New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . e declared to be anunjustifiable imposition upon the laboring Eepublicans were charged with falsely as-serting that they saved the Union and abolishedslavery, * when but for the Democracy of the coun-try, and its men and means, every Republican ad-ministration would have miserably the Republican administration werecharged fraud, hard times, the burden of a vastpublic debt, a failure to make the flag of theUnited States respected abroad, leniency in pun-ishing dishonest officials, the use of military po
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . e declared to be anunjustifiable imposition upon the laboring Eepublicans were charged with falsely as-serting that they saved the Union and abolishedslavery, * when but for the Democracy of the coun-try, and its men and means, every Republican ad-ministration would have miserably the Republican administration werecharged fraud, hard times, the burden of a vastpublic debt, a failure to make the flag of theUnited States respected abroad, leniency in pun-ishing dishonest officials, the use of military pow-er, carpet bagging, and wholesale robberies inthe administration of affairs in the District of Co-lumbia. The Republicans, said the platform, hadbeen enabled to continue their career by compla-cent assumptions of superior patriotism, integ-rity, and intelligence. Bedle received 97,283 votes, Halsey 84,050, giv-ing a Democratic majority of 3,233. Two years subsequently, in the memorable con-test of 1876, the State of New Jersey gave 115,962 174 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. SAMUEL J. TDLDKN. votes to Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candi-date for President of the United States. His op-ponent was Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican, whoreceived 103,517 votes. Tildens majority was12,445. 1877: Republican.—But one ballot was requiredin the Republican gubernatorial convention of1877 to decide upon William A. Newell as theparty nominee. The other candidates were A. Potts, William Walter Phelps, GardnerColby, Thomas N. McCarter, John Hill, anderal Judson Kilpatrick. The platform reaffirmed the national platformin its cardinal doctrines that the United Stateswas not a league, that all citizens should equallyenjoy civil, political, and public rights, endorsedcivil service reform, with due regard to represent-ing the party in power, advocated such a tarifffor revenue as would promote the interests of la-bor, opposed the granting of the public domain tocorporations, and embraced a gen
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