New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-29
CORRUPT BARGAIN IN EEU.JERSEY


was due to the baseness of prominent ana IN
huential Democrats that the Hudson county
Ring was allowed for so many years to plumber
the taxpayers. to stuff the ballOt-boxes ana 10
commit almost every wrong and outrage which
criminal imagination could conceive upon the
unfortunate people of Jersey City, Hoboken and
the other communities in that county. Essex
County has been held in the grip OF merclless
combination of INSCRIPTIONS Democrats, who
have sacked and pillaged every department OF
the municipal government of Newark, and like
the rObber barOns of the Middle Ages, have
fortified and buttressed themselves in citadel
of evil doing from which their freebooters go
out to .avage the richest and most popuous
oty in our sister State. In various other parts
of the State Democratic conspiracies against
both public and private rights have been numer-
Gus and dangerous.
One of the blacklist and biggest stains upon
the Democratic record in New Jersey has been
the Democratic aid and assistance given to the
GUTENBERG and Gloucester bunco games, which
are mScaed racctrackS. These pest-h
have earned the dctcstation and contempt OF
every lover of honest racing and Of high class
sport They are kept up in daily defiance OF
the law by the worst gangs of criminals that
ever have been allowed to go unpunl>hed Tor
years on the soil of Ncw-JeI~ey. They con-
tinue to spit upon the statutes, to spurn public
sentiment to trample under foot every obllga-
lion Of decency and good order. They prac-
ise tho most malignant cruelty to animals by
racing horses throughout the worst rigols OF
a Northern winter. No matter how high the
snowdrifts may be piled upon these so-called
racctr1cks. no matter to how low a depth the
mercury in the thermometers may sink. no mat
ter how piercing may be the wintry blasts which
blow over the hills of North Bergen and the
river shore Of Gloucester. the miserable ami
mails that these contemplate lawbreakers con-
time to Gull racehorses are compelled to take
yal { in the daily hippodrome at Guttenburg and
Gloucester. in order that the men who put up
the Jobs that are constantly carried on at these
places may TIL their pockets at the expense OF
the deuded fools and dupes who bet on the
poor beasts The poorooms in New ork City
and in many other cities. which are prolific
sources of vice and of crime, which have
brought many previously happy families to
poverty and despair, which have filled pleasant
homes with gloom and with dcsttution, would
he closed during the greater part of the year if
these hippodromes were not kept up at Gut
tenburg and at Gloucester Ask Superintendent
Byrnes where the thieves and icipocketS. the
dvctccperS and rufiians of New-iork City 90
10 every afternoon for six days in the week
IIo will tell YOU that the members OF the Grim
NAL classes arc either frequenting the city
poolrooms. where they bet on the race, al Gut
tenburg and AZ Gloucester, or they may be found
within the gates of the circus ring at North
Bergen. Put the same question 10 the Chief
Of Police in Philadelphia. and he will tell you
that the disordcrly classes the bearers of dead
" weapons. the men who ought 10 be in prison
II they had their deserts. find their favorte
afternoon resort at Gloucester How i it that
Gutenberg and Gloucester have been permitted
~ long 10 break the laws of Ncw-JcrScy with
ont being brought 10 book? II Is because the
Democratic politicians Of Trenton, of Hudson
County. and Of the western part OF NeW-Jer'cy
have been bribcd with stock in these SO-calcd
rocotrooJ.> with gifts and with contributions.
ana have had opportunities to enrich them
selves in every way out Of the plumber which
ha, been amaS,Cd by the ra>calS who control
these two bunco games.
The managers Of Guttcnburg and Gloucester
,i1 afternoons in the week solely by the grace
and favor of the influential Democratic poll
ticians Of our sister State. The leading Demo
Gratis of w-Jcrscy have made foul and cor
rnrt bargain with Guttcnburg and with
Gloucester. by which these boys of infamy have
vieI, large contributions TO the Democratic
campaign fund. No more wicked and abom-
Unable COMPACT has ever been entered into by
any political leaders. The Democrats who are
mana ging the Democratic campaign in New
jersey know perfectly we'll that the money
which i, contributed TO the Democratic cam
paign fund by Guttcnburg and Gloucester is
the fruit of tricIscr, dishonesty, swindng and
fraud The, know perfectly well that not one
dollar is ever honestly earned at either of these
hcadaualters of wickcdncss they know that. in
fact. they arc using stolen money to bolster up
the lettering Democratic cause in that State
But public sentiment in Ncw-Jcrsey is be-
coming aroused to the situation. More than
half a hundred ballot box suffers whose ser
yircS have in former years been Of the great
est value to the Hudson County Ring. are now
serving ont sentences in prison at Trenton.
The penalties inflicted upon these villains must
alarm Democratic rcpcatcls, colonzcrs and
balI0t-bO suffers in other counties OF the
State. The Republican prospects in New
Jersey look brighter every day. The SalIltary
and beneficial effects of the Mckinley bill are
more clearly apparent in the opening OF new
mills in the starting of new industries and in |
the general prosperity OF the State The Dem |
ocratS can have no possible chance. except by !
the corrupt use of the money cowuptly OBJ |
t,iuod from l,uttcnburp and (,lnucpStcr The |
Republicans have every reason for encourage
mcnt and should make the best possible use of |
every hour that remains until Election Day.
DEMOCRATIC DELIRIUN