The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-26

DoQeTl the DemOcTaLic palbys Wualu u
chairman of a Democratic State Committee,
| who had the interest of his party alone at
heart as against that of self and avarlce,
permit legislation Of this characters These
three transactions are covered all over witt
infamy and helped to bring the Democratic
party to the condition that it now is in the
State of New Jersey.
Life is too short for me to waste much
further time with you. Knight go on with
a long catalogue of sins of omission and COM
mission upon your part, but the public know
them well; your party has reason to know
them, for it has suffered much odium and
contempt because of their existence. One
more allusion to legislation and am done
with that portion Of it. Did you not cause
to be passed the Five-Year Mayoralty actg
Was this legislation not unwise and undemo-
cratic? BY it you nave delivered over the
once Democratic Gibraltar into the hands OF
the Republicans for five years, through a
| Mayor of Jersey City. Would d wise leader
consi Ter this judicious legislation, making
the Term of Office of Mayor longer than that
| Of President of the United Statesg
"These suggestions that | have made are
! the reasons which prompted me to ask you
to step down and out of the Chairmanship'of
| the Democratic State Committee, and COM
pletely answer your windy harangue as to
what you did as Chairman thereof. You
| never gave tone to Democratic deliberations,
and your Craftsmanship of the Democratic
State Committee never added one vote to
the Democratic party, unless it might be
obtained by means other than those called
honorable.
JUST A LITTLE PERSONAL.
"Well, you could not conclude your letter
without paying a little personal attention to
me. You say that you are in nowise re-
sponsible for the fact that l was ever nomin-
ated for either branch of the Legislature
I'M = 4. L.. - H. - 1xz D,A kln+ will
not bear criticism in your entire article, and L
thank the Almighty that it is true. | know
you were opposed to me; you knew that l
was possessed of sufficient manhood torefuse
to be bossed and BIN to the dictation OF a
politica | mountebank such as you. You say
/ am unfit to be Senator. From whatgsystem
of reasoning you deduced this idea | know
not; certainly you are an incompetent judge.
The question of my fitness was left to a con-
stituency that | honor. By the largest vote
ever accorded a man running for the office OF
Senator | was elected to that office. Twice
have my people honored me, and both times
gainst your wish. In striking contrast was
their Judgment of your fitness for Mayor.
They but six months before ~repudiated you
at the ballot-box and said that you were I'M
fit to be Mayor of Jersey City by the largest
majority ever given against a candidate that
ran for that office. The people evidently
thought, as a great many others not residents
of your city think, that all the qualifications
and fitness you represented was in your
big stomach and your strut. This may
seem hard but it is nevertheless true.
"You speak sarcastically, | believe, when
YOU say | was nominated in the Jail. | be-
lieve there was a conference in the parlors
OF the apartments occupied by the warden,
or the jailer, of prominent democrats, and
they agreed that l should be nominated for
Senator, and this was without my soliclta-
ton or request, and much against my pro-
test. You should not nave reflected upon
me in that manner, Mr.. McDermott; that
was unwise, for it seems TO me that it acts
as a boomerang that the Jail candidate
should run over the same territory that you
did, be elected and receive q handsome ma
jority, while you, not nominated in the
Jail, should be repudiated by a like
handsome majority. For the sake of com
parison, you must have been nominated IN
some place worse than q Jail.
But enough time has been spent on you
now, so let me conclude by saying to you,
your time for bossing, bullying little legisla-
tors. passing bills at a nod, accommodating
the Democratic party of the State, handling
its funds in great sums and accounting to no
one, will soon be past; from this position
you will degenerate into the ex-boss. the ex-
king, to a plain, unexpected citizen, without
enough influence to be elected constable. This
is hard, Allan, isn't it, But here you will
be, and here you will remain; the plain
people lave no further use for 0 and so
back you go into the lumber-room, one of
the old stuffed figures in a soon-to-be-forgot-
ten play. The graveyard and the medieval
battle-ground suit you well; stay there,
Allan, and if you remain until the voice of
the people demands your resurrection, you
will not come forth until you are due in COM
pany with the early English kings, of whose
place in history o seem, as about most
other things, to be very ignorant.
Farewell, Allan, farewell for awhile, in
the hope that I some day may meet you in
convention assembled, where our respective
merits may be tested.
believe me-, yours,
CIVILIAN d. DAILY,
s'Subject of no boss.
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