The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-18


Of the Democratic party in this State, y
| seems TO me, is characteristic Of tne pai-
| ". That platform looks 70 me 81
| though il We're prepared by some GOOD,
| honest Democrat for a convention OF SIX
or nine years ago and suppressed py the
| leaders.
Equal taxation, honest government,
the apolishment OF useless offices, ana the
fee system, the reduction OF state ex-
penses and official salaries We're leloI,Iill.s III.
promised and carried ont by the Repupll-
can party during the past three years. IN
the words of the address OF the Attorney
General Of the United States at the state
Convention we told the people that we
were not promising TO perform Woha,sIs ,el. ;
in government, nor to work 1pifacleS, pil
simply to be honest, TO give them non
est government and / believe that pledge
has been Kept.
s.And sinee the beginning of the present
year our present nominee for Governor
has been the Acting Governor, and ad-
fninisfered the affairs of our state IN the
name OF the party which promised 70 pc
srhe campaign before us is a most i'm
portant one and of no less moment than
that at which you nominated your can
ator and members of the Assembly VIII pc
called upon to elect the next United states
Senator from this State, an office that
because of the peculiar composition Of tue
Senate and its inequitabie representation,
may be OF more Importance than the elec-
| ton Of a member OF Congress. Tne nom
nations of the party thus faT mace are a. :
of the highest order, and doubt not tiiat
the candidates nominated by thlS CON
vention viii maintain the same standitru
.For our State ticket victory is assured ,
the fight in this county is not hopeless
one | am persuaded that. with honest
work from now until the close OF the poLs
on the day of election, the victory Is ours
| The record of our party is our platform,
] and our success means continuance q
the policy of the present national anu
| State administration. With TINS admlhis-
Iaanr
| not of passive existence but active accom-
| plishment. and largely shaped and mace
| By those now presented by US as beng
| most worthy and peculiarly htted for the
duties of the future.
Having finished reading the extracts
| from Attorney General Grlggs' speech at
| the Subernatorial convention, DelnaresI
saw TO ii that the reporters were proVid-
1 ed with copies. There is just a possibility
| that there would have been some applause
had not five delegates from the Eieventn
wara. VINO had failed to accomplish the
| feat of sleeping while standing up, entered
vigorous protest .s1here are ringers
bin the Eleventh ward seats, shouted one
put them out" came from d corner.
| 1t was Captain Graham's soft. sweet
voice that was heard Then ex,Statees, ! Ia ;,
Il foreign tongue The wrangle continued
| for half an hour. The impossible propo-
stion of making five sleepy men occupy
one riekety chair was made. but did not
prevail The convention was threatened
| With showing something like life when
| peace was restored by the Introduction OIL
| camp chairs for the Eleventh ward uele-
Joseph A. Dear. Jr, was about the
| liveliest man in the house. he was all
| business and had any assistance been
| forthcoming he would have had the busl-
| ness of the convention transacted with
some snap. Upon his recommendatlon
| Committees on Rules and Resolutions
were appointed. They were:-Rules-
| II. Holmes, p. 3. Duff, j. l.. Algerbandy,
| George w. Decker, George r. Patterson
! fiEsn Logan, D. r, Conkling, frank
/ Beach. r. j. Benson, II. Ammernann,
iE)avid Davies; Resolutions-W H. Eaton,
/ Charles Reehill, George Moersdorf, Rop-
| ert Carey, Theodore Gubelman, r j..
| ;Stuhr, c. de r. Leonard. George Weber,
James r. Nagels, E. Biedner, William B.
I'reeburn.
IN order that the committees might
make reports, Mr.. Dear suggested thai II, a
| recess Of fifteen minutes be taken. Ihe
| motion was put. The sunaberS OF the
delegates had already been disturbed ,
once, and they objected. They voted the
4 motion down with pronptness.
| ''Gentiemeni'' said Chairman Demarest.
| Those who were awake Strengthened up
| and each seemed to assume that the re, re-
mark was directed to him personally The
| men in the middle of the house eyed
1 some of the pretenders with suspicion a
very large discussion would have follow
| ed had not Demarest continued
Il want you TO think again about what
! you have done. We must have re-
! cess.
| gate The recess was taken.
| Mr. Creswell Mclaughlin was discovered
IN the nall. Messrs. Joseph A: Dear 1,r,l an \
aobert Carey were sent for him Whne ",
the platform, some of the delegates, prop
1 ably suffering from insomnia, made tnelr
| may toward the door. Demarest tried to
| stop them.
Si.et them go' said Mclaughlin. Il
/ ind that the greater freedom you give a
man the safer you are. Continuing ne
said: This is the third time within the
| sast seven days / have attempted to make
| a speech in this hall. / began il on the
| first occasion and was stopped. The sec
| they stopped me. This is the third effort
| and [ will give you the third section.
There are 65 sections l am much inter-
| ested in newspapers. They are power
| ful weapons i used to have one myself.
| but having strong thirst for drink for
| got TO get it out one day. / find by read
| Ing of the Bergen hail meeting a IeMark-
| able condition of affairs The strongest
| argument against the Democrats IS the
true report of their transactions. II
| were managing the Democratic campaign
| | would see that each candidates speech
| was 1ypewritten, and II he varied from i
| | would scratch him off the list. find
| that Frank Q. Cole was one OF the flrsl
! vice-presldents of that meeting. Pr. Cole
| and myself are warm personal friends,
but for years he has been gong astray.
We used 10 discuss theology; He has Just
does not believe there is God. And now
| We also find that he is a Democrat.
/ Mr.. Mclaughlin said the Democrats
have no legitimate issues but any NUMBER
| af illegitimate ones. He kept the audi
/ ence awake by declaring that this coun-
| try's worst enemies are in the Republic.
| For examples, he mentioned the names
/ of Bryan and Croker. Mr. Mclaughlin
lapsed into seriousness and the delegate
| improved the opportunity by doing of.
| Alderman Decker read the rules OF the
convention, and then Robert Carey read
the report of the Resolution Committee.
The platform was as folloWs:-
The representatives of the Republican
| party Of Hudson county, in convention
/ assembled congratulate the people upor
| the conclusion of the war with Spain. Il
was undertaken for the sacred cause O.
humanity, and for the protection o.
American honor. Its results are the com
plete triumph OF American arms on lant
and sea- and we meet With entire faitl
ard confidence all the grave responsi
bilities which our victories will impose.
We congratulate the country on having
so patriotic so wise, and so courageous
President as William Mckinney. Durint
the critical periods of battle and of diplo
matte negotiation his patient courage 2ns
broad humanity guided our nation TO sue
cess and an honorable peace
We heartily endorse the platform
| adopted at the Republican State Conven
ton at Trenton. and at the Republican
Congressional Convention held in thi
county.
We commend the administration o
State affairs under Governor John w
4 GTiggs and Acting Governor Foster M
voorhees,. The government of State 70
the past three years has been able, homes