The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-17
Our Contemporary Improving.

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Our Contemporary Improving.
The Journal yesterday gave evil
dence that it does know a piece Of
news-when it sees it. But as the
news has to be thrust under its nose,
we may be pardoned the inference
that it is a matter of smell rather than
of Judgment. Perhaps rs a matter of
physiological economy it is a good
idea-better to put extra duty on the
nasal organ than wear out the gray
matter of the brain.
Thus the Journal folks made up a
pretty good sort of Journal yesterday
by drawing largely upon the Sunday
morning edition of THE JERSEY CITY
NEws-to which we have no objec-
ton, except that professional courtesy
requires that ZONE sort of acknowl-
edgment should be made in such
cases. But, again, we have no objec-
ton, for if the Journal is ignorant of
this journalistic principal, or prefers
to ignore it, that is the Journals
fault, not ours.
Looking over the Journal of yester-
day, we find that it awaited itself of
THE NEWS of the previous day to the
extent Of ''cribbing" the Lizzie
Loran story, the account of the
Palrna's first stag of the season, the
meeting of the Episcopal clergymen
in relation to the Retiring Fund, the
death of John Ashhurst, and one or
two other matters. The death of Mr..
Ashhurst was really worse than the
others, for THE NEWS had that Sat
urdav, as it also had the Retiring
Fund meeting, thus scoring on the
Journal a clean beat of forty-eight
hours rather than thirty-six on these
two important matters.
But in addition to this we may also
mention that the Journal of yester-
day did not have several good stories
which were given to the public by
THE NEWS. One of these was the
horsewnipping of Mrs. Bannon by her
lluSOdllO, III ldCU lA1O l. oloU Ado oCCL
compelled to supply blankets to the
county, the dangerous condition of the
pillars Of the North Hudson Elevated
railway, the rehearsal of the Condo
liers, DR.. Scudder's very excellent SER
mon on "Sweet Sixteen" (waiting for
him to send down MS. probably and
the row among the Greenville ath-
letes.
All these make good reading and all
of them were news" matters. Today
they are in proper condition to at
tract the attention of the Journals
olfactories, and will probably be
served up to Journal readers this
afternoon. However, if they like cold
vituals rehashed that is their bust
ness.
The Right Thing the Wrong Way.
The World (alleged Jersey edition.
has a fake this morning in which it
indicates that the coming Legislature
will be asked to establish the Office of
County Auditor at a salary of So, 600 a
year to provide a retiring pension for
Mayor Cleveland. 1t is said that ne
does not want to take it, that is to say,
he does not want to be retired; but
that a gentle but firm pressure will be
used to induce him to accept the APP
pointment.
Now, of course, something in the
nature of a approximation ought to
be provided for every official who has
been in the public service for a long
period Of time. Mr.. Cleveland has
been an officeholder for over thirty
years and for over ten years he has
been nothing else. His occupation
gone as Mayor of Jersey City, he
than the late General Othello of
Venice. We believe his political as
sociates past and present are bound
in honesty and justice to take care of
him. We consider that it would be a
gross outrage if he were not properly
provided for out OF the wealth of po-
litical patronage which the Democratic
party controls in this State. We say
this with the most unfeigned SINGER
ity.
But we do not think the proposed
way of meeting the case is either a
just or judicious one. We think the
creation of a S. 900 sinecure in this
county will be a dangerously UNI
popular act. We consider that it's
creation for this purpose would be