
Hast year in the race track business. 1t
makes one think of the old parable of the
pearl in, a swines snout
The true inwardness of the matter is best
expressed, perhaps, in the words of a man
who is known to entertain close relations
with the Essex ring
4sJust think for a. moment" this man said
the other day in discussing the question:
SJust think what would become of our New
ark machine if the Republicans had control
of both branches of the Legislature. Why
they have prepared some ninety bills repeal
ing this, and reviewing that old law which
would soon take everything out OF our hands,
and it would require years OF hard work TO
get back to where we are today, II we ever
could again, for you know there are lots OF
men who train with us now who would flock
right over, to the Republicans as soon as they
got the handling of the loaves end fishes"
ssYes, that's So" replied his listener "but
you are only putting the evil off year, for
there will be such a big Republican major
ity next winter that it will be impossible to
try any such scheme as this one. Whereas,
if you had left the Republicans alone and
given them plenty of rope, they would have
hanged themselves so high that it would be
long time before they could get themselves
down again."
aThat's all right, but when a man has
got to die year is long time to him. He
can do good deal in it. Besides, when the
people read the Attorney Generals opinion,
who have been acting according to law and
the Constitution, they will stand by u.s."
AWAITING sTocKroN's OPINION
The Democrats place much faith upon the
Attorney-G Generals opinion, which all are
anxiously awaiting. No one pretends to
doubt that it will uphold the Democrats in
all that they have DONE A well known re-
publican has suggested that the Attorney
General in making his opinion should bear
in mind the action of the United States Sem
ate in 1865, when one John P. Stockton, pur-
porting to be a Senator from New Jersey,
was refused a seat because he had received
forty votes which the Senate declared was
not majority of eighty-one, the full num-
Der of the New Jersey Legislature.
No one, perhaps, kicks more over the
situation than the poor industrious lobby
ist. 1t makes little difference to him
whether the Legislature is Republican or
Democratic. Either presents an equally
fruitful field for the exercise of his peculiar
talent, and now, when there is neither, he is
in sackcloth and ashes.
A great deal has been said about the pres
ence of the Trenton police in the State House
on Tuesday, and the Republicans have been
getting apoplectic fits in their indignation
over what they call gross outrage upon the
monwealth.n One thing, however, is GER
tain. II it had not been for the presence of
those policemen, many "citizen OF this free
and independent commonwealth" would now
be in position to furnish the attraction of a
first class funeral or would be languishing in
pain and anguish son cot in the Tren-
ton Hospital Wednesdays experience,
when the crowd was not half so great,
plainly demonstrated that. If the doors Of
the galleries had not been thrown open
then, and the jam of humanity which was
packed into the narrow Senate corridor had
not been broken up when it was, more than
one serious casualty would have had to be
reported. The Republicans are also in
dulging in much talk to the effect that the
police were sent to the State House without
warrant of law by, the Democratic ring OF
Trenton for the sole purpose of intimidating
republicans and keeping them from seating
their lawfully elected Senators. In this
statement the Republicans do not seem to
realize that they admit that the Newark
Indians and the Camden hoodlums who
came here under the guise of the Maurice
A. Rogers Association were at the State
House for the purpose of seating their
Senators by force if necessary, and that the
presence Of the police alone prevented a
serious outbreak.
TOLD 10 PRESERVE ORDER.
Still the police were not there contrary to
law nor were they sent there by any Demo-
cratic ring. Chief McCnesney says that
Mike Nathan came to him and said that
Governor Werts ordered him, under the
State police law passed some two or more
years ago, to send squad of policemen to the
State House Tuesday afternoon. The Chief
detailed Captain Cleary, roundsman and