The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-03
This paper as Democratic sn principles
and is Independent az its uie,os On q" local
questions
The Assembly Nominations.

The Assembly Nominations.
It is the duty of the Democratic party
in his State to carry the Assembly,
this year, as well as elect the Governor.
Under the peculiar provision of our Con-
stitution, a good Governor is practically
no check upon a bad Legislature of OPP
posite political faith. The power of pass
ing bills over a veto by mere majority
votes is a most evil one, but it exists
and we must accept the situation as we
find it. The present remedy for the evilisto
capture and hold the Assembly. and pre-
vent the rabid Republican Senate from
doing any mischief.
To the control of the Assembly. it is
the duty Of the Hudson Democracy to
contribute eleven votes. Under the old
district system, this county was good
for nine or ten Democratic Assembly
men. Under the chaotic split ticket
mess resulting from the county election
scheme, we only elected five men in the
1895 delegation. We might just as well
nave cdTTleQ LH6 SAl4ES S1ShSt, oA4 -
is our duty to do so this year.
1t is only necessary that a strong, clean
list of nominees be set before the peo-
pie. TIL atmosphere of Hudson is Demo-
cratic, this year The tide is running
our way, and if men are put up who
can float On the tide, the result is as
sured. The nominations are to be made
as usual, by open primary, next We'd
nesday evening, October 9, and then the
Democratic voters themselves will have
the opportunity of saying who their can
didates shall be for the final fight in
November. 1t must be remembered that
to vote at these primaries Democrats
must enroll tonight at the precinct pri'
mary polling places, selected by the
County Committee, and announced in
1.-THE News and the Journal of yes
terday and today. Every Democrat
should enroll and should vote at the
primary, should vote for the best man
in the field and should use all the i'm
fuence he can, be it big or little, to in
duce Others to vote for the best man.
This county has in the past been repre-
scented in the Assembly by such men as
Leon Albeit, Allan L. McDermott, Will
lam McAdoo, Alexander T. McGill, Ed
ward F. Mcdonald, William C. Heppen-
heimer, Robert Hudspeth and a host of
men of minor note but still of excel
lent mental calibre. In those old days, Hud-
son used to control the Assembly, and
legislation was both better and clearer
than it has been in recent years. For
the last four or five years the type of
the Hudson Assemblyman has been de-
generating-not but we have had at all
times one or two good men, as for in
successfully served the county with hon
or at Trenton. But our delegations have
been sadly deficient IN the sort of in
tellect that is needed to make good legis-
Iators, and it has been sadly lacking in
able speakers and debaters. Except Mr..
Usher, we have hardly had, in five years,
an Assemblyman who could make a
speech on the floor calculated to awaken
the least attention or make any impress
sion on a hostile party.
Now, on the other hand, Essex has
been sending a very bright class of men
to the Legislature. Many OF them have
been Republicans and some of them have
been very INSCRIPTIONS lawmakers. But
they have been bright and strong. They
were men of affairs. They were trained
TIL kers. They could talk clearly and
forcibly. And so they ruled the roost.
They ran things at Trenton last year
and the year before. They had begun to
run things in the last two or three years
of Democratic rule, and Hudson has not
been in it. To suit Newarks needs they
have tempered with Jersey City's inter-
ests, and when the two cities clashed,
we were sent to the wall.
If we arctic regain our lost prestige,
we must send the right men tF repre-
sent us. We must not send dummies to
vote the way some boneietells them, like
eleven sheep, but men who car and will
think out for themselves the questions
before them and who can and will fight
for their principles on the floor.