The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-07
The ssGoId. Party and Its Local Re,
cord.


The ssGoIdr Party and Its Local Res
cord.
We observe in the Evening Journal" Of
yesterday an article purporting to en1body
an Interview with M. Charles L. Carrick.
Chairman of the late Palmer and Buck
ner Executive Committee. the burden of
which was that the new party have
come u stay. Mr.. CasSick is quoted as
Pig
he new Democratic County Committee
! come to stay. We are in this fght
r good government until the end:
At our coming meeting we Shall prob
IDLY map out some definite plans for the
future.
We apprehend that no such thing will
happen. The new party will die of in
anition in a very brief space of time.
There is nothing that we can see either
in the past, present or future to justify
the expectation that the organization can
or will survive.
ure whatever. 1t polled only al votes
for Sheriff and 1877 for Surrogate, while
the sociaiist-Labor party polled 91 and
1,10s respectively for the same two offices.
These figures are official At the moment
when this is written the official record
of the Presidential and Congressional
ticket has not yet reached us; but we be-
iieTe it does not differ materially from
those which we quote. BY the time We
counted and the figures will be published
in our news columns
FOR this lame and impotent conclusion
the leaders of the gold party have only
themselves to blame. They chose their
own path in opposition to the advice not
only Of interested and disinterested per-
sons. but even of their own best friends.
The result is that they have made their
movement ridiculous in this ~county-as
they were once bluntly told they would.
We desire to speak with no undue
acerbity of these gentlemen. although we
think their course calls for little leniency.
We are not going to upbraid them or re-
vile them in any way. If they reflect
ccolly on the history of their movement,
their own thoughts must be severe enough
punishment. All we desire to do here is
point out one or two of the marked
features Of their conduct, which brought
upon them their disastrous defeat.
Their nomination of a separate local
ticket, was the grand blunder of all. 1t
not only estranged from them all popular
support, but even threw about their
movement an atmosphere of bad faith.
When they spoke of the sacrifices they
had made to organize in the name Of
the National Democracy in this county,
of the money they had spent and the
time they had given, people almost unani-
meusly met the claim with a sneering
laugh. 1t was not devotion to honest
money. that called forth these sacrifices
this was the general r~emark-but the hope
that in the name of honest money they
might renew the same old fight against
the regular party organization in which
they had so often been beaten.
This view of the case was borne out by
their subsequent work. They did abso-
lutely nothing for the Pamer and Buck
ner ticket. except act as distributing
the literature provided by the National
sound money party. They only held two
or three meetings altogether and at these
hardly anything was said about sound
money or the National Democratic cause,
while the gloomy George [. Record and
other malignants took up hours in abuse
of every local Democrat they could think
Of These meetings were very SHINY at
tended, and it is claimed by the friends
of Mr.. Heller that, like Dominic Scud-
derss sermons. they made many votes
for him. This may or may not be true.
We have no means of judging. except on
the general principle that s~elfshness and
malice usually defeat their own end.
The browning blunder of the campaign,
1007tCis NdS tnCf hSuldtfOu VI Lis par
ty'ss' final appeal and set of pastors en-
dorsed in the same envelope with those
of the Republican County Committee.
This was as bad as it was foolish, and
as foolish as it was bad. The circular
embraced twenty-four Iines of type, ex-
elusive of heading and signature. OF the
twenty-fouf. twelve We're devoted to the
sound money cause. seven to abuse of
the local Democracy and five to a
rhetorical appeal to voters, applying
equally to both branches of the ticket.
In every envelope, there was endorsed an
official Palmer and Buckner ballot, and
a set of pastors.
THERE WAS NO FASTER FOR THE
PALMER AND BUCKNER ELECTORS.
The pastors were for Messrs. Worten-
dyke Bedell & Co., the gentlemen who
boastfuIIy Dragged about town that they
did not expect to be elected, but they ex-
pected to smash the local party organiza-
tion by securing the election of the Re-