The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-23

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SUNDAY. MAY 20. 1856.
The latest display of party zeal on the
part Of Pangy, of the Journal will proba-l
bly, bring down upon his head the fresh
anathemas of his party friends. If there
Us State topic that the party IS anxious
to keep in the background duiiDg the
approaching campaign. il is the temper
ance question. The Republican Legisla
turs last Winter just spat upon the
temperance sentiment of the Republican
party, and now Pangbern and some other
highly vlrtuous shining lights of the party
have combined to call convention to
force into the platform Of the party at its
approaching convention an unequiyocal
cold water plank. Such declaration
would turn Essex and Passaic Counties,
where there are good many beer-loying
Republicans. over to the Democrats, and
gain the party nothing in other counties,
where all the temperance sentiment has
heretofore trained In Republican ranks.
To declare for the liquor dealers might
save Essex aud Passaic, but it would lose
other Republican counties, by driving the
water-drinkiag Republicans to the support
of the candidates of the temperance party.
The party cannot safely take hold of
either horn of the dilemma; and the true
blue Republican will fight as shy of the
issue as circumstances will allow. The
attempt therefore to force it into promi-
hence, as Pangborn is doing. is listle short
of party treason. But Pangy is forever
stepping on his ear. Republicans of Jersey
City will not forget how ilopportune his
attacks on the Board of Works on the eve
of the local campaign were. They could
not have been made at a more unlucky
time; for the Democrats neatly turned bis
guns upon his personal friend, Mayor
Collins, by showing that if he had given
close attention to his Mayoralty duties, he
might have prevented the frauds The
journal complained Of. or course every
candid meal knows that Mayor Collins dis
charged bis duties with scrupulous care
and fidelity; but all the same the
"Majah's' exposures gave his opponents
handle to work with, and they worked it
for all it was worth, and probably not
without effect. The trouble with the
.Maiah' is that since he ceased 10 be one
of Uncle Sans paymasters, fraud stinks
in his nostrils; and that since he swore off
sliding into back doors to take his lone
some and solitary drink, the sight of
healthy milk punch turns his stomach.
: George L. Record, of the Board of Edu-
cation, .sas, with the aid of ex-Mayor Col
Inns, his counsel. removed, by certiorari,
the proceedings before Mayor Cleveland
looking to his removal from office, to the
Supreme Court II is scarcely presume
bic that so shrewd public official as
Mayor Cleveland believed himself to be
an autocrat in the matter of the displace-
ment of the members of the Board, and
he is probably content to have the courts
decide the qsestions to which Mr.. iDugan's
affidavit has given birth. When an act
declares that the Mayor can remove for
cause only and after hearing. a natural
presumption is that the Mayor is not to
sitin fiual judgment on his own act, for
then there would be no practical check
upon bis removing without cause The
phraseology of The act implies the right
to appeal to the courts. with a view of
having the suficiency of the cause and
the fairness Of the hearing judicially de-
clared. 1t is not to be imagined that be-
cause Mayor Cleveland entertained Mr..
Dugan's complaint his deposal of Record
was a foregeEe conclusion; but the fact
that Mr.. Record, while ostensibly Dem
crat, publicly advocated Mayor Collins's
re election, would not probably have dis
posed the Mayor to throw any doubts in
his favor. The step by which the con-
templated removal has been temporarily
delayed is but another proof of the
shrewdness these Republicans display in
keeping Is offices in the hauds of their
friends.
The Grand Jury which Judge Knapp
refused to discharge the other day, win
probably be called together before many
days to take action upon the two bloody
tragedies. particulars of which were laid
before the people Of this community on
Morday morning. The murder of wife
in Hoboken seems TO have been brutal
enough crime in all its surroundings; but
The killing Of the peaceful Russian painter
by First. ward rough on Sussex street
last Saturday night, puts the neck of its
perpctrator in the greater jeopardy. Ac-
cording TO the variations of witnesses,
Flanagan left Cummings saloon with the
express design OF breaking Collquist's jaw.
He evidently carried out the design. Coll
qust's jaw was found TO have been broken,
and in breaking it the drunken brute kill
cd him. TIE plea that be did not intend
to kill his victim when be struck him, will
not avail the murderer much in bis efforts
to escape the gallows. By the law of this
State the man who kills in the commission
Of another felony, is guilty of capital
crime; and an atrocious assault and bat
terry, which Flanagan started out to com
nit according TO his own announcement
is felony. The community can well
afford 10 spare such fellows as Flanagan
to TIE hangwan, and We hope that no.
sap headed jury win aid him to escape the
penalty he so richly deserves,
We Publish in another column, for the
information Of our readers, the full text Of
the new Marten bill for the collection of