The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-23
This vaper Is Democratic IN principles
end Is Independent in ats rieacs on all local
nfestaons.
Rrran,s New Jersey Debut.

BrYanss new Jersey Debut.
William J. Bryan made his debut in
New Jersey, yesterday afternoon, in a
beer garden. Of which William J. Thomp-
son. the infamous ex-AssembIyman and
proprietor of the d%isreputable Gloucester
Race Track, is proprietor. Thompson.
who. distinctly, on his record. belongs to
the criminal class, did the honors'' of
the occasion. He welcomed the Repudia-
zionist ana Anarchist of the Platte to
New Jersey soil. He a not quite the eff
~frontery to present Bryan 10 the audi
ence. so that gentleman had to come to
the front u~nintroduced. There was a
large crowd TO stare at him, and when he
turned his foot-lights smile on them. they
cheered him in spots.
Amid these somewhat unpromising con-
ditions. the Popocratic candidate proceed
ed TO work the same shell game that he
has practised on other sections of the
country. He opened with an attack upon
ex-Secretary Whitney as silly and short
sighted in its essence as it was vulgar
and brutal in expression. He said Mr..
Whitney mistook the sentiment of New
York when he advocated gold. He boast
ed ~blatantly of the recent action of the
Buffalo Convention in endorsing the Chi
cago platform. Mr.. Bryan has a terrible
lesson before him. When New York
speaks in November, he will realize
whether he or Mr.. Whitney truly mis-
understood the temper of the people of
that great and enlightened State.
Among other things which Mr.. Bryan
said to the Washington Park crowd was
this
This question is not a difficult one. my
friends. In fact! there are no deep ques-
tons in government. There is no question
that IS too deep for the American people.
If there is, my friends, then the people
are not competent to govern themselves.
Imagine the impudence Of a candidate
for the Presidency of the United States.
who stands up before the people and tells
them there are no deep questions in
government We entirely believe that
the people are competent to govern
themselves, and this is the reason why
we believe that they will snow Mr.. Bryan
out of sight with their ballots, all the
more because he declares there are mo
deep problems in government" One rea-
son why they are fit to govern themselves
is that the people of this country recog-
nize that there are deep problems in
government. and that such problems are
safe only in the care of broad and mas
terful men. of men of intellect. condition
and experience. and that they cannot be
safely ~intrusted to a feather-brained
chatter box with perverted moral ideas
and an incendiary instinct.
Mr.. Bryan win make no impression in
his State with sfach talk-or with any
other, Of which he is capable. 1t may
go with the crackers and tar heels and
the rabble Of the mining camps; but Jer-
seynnen have centuries Of history to
draw upon for experience. The sense Of
honor and the habit of conservatism come
to them from their fathers and is drunk
in with their mothers milk. They will
turn out to see the Nebraska curiosity as
they do the hyenas and jackals at the
circus. But when they have heard his
yelp, they turn from him with aversion
and take refuge In either Of the party
movements which p~erpetuate in their
midst the principles and traditions of
their fathers.