The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-13
T7sds paper is democratic IN principles
and Is Independent in its pieaps on alt
local questions.
Hamburg Reformers and Real Re-
formers

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formers
The Committee Of Fifty occupies a
particularly ungracious and I'M
graceful position in presenting it's
latest pronunciamento to the public.
The bland impudence OF its assump-
tions, taken in comparison with the
absurd nullity of its performances
would be shocking If it were not Iudi-
crous.
This body came into existence with
a grand flourish of trumpets. 1t owes
its being to a great popular protest
AGAINST the corruption and crime
Which made Orestes Cleveland
de J'ucto Mayor of Jersey City
for the present term. The force
and magnitude of the movement that
gave it birth are beyond all negation.
But of all the ridiculous abortions
that we have seen in politics, it has,
SO far, proven to be the worst. To it,
and to the public sentiment which
created it, might indeed be applied
the well worn image Of the Latin
poet,
Partsiriunt monies, 'sascetuy ridicu-
lsts mus.
The enraged people of Jersey City
called upon their leaders to rescue
them. They besought their strongest
spirits to band themselves together in
non-partisan combination to lead in
the battle for redress for past wrongs
and future reform. In compliance
with the demand. this committee was
organized. Bang. fizz, booml
Then the members began to shirk.
They shirlSed the offices; they
shirked the expenses; they shirlzed
the trouble; they shirlzed the work;
they even shirked the meetings.
They almost make an earnest man
despair of seeing Jersey City politics
reformed. When one sees the Ring
on one hand, alert vigiIant, active,
acute, liberal with its money-or with
somebody else's- untiring in effort;
one wonders how change is to come
from the nincompoop course of those
who should lead in the betterment of
our. government and the publication
of our parties
If Jersey City had to depend on her
'leading citizens for an improved
state Of things, it seems as if she
would have an auctioneer mailing his
red flag to the City Hall-as nearly
happened in Elizabeth some years
ago-before the change would come.
But fortunately there are among
the real leaders of the Democracy
those who are as far above the thiev-
ing local ringsters in honesty as the
Ring is above the Committee of Fifty
in vigor. The Democratic Judiciary
and the Democratic officers OF. ths
law in Hudson county have had the
interests Of the people and Of justice
really at heart, and they have labored
and toiled in the cause Of reform
while the precious Fifty have vapored
and whined and lain down for the
Ring to walk over them.
And now it becomes this absurd
body, this ridiculous Fifty TO swell IL
chest and blow. Its services forsooth
its struggles for reforml Its earnes
fghtl
In all common sense, what has i
done2 Has it helped the fight agains
the fraud Mayor one particle? Has i
weighed one featherweight in thu
conviction OF the election rascals
Can anyone point out one single
thing it has done except issue blatan
circulars in praise of itself and ap
pealing for funds which the member
have not the devotion to turn in ans
raise by personal etfort-the only rea
way to get them.
While these remarks are in genera
opposite, and would have been i
order any time since tho second meet
sn4 Of tho committee, they 81