The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-02-15
This paper Is Democratic tn principles
and Is Independent In Its vieaUs on all
local questions.
Keep cool.

Keep Cool.
The Newark EUenang Nea1s, chiefly
known to fame as the tin whistle of
the crank element in New Jersey poll
tics, is in a fearful state of mind about
what it calls the deliberate criminality
of thu Hudson county ballot boxes.
1t is horribly distressed, too. because
THE JERSEY City NEWS, instead of
rushing to absurd extremes like itself,
asks people to take the situation
coolly and suspend judgment until
all the evidence is in.
1t calls US " the organ of the Horse
shoe Democracy, it describes our
attitude As unique and s~tultifying,
and it intimates that we insult the
intelligence Of our readers b ct
tempting to put a false construction
on facts.
Now, rhetoric of this kind appears
to us more amusing than convincing.
We are not in the least disturbed be-
cause the Newark NeDs buzzes around
like an intoxicated teetotum, nor are
we at all likely to be hurried into
callow and immature judgments by
the rawlings of a beaten partisan.
The Newark Euenang Neaos opposed
the election of Leon Albeit for no
very apparent reason, except that he
was Leon Albeit. 1t advocated Gen
eral Grub. because it had a general
impression that somebody OF other
meant something by the liquor plank
in the Republican platform. 1t got
very badly left altogether. 1t had
sustained another agonizing blow just
previous in the election of Mayor
Haynes. And so it is altogether in
very bad temper.
In the present case, the true offense
seems to lie in the fact the alleged
deliberate criminalityn took place in
Hudson county. 1t is a failing of
country newspapers everywhere to
regard metropolitan districts as the
particular stamping ground of Satan.
The rest of the State seems to regard
Jersey City as a vague, glamorous
Vanity Fair, q sort of city in a
dream where gilded vice fiaunts its
colors in the public streets. 1t would
do the editor Of the Neaos good to
come over here and take a walk. He
would find us very sober, common
place, workaday ~people-less sanity,
it is true, than the people Of Newark,
but still falling short of murder and
piracy in our average shortcomings.
But, alas! "Oh, SIM Oh, sorrow! and
Oh, shamel' as the late Lord Byron
says, was it not the Newark EUening
Neaos which made blood curdling
revelations of iniquity in the conduct
of the election in Essex county?
Did it not ~delicately hint in its own
playful way that votes were bought
by both parties-ah well-arday-at
the rate OF two paltry dollars in paper
eachf Did it not a~sseverate that some
ten thousand votes were cast as the
result of direct bargain and saleg
And again is there not a CHASTITY
Lille Va YlU,OUV WHICH 0Eu6Idi UTuDD
gave to somebody the Saturday before
election for legitimate expensesApop-
Dir and ginger beer we presume-in
Essex County? There is a very pretty
controversy, it is true, as to whether
any part Of that check was ever dis
bursed for ANY sort of expenses
legitimate or theN contraryA$& Rut
evidently somebody thought so, 600
could be used 10 advantage Ia Essex
and was quite willing it should be so
used.
The you're another" argument.
however, does not amount to much,
and we let it pass, aud we turn, too,
from the Eoena1ag Netos' editor
ial to its treatment Of the
recount IN its news columns.
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