The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-06
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1898.
3hfs paper Is Democratic in principles and is
Independent ~ its uisws Oh, oil local questions

DIR. Soudder Does the Burchard Act.
In his speech at the ministers poll
teal meeting last evening, the Rev.
John L. Scudder said:-
We have an Irish vote. a German vote. o
Cetnohc vote, 9 rumssilsr's vote. Now let us
have Christian vote.
We have heard many hard things
said of Mr.. Scudder FROM time to
time. as well as many most favorable
ones; but we have never so far heard
any one call him a fool. Certainly.
after the above precious utterance,
he lies open TO have this as we'll as
many other severe epithets applied
to him. In saying this thing, he RAJ
a fool, because he has on a moderate
computation offended ten thousand
voters whom he might have won for
the cause he was espousing. 1t is
Rum, Ronlanism and Rebellion" all
ever again. only in a still more big
otsd, narrow aud brutal form.
The honest citizens who make up
the Irish, the German aud the Catho-
lie vote are far better Christians than
Mr.. Scudder, for it would never occur
to any of them to insult their neigh
bors with i~nnuendoes and insinua-
tions In the spirit of the Covenanters.
When Mr.. Scudder finds he has
aroused the hostility Of all the Irish
all the German and all the Catholic
voters of this town, he will be apt to
feel sorry that he did not consent to
let them come into the fold as Chris
tians, too. In politics it is a good
idea to control your tongue even if
you cannot master your preiudices.
ssBobs Davis Campaign Cry.
The policy of bob" Davis in the
present campaign appears to be to
make himself look white by contrast
with the blackness of the Street and
Water Board, and to veil an attack
on Mayor Wanser by an open assault
on that Commission. 1t is a scheme
of low cunning quite worthy Of the
joker boss.
At a recent meeting in the Fourth
Assembly district, where Davis still
controls a small machine following,
he made a speech a few nights ago, in
which he outlined his campaign. If
the Assembly is Democratic, he said,
an attempt will be made to 'srepeal
the City Charter and make all the
boards, including the Street and
Water Board, elective"
The dishonesty of this lies in the
fact that a repeal of the Charter
would not affect the Street and
Water Board, which is constituted by
Il separate and distinct enactment. A
repeal Of the Charter would simply
overthrow Mayor Wanser and the
reformed boards which have cut
down the tax levy and stopped much
of the thieving and riot, which Davis
gang Of heelers carried on under the
protection of the late Orestes Cleve-
land.
The repeal of the Charter would
leave the Street and Water Board
scoundre.s in Office, where Davis
wants to keep them, and Davis very
well knows no legislation can be Sc
cured from a Democratic Legislature
TO GUST them because if they go the
Newark Board must go, too, and
james Smith, Jr, and the Essex
Democrats do not propose that it
shall go.
The latest turn in the events in the
Fifth Assembly District indicates the
nomination of Mr.. Edward Hoos.
This is excellent. He will be sure of
election. and will make an able and
active representative. No boss a
own or control MI. Hoos. His own
o of right is his guide, SO he is
just the man for the Democracy to
place before the people.
Now for the Fourth