The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-03
This paper IS democratic IN principles
and is independent IN its otelrs on al
local questions.
The ring Issue In November

The Newark Journal had a half
column editorial yesterday on the
Hudson Ring issue in State politics in
which it pursued the old ostrich like
policy which is peculiar to newspa-
pers Of both parties of the old
fogy stamp. The Journal madly closes
its eyes and keeps them squeezed
tight shut. It will not see the danger
which threatens the Democracy
through the villainy OF its Hudson
barnacles. It deludes and deceiyes
itself and tries to delude and deceive
its readers by vague and flimsy theo-
ries. It sees nothing of what is going
on about It, and it struggles to ill the
leaders Of the party through the State
with the same blind infatuation. 1t
says
The Jersey City frauds were occurrences due
70 local causes, and the perpetrators we're Re-
publicans es well as Democrats. A Democratic
Grand Jury indicted every one of the guilty
election officers, some of them have been con-
yicted BY q Democratic Judge, Prosecutor and
jury. and the balance are waiting their turn 10
the courts where they win get no favors
All this is in measure true; but
does not the Journal see that no pun
ishment whatever has yet been melted
out to the real criminaIs2 The frauds
may have been due to local causes.
but they were Of such tremendous
magnitude and OF such abandoned
villainy as to become the urgent con-
Germ OF every honest citizen in the
State. 1t is true that the small-fry
tools who perpetrated them have
been indicted. It is true
they win be punished. But
the most ordinary regard for
truth compels the admission that the
real criminals-the chiefs of the Ring,
the men who invented the frauds and
ordered their execution, have been
punished or rebuked neither by the
State nor the Democratic party. And
we insist upon it, that if the party
does not deprive them of their power
and purge itself of their leader
ship. the party in general
voters the chastisement which ought
to be visited on the guilty alone 1t
Is right that this should be so. We
are just as Democratic as the Journal
on broad issues. We have as much
admiration as the Journal for the
great chiefs Of the party in this State.
We believe that in many ways it
will be a public calamity if
the Republicans score vic
tory this fall. We even be-
neve that higher considerations all
most make it the duty of voters to
ignore the Hudson Ring in the next
campaign. But we cannot blind our
selves to the true situation of affairs.
The crimes of the Hudson Ring cry
out for vengeance, and we do not be-
lieve that anything except their con-
dign punishment from within the
party viii satisfy the public sense of |
of right.
In another column, today, we print
a sketch of the state of public senti-
nient in Essex, the Journals own
stamping ground. Ourcontemporary,
evidently. does not realize the state
OF feeling in its own community.
In this county, there can be
no doubt of the result in case the
Ring remains at the head Of affairs.
We prophecy without hesitation that
Eve out of our ten Assemblymen will
be Republicans, and it is right they |
should be SO if the venaI tools of the
Ring are the Democratic candidates.
The hour has come when the politi- |
cal corruption. which has been ruin
ing this county. must come to an end
Will the Democracy do the work OF
qualification, or wiz it leave it to the
people at larger
SoslE time ago N noticed the fact |
that Nj. Bill Hogcnd anp had ordered
~ servant, the Frau Mayor, toyeto !