The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-10
WELL, SMITH KNOWS.
Man Whose County Went
10000 Republican
Howls for Reform.
[special to HThe Jersey city News."l

Especial 10 line Jersey City NEWS.
NEWARK, Nov 10, 1soo.-Two questions
about the Democratic partys standing in
New Jersey were submitted to former
United States Senator James Smith, Jr.,
yesterday
The questions and their answers were
as follows
What is the future of the Democratic
party in this State?
The causes that have divided the Demo-
| cratic party in this State for the last
four years having been removed by the
people in the last election, there can be
no cogent reason presented why united
Democracy and the large independent
conservative element that will be attract
ed to 1t should not be in position In the
near future to restore the government of
this State to the control Of the people.
| How can the Democrats elect a Cover
nor in 1901?
| BY nominating man of high character,
who has the confidence of the people, and
who if elected, will in the broader sense
| represent all the people of the State, who
can be depended on to require in the en-
actment of laws that the best interests Of
the people must be conserved, and In
| treating corporate bodies will do so fairly
and justly, without prejudice, and with
out being considered their absolute agent
as has been the case very often in the
| past.
The Democracy of our State should at
once adopt some plan to arrest the false
impressions entertained by large num-
ber of citizens of the State, whose busi-
ness interests are located in New York
| o;t
from their business places read the New
York City newspapers. and in a large
measure take their politics from them and
the views of their associates in business
who reside in New York. The result is
they become imbued with the idea that
the Democracy of New Jersey is part of
or at least dominated to some extent by
that of New York While in fact there
never has been nor can there be any such
/ connection.
| If these erroneous impressions can be
done away with and the interest of the
party in the State in which they live be
properly and truthfully placed before
them, they will without doubt take an in
terest in the Democratic party of the
State, and I am of opinion that the best
means to accomplish the desired end will
be found in placing before them the news
papers of the State.
| In the work to be done by the Democ-
racy in the near future the young man
must be encouraged and brought to the
front, as the present and the future of
the Democratic party and the prosperity
of the nation is, and must be, in their
keeping. The Democratic party must see
to it that the argument being used by
our friends the enemy, in this regard
Inamely-that the Democratic party is only
composed of the poor and the working
| people, and therefore is not highly re-
| spectacle, and that should they join it or
continue in it their social position may
be endangered, must be met and contro-
verted
| The young men of our party or any
| other should and do know that to be poor
| has never been deemed a disgrace and
/ that it has never been the pride of our
country to boast that from the poverty
which was all that Great Britain left us,
when driven from the control of the colo
nies, came the genius, the intelligence
and the physical worth which has made
US the envied of the world powers of the
present day.
| To the old and faithful Democrats who
have ever been true to the principles OF
| their party, too much praise cannot be
given. and if in the future success comes.
they will be found among those whose ef-
forts will have procured it.