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NEW JEKSEY. 



They have claimed, without regard to facts, to have 

 alone preserved the union of the States ; sustained 

 the national credit; extinguished slavery; when, 

 but for the Democracy of the country and its men 

 and means, everv Republican administration would 

 have miserably failed. 



They have been BO wasteful of the public reve- 

 nues, so extravagant in expenditure, and so lenient 

 to defalcations, that the public debt remains to-day 

 a terrible and dangerous burden, and taxation an 

 onerous weight. 



They have had the power to permanently settle 

 the financial question, but have failed to do so, and 

 are responsible for the wide-spread stagnation in 

 business which to-day threatens bankruptcy and 

 ruin to our people ; labor is poorly paid, or without 

 employment, and the promised " golden era" proves 

 a delusion. 



They have failed to make our name respected 

 abroad ; our flag has been insulted, and a miserable 

 naval farce made to stand instead of the prompt vin- 

 dication required by our people ; our citizens have 

 been executed by foreign powers, without color of 

 law or trial by jury, and no reparation has been ob- 

 tained for the outrage. 



They have had official corruption presented to 

 them in every form, and committed by all grades of 

 Federal officers, executive, judicial, and legislative, 

 and, notwithstanding the universal judgment of the 

 people in condemnation, not a single instance of 

 note, of exemplary punishment, has been made by 

 Republican authority. 



They endanger republican institutions by endors- 

 ing the Administration of a President whose power 

 is being used for his indefinite reelection to the 

 chief magistracy. 



They have used the military power of the country, 

 to intimidate voters at the polls, have forced aliens 

 and strangers of vile character to the highest offices 

 of many States, and by the same illegal power have 

 practically protected them while robbing defenseless 

 people. Federal judges have issued illegal orders 

 in support of outrage, and remain to-day unpunished 

 and unimpeached. 



They have put in office at the Federal capital, as 

 managers of District aft'airs, a set of men whose rob- 

 beries in brief t ; me have never been excelled in 

 boldness or amount. Yet the chief of this notorious 

 gang, in defiance of decent respect for public opin- 

 ion, was renominated to office by the President of 

 the United States. 



By complacent assumptions of superior patriot- 

 ism, integrity, and intelligence, the Republican par- 

 ty of New Jersey have invoked public criticism, and 

 we stand ready before the people of the State to 

 make good our charges against them in general and 

 in detail. 



The election held in November resulted in 

 the choice of the Democratic candidate for 

 Governor, Mr. Bedle, by a majority of 13,- 

 233 votes, he having received 97,283 votes, 

 while 84,050 were cast for Mr. Halsey. The 

 vote for Governor aggregated 181,333. being 

 12,291 greater than that cast for President in 

 1872, and 22,588 greater than the gubernato- 

 rial vote of 1871. The majority for President 

 Grant in 1872 was 14,810 ; for Parker, Demo- 

 cratic candidate for Governor in 1871, 5,979. 

 The following Congressmen were elected in 

 1874: 



Dist. I. Clement H. Sinnickson Republican. 



II. Samuel A. Dobbins.. 



IIL Miles Ross Democrat. 



IV. Robert. Hamilton 



V. Augustus W. Cutter 



VI. Frederick H. Teese ; 



VII. Augustus A. Hardenberg 



The Legislature of 1875 is classified as fol- 

 lows: 



The Democrats, therefore, have a majority 

 of 22 in the House, and 17 on joint ballot, 

 while the Republicans have a majority of 5 in 

 the Senate. 



Tlie receipts and disbursements of the sev- 

 eral funds during the year ending October 31, 

 1874, were as follows : 



Amount in bank to credit of all the funds, 

 October 31, 1874, $272,860.81. 



The Controller estimates the expenditures 

 for 1875 at $1,400,000, exclusive of the two-mill 

 tax for schools. The revenue (excluding the 

 State school tax) is estimated at $1,610,000, in- 

 cluding $680,000 from usual sources, and $930,- 

 000 from taxes which go into State and war 

 funds. 



The war debt amounts to about $2,500,000. 

 It is represented by bonds of which about 

 $100,000 fall due annually. The payment of 

 principal and interest is met by tax and the 

 income of the sinking-fund. The investments 

 of the sinking-fund amount to a little over $1,- 

 300,000. The war debt will be reduced to the 

 same amount as the sinking-fund in about 

 twelve years without resorting to additional 

 taxation. The amount drawn from the taxes 

 to pay the war debt will diminish with each 

 successive year. The tax levy for the purposes 

 of both the State and war funds is only one and 

 a half mills. 



The value of taxable property as returned 

 from the several counties for 1874 was $619,- 

 057,903, being an increase of $10,929,762 over 

 that of the previous year. 



New Jersey has no institution for the educa- 

 tion of its deaf and dumb, blind or feeble- 

 minded ; but about $40,000 are annually ex- 

 pended by the State for their support in the in- 

 stitutions of other States. The establishment 

 of State institutions for these classes has been 

 strongly urged. There are two institutions for 

 the care of the insane. The Lunatic Asylum, in 

 Trenton, was opened in 1868, since which time 

 4,588 have been under treatment, of whom about 

 3,000 have been discharged as recovered or im- 

 proved. At the close of 1874 the asylum con- 

 tained 655 patients, of whom 106 were sup- 

 ported by friends. The maintenance of the 



* Republican majority. 



