The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-19
sewell aud Hobart Talk Out.

contains two very Instructive interviews.
They are with the two leading Republic
cans of the State, William j. Sewell and
Garrett 4. Hobart. They prove first that
all the ante-election prophecies regarding
General sewelrs cinch on the Senator
ship were well founded, ard second that
sewen goes into the Senate the same
old sewell-an extremist in all the narrow
ana mistaken theories OF MS party.
a1r. Hobart announces that SO far from
allowing himse,e TO be made the rally
ing centre of a revolt against sewell he
VIII net even "eon1plieate his friends by
asking them 10 cast a complimentary
vote for him. He knows. he says, the
labor. time and effort expended by Gen
orsl sswell. he admirss his record as a
Senator. and he thinks The General would
have a rieht TO consider it presumptu-
Gus on the part of anyone to erdeavor
TO take away from him that to which
..he was SO clearly entitled" This is a
GOOD frank statement of the proposition
mat the Office belongs to the boss. 1t is
goYnd Repubiicanism, and in particular,
IL Is important coming from Hobart, be
cause, after all. Hobart is about the
oziy man who could be made the figure
heed of an ~anti-sewen movement with
the least prospect of success. The inter-
view was evidently procured, to order,
by the organ of Ring Republicanisnl, and
it settles the Senatorial choice, to all in
tents ana purposes.
It has an ADDED significance. too, from
IFS collocation with the long sewell talk
printed in. the very next column of the
payer. This remarkable utterance is,
VITA TIE exception Of senator s~hernan's
reeant interview. the strongest d~eclara-
ten Ct proteetiouist IDEAS that has been
n7ade by any Republican in a year. It
is true it is altogether general in char
aater. but it is strong enough to indicate
tilat the General SIN believes in Nc
Eisieyism. and THINKS that it eonamends
Itself to the people as a policy This
you'd indicate that a serious split was
imminent in the Republican party. The
tendency Of Reed, Harrison and a host
OF others towards freer trade is not
tenicd by themselves. They explain
their change of front by talking of
changed conditions, but in fact it is they
who have changed. They learned the
Lesson Of 1892. and learned it well. That
General seveil is on the reactionary
side is not a little painful, since he must
be our Senator, but it is hardly sur
p-ising. The amusing thing about it is
that while he himself shows a total dis
rera-a Of the vote of 1892. he speaks
thus Of the Democratic leaders who are
not turned aside from the path of logic
and conscience by temporary defeat
..Tieir leadiag men show no signs of
re~tenfarcc. IT is hard for Q party 20
eat crew before the Whole world and
acknowledges that II had made a gigantic
r1istaEa. BESIDES, there Is something in
t1r atmosphere Of the National CAPITOL
that strangely developers, often to mos
straus proportions, the pride Of personal
opinion among The representatives CT the
people. Many of these Elen, when they
find themselves associated together. in
power beneath the dome of the Capitol,
forget that they arc the servants, and
imagine themselves to be the masters of
the people. To those who keep them
selves in close and sympathetic touch
clothed with a little brief authority to
betray the i~nsolence OF Office, is a curious
and melancholy phenomenoni haye
members of Congress to fout and defy
the popular will as expressed in the re-
cent election"
Considering that the Republican party
passed the Mckinley law after election
to power on a platform which promised
quick reduction. and considering the
spirit in which it took the punishment of
its perfidy in 1880 and 1892, these express
sions of the General come with a rather
bad grace.
The General thinks the cause of Demo
cratic overthrow was as permanent as it
was deep. Everybody else thought the
same of the Republican overthrow, last
Z time. Unfortunately we were mistaken.
We rather think the General, if he be-
1ieves what he says, will nave a surprise
party in 1896.
I'm THESE QayS u CiSdp SehodlioA4"'h'H
sermons like those of the Rev. Mr..
Vail of the First Universalist Church
are refreshing. Here is a man who has
brains and learning and who devotes
them to honest enquiry and teaching
upon spiritual matters, instead of in
the invention of bicycle fads, private
detective freaks, scavenger raids and
political diatribes. Mr.. Wallis sermons
on religious evolution and Biblical criti-
cism nave been among the most interest
ing preached in this city in many years.
They make good reading without one
word of sensationalism or humbug of
any sort. OF course this is said with
out any design to endorse Mr.. Vaifs
views. 1t is not necessary to agree with
him in any particular in order to adj
mire the conservatism of his range OF
topics on the conscientious earnestness
on which his theories nave their founda'
ton.
THE Rev. DIR. ScudGer preached one