The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-22

beled as reform but sober, substantial
improvements in the form ana 81 substance PSI. i,,e
ferior courts, and the codes that govern
our small communities, and an ever pres.
ent sense>Qf responsibility and spirit OF
conservatism, without which the leSlsla-
tive power is more dangerous than
despotism to the real interests OF stare.
/ count it the proudest honor of my life
that / was permitted, through your pre-
ferment, to serve our State In some OF
these reforms, and hope you nave not
deemed me unmindful of my duty IN con-
senting to become member OF coun-
ell of our Republican President in the
hour of difficulty and danger could
not have consented had not known
was leaving your interests IN Sa1e Names
Great events have happened since the
last Gubernatorial convention met mere
three years ago. History has Deen max
ing, and the map of the world has been
altered We have lived within view OF
such hurrying procession of momentous
occurrences that mere local subjects are
liable to be obscured. Do not forget
though, that the goyernmfenI ne o unai ;,r,s,- o0n-
diate State and neighborhood Beware,
lest fixing your eyes on distant stars you
stumble at your own doorstep
| see no evidence that the potent rae
tors in Democratic councils in New Jer-
sey are different from those of the old
regime The good men and true have not
been called back and put in command.
They have rather been driven farther
away. return to Democratic rule
would be a return to the control OF the
same leaders who We're repudiated three
years ago by the better element Oh tHeir
party.
It has been the happy fortune of the
Republican party to be found naturally
and spontaneously in harmony with the
demands of national patriotism in every
great crisis. When the internal dissen-
sions over slavery, after smoldering Tor
half a century burst into flame OF war,
there was ready a Republican party and
a Republican President to uphold the
integrity of the Union and save 1t from
destruction. When, in 1896, the forces OF
reputation and financial dishonor, COM
bining with the elements OF socialism, uls-
order and riot, seized in hysterlcal frenzy
the badges of Democracy and menaced
the foundations of our national saIety ana
honor, again there was ready the Repub-
dates dates p's REPRESENTING the true and honest
principles Of national life and safety, 4nd
again, in its success, was assured the
preservation of the vital spirit OF the
Government.
When recently the demands of human
ity compelled US to intervene and end the
barbarities in Cuba, there was again
Republican President, who, though loving
and striving for peace, was to be the
director of the nations arms in contest
which for rapidity and fauitlessness of
execution has never been equalled since
wars began upon the earth. refer 70
these things not to glory unduly IN the
achievements of the Republican party,
but to point out this fact: In each OF
these great contests this party has by its
patriotic and successful attitude neces-
Sarily drawn to it many of its former OPP
ponents. So it was in 1861. In the con-
test two years ago for sound money and
the upholding of the authority OF the
Federal courts. our party again became
the -rallying line Of hosts of Democrats
who could no longer in good conscience
remain with their perverted organization.
1t was by their help that New Jersey
was able to give her great majority for
Mckinley and Hobart. And in this latest
tine of storm and stress, in the midst OF
great perplexities and under the weight
of enormous responsibilities, it Is pleas
ant thing to be able to bear witness that
our President has retained the confidence
and support of those who aided us IN
1896 And more than that, he has had
the assistance of the advice and counsel
of many of the responsible leaders OF
the Democracy, North and South, Loyalty
and sincerely rendered without thought
of partisan or political differences.
When the record of his Administration
is made up there will stand TO the credit
of President Mckinley no more proud or
has won and kept the confidence of his
honorable political opponents. He has
had behind him the support of the Amer
lean people with greater degree OF
unanimity than any President since
Washington.
The party and the Administration which
has had the responsibility in this war,
which has given such new glory TO our
has not been a party nor an Adm1niStra-
ton of partisanship, but OF patriotism
Our President, serene, patient, Sagac1ous,
sympathetic. great, has been the Nations
Chief indeed.
What can political opposition rest upon
in this campaign? There is nothing but
academic discussion left for Democratic
platforms. They may denounce protect
i've tariffs, but no one viii care. They
have nothing newer or better than the
Chicago platform, from which tens OF
1oa1c dc nf Ifrc np1nnnr-Dfc a.
volted.
If that was a dangerous and alarming
diversion of Democratic doctrine then, it
is now only r.uAculous. 1t has upon it
the double condemnation of popular de-
feat and present absolute inconsistency
with every great occurrence in our his
tory since 1896.
When we are expanding and enlarging
our place among the great commercial
nations, it proposes to destroy our honor
and credit by the adoption of a financial
basis at war with the system of the bust
ness world. 1t denounces our system of
government as oppressive to laboring
classes, our courts as exercising uncon-
StitutiOnal and tyrannical powers, and
our Executive for enforcing the laws.
This when we are holding ourselves out
not only as models of government to op-
pressed people, but have actually interfer-
ed by arms to secure for them the same
sort of order, liberty, and good govern
ment which we enjoy.
l do not speak of that other item which
certain newspapers and others are trying
to make the leadihg issue Of the Demo-
cratic campaign. Forgetting the glory,
the achievement, the success with which
an army of 100000 men was raised out OF
nothing and hostile nation almost wiped
out in ninety days, they are lowering like
buzzards over the battleflelds and hospi-
tails and graveyardS looking only for the
misery and suffering and death which are
inevitable in war. Surely the Democratic
party has not been reduced SO low in its
supply of proper subjects for political
division as to need to rely upon yellow
fever and yellow literature.
Lift up your eyes to the heights where
glory crowned, the genius of American
liberty points to a. future pregnant with
prodigious good to all mankind; to fresh
fields for the extension of American
trade and commerce-new openings for
the investment of American capital; wider
scope for the active energies of Amer
lean young men--to more frequent
ers over the oceans: merchant shipping
multiplied manifold in the harbors of the
world: with a navy large enough and
strong enough to enforce our just de-
mands and the rights of American citi-
zens promptly and as efficiently as
Dewey enforced the views of the Govern
ment in Manila Bay, an army large
enough to serve the reasonable require
nenIs of seventy millions of people with
out putting the Administration to the
risk of quick and terrible disaster in
case of sudden war; the maintenance of
our foreign diplomatic service upon a
footing commensurate with our power
and Importance, so that it will no longer
be necessary to seek for ambassadors and
ministers among those only who are b .ess-
ed with private income sufficient to main
tain a proper establishment abroad with
out regard to the salary attached to the.
office.
The country demands now a branch of
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