The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-27
THE DEMOCRAT|C
PLATFORM.
The Democratic party Of New Jersey,

tratlon OF president Cleveland, with
whose determination to protect the peo-
pie OF this country from the evils ever
~attendan upon a debasement of the Ma
tional currency we are in most earnest
We congratulate the people upon the
revival OF prosperity. everywhere evil
aent IN our land, and we assert that the
industrial depression with which we have
been afflicted during the past three
yearssis chargeable to the national legis-
laton enacted by the Republican party.
Inc purchase of silver to be stored in
the treasury. and the enactment of
unjust tariff laws, to enrich a few favor
ties by the oppression of millions of
consumers. We're the main causes of the
paralysis. with an empty national treas
ury. were the legacies received From
a republican dmin.stration
The BATTLE against a system fostered
in violation of self-evident laws Of po-
htlcal economy has been won, Every
struggle against intrenched wrong is at
these are never endured in vain. The
lesson OF cause and effect has been thor
oqghly learned. and we are willing to
abide by the decision of an intelligent
people who are now entering upon a
period of prosperity that will prove both
substantial n enduring.
| statements of the Republican State plat
form that the government of New Jersey
mas been conducted by the Democratic
party IN a dishonest or extravaganza 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
extravaganza or malfeasance on the part
Of two or theree State employees.
| In the condemnation of those wrongs
every good citizen joins, but the at
| tempt to charge the misdoings of a. few
individuals upon the Democratic party,
| or the Democratic administrations of
this State. is not warranted by the evil
dence. and is a violation of the rules
which common decency requires to con
Of q State. The fact that our State is
without debt, that millions of dollars
have been expended during the past
State institutions, and that during that
time not a dollar of State tax has been
levied upon the property of private own
ers, are, in themselves. a sufficient an
swer to the charge of extravaganza.
During the past twenty-five years the
Governor of New Jersey has been a
Democrat, and curing that period the
ed. invested and expended with a care
and integrity that have resulted in CIV
ing New Jersey the deserved fame Of
being the most economically governed
State in the Union. When an 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 nave
never allowed the plea of ~partisanship
to protect a dishonest official from prose-
cution and punishment.
We favor the adoption of a constitu-
tional amendment that will render i'm
| possible any law for the Equalization of
gmhling in any form.
We charge that the course of the Re-
publican partv in this and other States
IN dealing with the question of ~legaliza-
lion of betting upon horse races. has
been characterized by trickery and de-
reit. As evidence of this we call atten-
ion to the course of the Republican Lee
rislature of New York. whose action in
attempting to override the recently adop-
led constitution of the State and permit
Gambling on horse races. was this year
| approved bv a Republican Governor. and
70 the further fact that every bet made
'pon a horse race within New Jersey
turing the past fourteen years has been
made under the protection of Chapter
| 7ne hundred ard forty-seveH of the Laws
If 1890 enacted by a Republican Senate
md House.
his State he amended to provide for the.
| oni,al taxation of property not used for
-nligious, charitable or educational pur-
| noses.
We pledge the Democratic party to
The enactment of avs that will secure
TO the people of New Jersey control of
he potable waters of the State. The
| recent attempt of the city of Jersey City
20 secure a supply of wholesome water,
absolutely necessary to the continuance
IF municipal existence, has disclosed the
/ LdIlSCIS tIndl lHE6dlGH IL pCOpkG VI Liz
| entire State.
Today the municipalities of New Jer-
sey are at the mercy of a few corpora
tions who have acquired control OF near
the State and who are in a position to
demand hat they will before allow
ing our cites to obtain this necessary
of life In New Jersey alone can such such
people of Jersey City demand and should
receive the sympathetic support of the
people of the State. The CHOICE that
| ruptcy or d~epopulation, of buying water
by the gallon or receiving a supply
from polluted streams. will, within a
few years, be presented to every popu-
louS municipality in New Jersey.
In his annual message to the Legisla-
lure of 1882. that far-seeing Statesman.
Governor Ludlow, uttered this warning
The Importance of a broad and COM
prehensive consideration at the present
time of probable demand and supply of
ture cannot be over-estimated. If there
| IS any one subject in which the States
right of eminent domain should be re-
served for the use and benefit OF the
| public it is in the God-given waters of
OUT streams, so necessary to the con-
venience, comfort and health of our
"While many of the communities of the
State are at the threshold OF a grea5
growth and prosperity, the sources ana
| courses of their water supply are, by nat
ural and artificial causes being both Oh
unfinished and polluted. 1t requires, no
great power of prophecy to foresee now
dire at no remote day must be the con-
| sequences of this condition OF affalrs IN
the Interest of the advanced portion of
our State unless its 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 nave successfully
united to prevent the provision of a
demands that those who seek our suf-
frages should pledge themselves to undo
the wrong and do the right.
The imminence of DANCE is shown by
the fact that the management of the Re-
publican party of this State is today
committed to the hands of those whose
| fortunes are invested in the water
| cipalities. at a profit of unlimited mil
| Hons. The credit of controlling and di-
| recting the Republican Gubernatorial
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
| vidjng for the relief of the people from
! the grasp of his clients.
! we condemn the action of the Re
| publican Legislature, which ridiculed
averv request made for legislation in
| peaIed acts passed by Democratic Leg
| slatures for the protection Of the wage
workers of New Jersey; and we pledge
| our party to give proper consideration TO
the views adopted by the councils Of or
er~szed labor.