The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-14

men as LIE. JOhn ID. McGill, Perry Cum
berson and others who had become heart
SICK and weary OF the rascalities of the
| ring The object of the organization was
thoroughly good one. 1t was Purity
OF the ballot, honest men in Office and
economy in the government"
| When first this rebellion against the
ring was begun but a handful of men
| supported the move. Thousands of 9th
ers would have heartily and spontaneous
| ly co-operated with these gentlemen
whose honesty of purpose was never
! questioned and whose love for Democra-
| cy was known far and wide, had it not
! been for errors they made, and errors
they repented of, but could not then rem
edy. Glad of aid and money to benefit
the cause they permitted three or four
men whose regulations were but on a
par with the notorious characters of the
Ring to join them. The mistake was
perceived only when these men brazenly
put themselves to the front and called
themselves the leaders IN the great re-
form DR.. McGill had undertaken. These
men injured the cause, but it is believed,
not irretrievably.
WILL FIGHT AGAIN
The Jeffersonian leaders have studied
well the campaign of last fall, and learned
wherein they were weak. These points
they decided to strengthen. and early in
the summer the work of reorganization
begun. Men like ex-Alderman Mike
O'RourKe, whom they speak of as "the
traitor" were dropped from the roll.
The JeffersonianS have no use for them.
They only want men honest and sincere
IN a'deslre to wrest the county from the
clutches of the ring that has it in grasp.
! Very hard have the Jeffersonians worked
this summer for this purpose, and now
one of the members said last night, 1--WE
are reorganized."
"Will Kern and O'Rourke be among
| the leaders this falIf' this gentleman was
asked.
''No, sir; we will have for our leaders
men who inspire confidence-men like
DR.. McGill, whose character is irreproach-
able, and who is not seeking to make the
Jeffersonians q footstool for self-ag-
of our error in permitting bad men to put
| themselves to the front, and assure you
the error will not be repeated"
When will you hold meetingp
"The Jeffersonian Democrats will pro-
badly not meet before September /, but
our Committee of twenty-five has meet
ings very frequently. The members are
empowered by the Jeffersonians to act for
them. and what the Committee does will
be accepted. Yes, the organization is
about perfected, now, and we are in bet
ter fighting trim than we ever were. The
Jeffersonians have been far from idle this
summer as the ring will learn this fall.
We are In. this battle to fight the ring and
we are in to stay"
SAMPLE CITY STEALING.
NEWS, do you want sample of city
stealing?" asked "a prominent Jefferson
ian of me little later. was standing in
front of Herbert's cigar store at Jersey
avenue and First street. | wearily re-
piled yes. for 1 have had SO many of these
samples of late that they are becoming
monotonous to write about.
"Do you see that patch of sand on First
streeta" the Jetfersonian asked, and re-
piled that | did. 1t was about twenty
feet long.
II want to tell you how it got there.
Today four men, two carts and two horses
began the work of patching the streets by
replacing a few stones. Several gentle
men and myself noticed how leisurely
they worked, and we timed them. 1t
places four stones when we
first timed them, and later they
only laid twelve stones in fifty-five min
utes. This effort was such a strain on
them that at five minutes before three
O'Clock they sat down to rest and smoke
and they sat there until five minutes be-
fore four O'Clock. During the day one
cart drove up and empied load of sand
for filling and half an hour later another
cart came there and took the sand away.
A little while after this was done third
cart took another load of sand and de-
posted it where the first had been. What
do you think of thatg'
:What in the world did the second
cart take the sand away for?" / enqired.
Where is your sense? 1t was done to
give work to the third mans cart and
horse; The Ring must support them.
and that Is the way it does it.
"And," said l. "this.i is but two blocks
from Street and Water Commissioner
Dugan's place of business" "
'Yes, only Two blocks"
"How long ought it to have taken
these men TO do this work?"
"Not more than one hour at the most !"
'And how long did it takef"
'All the afternoon"