The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26
This paper Is Democratic IN principles
and Is Independent Il its Vteacs ON all
local questions.
Sauce for the Goose.


Certain Republicans, we learn, feel
very sore over the revelations which
che Gardner Mud Machine has dug up
of fraud plotted though not accom-
plished by certain party leaders in
this city. They are very sore, too,
because the Democratic press has
commented on the hypocrisy and the
wickedness thus exposed.
This, it seemsto us, is hardly reason
able. The Gardner mud machine
was invented to injure democrats. 1t
has been unrelentingly used to that
end. 1t has injured-and most I'M
justly-various democratic leaders and
the party at large. The republican
press and republican spellbinders
have used the material ground out by
the machine, not only without mercy
but also without conscience.
Now, what do they expect? The
machine breaks down and filings some
mud on them. Why should not the
Democratic press and Democratic
speakers rub it into their prosecutors?
Why should Mr.. James G. Young or
Colonel Toffey or General Ramsey or
Alderman Schermerhorn or any other
prominent republican be treated with
more consideration than has been
shown to Sheriff Davis, Alderman
O'Neill, Mayor Cleveland and other
leading democrats?
The difference in the cases is that
the Democratic leaders are being out
rageously held responsible for the
blunders or crimes-as the case may
be-of a few poor, ignorant under
strappers, whereas the deliberate
subornation Of fraud is being brought
home to the very doors of the Repub-
lican leaders themselves.
Probably the Gardner committee
will decline to push this line of en-
quiry. But we hope the Assembly
Committee, when it gets through with
Atlantic, will come down here and
make Mr., James G. Young, and
Colonel Toffey, and General Ramsey,
Colonel Dickinson and Major Pang-
born, and the other opponents of Ct.
0. r. purity tell what they know
about Federal interference, repeating,
and the purchase of election boards.
They will find some interesting de-
velopments result.
APRoPos, Mr.. Marsh ought to put
General Grubb on the stand, and have
Allan McDermott put him through a
course of sprouts regarding his cam
paign contributions. General Grubb
will hardly perjure himself, and, I'M
less he does, his evidence will make a
sensation. He should be made tell
what he gave and whom he gave it to-;
also why he stopped giving at the
critical moment, finally what he
knows or suspects regarding the dis
position of his money made by the
highly honorable gentlemen to whom
he intrusted it.
There is a delightful story about
$40, 900 which was to have been, but
was not used to buy votes for the
General in Newark. Then the story
Of the $40, 900 which Mr.. James G.
Young expected 10 but did not get to
purchase whole election boards in
Hudson, would be worth hearing
from the Generals point of view.
Verify, there is a mine Of summer
enjoyment in the possibilities Of this
investigation.
Our Healthy Finances--Mr. Edel-
STEMS Review.
President John Edelstein's address
to the Board Of Finance shows a
most admirable condition of the city's
fiscal affairs. There is a big
cash balance in bank; the load
of floating indebtedness is much
less than it was last year; the work of
equalizing the valuation Of property
Is being rapidly pushed, and there is