The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-20
MIR. DEAR Is TIRED.
Rumor Asserts it is of aJournal
Crookedness.

Bergen avenue last evening.
Mr.. Joseph A. Dear, the enterprising
business manager OF the EDeHiglq
journal, sailed on Wednesday on the
City of New York for two months visit
to Europe. A rumor was current yester-
day in newspaper circles 10 the effect that
his departure was largely the result of
his disgust ut the policy which the Euea-
ing journal has pursued since last winter
in respect 10 local politics, and especially
toward Cleveland's corrupt administra-
tion.
Any one who is acquainted with Mr..
Dear knows him to be an upright busI-
ness man, an unfinching Republican,
and q man who strongly dislikes to rem
der his conduct liable to the least suspi-
cion of hypocrisy or venality.
Yet, to the ordinary observer. 10 does
not require pair of spectacIes to dis !.
cover the links that bind the ALLEGED Re-
publican organ of this city to tho Fraud
Mayors administration. The Journal is
practically an open ally Of the Ring The
Ring members look to it for protection as
they look TO no other organ to cover up
their heinous aud extravaganza crimes
Now it is said the attitude of the paper
is wholly the result of Major Pangborn's
dictation. There Is, it is said, all old bar
gain between the partners that the Mayor
should absolutely control the editorial
and news policy of the paper, while Mr..
0tdf =IclAuS ohffGlibs Ill bA6 counting
room. This arrangement has never been
violated, nor is there any way by which
it can be forcibly violated MFR
Dear, whose radical opposition
to the policy of the journal has often
been proclaimed FROM public platforms.
has, it is said, often used his. persuasive
powers to keep thu Major In the path
which he thinks an honest Republican
paper should pursue. His interference,
however. has seldom been effectual, and
in the present conjancture he has been
wholly unable to tree the sheet from the
domination Of Ring ideas.
WORN OUT
He stood the existing state OF things
the story goes. as long as human endur-
ance would hold out. He demonstrated
and besought his partner. He washed
his hands OF the whole responsibility on
the outside; but it was no use. His
friends TESTED at him or censured him
according as they regarded the serious
ness Of the matter-but the condemnable
position of the paper confronted him
every hour and at every step.
AT last, 1T is said, he could stand it no
longer. He was worried into bad health
and spirits by the strain, and in sheer
disgust he threw up his hands, and as an
excuse to rid himself of the enbnrrass-
menS which he could no longer endure,
he suddenly projected his European trip.
The rumor goes SO far as to say that
unless some change in the political sftua-
ton brings the Journal more into line
With the respectable opinion Of the Re-
publican party. he will decline to renew
any active connection with the sheet on
his return, but will'confine himself to the
job business, of which he is the princiD al
owner, aud which is controlled by q sep
arate concern from the Egcniag journal
Association.
WHAT BENSON SAYS.
In bo uf, T.. &
course impossible to get his side OF the
story. | saw the ex-Rey. Police Com
missioner and city editor, Mr.
Benson, hobnobbin9 with Captain
McKaig and one Of the captains
trusted sergeants behind the rail at the
Library Hall station house. Mr.. Benson,
though receiving the reporter with pro-
fessional cIvility, was inclined to be a
little wroth when he heard the reporter S
mission stated Mr.. Benson ventured a
few criticisms concerning the methods OF
cleaning news in vogue by papers
other than the Journal
It's a pretty did lively paper though,
and catches everything worth reading"
remarked Captain McKaig, as he spread
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS out in fun before
him.
Mr.. Benson declared that Mr.. Dear's
sole object in taking a summer trip was
TO visit his relatives in Europe, whom he
u
ago. He had never heard any dispute
whatever between Mr.. Dear and the
Major. Mr.. Dear and the Major were in
perfect accord in everything that pertained
to the journalistic career of the Journal,
and any one who labored under the inn
preston that internecine war was
being waged in reference to its editorial
policy was laboring under a delusion.
That was all Mr.. Benson had to say
MAJOR PANGBORN'S DENIAL.
Major Pangborn, of course. denied the
story when he was seen at his home on
Bergen avenue. In brown satin lined
gown, leaning back in an easy chair not
far away from a life sized portrait of
himself, the Major chatted easily upon
almost every other subject than the one
under discussion.
When the conversation, however.
finally came down TO the subject, the
Journals attitude toward the Cleye-
opinions thereon, the Major had many
little anecdotes TO tell in illustration OF
how far Mr.. Dear's influence was ex-
erted in the control of the Journals
editorial policy.
''Mr. Dear and MYSELF said he, 'sare
in perfect accord in everything that per-
tains to the welfare of the Journal Mr..
Dear knows his place.
II know mine. We have never differed
politically except once. That was during
the Greeley Campaign. Mr.. Dear was a
Greeley puDlican-anything to be anti
Grant | wouldn't have it, / merely
mention this little anecdote TO show you
how far Mr.. Dear controls the editorial
policy of the journal. Ono day Mr.. Dear,
in company with another State commit
teeman, approached me and said, we
are thinking about purchasing certain
amount OF SPACE of the Journals columns
TO boom Greeley sAll right, | said.
'Yon will be charged so much per column
under the heading OF new advertise
ments. Mr.. Dear and the other State
committeeman laughed and said. Good
day and from that day to this Mr.. Dear
has ventured no criticism concerning the
Journals editorial policy.n
Has no word passed between you and
Mr.. Dear recently in reference to the
Journals attitude toward the Cleveland
administration" asked the reporter
Meow, meow, squalleu a cat outside
on the piazza.
The Major arose from his comfortable
seat.
"My pet cat, he said. 81 am very
fond OF that cat. Isn't it a
beauty cried the Major, hosting the
piazza window and admitting a splendid
gray furred specimen of the feline species
with a bnshy tail like a squirrel
That's genuine Persian" exclaimed
the Major admiringly stroking the animal
The cat nestled between the sIippered
feet of the Mujoc. The reporter repeated
the question.
mo, replied the Major.good- humored-