New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
WRONGING THE RTGHTE0T $

That is Il most painful suggestion which is made
concerning the recent election in Jersey City.
shocking. mOnstrous and incredible. Ii is to the
effect that the small majority recorded for Mr
hatzenbach in that city due an unholy
compact between the Democratic boss and the
Republican eX-boss, under which Democratic
votes were to be east for Republican Governor
in return for Republican votes for a Democratic
Mayor The utter viclousness of the intimatOn
is enhanced by its superficial plausibility. For
these We're the circumstances On the one side
was Republican eX-bOSS who vitay inter
eSted in having the Republican candidate for the
mayOralty defeated in order that the railroads
and other corporations might no longer be com
PEELED to pay taxes and obey the laws equally
with mere ordinary people, and who imagined
that he might ingratiate himself with the next
Republican Governor Of the state by securing
an unusually large vote for him. On the other
side was a Democratic boss whose prosperity de-
pended upon the election of a Democratic Mayor
and TO whom it did not matter of pins if
the Democratic candidate for Governor was de
feated-if. indeed, be did not prefer that he
should he defeated, just TO put a spoke in the
wheel OF his dear friend Mr.. Smith whom he
always greets with Art thou in health my
brother?"
In brief. Republican manager who would
gladly see a Republican Governor elected in or
der TO insure the defeat of a Republican Mayor,
and a Democratic manager who would gladly see
the Democratic candidate for Governor defeated
in order TO insure the election of a Democratic
Mayor-why, Mercury, the god of trade, never
could have conceived lovelier situation for
deal"
But those evil thinking minds who jump TO the
conclusion that there was indeed such deal
leave one paramount and controlling factor out
of consideration. That is the impeCcable integrity
and the high sense of honor of the two gentlemen
upon whom these hideOus aspersions are cast.
When man cllngs steadfastly TO well paying
Office after the Governor who appointed him and
the Senate and the whole voice of the party and
people have asked him to resign it for decency's
sake it is nothing short of scandalous to suspect
him to be capable of sordd motives or tricky
practices Much as it may have panied him TO
do So we must assume that the Hon Samuel
Dickinson, impelIed by sense of duty and honor
voted the straight Republican ticket and cried
Get thee behind me- Satan" to all suggestions
that he should bolt the regular party nomina-
tions. As for the Hon. Robert Davis his whole
career of unsclash devotion 20 the loftiest civic
ethics stamps with shame the slightest hint
that he could for moment and for any consid-
GRAFTON be induced to make such compact as
that which his Impudent traducers suggest
Any way, any such deal would have been as
needless or as useless il would have been
seandalOus, as the election returns clearly show.
For if the Democratic vote for Governor in Jer-
sey City had been large as that for Mayor
Mr.. Fort would still have been handsomely
elected. 1t not the Democratic Slump" in
Hudson County which gave him his splendid
victory, but the honest support Of his own party
throughout the state. 1t is therefore not for
the sake of vndcating his election which needs
no vindication, that we would reject with indig-
nant scorn these wicked imputations against
Messrs. Dickinson and Davis, but rather for the
sake Of expressing for good men contendng with
adversities that sympathetic regard which the
Olympian gods We're said to feel.