The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-19
Clcveland's Climax The Ruling
Passion Strong in Death.

PASSION strong IN DeaCns
While The JERSEY CITY NEWS
was specializing yesterday as to the
chances of Mayor Cleveland display
ing a particle of decency in drtscuIo
nnogtiS, that person was confiding to
the congenial columns of the Journal
the details of the base betrayal OF the
leaders of his party which he says he
proposes to be guilty of today or to-
morrow. We suppose if he got his
price, he would eat his words in the
Journal or even deny that he uttered
them. But we understand the Demo-
cratic chieftains have declined to
bride him to be loyal, and it is pretty
we'll understood that he can get what
he wants through q dicker with
Colonel Wanser's hackers.
In the appointment which he makes
to the Boardsof Finance, Mayor Cleve-
land plainly regards only one interest,
that of the Second National Bank.
The Board as be will leave it at the
close of his term will be absolutely
controlled by Mr.. Hogencamp, and
this means, simply, that in such m
portant matters as the collection of
interest on the city's balances, there
will be no reform for at least a year.
The Board will also be so organized
that as respects matters in general
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Hogencamp
will have an altogether undue In
fuence of an advisory sort, and the
situation gives grave ground for fear
that this influence will be used for the
embarrassment and injury of the local
Democracy, and perhaps may even
be used directly for the benefit of
Colonel Wanser and his encourage.
The refusal of Mayor Cleveland to
appoint the Tax Revision Board, is
neither more nor less than a clean sell
out, an impudent and defiant piece Of
treachery. There is no doubt that a
good Board acting in this capacity
may do great service to the public,
and may reflect great credit on the
party to which it belongs, and which
appoints it. The law under which the
Board is to act is a Democratic meas
ure. The reform is a Democratic re-
form. The Democracy is entitled to
whatever glory is to be won by it.
The pretence that if a Board were APP
pointed now it might be removed at
once is simply sham and nonsense.
Colonel Wanser dare not do such an
act of venal p~artisanship as to remove
legally appointed officials against
whom neither censure nor criticism
could be levelled, just to get the salar-
les for his own followers. If he is the
man to do such an act, it is the duty
of a good Democrat to force him into
the position of doing it in order that
the people may see just what his re-
form talk means.
But Orestes Cleveland is not a good
Democrat. He is the embodiment of
falsehood, trickery and treachery. For
his W interest or, failing that, to
crafty his spite he is capable of
wrecking any party or combination
that ever existed. We have never
heard of a man or a cause that he was
true to, and we do not believe he has
it in his nature to walk straight.
just now. Orestes Cleveland wants
a few things. Most of all, per-
haps, he wants his son, Frank
Cleveland, a boy Of twenty
two, just fresh from school, kept in
the responsible So, 500 a year position
to which he has been boosted in the
Engineering Bureau of the Street and
Water Board. He also wants his
brother, jeremiah b. Cleveland, a
resident of Newark, reappointed to
the $4,000 a year position of City
Treasurer which he holds for the
term expiring about May 10, 1903.
These two things he finds it useless to
deal with Democrats for. The Re-
publicans are in, and if the two pro-
toges are to be saved, it must be by
consent of Sam Dickinson, the Far
riers, Rod Seymour and the rest OF
the powers behind Colonel Wanser.
Democracy and Rum.