The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-24
A Defense efNtw Jersey.

organizations of capital within the
State We print below some extracts
from his speech. which will prove in
teresting reading to every Jerseyman
who has the welfare of his State at
heart
Mr.. Pitnev opened his sTeech by
saving, it is true that such laws exist.
! 1t is true that they were passed by
/ Democratic legislatures and signed
by Democratic governors. Applause
1 on the Republican side.
1 The State of New Jersey had been
under the continued ascendaney OF
the Democratic party for thirty years
until about four years ago. 1t had
come to such pass that there was a
4 Legislative trust established in the
I statehouse, which would sell leglsla-
tion to anybody who would pay the
price And the last crowning act OF
liniquity on the part OF that leglsla-
tive trust was bill called the coal
combine BILL . supported by the po-
llitical associates of the gentleman
from Kansas. and which proposed to
increase the price of coal TO every
citizen of New Jersey 81 per ton
and throughout the United States.
/ 1T would have formed coal trusl
/ that would have held the whole coun-
try in its grasp. Time, Mr.. Chair
man. will not permit me, and do
not pretend to give the details of that
and other equally bad legislation, ex-
cept to say that at the next State
election-the election of 1S93-the
people of New Jersey, who had been
voting the Democratic ticket with
out interruption for thirty years,
arose in their wrath and cast that
party out of the statehouse by $4,000
1 majority. [Applause on the Republi-
can side The ring leaders, with
/ whom the gentleman is now associa-
/ ting, not content to accept popular
verdict of 90. 900 majority, undertook,
by the most rascally Vaccinations, to
| steal the State senate and thwart the
will of the people. The peonle would
not endure this, and in the fall cleo
tion of 1894 they reiterated the verdict
of 1898. gave a heavy majority to the
Republican State ticket, and returned
for the first time a solid Republican
delegation to the House of Represen-
tatives by majorities aggregating
AS, 900 votes. Renewed applause.
In the year 1895 these issues were
again fought out on the soil of New
Jersey, and in spite of the fact that
the Democratic party was so far
sobered that they nominated for the
Office of governor a man whose per-
sonal character was unimpeachable,
the people did not dare to trust any
body nominated from that conven-
tion, and SO by 27,000 majority they
elected to the office of governor the
L II G,.s,~ r ha Pc
publican governor in thirty years, a
man who is now about to commence
an honorable and useful career in the
Cabinet of William Mckinley.
Applause on the Republican side.
In the year 1896. when the Demo
Gratis appealed to the honest farmers
of New jersey and asked them to
vote for a proposition that, it was
claimed, would enable them to scale
the debts they owed their creditors
down to 80 cents on the dollar. And
the honest farmers in every hamlet
in every township, in every voting
district, repudiated utterly and with
contempt the Infamous proposition.
TApplause That is the kind of
people we have in New Jersey. In
the election of 1896 they rolled up
majority for William Mckinley, for
Garret A. Hobart, and for honest
money and honest dealing of over
81, 900 votes. [Great applause on the
Republican side.
RECENT NEW JERSEY ELECTIONS.
But the gentleman says referring to
the recent politics of my State, as he
many subjects about which he has no
information Qaughter) that the mis-
deeds of the Democratic Eartv were
not in question in the campaign of
1893. As to this | will simply say that
in New Jersey, as elsewhere, there are
Democrats and there are other Demo
Gratis. Their misdeeds which were the
direct issue in 1898 and also in 1895
were the deeds of the party organiza-
! tion, of its officeholder, and of the
/ dominant clique among its leaders.
/ The horest rank and file of the Demo-
/ cratic party were not responsible for
I those msdeeds, and thousands of true
4 Democrats. in 1893 and in subsequent
years have united with the Republi-
/ can party in rebuking the misdeeds of
! the Democratic misleaders and in
/ righting the wrongs which were done
/ in the name of the Democrats party
and to the discredit of that party and
of the State.
could tell the gentleman how, in
/ the gubernatorial campaign of 1889,
/ the chairman of the Democratic State
4 Committee, who was the close friend
iof the Democratic candidate for
/ governor, both of them being resi-
/ dents OF Hudson County, gave out on
4 the Friday preceding the election
that county would give the Demo
cratic ticket 5000 majority. But
then the chairman learned that the
estimates of the Republican organiza-
4 ton conceded a Democratic majority
+ of 5000 for Hudson County, and still
claimed that the State would go Re
I publican: whereupon the Democratic
chairman revised his estimate and
! declared that Hudson County would
! give u, 600 majority for the Democratic
ticket
| could tell the gentleman how that
4 prediction was verified on the night
of election by the return of 10, 900 and
a little over as the Democratic ma
jority ia Hudson County: and how
it was developed afterward by proof