The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-03
TN ESSEX.
The Best Element of the
People Determined to
Punish Corruption.
ALL EYES ON THE STATE LEADERS.
Fears That jersey City Methods
Have Gained Foothold in New
ark Cause Much Bitterness.
specialize the sunday Morning Neus.

NEWARK Aug. 2, iS9Q.-In your cor
respondents from Trenton last Saturday
the apprelensions OF some Newark poll
ticians as to the effect of the manipuia-
tions OF State politics by the Hudson
County ling were noted. Its not mere-
ly apprehensions as to the effect on Dem
oeratic prospects that they feel either.
Mingled with it is a little twinge OF jeal-
ousy that their influence should be over
Swallowed by the yielding of the great
party in the State to the dictation of
purelylocal organization Essex Demo-
Gratis ire one, therefore, and their work
will b robbed of half of its ardor il they
see that the rascals who have INSTRUCTED
the Path to victory by strewing it with
scandals are to be permitted to mould
tue desttnies Of the party.
Somuch for the attitude of the leaders
Among the rank and file the accendancy
of the Hudson Ring brings not only jeal-
ousI and disgust to the front; it brings
fea; There is suspicion abroad that TO
some extent the Hudson method was APP
plisd to Essex last fall. Newark is con
serv alive community that takes local
p side in its traditions and in itself She
Sic is blue blooded and high toned. She
is naturally jealous of Hudson Demo-
ctats. They have succeeded in achieving
Zig results for the party in late years.
They sometimes carry the county for the
Democracy. They have at least placed a
Republican stronghold among the doubt
full localities; and il was nodoubt calling
ts,F q II fofa nj
iuical work, to see Hudson bosses receiv-
ing more consideration than that accord
ed to them.
A HIGH TONED PEOPLE.
These distinctions in the degrees of
recognition were all the more CALLING to
the Essex Democrats because they knew
how the Hudson men had achieved their
them was tribute to crime. The feeling
among the Essex leaders towards the
Hudson Ring is not an agreeable delight
in her broad, clean thoroughfares. in her
handsome residences, in her decent adj
ministration of the public service; and
this feeling is so ali peryasive and SO
over-towering that not for all the Demo
cratic parties in the universe would she
be dragged through the mire of public
scandal. What commissions of agony and
indignation Newark and Essex would
have suffered If the exposures made last
spring of Hudson county politics had
been theirs instead, cannot be described
because they cannot begin to be mag
ined.
II was with more than interest, tn ere
fore-it was something akin to alarm
that her citizens heard it whispered,
when the Senate7s Election Committee
begin its explorations. that the Hudson
method had been applied in spots to Es-
sex, and 1t is because she is more than
n olf n tn f4sfAr
so readily believed that the milling and
stamping machine had been procured
from Newark
WATCHING THE STATE LEADERS.
1t does not take very far seeing man,
who understands the conditions, TO pre-
dict the effect upon such a community OF
the smallest Indication that the Demo-
cratic party OF the State intends to frater-
nize with the Hudson scoundrels. Every
movement of the State leaders Will be
watched by her people; and the leaders
relations with the local bosses i'll Hudson
will be studied, with the one end learn
ing If there is anything in common be-
tween the two The effect of the smallest
indication of sympathy on the part of
the leaders with the infamous crowd, or
with purpose to protect or shelter them
from the just Indignation of the party
cannot De under rated. 1t Will turn
Democrats against their party and blight
the promising fruits of honest party
effort among her people.
The suspicion with which Hudson has
always been regarded here will make
Essex men of both parties the more Elk
acting In their structures Two or three
of the Essex workers who were seen hob
nobbing at Trenton last winter are
already under the ban. Mayor Haynes
junketing trips with Mayor Cleveland
won the Newark Mayor the first criticism
the Newark newspapers ever passed upon
him. 1t did not please Newark residents
to see the two working together to secure
the passage of a salary increase bill Of
which both have since taken advantage.
1t was because they were convinced of
the dishonesty of Hudson county officials
that Newark refused to enter into O
water copartnership with Jersey City; and
q very excusable distrust of the Hudson
Freeholders made the Essex people hesi-
tate even about building the inter-county
bridge across the Passaic that was lately
completed; and when the names of some
Hudson Freeholders were mentioned in
connection with a scandal growing out Of
its construction it was so directly in the
line OF what they had always suspected
that every man. woman and child here be-
lieved them guilty.
THE VALUE OF ESSEX.
Essex county is worth something to the
Democracy of New Jersey. Seven of the
ten Assemblymen she sent to Trenton
last fall were Democrats. They will
make valuable contingent TO the Legis-
lature which is next year to reapportion
ana redistrict the State. She Is to elect a
Senator this fall, who will vote for a
United States Senator, aud with wisdom
in the State Councils. She Will elect
Colonel Barrett
But these prospects will be wasted If
the State leaders show any sign of hesita-
tion In throwing off the Hudson Ring.
The valiant and courageous reputation
and humiliation of that crowd will make
Essex so solidly Democratic that Republi-
cans will have no hope of her.
Proprfetor Bergman Caught