The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-09

nav stay for good. Let the Democrats out
the Republicans on honest and econo-
,ical legislation and the Democratic party
will come to the top as it always has. 1t IS
5he only enduring party that this country
has known. 1t has principles inherent IN
our form of government the chiefest OF
which is that the majority must rule. You
just as well try to make the Delaware
River turn around and run up to Easton as
to attempt to make ten a majority OF twenty
one. The Attorney-General may make a
most logical opinion, even an unanswerable
one, if you please, but there is not one man
in a hundred who will read it. The plain
man will say there Is some hocus-
pocls in it, that if the Constitution does
that by any device, devilitry or con-
that eleven is not more b
ten, why he will say about the Constitution
what Mr.. Toodles said to Mrs. Toodles when
she brought home from auction a door plate
with ~Thompson's name Oh it. Governor
Werts SAYS in his message to the Senator
sit seems to be the common law of the
legislative bodies mentioned, established by
uniform custom and precedent, that a claim
ant presenting credentials regular in form
and attested by proper authority, hould in
the first Instance be seated thereon"
He says in his next paragraphs am
not aware that any different rule is sought
OF lHU6uucu W DO uPphACA III cWC PNN
Senate"
OF course the Governor would not presume
that the Senate intended to violate uniform
custom and precedent. He would expect
them to follow both, as it had obtained in the
United States Senate, the Senate OF New
Jersey and all legislative bodies. When onr
constitution was adopted in 1874 with the
clause in it that the Senate should be the
Judge of the qualifications Of its members, IS
it not fair to believe hat they meant it to be
construed according to the universal Gus
tom and precedent hat then existeds Ii
not, then it is competent for this Senate to
swear in one Senator to make a quorum,
refer the credentials of the other ten TO a COM
mittee, and hold them there for one, two or
three years.
A CHAPTER ON BEAUTY.
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Little in
his first letter dealt not over kindly with Mr..
Little on the point of personal appearance,
hkening him, for instance to the coyote as
described by Mark Twain. Mr.. Little does
not dodge the issue. This is what'he has to
say on the subject Of good looks:-
You enumerate my many imperfections,
personal and otherwise. You object that L
am tall and slim, and in so many respects
nave qualities of your adopted friend, the
COYOTE. I plead guilty to the tall and slim
and am no better satisfied in respect to my
personal pulchritude than you seem to be,
and at times feel that Providence has not
been as kind as l could wish. But do you
know that the thing that struck me as most
strange was that you should venture to
~criticise mes 1t would be a strange taste
that pronounced you pretty. You will re
member that Mr.. Lincoln was afflicted as L
am by Providence in being tall and slim. He
no doubt may have lacked the other qual-
ties of the coyote that have fallen to my lot.
He had a story which he told upon himself
to show his consciousness of being plain. He
said he was out in the woods in Kentucky,
one day hunting, when he met a big,
brawny, scrawly hunter, who, when he got
near to Mr.. Lincoln, deliberately raised his
rifle and drew q bead on him, saying, Say
your prayers"
Mr.. Lincoln said, "What have I ever done
to youg" Oh, nothing" he said, but l
swore that if ever I met a homelier man than
1 am, | would shoot him on sight" Mr..
Lincoln calmly looked him over, up and
down, and in the coolest, softest speech said,
stranger, if you are satisfied | am an
uglier man than you, please shoot, and shoot
right off, When l survey you, short.
snappy and sandy, with those ghttering
weasel eyes that guarded the executive room
at the State House more zealously than
eighty deputies do our State Prison, l con-
clude that after all Providence let me off
pretty well, without intending any disre-
spect to the coyote.
A CHALLENGE.
Mr.. Little further throws down a financial
gauntlet to Mr.. Mar in the following
terms:-
Now, Mr.. Sole Editor, you are entirely
responsible for this controversy which COM
pels me to put in my protest against the sui
cidal policy foisted upon the Democratic
party for the benefit of you and other mso-
lent bosses who parcel out jobs to each other
at the expense of the public. l have talked
with more than a score of the best men IN
the party, who have occupied prominent
positions in it, and without an exception
they nave deprecated the policy that is being
pursued. l probably may not keep the right
kind of company, but as you started me l
intend to do my duty and not have the
grand old party of principle crucifed be
tween YOU and the Newark journal.
l was trying hard to lead a moderately
Christian life, with very poor success l adj
nit. About the most difficult thing to do is
to forgive your enemies. | had succeeded In
that direction until L got down to you. Then
I came to a full stop and concluded to tackle
that little job later, when many of your
meannesses had faded from memory.
Now / have predicted disaster if we should
shut out the majority. That | am perfectly
sincere in this conviction I have a PROPOSE
ton to make-financial, of course-the only
kind that would command your attention.
1t is this:-Ift the Republican majority of the
Senate is not allowed to enact laws this win
ter. rightfully or wrongfully, / don't stop to
discuss that, you and ! will deposit our GER
titled check for s., 200, with some person to
be agreed upon between us, as to whether or
not the next Legislature will be Republican
on Joint ballot, l taking the affirmative of
the proposition. To avoid, as far as pos
sible the charge that this would
be a wager, I will agree if l win
your $1,000 that / will send it to the
Princeton football team of next year, with
your compliments. You can keep my 81, 900
if my prediction is not verified by the result.
Thus you have the advantage of getting
money or fame. 1t is one-sided, but that is
to be expected.
If you should accept, l will be satisfied it
is not your money, but that does not matter.
A NEAT HOT.
Here is another cheerful sareasm:-
You speak of your charity as a justitica-
ton for taking ten dollars out of the treasury
for two dollars worth of work. A better
name for it would be conscience money.
When you moved up West State street, as
near the State Treasurer's Office as you could
get, ! knew then that the Railroad Commits
sion would raise the valuation of the railroad
property in the State. Your port. eullis that
stands alongside of your house is the most
uncharitable, ~forbidding, in~hospitable and
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