The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-26
DALY'S ANSWER.
Writes Another Interesting
Letter to Allan L.
MCDermott.
WHICH WILL BE THE LAST, He SAYS
Compliments of the Season, With
Much Spice and Mustard
Added.

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ALLAN L. McDermott, Esq.
"DEAR SIR-'Paint me as i am said
Cromwell to the young artist. 1t will be my
endeavor in answer to your communication
| of Monday last in the New York World, to
| paint you as you are. Your letter in no way
answers any of the particulars charged
against you in my communication to the
New York World. Your painstaking effort
seems to have been to reflect upon the late
distinguished Congressman, Mr.. McAdoo,
and your humble ~servan 1t would seem to
me you are a fit illustration of the quota
tion:l'Whom the gods would destroy they
| first make mad Not content with attack
ing MI. McAdoo and myself, you seem i'm
bued with the idea that in some way or other
| Mr.. Robert Davis animate my letter to you.
| Let me here say Mr.. Davis had no knowl-
edge of my intention to write, nor was he or
| any other person consulted. 1t is merely an
other OF the vagarleS OF a ~Wrought-up mag
nation. 1t would have been better had you
refrained altogether from answering my
communication, for in your alleged answer
you give an opportunity to present a bill of
| particulars Of a few OF the inlquitouS trans
actions you have been engaged in since you
assumed the lead and control of the Demo-
cratic party of this State.
sIn part OF your communication you state
that if my statements are true you have
| been a very poor sort of a leader, that you
nave no desire to change my opinion, and
that you are quite positive | would not have
| received a reply had l omitted a slur upon
the memory of one who was your friend
| abiding to the deceased Congressman Nc
Donald. In wha part of my letter l re-
| fected upon Mr.. Mcdonald l know not.
His name is not mentioned therein, nor can
| any conclusion of the character you draw be
| deduced therefrom by any other than a per-
son affected with a diseased imagination
| and at times | have thought that really you
were growing daft by reason of an undue
your system. You diseased imagination,
or madness, is ~strikingly apparent when the
name of McAdoo is mentioned-hOw it
| strikes your weak mind. You run, at its
| mention, like a scared cur. and hide in the
grave of the late Congressman Mcdonald,
| whence you yelp demagogism and foreign
politics. What an arch ~demagogue you are
"a fit associate for Herr Most and his an
| archistic and communistic mob.
IN ERE &c M'ADOO.
"You talk about Congressman McAdoo's
| ancestors in the far-off Irish battle, a sub
| ject entirely and absolutely foreign to my
communication and fitting only for a de-
based and polluted mind. Your allusion to
his ancestry should be treated by every de-
cent citizen with that scorn, derision n
contempt that its u~tterance justly merits. L
might remark if you had any ancestors at
the battle of the Boyne they must nave been
on both sides, or your genealogy misleads.
At any rate, sir, you have no, place with
| brave. believing men, for you believe in
nothing, and you are only brave in blufing
| weaker men. Such patriotism as yours is
| indeed the last refuge Of a coward, false to
everything and anything. and VIGOROUSLY
! ~temptuou of the land OF his ancestors.
| You are funnier than Bill Nye when he
| talks of patriotism, religion, brave men n
| loyal soldiers. Such blatant d~emagogism,
such famboyant melodramatic slush; even
| the gallery gods are throwing peanut shucks
at the broken boss. See you strut when you
tell how you presided over the convention in
Grove street that defeated Mr.. McAdoo
! Well, Boss McDermott, the committee was
| all legal and regular then, was it? Now,
| when the pendulum swings the other way
| and the machinery is grinding your aSplra-
tions, it is all wrong, is lts
You take great pains to quote figures to
make a comparison of the vote of McAdoo.
| received at the several elections in which he
ran. have no desire to be Mr.. McAdoo's
| particular champion, or to delve into figures
to show your inaccuracies, but be it enough
| to state that he was elected member OF Con-
| gress by splendid majorities each time that
he was a candidate, pitted, as he was,
against some of the brightest ornaments in
the Republican party. At the same time
| YOU and your friends directed every energy
| to attain his defeat, notably in 1886. You
! were then Chairman of the Democratic
1 State Committee. You became q Benedict
Arnold to the Democracy, organized a bolt
in the party against the nomination of Mr..
McAdoo in nominating Mr.. Kerr as an indie
pendent Democratic candidate against him,
and YOU likewise went into the Republican
party and solicited men of prominence to
| become candidates on the Republican ticket
against AIR. McAdoo, and promised them
your aid. And yet you call yourself a
democratl Notwithstanding your influence
against McAdoo, he secured a plurality in
the county of 4,253. Let me conclude this
portion in reference to McAdoo by saying
| that when his praises are being sung in the
| future you will have gone down to posterlty
as a gutter politician.
THREE PIECEs OF LEGISLATION.
"To come to the most material part of
| your communication in answer to mine In
no wal do you deny the accusations alleged
| against YOU. You have not denied the re-
| sponsibility of the vicious legislation of the
\ past few wears. but seek to cover yourself
| by specious pleading, which is only resorted
| to by the guilty to cover their infamous
transactions. VINO was Responsible Ior tne
| infamous coal combine, and for the legisla-
ton giving effect to that combination l
| charge that you were, and that you infu-
| enced legislators to vote for the passage of
the dill upon the pretense that you were Gre
| ating an antagonlstic corporation as against
| the pennsylvania ftallrOau. Dy tulS means
you influenced honest Democratic Legisla-
| tors, who believed their party might be bene-
| flied, while it was your intention to create a
monopoly that might increase the price of a
| commodity that was used alike by the rich
and the poor. Did you influence this legis-
/ ton for the love of party or the love of SELF
| Di d your party benefit by ita
"Echarge you also with influencing sub
way legislation by the creation of a State
Board of Commissioners of Electrical Sub
WAYS. This legislation was a strike at local
self government and an interference with
municipal bodies. The powers vested by this
bill in this commission heretofore had been
exclusively exercised by municipal bodies,
and when this commission was created it hal
for its purpose no other object than to OPP
press wealthy corporations who might de-
sire the use of the streets of cities for tele-
graphic, telephone or electrical purposes. 1t
subordinated the municipal body to this COM
mission and gave them absolute control of
the streets, avenues and highways of the
cities of this State. Is not this vicious legis-
lation? Does legislation of this character
aid the Democratic party2 Do you think
that the Chairman Of the Democratic State
Committee, who was actuated purely by
love of party and not selfish motives, would
permit legislation Of this kinds Did you not
become a beneficiary under this act! Did
you not know that g howl of indignation
went up from one end of the State to the
other at the passage of this law
1.-THE browning act of this species of legis