The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-10-01

10 believe 1t, but alas!' II was too true.
For a week men spoke with bated
breath-hoping and 'despairing by turn
and prayers assembled from home altars
and from the churches of every religious
denomination that the life Of our Presi-
dent might be spared.
but the prayers of the people and the
skill of the physicians were in vain, and
on the fourteenth of the same month the
nations Chief Magistrate succumbed to
the murderer's bullet. and the country
aye. the world, was plunged into deepest
grief by this murder most foul. God
Will, not ours, was done, and William
Mckinley passed into the sanctuary o.
the worlds martyrs.
Seven millions of his fellow citizens
elevated him to his high office, more than
double that number bow their heads in
sorrow and do reverence to his memory.
To-day, at the threshold of his tomb,
we pause to do him homage. not as a
leader of a great political party, nor en-
tirely to the man and citizen, but to the
twice elected President Of the United
States, to our Chief Magistrate and the
representative of the honor and dignity
of our government and the executive head
of our beloved country, Omnia mors
equat.'
ITO the nation and TO the family OF the
stricken President we tender our deepest
sympathy and condemn in bitterest terms
the murderer and his diabolical crime.
..Anarchism must be rooted from this
land and Democrats and Republicans
must and will join hearts and hands in
the passage of the laws so stringent that
the heresy shall be driven from our
shores
Immigration laws should be SO framed
that one holding anarchistic sentiments
could never set foot within our borders
The soil enriched by the precious blood
of our honored fathers who died in the
rights of person and property, must be
never polluted by this foul and venomous
plant
The bullet aimed at the Presidents
body was aimed at anarchy, and if an
archy die with President Mckinley he
viii not have died in vain.
Zone lesson taught by this awful trag-
edy is the perfect unity of the nation;
there was no North. no South, no East,
no West, no Democrat, no Republican, nc
Catholic, no Protestant, no Jew no Cen
tile; all were one in their grief and SYM
pathy for the stricken family.
I'VE are here today, fellow Democrats,
as. | fully believe, to nominate, not the
candidate, but the next Governor of our
Commonwealth.
There is this difference between this
convention and the one that assembled
in this hall last week; today, at this
hour, no one can tell who shall be select
ed for this great honor. But everybody
has known, for months, whom the Repub-
lican party would name
Ever since Governor Voorhees, made
certain moves upon his political chess
board whereby the Supreme Court gamer
most excellent judge and Franklin Muir
ply lost a most dangerous competitor
the public has known that Franklin Muir
ply would be the nominee.
Just why Mr. Murphy though an
estimable gentleman, should be selected
by the Republican machine for this high
office was not entirely clear until the
gentleman from Essex. who placed his
name before the convention, explained
the mystery.
1.-THE first reason that the norninator
hinted at was that the proposed nominee
was man of some competence, very
faint suggestion. however, of a barrel.
sThe second reason dwelt upon was that
he was good engineer that he held the
throttle of the Republican locomotive
during the last two Gubernatorial cam
paigns SO successfully. The figure OF
speech was very pretty, but most unfer-
tunate Most people of the State knew
that Mr.. Murphy regulated the quantity
of power that he thought was neces-
sary to run the machine, but there really
seemed no good reason for making the
fact SO very prominent and public
"Tnis is the first time in the history OF
conventions in our State that the Gov
ernorship has been openly offered as re.
ward to partisan worker for party ser
of our little State are ready to establish
this as a precedent
Candidate Murphy says in his speech
of acceptance that the only issue before
the people this fall is prosperity. Wha;
he means by that l do not understand
but do know that the citizens of ths
State say there are real issues to be met
THAT there are broken pledges ani
promises to explain, that more vicious
and partisan legislation has been placed
! Upon the books during the last six year:
than ever before in like space of time
in tie States history.
'sThe people charge that new office.
have been created and salaries increased
without reason, and a reckless extravag
ance seems to grow annually in geometri'
ratio
| 'tThe Democracy, in convention asser
! bled, say that tathe present prosperous con
| dition of the State Treasury is due to law
passed by them. that the Democrats
!, planted and the Republicans are but reap
! ing the harvest Of such legislation.
! rThe Democrats further declare tina
! the present financial prosperity of th'
State is due not to the Republican man
| agement, but to the fearlessness, states
| lnanship, wisdom and far-seeing policy ,
/ Leon Albeit more than to any othe
! cause or influence.
| .The Republican party, in their plat
| form Of 'eS pledged the people if givel
1 power again they would abolish the sFe
1 System in State and county They claim
| ed that they had practically done this i
the State and larger counties and only re
4 quired another lease to perfect their work
.sThis. the people say, they have no
done. The Democracy pledged the part
| at the same time, TO the enactment Q
| laws that will abolish the fee system i
the State. county and city, and have n
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