The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-09
journal Lies About the County
Road.

Journal Lies About b County
Road.
On one point we a personally tes-
tify to the atrocious mendacity with
which the Eoenang Journal handles
everything connected with the County
Road. In an alleged table of sums
paid for legal advertising. it put THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS down as receiv-
ing 50. 945. go. This is an unvarnished
unauthorized lie. We wish it was
not; but the fact is immutable.
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS has re-
ceived, in the present year, from the
Board of Freeholders for legal adver-
Using in connection with the County
Road, just about one thousand dol
! lars, for which, it is needless to say,
4 it has given a full and indisputable
equivalent at the rates established by
law for legal advertising. If the re-
manning sum of about So, 945 has been
paid in the name OF THE NEWS, we
havanot received it.
But we do not believe it has. We
serve that the name of the Hoboken
Eoening NeWs is entirely omitted
from the Journals list. We have
always understood that the Hoboken
EOenialg Neaos was given the "Iion's
share" of this advertising. No doubt,
the So, 945, which the Journal malic-
iouslY credits to us, was the sum paid
to it.
The motive of the Journal, in this
piece of malevolent Misrepresentation,
rs plain to everyone. Hating THE
JERSEY CITY News for it's daily in
creasing prosperity, it tries to injure
JUS by representing that we received
IAN undue allotment of public patron
age. 1t knows it lies when it tries to
convey such an impression. Every
soul on it, from Joseph A. Dear to
Zebina Z. Pangborn, and from Cor
nelius j. Benson to the hired libeller
who wrote this article, knows that
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS has never
received more, but always less than its
position az the one Democratic paper
in this city entitled it to. The Journal
and every soul on it knows that the
final triumph over all difficulties
which we have secured, the stable
and permanent success which the
Journal knows we have won, has
been secured wholly Independently of
any public patronage and, to a large
extent, in spite of the total lack of it.
We have not done much in the way
of blowing our own trumpet of late.
1t has not been necessary. The facts
before the public have been too elo-
quent. The daily growth of
the circulation of THE NEWS is
a matter spoken of in every
gathering where newspapers are
discussed. The paper has been in
creased in size. New features of in
terest have been added, and it is com
peting now, not with the miserable
Journal with it's methods of the last
century, but with the New York even
ing papers. The day is not far distant
when we shall drive these practically
out of the field in this city.
The jealous fury of the Journal
against THE NEWS is too well under
stood to need any mora comment.
The bitter hostility of Pangborn,
Benson & Co. to the~ County Road
remains something of a puzzle, how
ever. Perhaps the undertaking is too
honestly conducted for them. There
has not been a crooked dollar paid
out on account of it. That may be
an offensive feature of the proceed
ings. Perhaps the trouble is all over
that $430.7O. If it had been So, 945,
the tune might have been piped diff
f%erently. Why the Freeholders. being
democrats, should give it anything
they could keep away from it, is a
puzzle to most people.
Whatever the motive, the Journals
article of yesterday is one of the most
shameless tissues of vulgar falsehood
and malicious libel that a
eve published. The lie about THE
NEWS is just one lie out of a great
number. 1t aptly illustrates the value
to be attached to each and every as
made.