The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-02
1t Was Caucused,

III MAS CuucuSeOs
The Newark Sunday CaR does not show
its usual familiarity with public affairs
when it editorially acquits the Senate of
having been moved By its partisanship to
the impeachment OF Keeper Laverty. Ii
it had known, as we know, that the Re
publican Senators eaucused the question of
the Keepers guilt, after ascertaining where
Vanderbilt stood, 1t would have been less
ready to speak the words OF exoneration
that it published last Sunday morning.
Its Trenton correspondent knows that the
verdict of the thirteen Republican Senators
was made up in secret caucus, but stu
diously concealed the information from
the Sunday Calls proprietors, and In their
Ignorance of the facts, they allowed him
TO pen and publish the editorial of acquit-
lance. The editing of the Sunday Cal has
been entrusted by its proprietors to one OF
the rankest Republicans in New Jersey
newspaper ranks, and his editorial gives
EXPIRE ssion to the partisan prejudlces the
trial aroused in him as well as in his party
friends in the Senate. His Trenton letter
published In the same issue with his edi-
torial. gives proof in its extrav-
agant praise OF Vanderbilt that Van
derbilt is in cahoot with the
Republican Senators. If the Cal will ex-
pend some of It's boosted enterprise in
ascertaining the facts. it win find that The
TATTLRR knows whereof it speaks in
charging that the votes of the Republican
Senators were marshaled against the ex-
Keeper by caucus. The TATTLER
could prove it TO the Satisfaction of any
fair-minded man. It knows when the
caucus was held and where, and how it
came to be held. and what each. in sub
stance, SAID. and what vote the expression
OF sentiment at the start indicated, and
how many OF the Senators were forced
into line by the overriding voice of the
others; but we secured the information
under pledge Of secrecy, and would be
guilty OF violation of faith if we were to
make the details public. The Information
may come to us in some other way, and if
the Cal has not satisfied itself in the mean
time. we shall lay our proofs before it and
the people of New Jersey.
Public attention has been very generally
arrested by the little editorial paragraph
In which We &nnounced, two Sundays ago.
the possibility Of the TATTLER entering
the field of daily journalism. Since we
took our readers into our confidence on
this subject, we have had, from thou
sand channels. the most cheerful en-
couragement. We are Satisfied that the
great mass of the eight thousend readers
who honor the SUNDAY TATTLER with
their patronage, would take us home with
them every evening il we were to strike
out in thonew field. and that in less than
month we should have as large circu-
lation as any paper published in Hudson
County. Every Sunday seems 10 bring us
nearer to the commencement of the new
enterprise. We are still surveying the
field, however, with view of determining
whether it viii prove q safe investment
for us. jersey City needs reliable and
circulated Democratic paper; and there
are, to be added to the circle OF readers
we should find In our own party. hundreds
of Republicans who like the TATTLER for
its news and would take it. But we do
not propose to run in debt to give the
people of Hudson County what they want
In the newspaper line. We shall not ask
10 make any money out of daily paper
for some months after we start, but we
shall expect to see assurances of business
and patronage enough to guarantee us
against loss. When these are secured
and 1t pleases us to say that the prospect
OF their being secured is excellent-we
shall be ready to start in at once.
The sale Of $685., 900 Of water script
bonds at over 1O6 by the Board Of Finance
recently, reflects the highest credit upon
the management Of the city finances BY
those who have been entrusted with that
branch OF our local administration. The
TATTLER cannot but call public attention
to these recurring proofs of wise manage
ment as often as they present themselves.
The difference between the condition Of
the city finances at the time of the retire
ment OF Messrs. Beach, Smith and Tilden.
and the condition Of the city finances at
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