The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-06

knows but doesn't, about politics in
New Jersey. Where he is right and
where he is wrong, alike, the careful
student can find much to interest him.
The causes of the Generals own fail
ure in public life may be read between
the lines, and much profit may be de-
from a consideration of the mar
vellous results that Providence ac-
complishes with unlikely instruments.
Perhaps the most surprising feature
of the article is the revelation which
it affords of the part that our highly
esteemed fellow citizen, Captain Sey-
mour, played in the great farce
comedy of 1889 and the succeeding
melo-drama. Perhaps you may not
recognize the Captain at first sight.
You know him better as the Judge,
perhaps if you live in his
district or are a member of the
Union League, you may be still
more accustomed to hail him
by the familiar name of Rod" But
however we'll you know him or think
you know him. we will wager you
will be astonished when you discover
what a deep Machiavellian plotter the
Captain is. We confess to being
paralyzed with astonishment our
selves at this bit of inside history. To
learn that those naughty political
twins, the Anderson-Teffey combina-
ton, were simply not in it and that
the Captain was the deus eG mGchdnG
of the whole ballot box exposures
with their train of sensational con-
sequences, we confess, disturbs Jul
whole idea of human nature. And to
think that that genial Captain, so
mellow and so bland, so good natured
and SO innocent of mien, actually con-
trived the whole affair from away
back and got the General to go into
the race, and be beaten just for the
sake of the subsequent shocking rev.
Citations and appalling disclosures!
Well, we never, never thought the
Captain had so much guile in him.
Never, never, never!
Maybe you think it isn't so. Read
it all yourself. We reprint all that
part of the article in an adjoining
column.
That General Grubb did the people
of New Jersey a service, beyond ap-
praisal in the cheap honors of this
wicked world, is unquestionable.
Whether he and the Captain Matched
up the scheme in the calm despair
of differentiation clairvoyance or
whether he tumbled into the thing by
accident in a fit of post-election wrath
matters very little to the people. He
put up his money. He pushed the
fight against the corruption which
a corrupt clique had introduced into
Hudson politics, and the public
reaped all the profit.
The General's-and the Captains
good work only wanted n thing to
make it complete, to round out the
service rendered the public and the
vengeance reaped for himself. The
General, his agents and the officers of
the law, who took up the cause SO
energetically never succeeded in fasten
ing the guilt upon the inner ring of
the conspiracy or upon the miscreant
who was tn e king pin of the combin-
hensive fabric of fraud as the joker
ballot conspiracy must have had one
contriver and one chief engineer. As
the General says in his article, this
man may be known; he may be only
suspected. But the punishment of
his guilt has never been fully visited
upon him /; he has been made,
like Tweed, OF whom he was a debased
counterfeit, an example anda warning
to future generations. He may have
been made to with fear. He
may have been forced to adopt a mask
of reform, to change his attitude
from that of a defiant ruffian
to that of a mawkish hypo-
critic; but the good work of Gen
eral Grubb remains uncompleted until
he brushes that man, whatsoever he
may be, with the full rigor of the law,
until he places him in a dungeon,
clothed in the same stripes of penal
servitude to which he has condemned
so many of his wretched dupes and
tools by his nefarious abuse of their
fidelity.
THE latest about town is
that Jailer Davis counsel have re-
to withdraw all motions for the
quashing of the four indictments
against him for perjury and con-
spiracy, when they are called in regu-
lar order at the next term of the
United States Court before Judge
Green. They propose, it is said, to
insist on a speedy trial as being the
only way to secure an absolute vindi-
cation for their client.
This is good news for the ex-Judge's
friends. They will be glad to see him
adopt a bold and courageous course.
WE print today in full the remon-