The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30

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All the state Gazette has to say this
morning is this.-
Js + app eity N ssas the Is li nos s ssls al s Sa hed
with himself.
The Gazette is strangely misinformed-
We are so particularly well satisfied with
ourselves just this moment that We almost
feel big.
We beg to remind our Red Oak and
Fargo contemporary that we carried our
city by nearly 4,5oo votes and our county
by over 5000. while the State at large
went with us too.
Ia is he and not we who has reason TO
feet d contempt for himself, because after
aN his pestar.ng and vapofing and falsi-
fysnE, his county went against him by a
coat,le OF thousand votes. 1t would be
becoming in the State Gazette to sing
very small for a little while. at least.
ALL the papers. honest like the Even
ing POST and corrupt like the World"
anu oldtc 1aLCleS, NIL
s.ants-race track amendment. try today
to confuse in the public mind the reasons
for Tuesdays vote. The most general ex-
pfanati on given is that the gamblers
were organized while the opponents were
an inchoate body. The world supple
ments this with the allegation that
bribery and corruption were used to carry
the State.
Both allegations are equally grotesque.
All the organization was on the side of
the amendment. and all the work was
dom in favor of its passage. No cam
paign could be more thorough or COM
pfete. The machinery consisted of the
churches themselves. the Christian En-
deavor, Epworth League, Temperance
Unions, and all the host of other church
Organizations. For the last three months.
the pulpit has rung with appeals to voters
sions and all other religious and semi
religious gatherings have been converted
into agitation meetings for the further
ance of the cause. The&e was, besides,
the so-ealled Christian Citizens Union,
ana some hundreds of men and women
have personally canvassed for votes. The
newspaper support has embraced about
ninety per cent. OF all the publications
circulating in New Jersey.
On the other side there was no ma
chinery whatever. The Democratic or
ner, They did not dare take a stand
against the amendment. They held aloof
from the fight. altogether. The Repub-
lican machine was nominally in favor of
the amendment, and if the bosses and
heeiers helped beat it, it must be adj
mitted that their activity was curtailed
by the necessity of keeping up the hypo-
critical appearance Of party loyalty to a
so-called principle.
We believe these conditions are indis-
putnble. How then can 1t be said that the
resultant vote was anything but the ex-
press declaration of the peoples will.
There are two ways of voting on such a
question as this. One is to cast a ballot;
the other Is not to cast one, and each is
rs efficient as the other. The people, we
say who chose the latter way and re-
Trained from casting any vote, did so
because they were opposed to the amend
ments and would not aid them in passing.
AS for the WORLDS howl about cor
ruption, itsneed only be said that If there
was any money in the fight It must have
been put in by the railroads, for there is
no one else left in the State who has at
once the mons and the interest-at-stake
to do anything effectual in such a strug-
gle. Perhaps it might occur to the
world that the revolt of public senti-
ment against its own corruption had
much to do with the result. Even today,
when It has a column wall about Its de-
feat, when it scolds the church people for
leaving their States honor in the lurch,''
1t has two columns of racing news on an
other page. headed In the following strain
Or ehtnusiasm:-