Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1855-07-04
HORSE RACING,

The Monmouth Democrat of last week con-
tanned an article headed F" Fdmatscism." in
which the Editor takes a summary view of
the course he has pursued for the past three
months in regard to horse racing, &c, and
concludes with the following paragraph
"But it is significant fact that the Demo
crat stands alone among the presses of this
town in sustaining the laws. While we notice
in other counties that ia such matters as we
have referred to the press is united in its OPP
position, here we find not only a stadious 81
lence preserved, but an effort made privately,
to create feeling against US on this very ac-
count We mention this not for the purpose
of creating any sympathy, in our behalf, for in
the discharge of our duties we are always sus-
tanned by that class in the community whose
support is desirable, but that the citizens of
Monmouth County will mark these recreants,
and when hereafter they come pratng about
their independence, their virtue and their patri-
membered and appreciated"
We have, ever since we commenced the
publication of the Herald, studiously avoided
controversy with the Democrat, and thus far
success has crowned our efforts Our first in
tention in relation to the above article, was to
treat it with silent contempt, but inasmuch as
our silence at this time might be regarded as
pleading guilty to the charges preferred by the
Democrat, we have condescended briefly to no
tice it, giving our reasons for not taking sides
with .Jeems.
The mode Of attack adopted by the Democrat
in this matter of horse racing has been of such
nature as to preclude the possibility of any
decent mans taking sides with him. He has
from the beginning, applied the most indecent
and obnoxious epthets to many of our most
respectable citizens, CHASING them as Law
yers and Lcafers,' "Judges and Gamblers"
doctors and Thieves" miscreants for whom
the jail has long been gaping" "reprobates,"
"rascals," &C.; slang used by no respectable
man, and employed only by Billingsgate black
guards and their like.
His articles have abounded in misrepresen
tations, intimating that watch-stufinr. y
thimble-rigging," and like nuisances were
among the practices of the Course. Nothing
of the kind has ever taken place there, as we
are informed by authority the most reputable.
The publication of such stuff is injurious to the
reputation Of the County and Village, convey
ing to strangers the idea that we are com
munity composed of blacklegs and robbers
The course of the Democrat, had it been
properly shaped, would have been sustained;
but by Misrepresentation, and the frequent and
continued use of such terms as above quoted it
has not Gully become unpopular among the fra
ternity, but is now receiving censure from the
moral and religious portion of the community.
No matter how strong our opposition may
be to the practice Of horse racing, we will
never take sides with any paper in misrepres-
enting and abusing the community There is
better, and equally effectual mode of sus-
tanning the laws" 1t consists merely in a de
cent appeal to common sense, and not in black
guard coercion If the former course had been
pursued, the Democrat would not have stood
aloue-but if the editor supposes that in sus-
tanning the laws it is necessary for a man to
stoep to fsh-monger blaekguaFdism, he does,
and aoiU stand alone for some time to come
In conclusion, word in reference to "pra-
tingv hereafter about our independence. The
Democrat had better @.scrape the mud from his
own boots, before he brushes the dust from ours