The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-16
THE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM.

Inc Deuocratlc party OF new Jersey
in convention assembled. declare:-
b we reafirm the National Demo
cratic platform adopted at Chicago IL
1892, and cordially indorse the admins
tration of President Cleveland, will
whose determination to protect the peo'
pie of this country from the evils eyel
attendant upon a debasement of the Ma.
tionai currency We are in most earnest
We congratulate the people upon the
devival Of prosperity. everywhere cyl
industrial depression with which We have
been afflicted during the past three
years is chargeable to the national legis-
lSton enacted by the Republican party
unjust tariff laws. to enrich a few favor
ties by the oppression of millions OF
paralysation of our markets.. That
paralysis. with an empty national treas
ury; were the legacies received from
a Republican administration.
The battle against a system fostered
~ violation of self-evident laws of po-
litical economy has been o Every
struggle, against ~intrenched wrong is at
TENDED by privation and suffering, but
these are never endured in vain. The
lesson Of cause and effect has been thor
abide by the decision of an intelligent
people who are now entering upon a
period OF prosperity that will prove both
We denounce as -qaliciously false the
statements of the Republican State plat
form that the government of New Jersey
has been conducted by the Democratic
party IN a dishonest or -extrayagant man
ner. The Senate Committee, after an in
vestigation costing thousands of dollars
and involving the scrutiny of every ex-
penditure made under Democratic admin
istration. reported that. in the purchase
of supplies for the State, there had been
extraVagance or malfeasance on the part
of two or theree State employees.
In the condemnation of those wrongs
every good citiz sa Joins. but the at
individuals upon the Democratic party,
or the Democratic administrations of
this State, is not warranted by the cyl
dence. and is a violation of the rules
which common deceney requires to con-
troll political discussion tive citizens
V %it I sfat debt, Th tha 1acf millions fha5 suf Of st aeilar rs
have been expended during the past
twelve. years in the Improvement of
State institutions, and that during that
levied upon the property of private own
ers, are, in themselves. a sufficient an
During Il the eI pas p wenty-ffve years the
Democrat, and during that period the
e inan lnSes Ss the and St s1pe hdys R mifR s q esre
and integrity that have resulted in CIV
ing New Jersey the deserved fame Of
State in the Union. When IN official
proves %recreant to the trust reposed IN
him. he is no longer a Democrat, and
the members of our party entrusted
with the administration of the law have
never allowed the plea Of p~artisanship
cution and punishment.
We favor the adoption of a constitu-
tional amendment that will render i'm
possible any law for the legalization of
publican party IN this n other States
ton of betting upon horse races, has
been characterized by. trickery and de-
ceit. As evidence of this we call atten-
ton to the course of the Republican Lee
~gislature of New York, whose action in
attempting to override the recently adop-
ted constitution of the State and permit
gambling on horse races, was this year
approved by a Republican Governor, and
to the further fact that every bet made
upon a horse race within New Jersey
during the past fourteen years has been
made under the protection Of Chapter
one hundred and forty-seven of the Laws
of 1880, enacted by a Republican Senate
We demand that the tax laws of
this State be amended to provide for the
equal taxation OF property not used Tor
poses.
the enactment g OF N laws That mat VIII San+r secure re
the potable waters of the State. The
recent attempt of the city of Jersey City
TO secure a supply Va WuO1tSOIIS WdbC
absolutely necessary to the continuance
of municipal existence, has disclosed the
dangers that threaten the people OF the
Today the municipalities of New Jer-
sey are at the mercy of a few corpora
lions who have acquired control OF near
the State and who are in a position to
demand what they will before allow
ing our cities to obtain this necessary
an intolerable condition be found. The
people of Jersey City demand and should
receive the sympathetic support OF the
IS now presented to that city of bank
ruptcy or ~depopulation. of buying water
by the gallon or reeeiying; a supply
few years, be presented to every popu-
ious municipality in New Jersey.
In his annual message to the Legisla-
Governor Ludlow, uttered this warning
"The Importance of a broad and COM
prehensive consideration at the present
time of probable demand and supply OF
water for domestic purposes in the fu-
ture canno be .over-estimated. If there
is any one subject In which the States
served for the use and benefit of the
public it is in the G~od-given waters OF
our streams, 50 necessary TO the con-
venience, comfort and health Oh our
while many of the communities of the
State are at the threshold OF a great
growth and prosperity, the sources and
courses of their water supply are, by nat
ural and artificial causes, being both di-
minished4 and polluted. 1t requires no
great power of prophesy to foresee how
dire at no remote day must be the con-
sequences of this condition of affairs in
the interest of the advanced portion of
our State unless it's evils are recognized
and provided against"
Since these words were written. every
Governor of the State has repeated the
warning and called for legislation to
protect the people. Corporate interests
and legislative neglect have successfully
united to prevent the provision of a
statutory remedy, and self-preservat:on
demands tina those who seek our suf-
frages should pledge themselves to undo
the wrong and do the right.
the fact that the management of the Re
committed to the hands of those whose
which they nope to sell to our mum
lions. The credit Of controlling and di-
recting the Republican G~ubernatorial
Convention has been properly given to
a gentleman who is the leading spirit of
the water companies of New Jersey. and
the nominee of that convention last win
ter appeared before the Legislature as
Counsel for the Water Syndicate'' and
Successfully opposed all legislation pro-
yiding for the RELIEF of the people from
the grasp of his clients.
We condemn the action of the Re-
publican Legislature, which rtdiculed
.e- n,,ac paada for ton ia-