The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-08-30

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| five hundred or so delegates who bolt
| ed the convention Of the Democrats
of the State OF New Jersey in Trenton
| on April Ia, last Friday issued its re-
port In the form Of an address. Tits
called IAN Outraged Democracy,
| and is calculated to make something
| of stir among Democrats from one
END Of the State to the other. The
address is signed by many men prom
inent as Democrats in different parts
of the State, and it is given up large
lly to denounclng former United States
| Senator James Smith, Jr. On hisshoul-
ders they place the blame for every
defeat and disaster the party has met
In the State in the last fifteen years
IAll manner Of chicanery is imputed
to him,
The address states that the five
hundred boilers were Systematically
excluded from the convention Of last
April because they were known to be
opposed to Mr.. Smith and the ma
Ichine, and that they received tickets
with beveled edges, so the policemen
at the doors of the convention hall
might know what delegates to eject.
1t Il held that by this act some sixty
thsfasand Democrats thus had no re-
presentation In the convention.
In the course of the history given
| in the address of the various disasters
lof which the party has lately been
victim is the following:
ssAs the Gubernatorial convention
of 1892 approached, just prior to the
expiration of the term of United
States Senator Rufus BlOdgett, Smith
became a secret candidate for the
Senatorial succession. Al three-leg-
ged conspiracy was formed; the doom
of Democracy was sealed by political
treachery, ingratitude and greed.
Leon Albeit was defeated for the
Senate; an easy-going Governor was
nominated and elected, race-track
gambling was legalized and the forces
|Of monopoly had one more United
States Senator in the person of James
Smith"
The description given of the con-
yention of last April is, to say the
least, interesting:
Contemplate, says the address.
James Smith masQuerading upon an
anti-truSt platform Smith of the
Sugar Trust, of the Leather Trust
of the Trolley Trust, of the Electrical
Trust, of the Gas Trust, of the Skele-
ton Organization Trust, and he him.
self Wrecking Trust Of the New Jer-
Sey Democracy To ask sane, safe
and conservative Democrat to believe
that Smiths operations in Trenton
on April IA, 1904, were to conserve
any other purpose than to assist in
the trust plot to capture the Demo-
cratic national convention, under the
fraudulent head of regularity is to
ask that he inyert his mental vision
and advance backward.
ssDOes any sane man believe that If !
Smith had any serious idea of partici-
pating in a Democratic victory in
New Jersey next fall he would have
made an issue Of statutory racetrack
gambling by fraudulently forcing the
nomination of William j. Thompson
as delegate to the national cOnven-
tion, despite the emphatic protests of |
nine-tenthS of the regularly elected |
delegates from the Congressional dis
trict Thompson pretended to re-
present? Smith wanted solid dele
cation of plant tools at the national
convention, and Thompson was the
only man he could find who was will
ing to make the fraudulent contest
in the First district.
when Smith discovered that
Democratic sentiment in New Jersey
was awakening and organizing to Sc
cure real Democratic candidate for
President, he began to lay his plans
to defeat the will of the party in the
State. April IA was selected as the
time for holding the State convention
at the request of Smith, who stated
that he had arranged to sail for
Europe on the Eth. Later, when
Smith discovered that the 18th fell on
Sunday, on which day no liner leaves
port, he decided that he didn't want
TO go to Europe after all. That petty
contemplate trick was on a par with
the many other dishonorable plans
laid by Smith and his henchmen to
disfranchise the Democracy OF New
Jersey.
Democrats Of New Jersey" says
the address near the close, 'sthe fore
going is condensed story of the be-
trayal OF the party you love. From
| 1t you may learn to what depths
treachery descends In its perusal
you will learn that sometimes I'M
principled men, in the race for place,
power and pelf, strike down the most
sacred rights of their fellow men.
Naught is here set down in malice,
and we have understated rather than
overstated the facts. Our whole de-
sire as was the desire Of the conven-
ton whose representatives we are,
has been to acquaint the rank and
tile OF the Democracy of New Jersey
with the reasons, not only for the
present disorganized and defeated
conditions OF the party in the State,
but for the scandals which have been
associated In the public mind with
our conventions and other organized
proceedings.
Among the signers of the address
are: Joseph r. Buchanan, Essex
County; William M. Roberts, Mon
mouth County; Herman a. Newbold,
M. D., Morris County; Rowland
Firth, Warren County; Eltweed Po-
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