The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-22
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to have a majority. This is the way in
which it buoys up it's hopes
The States which now have Republic
can Legislatures and in which a Demo
cratic Senator's term will expire with
this Congress are California, Indiana,
New Jersey. New York. North Dakota,
Of these States the election Of Republi-
can Legislatures and the choice OF he
publican Senators are highly probapie
If all of them are carried the Kepupn
cans will gain, with Maryland, eight SEN
ators, increasing their number in the Sen
ate, if Wyoming n Washington are
lost, to 40, or three more than is neces-
sary to a majority. There is a good
chance also of gaining a Republican Sem
ator in Delaware. So the prospects or
obtaining a majority in the next Senate
are bright.
Signs of reaction have not been few in
California, New York, West Virginia and
Wisconsin. 1t will not be surprising if
in every one of these States a Demo-
cratic Senator be elected. The persist
ency of the Dingley deficit, the failure of
protection to benefit anybody, On the con-
trary its obvious injury to hundreds of
thousands will give deep offense. The
policy of the party in Cuban matters
if it has any-is eminently calculated to
enrage both the friends and the foes of
the Ever Faithful Isle" If Hawaii be
annexed, a stormy reaction is sure to set
in. and if it be not, a duh anger will
possess the lingo element. The present
Congress has so far done nothing but
evil, and the prospect of better or wiser
action is poor. There are four or five
months of its existence still to be drag
ged out, and he would be a brave Repub-
lican who would draw any comfort from
the outlook.
These factors influence the situation in
all the States. In New Jersey, there are
additional reasons for prognosticating a
Republican defeat in the fall elections for
the Legislature. The futility of the tariff
in more than one Republican stronghold,
and the general disgust which already
prevails on account of financial extrava-
gance, corporation subserviency and per-
nicious pa~rtisanship in legislation and adj
ministration under Republican Ring aus
pieces will be intensified to the pitch of
revolt.
The peoples minds are not being di-
verted from the outrageous balance sheet
of the State Treasury for last year by any
fake scandal mongering enterprises of the
played-out Lexow order. They are not
blind to the gross deception of the Gov
ernor in respect to the railroad tax law
of last year. The grab at the municipal
government of Jersey City made last year
has not been forgotten. The course of
the present Legislature as indicated by
not likely to restore public confidence.
All signs point to Republican disaster in
November, and we have no doubt that it
will come to pass. The only question
will be whether James Smith hall be his
own successor or some other and worthier
Democrat.
The fears of the Press are not with
out goods grounds. It's parity has been
sowing the seeds of ruin ever since Demo-
cratic madness gave it opportunity, fifteen
months ago, and it will in the fullness of
time nave a terrible harvest to garner.
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