The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-11-13

The following is none the less "in-
terestibg reading" because it appears af-
ter election:
In Hudson county, more especially in
Jersey City, Republicans and honest DEM
ocats are fighting the strongest and most
insolent political combination known in
this State. It is stronger and more ag-
gressive than any corporation monopoly
ever was. II controls the county treasury
and all the financial aud political interests
of the equity That Ring, through the
boss, Sheriff Davis, has its grip firmly
upon the jury system Of Hudson, the
ballot-box, the party machinery and the
local press. In one way or another, the
members OF the Ring levy black mail on
every dollar that goes into or out of the
county; aud what is true Of the Ring and
Hudson county is true of the Ring and
Jersey City. Both city and county are in
the thralls Of Democratic Ring Of which
Sheriff Davis is the chief and County
Clerk Mclaughlin, Mayor Cleveland, ex-
Assemblymen, Alderman and City Collec-
ter o. Neil (he Hudson county Pooh
Bah), Detective Feeney, ex-senator and
Corporation Council Edwards and Chance
ry Clerk McDermott arc members. -
Every one of these men holds profitable
office: some of them hold four or five. The
Sheriff is the head of the concern that
furnishes county institutions with supplies
of various kinds. The Board of Freehold
ers has ring inside of u ring, junta that
has exclusive control of the expenditure
of the county moneys. The members of
that inner ring are perfectly well known TO
their fellow citizens, and although nearly
every one of them is engaged in no visible
form OF business, every man of the group
is rapidly and mysteriously getting rich.
Political power for the sake of plumber Is
sought and held by these men.
twas matter Of common notoriety that
the last Legislature was run almost wholly
in the interests of the Hudson county
Ring. Hudson county dominated the
Legislature in both branches. That body
was chiefly occupied during the session
with the consideration OF bills required by
the Hudson county Ring. The most
important Of these was the Edwards
charter for Jersey City, which was subse-
quently adopted by fraud and uudcr
which every Jersey City man who helped
it on was rewarded with office under it,
and which has added 500, 600 year to
the annual municipal expenses. The Sun
set law was repealed because it interfered
with the doings OF Hudson county repea-
tiers whose operations around the polls
could be better carried on In the darkness
than Ia the light. The Jury Commission
law was repealed at the request of Boss
Davis, who, as Sheriff of Hudson county,
who had been deprived thereby of power
to pack Grand and trial juries as he would.
The law constituting equi- partisan election
boards was repealed because it prevented
the authorities of Hudson county and
municipal, from packing those boards
with Democratic tools of the Ring. The
Personal registration law was repealed
because it prevented the Ring from voting
the tenants of Hudson county graveyards
in blocks of five hundred. In short,
scarcely any act of public Importance was
passed by the Legislature of 1889 that did
not originate in the busy brains of the
managers of the Ring sitting in Jersey
City. When the few other bills than these
were brought forward, the brutal and
grasping men who looked after the affairs
of that Ring took no interest in them.
They summarily put through all measures
which they required and summarily killed
all those which were inimcal to their in
teresis. AS will be seen, with very few
exceptions, they originated nothing new,
the infamous Jersey Ciny charter being
their most notable work. Their mission
was one of destruction. They were chiefly
occupied in the repeal of wholesome laws.
Into these Vaccinations the vaulting amb-
ition of Leon Albeit fitted like charm He
has residence in Hudson county, and he
is devoured with Consuming desire 10
be Senator Of the United States. In
the pursuit OF this prize he has been feve-
rishly engaged ever since he came into
the State. Repulsed again aud again, he
Is once more before the people, STRIVING to
gain the Senate through the Office of
Governor The Hudson county Ring Is
his, and be is in the Ring--for himself.
II Is high time that the rule Of Hudson
county in this State, as the dictator of
laws and the fountain-head of executive
patronage, were broken. The Legislature
Of 1889 was venal, corrupt, riotous and
extravagant. 1t was the Hudson county
Legislature. This year, we have nothing
TO hope for being bound as they are by
the iron bands of the Ring.