The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-27
This paper is Democratic IN principles
and Is Independent IN its Tiea0s ON all
local questions.
The New Committee Humbug.

"I'm going to Trenton if / have to
walk" quoth Mr.. G. d. j. Noelke.
Oh, no, Mr.. Noelke; it will hardly
be as bad as that. The walking will
come in on the way home, if the con-
ductors are not accommodating.
But what a beautiful image of re-
form you make, what a slave
of the dear peoples will you are
as you stand up in meeting and
announce that you will not be an in
spector of election at your alleged
primaries because you yourself have
determined that under any and all
circumstances you will go to Trenton.
Here is your true kicking spirit,
good people. Look at it, study it, you
will seldom have a better opportun-
ity. Here is the man who deserted his
party, who has organized a conspiracy
to injure it, why-because he is OPP
posed to dictation by ''bosses," to the
selfish gobbling up of the good things
by a few leaders.
Oh, how moral, how self-sacriicing
he is!
But presto, make him a ''boss, and
how the scene changes. Pm going
to Trenton if l have to walk" How
is that for dictation? How is this for
gobbling up all the political advan-
tages?
The fact of the matter is, the New
Committee is a humbug and a fraud:
it is a gang of useless and disap-
pointed political strikers, and it is
really of no account whatever, except
as In awful example,-absolutely Of
no accouns.
ROBERT RAY HAMILTON has for
years been a very conspicuous figure in
New York politics. He was Chairman
of the Committee ON Cities of the
Assembly, and without being
that most noxious thing, a
professional reformer, he was a
useful and fairly conscientious
servant of the people. 1t is
lamentable to see such a mar dragged
down in the dust by the wickedness
of a woman, all the more so because
the blame rests largely upon himself.
AT the mature age of thirty-five he
took as his wife a woman whom he
knew to be a courtesan and an adven-
turess. Hemust have fully realized the
blot that he was placing upon an
honorable name and the peril that he
was mourning Is respects his future.
1t cannot be said that this delibera.
ton in his action deprives him OF
sympathy, for we are all victims to
human weakness, but it places him
all the more strongly before the public
eyes as a warning against folly.
Those who play with fire must
expect to be burned.
THE Board of Finance has pursued
the wise course in connection with the
differences over the question of archi-
tects for the new Police Headquarters
between the Street and Water Board
and the Police Board. Its advice is
that the drawing of the plans be
thrown open to competition between
the architects of the city. That plan,
if any, will enable the city to get the
best return for its money. The action
is based on information given to the
public and to the Commissioners in
The JERSEY CITY NEWS.
THE manner of the killing of young
Cullum on a Pennsylvania Railroad
train last Saturday night should be
made the subject of careful enquiry
both on the part of the railroad peo-
pie and on the part of the authorities.
If a passenger cannot put his head an
Inch beyond the line of an open win
dow without having his skull crushed
the public should have been informed