The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-08
Two Sides of the Stuhr-BfcD Donald
Enquiry.

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Two Sides of the Stuhr-Mc Donald
Enquiry.
The Newark Press has strange
ideas. 1t describes THE JERSEY
CRY NEWS as being in a paroxysm
of wrath over one of its editorials.
We beg to assure the Press that it is
wholly incapable of exciting us to the
extent of one pulse beat minute
We presume the Press has a fair num-
Der of readers ia Newark, and we
tried to aid it in getting as near
the truth as is possible to Republi-
can paper. These are the circum--
stances-The Press alleged a few days
ago that Jersey City was hopelessly
lost, because the ballot box suffers
would not be convicted. THE NEWS
animated that the ballot box suffers
certainly would be convicted, and so
FAR from being lost, Hudson would be
saved to the Democracy through the
local publication Of the party.
But now the Press goes on to say,
1.-THE NEWS is aware that the prose-
sution will be farce, and that city
ruled by corruptionists cannot be
Dther than corrupt" The former Of
these assertions is nonsense. so is the
latter.
In the first place Mr.. Winfield is
determined to convict these Grim
lnals. He has no sympathy with
The conspiracy which procured
their crime. He has conclusive
evidence of their guilt. He has
nformers from their own ranks to
expose the whole foul plot He will
have a struck" jury, that is to say
bne obtained wholly outside the in
auence of the conspiracy, to try them.
He viii have upright judges to see
Justice done. The way to State Prison
Is wide open for the miscreants who
nave debauched the franchise
Secondly, so far as corruption has
control of the City Government, it
does not corrupt the city but fills it
With horror. The people are up in
arms against it, and with the help of
THE JERSEY CRY News will scourge
It from their midst.
The Press winds up with this SEN
sence:-
Will THE NEWS please republish the editorials
written on the Mcdonald investigation last win
er?
We have not retracted one word Of
;hese utterances, nor have we one
word to retract. The Stuhr- Mcdonald
enquiry was begun with distinct pro-
'essions that there was no design to
lnseat Senator Mcdonald, who, it
vas admitted, was unquestionably
he choice of the majority of the peo-
pie of Hudson. The object of the en-
auiry, we were told, was to dis
,lose the corruption of ring
election methods, and obtain evidence
or the punishment of the criminals.
70 this extent we approved the inves-
;igation. Dozens of our editorials
night be reproduced to show it. We
insisted thar the election seoundrels
must be indicted, and if guilty pun
shed.
But in the fullness of time it be-
anne evident that the true purpose
Of the investigation was to unseat
Senator Mcdonald in the interest of
aajor Toffey and Colonel Anderson,
md to impose the vile fraud, Stuhr,
ipon the people Of Hudson. To do
his. every rule Of evidence was dis
regarded; facts were rejected;
ruth was belied, and monstrous
assumptions and fabrications were
oisted on the public in their place.
Against these wrongs we protested, as
laye all honest Republican papers,
md so long as we can WELD pen we
will never cease to hold all concerned
them up to the indignant scorn OF
N outraged people. We are very
ure the punishment Of the election
rininals is dearly bought at the