NEW JERSEY. 



NEW JERUSALEM CIICRCII. 



that the country cannot trust the professions of the 

 Dem .icniiii- party iu t'uvur I reform or in r-fcivn.-i; 

 mrasure of public policy. Its record in one 

 of subserviency to its own worst elements, of ex- 

 travuifjimv, waste, and corruption, wherever it has 

 acquired power. And there is nothing in the record 

 of the Democratic party, and certainly nothing in 

 the present attitude of its candidate fur the presi- 

 dency, that warrants the hope that any reform under 

 it could be effected by that party or its candidates in 

 any department of government administration. It 

 is to-day controlled oy that clement which created, 

 organized, und prolonged the war of secession ana 

 rebellion, thereby entailing upon the nation an enor- 

 mous debt and involving the sacrifice of hundreds 

 of thousands of loyal lives ; it is now supporting 

 ciui'tidates who not only acquiesce in this leader- 

 ship, but ar.' committed to a financial policy which 

 is both dishonest and dangerous. 



Raolved, That we are in favor of the earliest pos- 

 sible resumption of specie payments and of adher- 

 ing faithfully to all pledges made and all measures 

 adopted with a view to that desirable end. 



Risoloed, That wo are inflexibly opposed to any 

 and all attempts, direct or indirect, to impair the 

 efficiency of our free public schools, and we demand 

 that they be kept forever free, by the adoption of 

 an amendment to the Constitution of the United 

 States, from all ecclesiastical or sectarian interference. 



Jfesolof-J) That the letters of acceptance of our can- 

 didates for President and Vice-President meet our 

 cordial approval, especially for their straightforward 

 and emphatic utterances upon those cardinal points 

 of civil-service reform, free and unsectarian educa- 

 tion, honest currency, and the protection of the 

 rights of citizens of all classes in every section of 

 this country; and we pledge ourselves in the event 

 of tlieir election to give them our hearty support in 

 their endeavors to administer the government in 

 the full spirit of these declarations. 



The same day there was a convention of 

 the Prohibition party at Trenton. An electoral 

 ticket was put in nomination, and a platform 

 adopted, approving the principles and candi- 

 dates of the National Convention of the party, 

 and expressing the views of the Prohibitionists 

 regarding the results of liquor-selling. The 

 following were also among the declarations : 



In all that regards the interests of labor our party 

 stands out before the country as the only true labor- 

 reform party. The measures we advocate cover the 

 whole field of labor-reform, and when adopted will 

 proclaim permanent peace and friendship between 

 the interests of labor and capital. 



We demand that all needless expenditures of pub- 

 lic moneys be stopped, all sinecures abolished, and 

 the public expenditures reduced t"> the lowest pos- 

 sible amount consistent with a faithful administra- 

 tion of public affairs. 



We demand that the administration of justice be 

 made less expensive and burdensome to the com- 

 munity than it now is ; that all our courts be thrown 

 open for the redress of grievances to the rich and 

 poor alike ; that all fees and perquisites to judges 

 and other court officers be abolished, and such offi- 

 cials be paid for their services by reasonable and 

 proper salaries. 



The Democrats held their nominating con- 

 vention at Trenton on the 12th of September. 

 Speeches were made by ex-Governor Joel 

 Parker, Senator Bayard, of Delaware, and 

 others, and ex-Governor Parker was placed at 

 the head of the ticket of presidential electors. 

 The only platform adopted was the following: 



Resolved, by the Democratic Electoral Convention, 



this day assembled at Trenton, That we hereby ap- 



IIIMVI- of and indorse the platform of principles 

 adopted at the late Democratic National Convention 

 at St. Louis, and the letters of acceptance of our 

 standard-bearers for President and Vice-President. 



Jteiolved, That we do hereby cordially ratify the 

 nominations of Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, tor 

 I 'resident, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, 

 for V ice-President ; and that we commend them to 

 the people of New Jersey for their suffrages, as 

 among tin- ablest and purest statesmen in our land, 

 and eminently fitted to inaugurate reform in our na- 

 tional Administration, to bring back to our distracted 

 and impoverished country peace and prosperity. 



The whole number of votes cant for electors 

 on the 7th of November was 220,236, of which 

 115,962 were for the Tilden and Ilendricks 

 ticket, 103,517 for Hayes and Wheeler, 714 for 

 Cooper and Gary, and 43 for Smith and Stew- 

 art. The Democratic plurality over the Re- 

 publican vote was 12,445 ; majority over all, 

 11,688. Of the seven members of Congress 

 chosen four were Democrats and three Repub- 

 licans. There was a " Greenback " candidate 

 in the Sixth District, who received 520 votes. 

 The Legislature of 1877 consists of 11 Demo- 

 crats and 10 Republicans in the Senate, and 30 

 Democrats and 30 Republicans in the House. 



The Hon. John R. McPherson was elected 

 to the United States Senate early in January, 

 1877, for the term ending March 4, 1883, to 

 succeed Mr. Frelinghuysen. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. The fifty- 

 sixth Annual Convention of the New Jerusalem 

 Church met in Philadelphia, June 9th. The 

 Rev. Chauncey Giles presided. The treasurer 

 reported that the convention had a balance of 

 $8,494 deposited with the United States Trust 

 Company. The receipts for the year had been 

 $1,930.28, and the expenditures $2,105.92. The 

 Rev. R. L. Tafel, D. D., was present as a frater- 

 nal delegate to the convention from the New 

 Church in England, and bore an address from 

 the societies in that country. He stated that 

 the work of collecting and arranging the manu- 

 scripts of Swedenborg had been intrusted to 

 him, and was nearly completed. The Execu- 

 tive Committee made a report of the progress 

 of the revision of the liturgy. It had been 

 intrusted to a special committee. They had 

 first endeavored to arrange a consecutive and 

 nearly invariable service, or series of services, 

 which must be used always and everywhere 

 in essentially the same way. But none of 

 their efforts based on this plan had given satis- 

 faction. They had, therefore, endeavored to 

 provide a set of services susceptible of varia- 

 tion. To this end they had provided a general 

 order of services, with rubrics, to which they 

 had added the materials for filliug out the ser- 

 vice, consisting of music, responsive exercises, 

 selections from the Word, prayers, selections 

 from the Psalms, morning and evening ser- 

 vices, anthems, and hymns. One bequest of 

 $5,000 and one of $1,000 were announced to 

 the convention. The report of the Committee 

 on Foreign Correspondence gave statements 

 of the condition of affairs of the Church ir 



