The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-15
WITHOUT HONOR At HOME
Essex County's Democracy
Roundly Scores Senator
James Smith.

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The Essex County Democracy met Mon
day night at No. 749 Broad street, Newark,
after the news anne that the Senate Tartfl
bill had passed the House. They decided to
issue an address expressing their opinion OF
tho course taken by senator Smith. Tyler
Parmly, Otto Schlessinger, Thomas Farley,
Theodore Mead, Joseph Wehrle, William
Hill and others expressed their opinions
without the least reserve.
The address is directed $50 the Democrats
of Essex County, These are extracts:
ga prophet is not without honor save in
his own country This is a trite saying and
conveys a world of meaning. Its fun slgnla-
canoe is that a man may sometimes nave
honor in a strange country. because ne Is
known for what he is not, and he is without
honor in his own country because he Is
known for what he is. The aphorlsm ap
plies with peculiar force to the Junior Sen
ator from New Jersey III the United States
Senate. Deceit. ignorance and hypocrisy
will come to the surface sooner or later as
surely as water finds its level. The Essex
county democracy desires to leave nothing
to uncertainty regarding its relation to the
unique Individual in the United States Sen
ate who is SO ignorant of the interests OF his
own State as to pronounce the manufacture
of sugar as one of its greatest industries.
ssNothing is more easy to employ than the
language of condemnation, but 1t VIII not be
questioned by those who are familiar with
the character and methods of the Junior
Senator from New Jersey that the sweeping
censures which have recently been passed
upon him. are deserved. Surprise has been
expressed in some quarters at the action or
ex-Aldernan James Smith, Jr., on the
question of tariff and his attituee towards
President Cleveland. In hts letter to the
GH--I--,~@I IN ~ RNsA
es in favor of the Senate bill only, and in his
letter to the New York World" he attempts
to make it appear that he is now n always
has been an earnest supporter OF Grover
Cleveland and in favor of free raw material.
These answers are al insult to the lntelll-
gence of those he addressed and Q complete
exhibit of his ignorance.
In the early spring of 1892, when the
Question Of Presidential candidates was be-
ing widely discussed, he, IN the presence Of
several gentlemen in the Jeffersonian Club
rooms in this city, expressed hifnsely against
Mr. Cleveland in the most violent language
that his limited VOCABULARY could supply.
Rhe the time arrived to select delegates to
the State Convention he did everything III
his power to send Hill men to that conven-
ton. and it was only when his minions were
overwhelmingly defeated that he changed
his tactics and, with his hypocrisy which
well becomes any ill conditioned lnlnd
and character, became, ostensibly, IA
Cleveland man. His chagrin was
great, but he was too mnch
of a politician and too little of a statesman
to maintain a manly and independent stand
for the man of his choice"
The address continues:-s'Vain-glorious
and arrogant as is this pscudo-statesInan, he
will never be able to rid himself of the fact
that he was not the choice of the people OF
the State for the position he holds, but was
elected by tho votes of race track gamblers
who held the majority in ii Legislature that
was too vile and corrupt to have a history.
He can also lay to heart. with what unction
he may, the other tiattering fact that the
deed had scarcely been accomplished when
the people of the State arose en- rnasse and, in
their righteous indignation, swept that
legislature from the face of the earth as
with the bosom of destruction. In tones that
Numbered until the reverberations were
heard from Maine to the Gulf, the people of
New Jersey protested against the degrade
tion of a State that had given to the United
States Senate a Dayton. a Freiinghuysen, a
Stockton and a Randolph.
"Ne affirm, without fear of successful
contradiction, that the most disreputabls
methods known to modern times have been
employed in the last ten years by the
Democratic leaders in this country to per
petuate their power and enrich them
SelTCS. IL duCDulCA hlCa OaNAt AApS iSc
ever been:--'What is there III itl'
Out of this political quagmire was evolved
the INSCRIPTIONS d~emagegue who, by some
inscrutable dispensation of Providence, oc-
the seat of a Randolph in the United
States Senate. It is TO be sincerely regretted
that there is no power by which he can be
plucked therefrom and banished outside the
party lines. Better by far that the party be
in the minority forever than be obliged to
endure the companionship of traitors.
1--WE know hat the Democrats of Essex
county are in accord with Mr.. Cleveland's
views on the tariff, and we believe the time
has come when they should SO express them
selves.
'sWe stand ready now to join hands with
all true Democrats who believe that party
pledges should be kept to r%eorganize our
party upon a just and proper basis, believing
that unless this is done, and that speedily,
our party will be doomed to defeat for years
to come" s,ug