The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-30
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NEW YORK.
, required no prophet TO see that in the
future he was destined to be laden by
his fellow citizens with high honors and
1T seems sngularly opportune
in the history of the Democratic
TO the position of leadership. His char
acter is an absolute guarantee that if he
is elected, never in its history will the
State Government be administered with
more scrupulous honesty, more high
independence of all personal considera-
will bring to that Office There is no rea
sonable man in this State who can be-
leve for moment that Mr. McGill
could be swerved from the high obiiga-
tions OF his public dIty by any party or
faction, by any person or power Even
dicial calmness and logical accuracy, he
has repeatedly affirmed himself for the
strict enforcement of those. laws and
equities which insure the rights of the
masses of the people against corporate
greed and selfish aggrandizement.
a good man, an able lawyer, a pure and
one of the best Of Governors.
If any errors have. been committed.
or wrongs. done in the municipal or
State affairs by individuals acting on
their own responsibility, it will be a sill
ly argument to interpose these against
the assurances the nomination of Mr..
McGill gives. No one can deny in this
State but that those concerned with the
machinery of government have. never
hesitated to punish the individual with
out regard to his party affiliations. The
abuses, if any, which have crept into
the State government are owing, in my
conducting the States business and
finances.
CONTROL OF THE PURSE.
hod hn
sentative from this county under the
Governorship of that most excellent and
upright igf ftod Democrat. George G Ludlow,
probation. to change these methods of
administration and details of business,
been well nigh impossible Under the
Federal. Government the annual esti-
mates in every branch Of the Govern
enumerate in detail the expected expend-
itures, from cake of soap to colossal
public building or battleship, and give
amount asked to be appropriated. for the
incoming year. There are no federal in
has at all times a complete control Of
the purse and the sword.
was derent waa nof % he the fsa1f fauie
of the Democratic party, as it had
grown up under all parties and had
long period of years. 1t gave too much
discretion to the Individual officers and
deprived the Legislature of that thorough
was entitled, and was not surrounded
with sufficient checks and balances, nor
guarded by laws which begot sharp com
petition for all public supplies, and must
nave from the beginning invited grave
abuses. This. system coupled with the
farming out of offices for Tees, "a SYSTEM
and barbarous one of farming out the
taxes, was much in need of reformation,
houses, and under a State constitution
which really gives the Governor only
the semblance of a veto power, had the
grandest opportunity ever offered to
party to enact wide reaching and
well considered system. So far as
have bee,. able to study the results, they
PoISSTs FOR = CITIZENS TO CON
4The intense stpER. de5irs for office and
partisan advantage the demands
Of great, and greedy as well as
have rendered abortive the attempt at
consistent and well planned reform
You are better judges than 1 of how far
tions have been ii@ in Keeping s" with i1i their I
professions It would be well for the
citizen to consider the reforms which
necessary @ sa and s compare ass them WITH WITH
the results that they have given us. The
Democratic party is not distrustful of
sonal liberty; it does not believe that
men can be legislated into heaven by
the act of the. Legislature, nor that the
baton of the law is the only moral in
fuence. Laws which run counter to the
long established natural customs and
habits Of the t people can only engender
infidelity on the part of those who ad-
minister them.
statute boos are zoo studded aGh with ouaeE
remedies and pitiful paiiatives of serious
diseases which need to be left more to
the laws of nature than the enactments
world and the one to come does not de-
pend to any considerable degree upon
Congresses. 1t is our duty to aid and
support our brother man and to lead him
to a higher life by reason and good ex-
and repress him with force, in order that
he may conform to the arbitrary stand
ards which the innumerable ssmen Of
destiny who now parade themselves
on the public stage, each in turn insists
should regulate all mankind. While pro-
ing in the name of religion, how many
seem to forget the wide tolerance and
broad charity. which are the chief badges
of the Christian faith? I am quite sure
that no citizen has any fears but that
under the administration of Alexander
T. McGill, if any abuses exist they will
they viii be honestly and fearlessly car
ried out. and that he will be ever found
in line with the best and highest exam |
pie of that long line Of iliustrious DEM |
ocratic Governors who have done so
much for this State.
NAMES ALL REVERE.
'"Ths State has been singularly
able and honorable administration
of this high office, in the persons
of these Democratic Governors whose |
names you revere. 1t surely cannot be
possible that with the revival of busi-
ness, the return OF prosperity, the spler
did prNSnRctS of lust and pQUitdf
tariff law, wise. firm and honest
ministration of your government, that
the very eve of the Presidential conflict
New Jersey is to sever her attachment
to the Democratic party. Never could
she be more potent in its councils, more
Hoods Sarsaparilla, taken at this season, will
make you feel strong and vigorous and keep