The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-01
GOLD MEMS PROTEST
emonstrance Filed Today
Against the Petition
Naming the Regular
Democratic Can
didates.
GROUNDS FOR THE OBJECTIONS
The Former Petition Described as
a Scheme te Disfranchise
the Sound Money
Party.

Mr. Otto Grouse this afternoon filed
with the County Clerk a remonstrance,
signed by Andrew J. Corcoran, Chairman
of the County Committee of the National
Democratic Party. against the petition re-
Gently filed by the regular Democratic
organization. The contentious of Messrs.
Corcoran and Grouse are contained in the
following document
TO the Clerk of the County Of Hudson
We, the undersigned, citizens of the
State of New Jersey, and legal voters of
the county Of Hudson, in behalf of our
selves individually as such citizens and
voters, and as President and Secretary
of the County Committee of the National
Democratic Party, do hereby make objec-
tion TO the certificate and petition of
nomination filed in your office on the
18th day of September, 1885, purporting
TO nominate, under the name of and rep
resenting the National Democratic Party,
the following named persons for the
offices set opposite their respective names:
Allan L. McDermotts for Congressman.
William Heller, for Sheriff.
James 7. LilIis,, for Surrogate.
William c. Necker. for Coroner.
John W. Queen, Edward Hoos,. John E.
Ruempier, Adolph Walter. Jr., Louis
OLeary, Horace Allen, John j. Marnen,
Michael j. Bruder and Charles T. Bauer
for Members of Assembly.
This objection is made upon the follow
ing grounds
III Sodlu cd1Qli&IGS 90 not represent le
National Democratic Party. as falsely
stated in said certificate and petition
a. They do nor represent the princi-
pies or any principle of the National
(S.)NThe candidates above named are the
regular nominees of the party known
represent the name and principles of that
organization as e9unciated in its platform
adopted at a national convention held in
Chicago In the month of July last.
fiA Tho qf~tIialItr 1,xr
said candidates as its regular nominees,
at its conventions held in the city Of Tren-
ton in the month of September last.
adopted and promulgated platform of
principles artagonistic and foreign to the
name and principles of the National
Democratic Party.
(5). The National Democratic Party in
national convention assembled in the city
of Indianapolis on the I'd and Sd days of
September, 1896, abandoned the name and
repudiated the revolutionary principles
sented as its regular nominees by the
candidates named in said certificate and
petition.
(6) The National Democratic Party is
a bona fide political organization, whose
| candidates are General John NJ. Palmer
for President and General Simon Bolivar
Buckner for Vice-President eff the United
States; it advocates and ernbodies specific
PRINCIPLES Numerically opposed to the
principles of the so-called regular Demo-
cratic Party represented by said candi-
dates, IL is regularly constituted and Or
ganized in the County of Hudson, in the
State of New Jersey, and in forty other
States and Territories of the United
States.
None of the candidates named in said
certificate and petition are in any way
connected with or allied to the organiza-
| tion of the National Democratic Party.
%. The County Committee represented
zation of the National Democratic Party
| in the County of Hudson.
(S). The party represented by the can
| didates named in said certificate and pe-
| titiop, and of which they are the regular
nominees, at its Chicago Convention ap-
| propriated the name of the Democratic
Party, and under that name adopted and
| proclaimed doctrines foreign to the his
| toric principles and traditions of that
| party.
The effort now made by said candidates
| to ftleh the name of the National Demo-
cratG Party is bold and palpable at
tempt to perpetrate a fraud on this or-
| ganization, and a scheme to disfranchise
these objectors and other citizens of Hud-
son County who represent the principles
of the National Democratic Party.
i 80. The candidates named in said GER
tificate and petition cannot. as a matter
of fact, represent, nor can they with con-
! sis tency, homer, or manhood pretend to
| represent at the same time the antagonis-
/ tic principles of the sc-ealled regular
/ Democratic Party OF Bryan and Sewan
and the National Democratic Party OF
| Candidates representing the name and
| principles of the National Democratic
Party will be regularly placed in nomina-
| ton by certificate and petition of nomi-
1 nation filed in your office within the time
| required by law.
A. ]. CORCORAN.
individually and as President Of the
4 County Committee of the National Demo-
| cratic Party.
RYNIER J. WORTBNDYKE,
Individually and as Secretary of the
| County Committee