The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-28

OF rings and BOSSES the uirectioh ~
politics-in great or little felds-for
Individual profit, the corruption OF
the ballot, or wilful opposition to the
expressed will of the people were
utterly bad and condemnable, whe
democrats or republicans were re-
sponsible for them-we have held
that they were in a particular and
special way opposed to the spirit OF
Democracy, and therefore have re-
garded them as peculiarly criminal
and injurious in persons who pre-
| tended tx be democrats.
Thus our Democracy has not pre-
vented us on the one hand from
recognizing the public spirit OF
Mayor Wanser's administration and
the success which has thus far re-
warded his efforts, mol has it, on the
other, restrained us from denouncing
the corruption of Robert Davis
leadership, the recklessness OF the
| Street and Water Board, the out
rageous proceedings of the Bad Legis-
lature, or the lamentable effort to
maintain control of the present SEN
ate in despite of the mandate of the
people.
Watching the course OF this paper
upon one public question after an
other, the people have easily recog-
| nized that it has been always guided
by a fixed policy. Upon social ana
general economic topics it is always
conservative, though never DISTRACT
i've as regards true progress. In poll
tics, honesty and true democracy
have been its ideals, and the mere
spoiIs system its abcmination. Its
general attitude has come to be SO
we'll understood that we believe those
interested in such matters have sell
dom any difficulty in antecedently
determining the position it is likely
to assume on any given question.
People who have good causes to adj
vance always count on u support,
and those who are concerned in shady
enterprises, or who advocate ideas
harmful to the people, have learned
to dread THE NEWS opposition.
In estimating results, in f~orecastlng
events, we have always based our cal
sculations upon the ultimate triumph
of the right. The reelection of Grover
| Cleveland was always a matter OF
conviction with us. just as the vindi-
cation of his Hawaiian policy and the
supremacy of his free trade principles.
are, in our judgment, foregone con-
clusions. We foresaw the inevitable
downfall OF the Davis control of muni-
| cipal affairs of Jersey City; we fore
told the consequences of the mad
career of the Bad Legislature; we
prophesied the result of the struggle
between the rival Senates. And in
none of these cases. not to speak of
many Others, did the event belle u
calculations.
Nothing in our five years. expert
ence, it is needless to say, has shaken
our reliance upon truth, honesty and
true Democracy. We pass on to the
next chapter in the history OF The
| NEWS with the same purposes and
the same convictions, asserted in the
first and every subsequent number.
We pass on with the same hopes OF
success, the same reliance upon the
public. 1t may be that all we looked
for in the first flush Of enterprise has
not yet been realized; but so much
has been done, so many difficulties
have been overcome; SO much OPPOSE
ton conquered; SO much solid gain
has been secured; so much reception
has been reaped, that the ultimate
reward looks bigger even than it did
in the days of early confidence. 1t
sometimes looks as if in the last five
years we had builded even better than
we knew.
We have made many friends for
whom we are sincerely thankful. We
have made some enemies that we
would not lose on any terms. We
have nothing TO reproach ourselves
with on the ground of lack Of effort or
lack of honest. We have endeavored
to deserve success. We shall continue
to struggle in the same direction, and
having the people with us, we look to
Il 49, 81 - 4, .