The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-06


claims against the city, whose value
depends on the issue of q lawsuit.
The management of the city govern
ment, too, is an absorbing pursuit,
and the virtual Mayor has just as
much work on his hands trying to
build up o bossism out of it, as any
ordinary man would like to tackle
these warm days.
Prove to Them That They Lie, MIR.
Winfield.
The Newark Morning Press, a viru-
lent Republican organ, comes out with
a TRADE against Hudson county in
general and the Democracy of Hud-
son in particular. Among other I'M
scrupulous lies it prints the following
sentences
Jersey city seems hopelessly lost. That ex-
emplary Grand Jury has done a great service
for the Democratic party-in other words, for
tho cause of fraud and corruption. While pro-
Tossing 10 be virtuously indignant when the pre-
sentiment was made to the court, 1t was secretly
jubilant. For. although protesting to be inves-
tigating the charges of fraud against the cor
rupt election officers, and actually indlcting
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trived so to conduct the proceedings that the
material on which the conviction Of the villains
eonla b be s seenr erac wss 80 destropsdl tna' is
1t is hard to tell just where to be-
gin picking this tissue of hum
bug and mendacity to pieces.
There is a falsehood in al
most every word. One of the
yilest and most injurious features is
that Of making fraud and corruption
synonymous with the Democratic
party. 1t will very shortly be discov-
cred that the two things have no
affinity, and that the Democratic par
ty will scourge from its ranks the men
who have brought reproach upon it
by their foolish and wicked policy.
The mass of Democratic voters are
patriotic and honest, and the true
leaders of Dem oeratic opinion are men
Of honor and ability. Both policy
and principle will unite to secure re-
form. The accidental upstairs who
have got some prominence through
fraud and chicanery will be relegated
to obscurity, and Hudson will lead
the politics of New Jersey to higher
planes. The really big men of the
party have realized that it will not do
for them to lie back and let things
drift. They have resolved to do some
active work; and their influence will
soon be felt.
AS for the second branch of the ex-
tract given above, the allegation that
Jersey City is ruined; that the ballot
box suffers will go free, this is a gross
exaggeration of the consequences of
what was unquestionably an out
rageous crime.
We have no hesitation in asserting
that there was a base conspiracy be-
tween some members of the Grand
Jury and some corrupt ringsters on
the outside to yitiate the evidence
against the ballot-box suffers. We
have no hesitation in asserting that
an effort was made to SO vitiate the
evidence. But we have no sort of
idea that it was successful. The main
point at issue is the identity of the
ballots. This can be proven just as
well by the evidence of a success
sion of custodians as by that of a
single individual. DR. Gordon is,
doubtless, in a position to swear that
the ballots which Sharpe took
out of the Grand Jury
room were the same which he
brought in. Sharpe swears that
those which he took in were the same
ballots which came out of the ballot
boxes, and there is the chain of evil
dence complete. 1t is true certain
ballots have been mutilated or de-
stroyed; but the utmost number
spoken of is forty or fifty, and that
number can be of no account where
the frauds and Irregularities were of
such colossal extent.
If Mr.. Winfield and Judge Hoffman
take up these prosecutions in the
right spirit and with proper deter
mination we believe they will convict
all the guilty men. BY doing this
they will serve the Democracy of
Hudson and of the State in the most
eminent manner They will over
throw fraud and corruption in this
county, and will coverthe Republican
press and leaders with shame and
confusion by proving the mendacity
of their charges against the Demo-
cratic party.
WE have been tickled all to death
this morning by a story which has
reached our ears. 1t concerns the
awakening by night of an eminent
lawyer, who was dragged from his
bed to the residence of a high but
badly scared official for the
purpose of being asked to become
a party to a mean dicKer. The
lawyer laughed at the high but badly
scared official. and told him to get
himself out of the hole he had got
into as best he could.
The high official has reason to be
badly scared. If he had any manly