The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-12
will be the largest Democratic demonstra-
tion held in Greenville this campaign.
M'EVAN ACCEPTS.
Republican Party's County Nom
nations Filed With the
County Clerk Today.

A list of the Republican Congressional
and county nominations was filed with
County Clerk Fisher this morning. The
candidates are:-F'or Congress- Thomas
McEwan; Sheriff, Aaron S. Baldwin;
Surrogate. Peter F. Wanser; Assembly,
William NJ Klnk, Robert J.. Urquhart,
Charles NJ Evans, Isaac F. GoIdenhorn,
William George Nelson, John E. Near
thur, Clement De R. Leonard William
H. Dod, William o. Armbruster and FL
mer w. Demarest. The nominations for
F'reeholders have not been made.
Mr.. Thomas McEwan. in accepting the
Republican nomination for congress, to-
day writes as follows.-
JERSEY CITY, N j.. Oct. 10, 1896.
Dear Sir-F'or the great honor they did
me and for the confidence they displayed
in me, beg to thank the delegates to
the convention which unanimously re-
nominated me as q candidate for elec-
the Seventh Congressional district OF New
Jersey.
In accepting the nomination, which l
now do, desire to express my entire as
sional district platforms of the Republi-
can party and shall labor diligently to
have their representatives elected.
With a sound and enduring system of
finance and a proper tariff law, great
benefits must accrue to the bread-win-
ners of our land. My idea of a proper
tariff is one that will first produce suffi-
cient revenue to administer the govern
ment, thus doing away with the neces-
sity of issuing bonds in time of peace
and preventing the depletion Of the gold
reserve; and secondly, a tariff law so
drawn that 1T viii maintain the difference
between the American and foreign scales
of wages, and aid In building up new in
dustries
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the excess sum collected as a bounty to
capital, and a tariff that does less men
aces our standard of wages. In these
tariff tariff views ! am in harmony with Major
leaders, and with Senator David B. Hill
among Democrats.
AS the time Of my disposal at each
meeting where / shall be during the
campaign will be limited to few min
utes in which I shall have time only to
treat of the National issues involved in
this campaign, 1 beg to say herein that
I am most happy in being able to COM
mend to my constituents the men who
are upon the ticket with me who have
never held Office. AS to those on the
which number am one, they ought to
be judged by their actions while in Office.
Undoubtedly this is the criterion that
ought to govern voters.
| am not conscious of having cast one
single vote or performed any official ac
ton during my incufnbency of public
Office which has not been cast or done
with the hope Of benefiting the wage
Garner and the small taxpayer. I have
yet to hear that any wage-earner or
small taxpayer has ever criticised adj
verseiy any vote or act of mine.
I agree with those words of Wendell
Phillips in his advice to Workingmen,"
and think that the same principle might
proftaply. be adopted by all voters, SO
that If officeholders are unfaithful- once
they shall not have another chance to
betray their constituents: -
Write on your banner so that every
political trimmer can read it. SO that
every politician, no matter how short
sighted he may be he can read It, We
never forget; if you launch the arrow of
sarcasm at labor, we never forget; If
there is a division in Congress and you
throw your vote in the wrong scale, we
never forget. You may go down on your
knees and say, am sorry did the act,
and we will say, 1t will avail you in
heaven, but on this side of the grave
neverr So that man in taking UP the
labor question will know he is dealing
with a hair trigger pistol, and will say
I am to be true to justice and to man.
otherwise l am a dead duck -
l am, very truly yours,
THOS. MEWAN, JR.
To JOHN R. WIGGINS, Esq,
Chairman. etc.. HObOkpr. N r.