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

an unimportant formula, and the election |
will go on next Tuesday. The question
presented TO. the people is whether the
Board of Education. with some men in it
who disgrace and dehauch the service, shall
be wiped out, and the appointment of de-
cent and reputable men 10 serve in the
Board shall be entrusted to the Mayor.
The fact that the Mayor is Republican has
nothing whatever to do with the question, to
our mind. Politics has nothing to do with
the schools. And, outsideof that, the Board,
which must under the act be non partisan,
can not be made more Republican by the
Mayor than the people will likely make it.
The voters acceptance of the bill can be
expressed on the same ballot with which he
votes for the city officers. See that the
words, ssBoard of Education act accepted"
are on your ballot on Tuesday. If they are
not printed there, write them there your
self. Do not neglect it The ballots that
are silent count neither one way nor the
other The result is to be decided by the
votes of the voters that take the trouble to
express themselves one way or the other.
The Board of Education ring will see to it
that their henchmen and retainers vote
against the acceptance of the act; and to
offset their ballots it becomes the duty of
every good citizen to zee that his accept
ance of the act is formally declared on his
ballot.
Well. well! Whom can the State Gazette
have been firing at when it said this, . few
days ago?'
The Bohemian liar who does Trenton specials"
for the New York Tribune excelled himself In dis
patch in that paper about the alleged proposition
to remove the Capital. 1t tissue of lies from
newspapers will continue to be gulled by this
transparent and incorrigible liar. lfat
Will Hunt, of the Newark Advertiser, was
the Tribunes Trenton reporter during the
session of the Legislature Besides being
model youth, he was in full sympathy with
the State Gazette on the question of the re-
moval of the State House and probably
wrote in q strain that pleased our contem-
porary. So it couldn't have been to him
that the uncomplimentary reference was
made. ssfom" Fitzgerald sometimes sends
specials to the Tribune as matter of favor,
but we know, from actual experience, that
nothing under heaven could induce ssTom"
to lie; and he's out of the question. Our
versatile friend, "Bill" Styles, is the only
other Tribune contributor we remember to
have met down there. He knows too much
and is ALTOGETHER loo shrewd to write lie
SO transparent that even the State Gazette
could find it out; and he's out of the ques-
ton. There's only one man in all Trenton
that answers the State Gazette's description,
as far as we know, but we were never
aware that Larry Mott sent specials to the
Tribune, or that they would be received
there if he did send them.
Our dyspeptic brother of the Morris Jer-
sey1san quite lost his temper with Governor
Albeit in his issue of week ago. He said
that Governor Albeit had filed IS of lis
bills because he hadn't time to examine
them ami could not therefore veto them.
We'd like to wager big penny against the
head of our dyspeptic brother Of the Morris
Jerseympn- and that's giving the head con-
I siderable odds-that Governor Albeit has
pretty intelligent idea of the scope, pur-
pose, effect and wisdom of every bill that
has been submitted to him, and that he
has never attempted to excuse himself from
acting decisiyely on a bill on the ground
that he had no time to examine it. The
fact is that 50 much of the legis-
lation of the last Legislature as was
not positively bad, was SO useless and un-
necessary that the Governor did not care
to make himself responsible for it by ap-
proving it; while it was of so little conse-
quence as to make veto waste of time
and labor. 1t was not vetoed, much of it,
simply because it was not worth vetoing.
It is sad CO mmentary on the efficiency of
the Legislature that what it did was SO
weak and lnconsequental that the Cover
nor would have thrown it into the waste
basket at his side, if the State had not pro-
vided waste basket for its reception in
the Secretary of States office.
The SUNDAY TATTLER congratulates Judge
Hyer, of Railway, on the growth of business
that makes an enlargement of his paper,
the Railway Democrat, necessary. Judge
Hyer is a moving newspaper man, and
knows how to make readable paper. We
may mention in this connection, too, that
our old time friend, Frank Patterson, has
struck it SO rich in Camden that the Courier
is to be doubled up Unto an eight page
paper. tThe TArTLER is no advocate of
eight page papers. A paper with four
pagss is all any city in the State can furnish
with readable material. When it comes to
making up an eight page paper one has to
clip and cut and pad with lot of uninter-
esting stuff to fill in the; waste places,
and when it is made up every word that
the patrons of such paper read could
have been easily put within the compass Of
four pages. The four pages of the SUNDAY
TATTLER leave no room for useless padding,
but they furnish ample room for clear
and concise presentation of every item of
news, local and general, that anybody cares
to read. At the same time, if there is an
editor in the State that can run up eight
pages of readable print every week, it is
Patterson, of the Courier.