The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-08
RACERS DENOUNCED.
Assemb1ymen Hear the
People Speak Their
Righteous Wrath
at Trenton.
KEMPSHALL ON RUSSIAN RULE.
Dean McNully Likens Harrigan
Unto King Dayid-Ex Speaker
Bergcn's Protest.
special to The JERSEY Ctr yelvs.

SDeciUt 10 IHe Jersey CtE1 NSWSs
TRENTON. March s, lS93-True to their
promise, the Committee on Municipal
| Corporations, which is jealousy guarding
the race track ~repealers, gave the Com
mittee of Citizens a hearing yesterday
| afternoon upon the measures. This was
| certainly a victory for the people, even
though it was a barren victory. When
the anti-race track people had the Speaker
beaten yesterday morning on the ques-
tion of sustaining his decision, the race
track men were really frightened for the
first time this session. The vote looked
to them like a serious detection among
their adherents. While the clerk was
bawling the name of Swartwout. Billy
THOMPSON, Teddy Carroll and the other
race track people were hustling around
pretty lively ~endeayoring to get some OF
those who mad voted for the bills, but mad
voted against the arbitrary decision OF
Shah Flynn, to change round
They were filed with CONSERVATION
| when they discovered that many OF those
who had voted for the bills were begin
ming to become disguised with the total
disregard for the rights OF The people
which rave been manifested by the Shah
aud would uphold them in that course no
| longer. Every effort to induce these
members to change their votes Tailed, ana
as a final compromise, Thompson promised
that the committee would give a puollc
hearing on the bills in the afternoon.
During the adjournment the good wom-
en- OF the State, upon whom the Shah
has seen fit to max disparaging remarks,
| remained in their seats in the galleries
and ate their lunches and discussed the
proceedings of the morning to their hearts
content.
THE HEARING.
Promptly at half past two o'clock,
Chairman DAILY. Of Mlddlesex, ana AS.
semblymen Smith, of Passatc. Studer, of
| Essex, and Kelly, of Hudson, members OF
| the committee, look their places at the
| Speakers and clerks desk. Mr.. William
| Thompson, who is also a embe OF tne
| committee. was not present. A large
crowd filed the galleries. and every avail
| able space in the Assembly Chamber.
Only a few of the Assemblymen were in
their seats, but many of them were scat
tered through the crowd DIR. kempshaH
opened the proceedings by saying
thai the COMMITTEES appeared before
the committee as representatives
of the great mass meeting of citizens,
which was held in the Opera House last
week. He rehearsed the action OF the
meeting. aud gave a brief synopsis of the
resolutions which were then adopted. He
said he expressed it mildly when ne sara
that the people there assembled, con-
| demned the action of the Assembly in re-
fusipg them Il hearing, and demanded in
The name of the free aud sovereign people,
the repeal of the bills. I6 was a con-
dition, not q theory, which confronted
them. IL possible, they wanted to plead
earnestly and soletnuly With the commit
tee to report the repealers. They did not
want to dictate to anyone. nor did they
want to enter Into the sanctity OF anyone's
conscience, But they demanded the re-
peal of the race track laws, because they
believed that in SO doing they expressed
the wish OF the great lumber OF tue peo-
pie of the State.
DR.. Kempshall said he asked for the re-
peal of the laws because of the UNIQUE
haste with which they were passed and
without a hearing. He deprecated the
denial of the right of the people TO be
heard upon any subject. The right OF
the people was not fully reco2nized III
Murdered it forth in the nails of the
National Legislature. He even went so
far as to insist that the right should be
extended to slaves. If the slaves had the
right to be heard, the people OF New Jer-
sey believed that they had the right TO De
heard by their representatives.
PEOPLE AGAINST THEM.
Another ground upon which the repeal
was asked for was that it was against the
sentiment of the people OF New jersey.
which was evidenced 0E the storm OF
condemnation which had rolled through
the State from Sussex TO Cape May. An
other ground upon which the repeal was
asked was that the race track statutes
were a blight upon the fair name of the
State. and They believed that the Assem-
plymen. as well as the Citizens League,
were proud of the State OF New
Jersey and would do nothing to
besmirch her fair name. But the
Citizens, COMMITTEE believed that
New jersey had been thrown from her
lofty pedestal among her sister States
into the dust OF humiliation.
The citizens recognized that the ques-
ton was one on which there was a differ
ence of opinion. People had a right to
their vie WIS as to the effect of the race
track laws, but the committee of citizens
deemed it their duty to say that the laws
were y blight upon the State. They legal
lied what had long been declared by the