Year: 1871

In the election of next week New-Jcrscy is
to choose O GovernOr-either one in accord
with modern ideas, flush up with the move
ment of the times, identified beyond recall
with all that is energetic and progressive In
the State, blended in all ways with the earnest
national sentiment, believer in the doctrine
that all men were created free and equal. or
else duet and gentlemanly Democrat who
thinks beliefs humbug and acts on that
theory. The absence of all sincere faith, all
genuine principle, all thought that the world
can be made better than it is, is the distin-
gushing characteristic of all Democracy, and
especially of New-Jersey Democracy. We
know and have sort of chcrishing feeling for
many of tho old Jersey Democrats They
have the grand merit of stubbornncss. They
are gentlemanly, and raise no question as to
whether they themselves arc right or might
be better. They believe in ten fathers and
ten grandfathers. 1t is not with them ques-
ton why the Democratic party exists whether
it has any raiSon d'etre. 1t does exist, did
exist, and so far as they can manage affairs it
shall die only of old age.


1t was ON this theory that Joel Parker was
nominated as tho Democratic candidate for
Governor. He is eminently respectable, at
tached to all the old traditions never did any
thing either wrong or energetic, andis possessed
of that charming conservatism which consists
in omitting to act and in meeting emergencies
with the argument that the emergency ought not
to be-that it is the troublesome fellows who
start questions and are bent on working to-
ward the millennium who disturb society, and
that what the country needs is rest. Eighteen
hours daily of sleep and the rest at the dinner
table would make the political heaven of
Parker and his Jersey kin, and they will work
harder, spend more hours try more severely
their own patience, make more speeches, and
write moro interminabe addresses than the
most industrious Republican in the State, in
order to secure this condition of quietude, re-
pose, and blissful abnegation of the future.
They are the most industriously lazy class of
people in the world. Hence, Parker.


Now of all good and gentlemanly men who
would never disturb society, Mr.. Joel Parker
is one of the cleanest. If he could have his
way it would be mild protest against our
own, with nothing vicious nor kicking about it.
In the beginning of the war he thought the
best plan was for people to stay at home and
mind their own business. He was convinced
| that the public OF political sentiment had been
debauched by the church or moral sentiment,
and had somehow been led away into the bad
notion that "modern slavery is SIM" an
idea which he considered as the sum of human
depravity, and deal worse than the sin It
self. Slavery bothered him. he did MT want
II at home, but 1t was one of those things to
go 70 wlndward Of, as you would from the
stench OF hog-pen.. During the war, when
ne was ordered by Secretary Stanton to send
On more troops, be did 1t because he could
not help their going with o free will and
hearty accord. But in 1884, when mems hearts
were sick and the sore trouble was upon us,
he asked if this thing of war had
not gone on about long enough,
ana was one of the most pronounced
Oh Democratic orators in declaring the War for
the Union to be failure, according to the
chicago Platform. For years he has been in
bewllrered daze, padding with one oar
against the Republican Gulf-stream, and, rs
he drifts northward by parallel after parallel