The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-17
This paper is Democrats IN principles
end is Independent in its uie,os Oh q. local
questions.



The next Governor of New Jersey will
be a Democrat. The certainty with which
this result can be predicted is mainly OF
Republican making. That party, three
months ago, appeared to have an ex-
cellent opportunity of carrying the
State. BY a shameless discrimination
Its agents in the Legislature succeeded
in exposing to public condemnation cer-
tain scandals in which Democratic Off
Gals were involved. They had power to
cover up all or nearly all wrong done
by Republicans. They were able to
make it appear to unth.nking people that
the Democratic party was responsible
for all the w~ickedness in the State.
Bat the extra session has disposed of
all the pretence of superfluols virtue SO
deliberately put on during the VOORHEES,
enquiry. The proceedings were just
long enough and just varied enough to
fully confirm the popular suspicion that
party advantages and not real reform
was the object of the whole proceedings.
The establishment of a system of an
nual appropriations might have been
great Onward step. 1t was turned into
a vehicle for Republic an -extravagance.
In a short but telling letter to the
..World,' published this morning. Allan
J.. McDermott says on this point
Give to the State of New Jersey one
more such Legislature as that Wnien
has just adjourned, and farm and fae-
erai stste tax. The testimony before
the Senate Committee showed that GER.
tain men intrusted with power to fur
Individual profit or IN a spirit of ex-
~travagance. If the late Legislature mad
been en,,s som nm n sfote would sS p noW be in lA the
throes of bankruptcy. -.
EssIns;iy e. q s ! sss' So soho %be fu roaal the esp eIli
difures Of the State last year were
s.. 187.S 32. Here is a net increase OF
$i0t,7 35 by these prize economists.
A over the record of the one hun
dred and nineteenth Legislature of New
Jersey" says Mr.. McDermott, sis
written the legend 'humbug.' The rec
ord, which opened with the election of
Mr.. Sewell to protect corporate interests
in Washington, was fittingly closed by
a refusal to consider the bills introduced
by Senator Kuh1 salarying the offices of
the Clerks of the Supreme Court and
the Court of Chancery, and saving $780,
600 a year to the State"
The session was productive of hardly
one good or wise enactment. From the
shameless job which placed thousands
of dollars of fees annually in the pock-
cts of Republican police justices down
to the ~outrageously unconstitutional as
saults upon the Governors veto power
and the ~prerogatives of the Court of
Pardons, the acts of this Legislature
were dictated solely by personal greed,
partisan ambition, wanton hypocrisy
and reckless disregard of the Constitu-
tion and the rights of the people.
Mr.. McDermott gives the party one
more bitter shot in his letter. He says
Blu what can you expect of a party
that shouting against laws to alloy
statute books Of New Jersey by, the
xoaes IF se ppbIandin .egGla o1ernor M ea tne
while yet the ink, is ,undried upon the
pen with which he has approved the
work of a Republican Legislature legal
King gambling on horse races In New
York"
This is in keeping wit the general
tone of R%epublicanism. which is always
virtuously indignant when out of Office,
and uncompromisingly vicious when it
has the grip.