The Jersey City news., 1892-06-15

his hOmlcldal rage TOOK one look aI
John E. Dunno and realized that the
fellow was not worth killing.
The journal" Gets Its Pay From
the Rumsters.
The Aldermen obeyed last evening
the mandate of their owners, the
Hudson County Liquor Dealers, and
designated the Eoentng Journal to
publish the advertisement of the ap-
plications for liquor licenses, required
by law. This designation is, of
course, perfectly regular and legal
and unimpeachable.
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS will pur-
sue its certiorari suit against the Ger
man handbill, previously designated, to
the end, without reference to the fact
that it has no financial interest in the
suit, merely for the purpose OF vindi-
eating law and right, and overthrow
ing monstrous principle which it
was'sought to graft upon the legal
business of the city.
We congratulate our brethren of the
Journal upon so soon receiving the
price of their complaisance TO the
rumsters. We understand the ap-
pointment is worth about 81, 800. That
is very fair price according to Jour-
nal standards. OF course, Mayor
Wanser will be greatly pleased by the
arrangement too 1t might embarrass
him not a little if the Journal should
harrass him to take up the fight for
a sober decent Sunday. He will be
glad to feel sure that no such painful
pressure will be brought to bear on
him. Indeed this award of this
patronage may be regarded as the
consummation of the deal between
the Republican local machine and the
rumsters. There is doubtless a gen
eral alliance, offensive @ and de-
fensive. So far as the Journal is con-
cerned, it is not unfit. That paper
has been the organ of ev cry corrupt
thing at one time or another. 1t has
been on every ide of every fence, too,
and the flop from temperance to
. whiskey must come quite natural to it.
THE public will gain much by this
designation. Now, both papers will
publish the licenses, for we propose to
do it without pay, and to make it
! quite interesting reading. too.
SPEAKING of the matter of official
advertisements, reminds us that the
Supreme Court rendered a decision
last Tuesday of great interest to this
city as disposing finally of the fraudu-
lent claim of the German handbill,
known as the St0ats Zeatung, to be an
official paper of the city as a daily
newspaper. This claim was made in
virtue of Chapter 1853 of the Laws Of
1889. The Court, in the case of Ern-
est G. Stahl VS.. the City of Trenton,
decides that this law is wholly uncon-
stitutional, and all designation made
under it are invalid.
If the editor of the German hand
bill in this city is right in saying that
he was designated under this law, he
now has no designation at all. and all
advertisements In his paper are IL
legal. and all payments to him un,
warranted. But on November 1G
the Corporation Counsel advised
the Street and Water Board that the
German handbill was designated as q
weekly paper in virtue of an old sec
tion of the charter, and not as a daily
in virtue of the law of 1889. If the
Corporation Counsel is right, the
handbill still enjoys designation as
weekly paper.
But if it has only weekly designa
ton, it has received large sums oi
money from the city to which it was
not entitled. We understand that in
spite of the Corporation Counsep'
opinion many of the public boards
have continued to treat it as a daily
paper. If this is the case. Mayor
Wanser should insist on an adjust
ment of its accounts, and should re
fuse to pay it anything more until it,
previous overcharges are refunded.
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