The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-12

The Louisville Gurier-Jowndl remarks Of
ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen and ex-senator
Stockton, of New Jersey, that it is curious
to note how history repeats itself in the
relation of a member of each family to q
member of the other after a an interval of
over sixty years. Richard Stockton, the
grandfather of ex-senator John P. Stock
ton, was elected United States Senator
from New Jersey in place of Frederick
Frelinghuysen, resigned, as q Federalist,
and served from 1898 to 1899, when he de-
clined being a candidate for reelection.
His son, Robert Field Stockton, generally
known as Commodore Stockton, was SEN.
ator from New Jersey from 1851 to 1853,
when he resigned. He had been in the
Navy from 1911 to 1916, when, having
gradually risen from midshipman to be a
Commodore, he resigned. His son, John
Jersey in 1865. but was unseated after a
years service In the Senate He was the
third of his family in direct line to repre-
sent New Jersey in the United States Sem
ate. He was again elected Senator as q
Democrat to succeed Frederick 7. Frsling-
huysen. Republican, and served from 1853
to 1875. This is curious, as his grand
father, Richard Stockton, had succeeded
this same Mr.. Frelinghuysen's grandfather
in the Senate, as above shown. Frederick
T. Frelinghuysen, whom John P. Stockton
succeeded, was elected Senator from New
Jersey before the term of service Of Mr..
Stockton expired, and served from 1871 to
1877, and it was he who was President Ar
thurs Secretary of State.
The SUNDAY TArTLER scarcely sympa-
thizes with the correspondent whose letter
concerning the appointment of Postmaster
Pearson was published last Sunday morn
ing. The TATTLER is in favor of the recog-
milton of the great service the Independents
rendered the Democratic party last Fall,
and urges that such recognition be of the
most liberal kind. But we regard it as un-
fortunate that Mr.. Pearson should have
been the first BENEFICIARY. During the
csmpaign last Fall the postofice at the City
Hall Park, New York, was hot-bed of par
tisanship; and nothing was too mean or
too small for Mr.. Pearson to do or to allow
to show his preference. When the Demo.
cratic parades passed up Broadway, the
...sA1.2n - Az I;x ,ro,o acaa;Iad bxy oak
calls and Kisses from every window of the
great building under Mr.. Parsons control;
while loathsome notices. such :, as
ssMa! NAL where's my pa?" were. dis
played from many parts of the structure.
Such an exhibition of dirty partisanship
should have cost Mr.. Pearson his posi-
ton, and it is to be regretted that the in
fuence of the large body of Independents
to whose aid MIR. Cleveland largely owes
his election should have spent its first force
to keep him in it.
The review of the Hoboken political sit
uation, which we publish in another col
umn, was solicited by the editor of the
SUNDAY TArrLER from one of the most COM
potent judges of political affairs in Hoboken.
He is an Independent in political matters,
and does not allow his party prejudice or
his personal hopes or wishes to blind his
judgment. The review will be found to
throw the fullest possible light on the mo-
tive of the opposition to Mayor Timken.
We say it without reserve that Mr.. Timken
has been one of the best Mayors Hoboken
has ever had. He is square and capable,
and has given Hoboken business admin
istratien that makes him inyincibly strong
with the people, however the politicians
may regard him. We wish to urge his re-
election as in the best interests of the tax
payers and citizens.
The law passed by the recent Legislature
in relation to license seems destined mere
ly to open up subject that in this city at
least had seemed to be disposed of. There
are vast number of rum shops in this
city. as in all others, that could we'll be
spared, and a license system that will wipe
out the bar-rooms at the backs of the sscor-
ner groceries, wonld be most heartily well
coined by the public generally, for these
are the shops that work the most serious
evil, added to the fact that the stuff sold in
them is very tolerable poison.
The ArgAs's announcement that the
school teachers learned from the Argus
that the SUNDAY TArTLER had said some
thing about them, is refreshingly cheeky.
If it were not for the occasional free adver-
tisement the argus gets in the TATrLER, no
one would know that there ever was such
paper as the Argus except from tradition.
The SUNDAY TATTLER has five readers or
more to every one the Argus has; and as o
rule the people of Jersey City learn what is
in the TArTLxn from the TArTLER itself
The journal of Tuesday published long
screed concerning the investigation by the
North Bergen Town Committee of the
depth at which bodies are inferred in the
several cemeteries in that part of the
county. All the essential and striking fea-
lures of that report were furnished to the
readers of the SUNDAY TArrLEa in twenty
line paragraph on February az. 1t usually
takes tho Journal about q month to hook
on to the news that isn't turned out at the
police courts.
The Tribune, which has drawn much con-
ISOLATION from the fact that three or four
Republican towns of New Jersey have
acair, zone Republieau notwithstanding The