The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-11-22
The Tribune's New Jersey political phil

we can't understand. But he puts the
key to the political situation in the hands
of the State House Ring, and declares
that no Democrat in the State can be
elected United States Senator without the
consent of the Secretary of STATED But |
then the Tribune man may have miscal |
culated. We can only see two horns to |
the Senatorial dilemma. Albeit is the |
boss of one horn and Sewell of the other. |
AS we figure it, one or the other of these |
gentlemen will win the Senatorial prize |
next year. We don't quite see where Kel-
sey is to come in on the racket. His |
antagonism to Albeit is notorious. From
the fact that Kelsey's organ in Trenton is
shouting for all it is worth against Sewell,
it may be presumed that he doesn't like
Sewell any better. Between the two it
looks as though Kelsey was doomed to
be most awfully left. The Tribune man
had better go over his figures again; and
see if he hasn't made an error in his call
culations.
The Board of Works has ascertained at
last what it might have found out much
earlier-that the city gets its printing done
much cheaper than individuals get theirs.
The prices for city advertisements are fully
thirty per cent cheaper than are charged
to individuals, as Commissioner Keeney
said. Another fact they appear not to
have learned is that the rates are fixed by
law, one of the Commissioners saying that
he had not been able to find any such law.
That is probably because he did not look
in the right place. 1t is on the statute
book, and has been there for some years.
No printer can charge the city any more
than the rate fixed, because the rate has
been SO long established that it should be
of common knowledge wherever such mat
tiers are of interest. We think if the Com
missioners will call on City Clerk Scott, he
will be able to tell them what the legal
rates are, and where they may find the law.
The SUNDAY TATTLER owes a very humble
apology to its readers for the tone of the
article published last Sunday morning.
describing the appearance of Maybee and
English, the Reviyalists, at the First Bap-
fist Church, last Saturday evening. TWAS
in inexcusably bad taste; but it came in
late; and, with full reliance on the sense
and judgment of the reporter who pre-
pared it, the editor allowed it to go into
print without reading it. 1t is needless to
say, we hope, that but for this unfortunate
oversight the article would not have gone
beyond the waste-basket. The TATTLER,
so far from ridiculing religious sentiment,
has the highest respect for every mans
Faith, and his method of showing it.
The Presbytery at Orange lost no time in
dissolvipg pastoral relations beween Rev.
J. 81. Whitehead and the Mum avenue
Church last Friday evening. The dominic
had lost his wife, by death, and had
engaged himself to another woman with
what his congregation regarded as indec-
orous haste. A storm of indignation was
aroused, and demand for the severance
of pastoral relations was sent to the Pres
bytery. The sentiment of his fellow
ministers IN the Presbytery was shown by
their refusal to appoint committee to
draft resolutions commencing him 10 the
favor of churches seeking pastors.
The Hoboken Advertiser, in speaking of
the appointment of Rev. DR.. Houghton as
County Superintendent of Schools. says
the TATTLER was the only paper that
tried to stir up sectarian strife, ]" in con-
nection with the matter, or words to that
effect The Advertiser doesn't seem to
appreciate the situation. The fact is that
the TATTLER is the only paper that had
the courage t. tell the truth about the
affair. If, as we suggested, Father Corri-
gan had been appointed, several of the
county papers would, by this time, have
gone crazy over sectarianism.
There is no more interesting column in
the SUNDAY TATTLER than the medley of
personal, political and social notes run on
the second page under the head of RAN
dom Jottings." They are prepared by a
gentleman on the closest terms of intimacy
with everybody of any account in the
State; and in many of his two line para
graphs there is frequently food of infor-
nation on topics that interests everybody.
We desire to commend them especially to
the favor of the readers of the SUNDAY
TATTLER
We have just been told that Finance
Commissioner Jordan's friends feel out
ragged that in our article on the Board of
Financiers three or four weeks ago. we
should have described him as 80 years of
age We desire to say that it was the
typos fault. We wrote for the 5 that
appeared in the paper-which would make
Mr.. Jordan scarcely twice s'sweet sixteen
Time has dealt lightly with him, and one
would scarcely think, to look at him, that
he is even thirty
The Palma Club has made decided bit
with its art fair and won hosts of friends |
lv its liberality in placing before the PEG.
p,4 80 fine an array of artistic work at a |
mulfmum of cost. The attendance has |
been satisfactory and it is to be hoped the |
club will find the returns sufficiently large |
to repay them for the effort they have
made in field never before opened up to
Jersey City public.
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The Monmouth Democrat inveighs
against straw rides Editor Yard is Just
right. The straw ride is next to the camp
meeting as an engine Of mischief. Il in
vites indecorous frolic, and the invitetion
is too frequently accepted