The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-24
The Ranublicans, Dismal Day.

The RapubIicans' Dismal Day.
After the laneuid proceedings Of the Re
n1blican State Committee meeting a.
Trenton. yesterday, 1t is likely the party
naners win go slower with their slpes
ana ;eers about the Democratic gathering
last week at Atlantic City. The Demo-
cratic show may have had its amusing
nbases hut. at least. there were life ana
enthusiasm in it. The gathered sages
acted as il they thought they haa q
chance Of success. Not so much can pe
said of Yesterdays eonclave. 1t may
have been the heat or it may be the
political situation, but the fact is quite
certain. tn occasion was one of the
most ~1istless and p~erfunctory in the MS
tory Of the State. The original Foster
was not there; indeed hardly anyone was
who could stay away. The committeernen
came and met. snatched a bite of lunch
and ran away. This is not a fancy pic
ture: it is the fact, as cold as the weather
viii allow.
The manner of the meeting was quite
IN Keeping with its accomplishments. II
did iusf one t~hing-select a date for the
convention-and the -postponement OF that
event to the waning Of September sus-
rests no very eager stomach for the fray.
In fact setting the Republican selection
of almost the last feasible day against
the Democratic failure to select any day,
the most a G.. o. P. advocate, inclined to
be funny, can hereafter say is hat one
party was afraid while the other das-
sent THAT the Democratic party, as the
under dog in the fight, should set about
its campaign circumspeetly is not to be
wondered at; that the Republicans, who
are supposed to feel glorious over their
record in office, shout be afraid to sub
ject it to the test of a long campaign,
ean cause nothing but establishment and
suspicion in the candid Observers mind.
with a deficit on record in the last fiscal
year and more than probable in the pres
emit one. with its failure to make any wal
appropriation for the National Guard,
with its attempt to juggle the gallant
Naval Reserve out of existence, with its
seandalously undertaken and ridiculousiy
abandoned moral campaign to account
for. with Passaic publication again hung
up for a year or two, with the $6o0,oVo
Railway Reformatory left unfinished as
a monumen of imbeeility, with the good
any visible decrease in the gross expen-
dftures of the State, the party which
went into office with John w. Griggss as
its idol, stuffed full of wind and promises,
is in a bad way to hypnotic the people
for a second time.
But it's record is not the only thing that
is worrying the G. o. p. 1t is also suffer-
ing from internal injuries, as they say in
the accident reports when they do not
know what is really the matter. We
diagnose the case as one of dyspepsia.
The ~debonnair Senator from Union sticks
in the gizzards of the practical politicians.
Many of them would rather see a Demo-
crat in the Executive than a Governor
who would give them the marble heart on
every crooked scheme they organized.
what is the use of a Governor to the
boys. when he thinks only or chiefly of
the people?
While the element that the POST
always speaks of as "the boys is thus
anxious to get rid of the brilliant young
tsActing Governor the non-workers of
the ~party-the people who only vote-are
clamorous for him. They realize that he
is more or less their friend, and If the
politicians do not nominate him, they will
simply sit down and let the politicians
do all the voting for themselves. Thus
the boys and the bosses are in a bad fix.
II they nominate Voorhees,, they would
just as soon lose the election as win it.
If they do not nominate him, they are
sure to lose it. It is a sort of 4sHead-I-
win-Tails-you-lose'' game, in which there
is no comfort or satisfaction.