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STAFF LITTLgs DEMOCRACY.

From the Neqrark journal Of Tuesday.
In a long winded communication, printed
very appropriately in the Trenton STATE Ga
zette, Mr.. Henry S. Little of Monmouth (the
uncle and not father-in-law of e~x-Senatorial
Candidate Terhunel makes a scurrilous at
tack upon the editor of the Trenton True
American, in reply to the charge that he,
Mr.. Little, had Influenced his nephew to alb
stain from contrasting the seat of Mr.. Brad
ley.
In this communication Mr.. Little says that
Mr.. Terhune never asked his advice and
none was volunteered. Referring to the
Journals statement that his opposition to
the contest arose from his malignant, per-
sonal hate for Senator Mcpherson, as Brad
lev's vote, as asmember of the Senate, would
end McPherson's senatorial career, Mr..
Little says
Il nave never yet tried to beat Mcpherson
with anyone but a democrat. That is where
[ differ from Mcpherson. Mcpherson did
beat his Democrat" colleague, Senator Ran
doIph, with Senator Sewell, a Republican. l
would not be half satisfied to defeat Mr..
Mcpherson with anyone but a democrat. A
roundabout way would not suit me-"
For more than ten years Staff Little has
been a marplot in the Democratic party. In
1888 he sought to defeat Leon Albeit for
Governor. He will not deny that. And no
llldu LII DOllG1Cd1 IN LIZ I'LL RUoUC OFC SOb
the excoriation which Albeit gave Little in
the Opera House at Trenton. Albeit was
elected Governor, and he gave to the State
the splendid revenue laws that for ten years
have relieved the people of a State tax.
Staff Little never got the opportunity to
help elect a republican in place OF Senator
Mcpherson, so his virtue in that respect is a
negative one. He did what he could to de-
feat Albeit for United States Senator in
1887, and of the republicans who broke away
from Sewell in the joint meeting had re-
turned to his support, SeweH would have been
elected. Thu outcome of that election was
the choice of a man who was utterly unit to
represent New Jersey in the United States
Senate, who was a chronic malcontent, like
Little himself, and who never opened his
mouth during the six years of his term.
There is only one construction to be placed
on the refusal of Mr.. Terhune to make a
contest in which he was sure to come out the
victor. His opponent had openly and fla
GRAVITY violated the election law, and the
election was invalidated by that violation.
he OWED this duty to the party as well as to
the interests of justice. He was undo an
extra obligation to act, inasmuch as the vote
of the Monmouth senator made the majority
in the Senate and for the passage of laws by
both houses. There is only one imaginable
motive for his recreancy of duty, and Mr..
Little's well known predictions supply that
motive.
In fact, Mr.. Little. in his communication
to the STATE Gazette, cannot suppress his de
light at the results. He is charmed to find
the Democratic party of the State embar-
raised, threatened with humiliation by par
tisan legislation, and Sewell not unlikely to
be elected in the place of Senator Mcpherson
in 1895. He is only vexed that there should
remain any doubts in the situation, that re-
suits are not hastened, that there is anything
left of the Democratic party, and that he
has not already inserted his dagger beneath
Senator McPherson's fifth rib.