The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-21
Gri.rs, Blue Nose Record.

Essex county was maze cut d NeAy
poor figure in the Republican State
Convention. but she will vindicate her
importance as a political factor on
Election Day. When the votes of that
advanced and enlightened section of the
State are counted, it will be found thai
blue-nose ideas are out of date there,
and that the sacrifice of the taxpayers
interests to railroad greed is not popular.
One of the remarkable results of John
w. Griggs' leadership in 1888 was the
complete revolution it made in Essex
politics in the fall of that year. There
had been a large body of German Re
p~ublicans in Newark. who were very
hard to reach. They were stubborn in
their political prejudices and went on
voting the same old ticket. year after
year, chiefly because they had started
in doing so in the old war lines But
Griggs changed an that. He showed
them what Republicanism really was
He eoreed his ideas upon-th State in
tina, srohihitive license, county option
law. sLich is still an Nomination in
the memories of all liberal minded men,
From that time on. the Newark Ger
mans were good Democrats and the
county went our way, year after year
until bad leadership once again I'M
settled the allegiance of voters.
Germans nave long memories, and we
are glad to see the do not forget Mr..
John W. Griggs. We print In another
column a translation of the New York
..Staats Z~eitung's'' comments on the
nomination. The ''staars" takes a
broad view of the Republican party ten
dencv. It links the action of Roosevelt
in New York. endorsed by the Platt-Mil-
Ter Convention at Saratoga, with the
nomination by the New Jersey Republic
cans of the author and advocate of the
most pernicious liquor law ever devised.
Tt argues that to catch the votes of a
fanatieal element the party proposes to
make this form of oppression a feature
of its policy. This seems to be true.
The tariff idea being utterly exploded
by the logic of events, the Republican
leaders have no longer any cry with
which to appeal to the people at large.
They hops to keep their grip, apparent
~, by appealing to class prejudices of all
sorts. The slap at the "Dutchmen" at
Saratoga shows one direction in which
they will cultivate a following: the ad-
vanced anti-liquor position taken up in
New York and New Jersey is another.
Race prejudice. and the effort to con-
troll private conduct by legislative enact
ment-these are. so far. the well-defined
elements in the Republican campaign,
and 1t is not strange tsat our German
fellow citizens everywhere are ~resentful.
All over the State, the revolt has be-
gun. From all over Essex the German
Blue-Nose candidate. Hudson will re-
ject him by at least six thousand ma
jority. We doubt if he can carry his
own county. if his record is properly
laid before the people by the Democratic
press and Democratic speakers. Tren-
tor and New Brunswick are heard
from. and other cities will soon join the
chorus of condemnation. ,nss lasazs
Whatever strength Griggs develops
must be in the rural districts, and We
greatly doubt if he can gain enough
votes therein over and above the ordi-
nary Republican average. to offset the
enormous losses he will experience
everywhere the liquor question figures
in the contest.
BUT, it may b. asked, how would
Griggs' election as Governor affect the
liquor question? We reply it would at