The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-29

l. SlldIlo VI AZ "a r.
sounded from one hustings to another
and been echoed and re-echoed in the
party organs. The appeal is to the
ignorance, the timidity, the selflsnness
of voters. The cry is for the demolition
of Cleveland's great work OF progress.
Mckinley is the presiding spirit OF the
campaign and the promised lane is one
fenced around with a Chinese wall built
up of overwhelming taxes.
There are before the voters of Hudson
today two men who seek to be nlteo
into prominent places in National politics
in whole or in part by their SURFACES.
Cne of these is William ]. Sewell, the
other is Thomas McEwan. They are
fitting champions of the Republican
cause. William J. Sewell has been in
| politics in this State for about a genera
ton, and in all that time no man can
point to one good or wise thing that he
He has kept down everything that was
| ~virtuous, honest or progressive in the
manhood of his own party. The years
| are marked bys the ghosts of bright
| young statesmen whom he has driven
| out of politics because they dared to
be clean and public spirited and inde-
| pendent. Fools like Grubb and selfish
schemers like Kean, Hobart and Murphy
have been his tools and his allies. He
| has debased the tone of our Legislature
| and soyn the seeds of corruption which
| have so fourished in our politics. 1t
| He has built up a railway domination
more complete and scientific than the
notifies of any other State enjoys.
We feel it's influence in every street we
cross, and in every dollar of taxes we
| nav. General Sewell is not only an as
| pirant for reelection to the United States
Senate, he is the confident owner OF the
| honor, i'll case his party is successful
We lave it in his own words in the IN
terview with a reporter of the Newark
Times" printed in that paper last
week and reprinted in our news columns
and those of all the New York papers.
Do the voters of Hudson county desire
to place this prize within his grasp?
Would any man calling himself a Demo-
Graf, at least, cast a vote to SEND MIN
to Washington to aid the cause OF mon
| onoly and fight the battle of the railway
| corporations? Remember, then, that
| every vote cast for a Republican AS
| semblyman is a vote for William j..
Sewell.-
AS for Mr.. Thomas McEwan, the Re-
| publican candidate for Congress, he
stands before the people in a particular
way the representative of all that is
dangerous in the Republican party. In
the campaigns of 1890 and 1892, there
was before the people a question far
more vital to the life of the Nation and
its free institutions than the tariff
or the SILVER question OF LIE HpPio
priations of the Billion Congress.
| It was the question whether the Federal
| Government or rather the party which
| then happened to control it should DOM
mate all future elections with an ire
| sistible machinery of Federal super
| visors and United States marshals. back
| ed by the rifles and the bayonets OF the
| regular army. The facts are too recent
| for any necessity to exist for remind
ing the voters how near this terrible
| system was to obtaining the sanction of
law in the Congress when Reed, Nc
| Kinley, Cannon and other apostles OF the
| neo-Republican dispensation held carnival
| of partisan tyranny. 1t rs unnecessary,
too. to remind the voters of the partial
| realization of his plan OF Federal DOM
| nation which had prevailed for over
| twenty years and in connection with
\ which the name of John I. Davenport
| will go down to historic infamy. 1t is
| almost equally unnecessary to remind
| the voters of Hudson County that
| Thomas McEwan is the latest personal
| representative of this hateful scheme of
| oppression in. this State. The noblest
| and best work of the present Congress
was the abolition of this whole system
of ~legalized corruption of the suffrage.
| Under the leadership of David B. Hill
it reduced John I. Davenport from a
| station of 1egalized license beyond the
restraint even of the Federal courts to
a mere private station; it tore down
| that iron cage in the New York Post
| Office building which degraded our rule
to the level of a medieval olligarchy; it
] took away from a thousand chartered
| bulldozers in every State in the Union,
| their autocratic warrants. their prison
| cells. their badges, their bludgeons, their
revolvers, all the c~ontrivances of terror
| ism by which they had sought to tyran-
nize over the weak and forcibly divert
the stream of public opinion.
Among those who were deprived of
their commissions to bulldoze was
Thomas McEwan, the same Thomas Nc
| EVAN who now asks the people of Hud-