The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-04

these States. recent revelations hav.
amply shown the unnatural legislation q
the Republican party has been a mon.
strous machinery OF corruption and de.
pravity in the hands OF unscrupulous
men. In Pennsylvania. the forces of the
Illicit LIQUOR traffic, Of vice and crime,
Of political corruption are SO firmly
guarded by Republican laws and by the
official system created by Republicanism
that even the public disclosure of their
abuses does not suffice to compass their
overthrow. In New York, we find the
Republican party allylng itself with
whatever is vile and sordid among Demo-
Gratis, and then when the opportunity
came ~betraying and exposing its ac-
complies to increase its grip on the
government. The power thus gained we
see used for new excuses of legislation,
which will hamper and Cypress the aver
age man of common temperance and
honesty, while they will give the party
a stronger control than ever upon the
dangerous classes. which it may tolerate
while they serve it, and which 1t need
punish only when they cease to be use
full.
Pursuing the study of the party into
National affairs, we find it's entire policy
directed to the consolidation of its own
power or the bestowal of criminal adj
~vantages upon its particular allies. The
people are dazzled and deceived by false
and vulgar appeals to their prejudices
against other and friendly nations, and
their attention is thus diverted from the
wrongs that are inflicted upon them
selves. We inc the party, for the most
part, ready to debase the currency and
wreck the public credit for the sake Of
holding a sectional vote. We find it
Offering millions in bounties from the
National treasury for the sole purpose
of changing the political complexion of
a State. We find it burdening the whole
people with excessive taxes upon the
necessities of life in order that a pamp-
cred class of capitalists many continue
to contribute to its campaign expenses.
When it held control of the Federal SER
vice, we saw it increasing, year after
year, the army of employees, dependent
its bounty and ready to do it's bid
ding in the struggle for supremacy, |
while, in contrast, we have seen a
Democratic Administration in two terms
reduce by many hundreds the force of
Federal employees, and year after year
extend the protection of the civil service
to one class after another until now,
at last, almost every employe of the
Government is protected against party
servitude.
TIL Democratic party entered upon its
short period of control pledged to effect
three great reforms. 1t had guaranteed |
the abolition of Federal interference in
elections; it had promised a reduction in
the tariff, so that the deadly incubus
which was killing our commerce might
be removed: n it engaged tina the
depreciation of our currency under the
Republican silver-purchase act should
were kept. The repeal of the Federal
law, has proved, as was ex-
pected, the final act in the pacifcation
Of the South. The repeal of the danger
clauses of the Sherman act averted
financial ruin upon which we were
headlong. The Wilson tariff,
though not a perfect system, has in
two years enormously increased our for
eign trade, while every allegation that
it has impaired domestic industry has
been conclusively disproved.
It may be said that these matters are
removed from the contest now pend
ing in this city. They are not. The
that are now striving for SUI
premacy IN our municipal affairs are
the same that will meet in a broader
struggle in the fan of the year One
of their existence cannot be separ-
ated from another. nor can their for
then be made independent Of their
fortunes now. Defeat now tends to de.
Feat IN the future, just as in private
affairs the losses or injuries of today
irnpediments in the future. The near
approach of the Presidential campaign
gives this present struggle a vital sig
aihcance which it would not otherwise
possess, and no minor consideration
should avail to shake the loyal support
every Democrat yves to his party
IN the eve of a crisis in it's existence.
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