The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-15
THIS paper IS democratic In principles
and Is Independent in its UteeDs on all
local questions.
CHICAGO Check.

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"The Worlds Columbian Cor
respondence Bureau sends us this
morning a number Of documents, the
intent of which, when dissected from
the verbal adipose, is that it has a
weekly news" letter to sell upon the
subject of the alleged Chicago Expo
sition of 1893. 1t offers this literary
product to papers all over country,
ourselves included, for fifty cents per
week-for the ''ridiculously small
sum- of fifty cents, as Mr.. Alfred
Jingle might say.
We propose to decline this offer.
We rather think we would decline it
fthe weekly stipend were ten cents,
or two cents. Indeed, We have
refused to print a good deal of matter
about the alleged Chicago exposition
which was placed at u disposal
gratis by the alleged management of
that gaseous project.
The plain fact is, we are not in the
business Of putting Chicago. The dis
play which ought to have been To-
Gated in New York was by a vile sys-
TEN of intrigues transferred to the
great fake stronghold of the West.
This action was an insult to the old
and civilized portion of the country, a
rebuff to the rest of the world, and
the ruin of the great Columbian cele.
bration. Since Chicago got the prize,
she has been at once the scandal of
the nation and the laughing-stock of
the entire globe. 1t is becoming
highly probable that she will have to
surrender even such a mockery of a
Worlds Fair as she might have pro-
vided, and as New York will, of
course, refuse to have anything to do
with it then, none will be held.
We have neither time nor space to
devote to holding up Chicago to the
contempt and condemnation she de-
serves. If any news turns up about
the business, we shall naturally print
it. But assuredly we will not go into
the fake advertising business for the
benefit of Chicago or anyone else.
Mcpherson. McAdoo and the Ring.
We understand that Mr.. McAdoo is
in town this morning looking after
his fences. He probably finds his
hands full. They are not in very good
repair. Senator Mcpherson has been
getting in some patchwork on them
the past week. But the Senator has
not gone about the work in his usual
irresistible way. Mr.. McAdoo's fences
need a good deal of cement and we
understand Senator Mcpherson has
been trying to repair them by a sort
of dry process.
Mr.. McAdoo's trouble is all with the
party leaders. Among the people of
Hudson county he is stronger than
his party. If he made an independ-
emit run, he would not stand so bad a
chance of beating a Democratic Ring
candidate. McAdoo is popular, too,
with the second and third rate politi-
clans, the fellows of whom Ring con-
ventions are made, and If he could
only control the right amount of
cement and a little high pressure
work from Senator Mcpherson and
his immediate friends, it is more than
likely he could secure the nomination
in spite of the County Committee.
But it is doubtful if he can get this
sort of aid. On the one hand Allen
L. McDermott will be with the local
leaders in this fight for all he is worth.
He hates McAdoo more than any
n living, and his influence will be
exerted to the utmost to hold the
Convention against him. On the
other hand, Senator Mcpherson can
not and will not antagonize the
local machine for McAdoo or any
one else. 1t is true he wants
McAdoo renominated. He will
argue, cajole, promise anything to
that end; but If the heads of the ring
will not be 0 over to his way Of
thinlin~. Mr.. Mcpherson will not