The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-27

| newspapers in the rusilc sections OIL
the State know about Jersey City; it
is from the Newark Press,
In Jersey City they have Board for the
/ equalization OF taxation, and the commissioners
! who comprise It expected 9 be rushed with
business; bun they were disappointed. There had
been unlimited erumbling overthe assessments,
but 1t all amounted to grurnhlihg. nothing more.
The taxpayers who complained did not care to
do so personally before the commissioners. An
examination into their effects might lead to
startling revelations Ia the meantime they
will shun everything that IS startling.
The complicated ignorance OF this
is only surpassed by the spreternatural
air of wisdom with which it is uttered.
Life is too short to disseet it. Every
child IN Jersey City viii see its eyre
gious errors.
The Hudson Ring Issue in State
Politics.
BY far the most formidable issue in
State politics this fell will be the
Hudson County Ring. Its corruption,
its arrogant defiance Of deceney will
be trumpeted not through Jersey
City alone but from the hills of Sus-
sex County to the sands o. Cape May.
Republican campaign orators will
denounee its crimes, Republican wire
pullers will ring the changes on them,
and Republican papers will paint
them in the blacklist hues.
1t is very natural that this should
be the case. The crimes OF this vile
| combination of political raseals cry
out to Heaven for punishment. They
have hardly any parallel for atrocity
or effrontery in she politics of this
country.
They come right home, too, to the
people of the State. In comparison
with them. the Cape May cottage of
our Cheap John President, the foreign
ENVIRONMENTS of his jingo Secretary
of State, even the Force bill and the
Tariff iniquity are remote and theo-
retic dangers.
When voters are told on the one
hand that the Force bill will nullify
the white vote of a Congressional dis
trict in Alabama, and on the other
that the party which counted in Ores
tes Cleveland is seeking to control
legislation for the State, which asser-
ton will 90 furthest to direct their
suffragess When they are told that
the Reed Mckinley w anamaker com
bination are wasting the national
surplus. and it is answered that the
same party which has nearly bank
rupted Jersey City wants to get CON
troll Of the finances of the State by
firing out Major Anderson and Colonel
Toffey, the Republican guardians of
the public purse, we ask what reply
will the voters make through the
ballot boxesg
We ask you these questions. Gov
ernor Leon Albeit.
And we ask you, Senator John R.
Mcpherson.
And we ask Mr.. Robert ADRIAN, and
Mr.. Allan J.. MeDerInott. and Mr..
Henry c. Kelsey, and Mr.. Miles Ross,
and Mr.. James n. Pidcock, and Mr..
George Werts, and Mr.. Gotfried
Kruger.
We also ask Mr.. Robert Davis and
Mr.. Orestes Cleveland, and Mr.. NJ. J.
O'DonnelI, and Mr.. Dennis McLaugh-
lin, and Mr.. Patrick H. O'Neill, and
Mr.. John p Feeney, and all the other
local leaders and luminaries.
We say. emphatically, that, unless
the Democratic party rids itself of
the Hudson County Ring and wipes
out The stain Of its crimes, the Senate
and Assembly of this State will be-
and ought to be-Republican,and still
worse Congressman may be lost to the
Democracy and the State may drift
away altogether from the Democratic
column. Local causes have produced
as serious results in the past.
Now is the time to find the remedy.
Presently it will be too late.
WHO CAN TELL?
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