The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-08
The Election Tomorrow.

The Election Tomorrow.
| Tt may b. said that in tomorrow's con-
| test in this city the great struggle for
| the Governorship next fall begins. The
result will be taken as an omen and an
| indication of the greater result in No
| vember. As Jersey City goes, the State
| goes, and If 1T appears from tomorrow's
vote that the city is confirmed to the
Republican party, the adherents of that
party from Bergen to Cape May will
wake UP on Wednesday with new courage
down upon the hearts of Democrats.
If this city goes Republican. it cannot
be upon local issues nor yet upon the
characters of the candidates., it unjust be
for purely political reasons. The Demo-
cracy has placed in the field a ticket
which man for man completely over
respect of personal merit. Edward Hoos
towers head and shoulders over Reuben
Simpson in ability. in standing as a bust
ness man and in all the other elements
which should commend him to the voters.
Against the five ward politicians who
are nominated for the Street and Water
Democracy presents five men who have
never taken part in politics in their
lives, but who all have in the line of
private business displayed their fitness for
executive positions.
The Democratic list of Aldermanic can
dtdates is made up of clean men. The
is essential to the rights of the party.
and of the people at large, that the con-
templated Republican gerrymander Of n
city should be defeated or at least rem
.dered fruitless. This can only be done
10y restoring control of the Board OF
Aldermen to the Democracy. This can
+be effected 10Y the election of the Demo
cratic candidates in five districts and by
the choice of Edward Hoos for President
of the Board.
The Republican party, finding no way of
assatling the ticket as it stands. has
sought to injure it by reviving old worn
out scandals about more or less promi-
nent Democrats. That pet bug-bear of
Republican takers. Bob" Davis, has
been dragged into the campaign, to
which he has about as much relevancy
as the late William M. Tweed or Judas
Iscariot. Davis is not running for any
thing in this election. He is not in it
He is not an issue in m way. And the
to injure the honorable men
who are on the ticketsby raking up his
alleged sins in the past, lis a peculiarly
,cowardly proceeding, characteristic of
Republlcanism as 1T exists in this city.
In his campaign. the Democratic party
relies wholly on the loyalty of it's ad-
herents. There is no money to make an
active campaign. The party.is poor. de-
pending wholly on voluntary contributions
from those who are devoted to its in
terests for. principles SAX The enemy
is in clover. The assessment. of actual
office holders and the levies in exchange
for promises nave filled the Republican
treasury to plethonlc fu1lness. The cam
paign has been a hustling one, on that
side. and it is generally rumored that
there is 4'money to burn tomorrow.
We approach the issue with confidence.
We believe in the judgment of the peo-
pie, In their sense of justice and in their
instructive appreciation of personal
worth. We look for a Democratic vic
tory-a good old-tinne Democratic sweep.
We need every vote to do it, but every
vote must come to the polls.