The Jersey City news., 1901-07-22
WANT PEACE.
Democrats Planning to Get
Together in the
Fall.
ENDORSE CORNISH'S VIEWS
Shameful Republican Tactics
to Retain Power in
Cities.
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i Especial to sThe Jersey City News."]
i TRENTON. July p, 1901.-There has
been a good deal of comment on the in
terview which Senator Johnston Cornish,
.sthe piano man of Warren gave at At
Ilanfic City last week. and it has gone ouI
in the state as one Of the best things
4 that has been said as to the relations OF
\ the two wings of the Democratic party
lsince the late unpleasantness. Everybody
strealizes that if there is to be victory this
fall when there there appears to be the
/ best chance for it in many years there
{ must be absolute and complete harmony
in the ranks, and the old Bryan men must
i not be regarded as rank outsiders. Ihere
/ must be concession on both sides, and no
/ very vigorous inquiry as to who did and
! who did not stand by the organization in
/ the dark days of 49, Senator Cornish
sounded the keynote of the situation when
/ he said that the past should be wiped out
/ so far as it is possible to do 80, and that
] all elements should unite for candidate
| for Governor who can win the people
Through merit.
| Some hard work will be necessary, and
| it will not do for anyone who has the IN
1 terest of the party at heart to stand loiy
| by and say that this one or that one
| had been outside the breastworks When
the hard fighting was needed II there
| is to be a live, concentrated campaign
| it will be necessary to bring to bear every
! possible point of strength, and to move
with a determination to win 1t was
not we'll, therefore, for Congressman NC
Dermott to bring up the old trloulatlohs
! of the Bryan wing and say that New Jer-
| sey ought to follow in the wake OF ONO
and repudiate the doctrine and the man
The Democrats of the State are doubt
| less ready to cast off the heavy yoke
which the Nebraskan put upon their
necks, but they do not care to have the
subject referred to in such harsh tones
They feel that it would be far better TO
let the matter take care of itself With
out a clash. and they are sure it will
| when the convention to name candidate
| for Governor shall have settled down to
business next fall. 1t has been not SO
very long ago since the Bryan wing of
the party had the control of the State
| organization, and Senator Cornish was
one of the foremost leaders then. For
| time there was not much chance for
l.aHs one who had repudiated the doctrines
| of the Nebraskan to figure very conspicu-
ously in the councils of the party. With
Bryan out of the reckoning, however, the
chances of a reunion of all the elements
of the organizati ton seem nearer than they
have been at any time, and the attitude
of such men as Senator Cornish will do
more to bring it about than any one
thing that has happened for a long Pc
riod. 1t means peace and harmony all
along, and will tend to bring all hands
| together for hot fight. And in view of
the apparent difficulties in the way of
the Republicans, there would seem to be
brighter prospect of victory than the
Democrats have had since the days when
the race track question put them in re-
| tirement There are plenty of State issues
to make campaign on without reference
| to national affairs, and on these the can
vass will be made if the leaders have
| their way.
| Whatever the outcome of the present
agitation on the seashore Sunday closing
question, there is sure to be warm fight
| in the next Legislature over the matter,
and already there is talk of the probable
repeal of the VOORHEES, law of last win
! ter, under which all the present trouble
| has arisen 1t has been Stated by able
stitutional, but inefdcacous as well, and
| that if it were tested in any way 1t
would not hold. Some have declared that
| 1t was a political move, anyway, and
that it should never have been passed in
| its present shape. Apparently no one
saw the boomerang in it, and it had a
smooth path. Now everybody is con-
demning it as disastrous to the party in
60 49, ;c far ts
repeal.
Under the Voorhees, law city and coun-
! ty officials who knowingly permit the vio-
1ation of any of the crimes acts may be
hailed into Court on a charge of mall
feasance or misdemeanor. Now, the ques-
tion arises, aside from the fact that there
is some doubt of the power of the Judge
to order the enforcement of the laws, as
to how it will be possible for the Judge
to determine whether the officials nave
exhausted the means within their power
! to enforce the laws. 1t may be held that
the Mayor or other executive officer of
! the community has done all he can do
when he has ordered the police to see
that the laws are being obeyed, and If,
| for instance, saloons keep open their side
doors on Sunday, 1t may be as far as the
Mayor may go In the absence OF COM
plaint If, therefore, he should be sum
moned into the august presence of the
Judge and asked if he had done his duty,
| he might make answer that he had, con-
test the point, and the voorhees, law
would prove ineffectuaI to punish him.
At all events, the whole matter of the
violation of the Sunday laws is in the
hands of the Grand Juries of the coun-
| ties in which such violations occur, and
Grand Juries are supposed to reflect more
clearly than any other body of the COM
munity the sentiment of the people. If
they shall neglect to find indictments
there is no mode of Furnishing them.
Whatever the outcome as has been stat
ed, there is sure to be a fierce battle in
the Legislature, and the situation may
seriously affect the coming election for
Assemblymen and Senators, particularly
| in the sea coast towns and counties.
| A bit of partisanship of the last Legis-
lature is stirring the cities of New
psunswick, Elizabeth and Paterson, and
LII it does not seriously affect the Repub-
| licans in the State then history and ex-
perience da>not feach anything. The case
IS that the Republicans wanted to get
lcontrol Of the ,city OF Elizabeth, and
II Az f71,nd fhatAthe Democrats wouldn't