The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-18

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senator DaIy's speech
we print in full, today. Senator Days
speech to the farmers al Remington
We believe irf free platform, and as the
Senator's friends. if not himself. believe
that this speech viii make him Cover
nor, we neither condense nor eurtail It,
If 1t effects the desired purpose. we can
stard it, and if it proves a boomerang,
the Senator will nave nobody to blsme
but himself.
Roughly. the speech divides itself into
two parts. In the one. the Senator talks
Of matters of which he knows and UNI
derstands nothing. This section is lit
lie better thar idietic. The other re-
fers to State politics. upon which, within
his limits, Senator DAILY is an expert
This portion is a powerful and effective
-arraignment of Republican hypocrisy, ex-
t~ravagance and unscrupulousness.
1t is by no means settled, as yet,
whether the campaign of next year will
be conducted upon National or State is
sues. The G~overnorshlp will not be the
only Important office at stake Members
of Congress viii be chosen by the peo-
pie directly and the Assemblymen and
Senators elected will have the selection
of a United States Senator, to succeed
James Smith of Essex. The contest over
these Federal positions will, under any
circumstances, complicate the issues, and
tt will not take much, we believe, to
bring National questions to the front to
the almost total exclusion of State ones.
The situation is a very peculiar one.
Thu Democratic party is in a position to
determine almost absolutely upon which
class of issues the election shall hinge.
struggle as ii may, the Republican party
will not be able to force National mat
tiers into the lead. unless the Democracy
gives it the opportunity. If the Democ-
racy conduct a vigorous campaign upon
the records of Griggs and it's cohorts
in State affairs, and if it places in the
field men. who are ~untainted by the silver
heresy and by the general anarchical ten-
dencfes Of Bryanism, why then the Re
pHblieans will have n choice but to-
meet the attacking party upon its own
ground, AMI enter upon a campaign of
defence with a record which is simply
indefensible.
ON the contrary. if the Democracy en-
bon bravado, which eharacterizes the
opening of senate Days speech, it will
thereby, Of its own motion, surrender its
grand chance of fighting upon State is
sues; it will force National disputes into
the forefront it will engage the. Repub-
lican party upon its chosen ground and
beaten about as badly as it was last
year or the year before.
Senator DAILY. and every one else must
understand FIAT. to carry this State, the
entire Democratic party must be brought
together. There is not a ghost of a
chance of success on any other basis.
Where could it come from? But the only
way to bring 1t together is to abandon,
taeitiy at least. those monstrous aberra-
tiens Of doctrine which the thinking
men Of the party. the conservative ele-
ments Of the party, can regard with
nothing but hatred and disgust. Senator
Daily Is the most insanely mistaken man
in. the state if he thinks that any rea-
soning Gold Democrat is in the smallest
degree disturbed over the results of his
action last fail All that has happened,
and all that may happen, were fereseen,
and accepted as the less Of two evils
less to a degree beyond estimation. The
wisdesn. of the acceptance, moreover, is
shown IN the certain revival of business,
which is now setting in. Ia spite of the
idiocy and wickedHess Of the Dingley law
and which would have been as impossi-
HE under a free silver regime as it
would be for water to flow up hill.
Il Senator Daily is aiming to secure a
Democratic nomination by stimulating
the passions and pre5ndiees Of last year
III the hearts Of the machine element. we
freely admit he may be successful. There
Is at present more than a fair likelihood
that he may become the party candidate
Tor Governor ID tina way. But the Sem
ator wiz ind at the close Of the polls