The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-08
Highly Unimportant-if True.


The following cheerful item of in
formation appears in the New Jersey
sheet of the New York World of this
morning.
IAwas reported yesterday that among the in
ictment presented to the court by the Hudson
one against ex State Senator William b. Ed
wards and James Luby for criminal libel
against State Senator William D. DAILY, Ed:
wards is corporation counsel of Jersey City and
is also one of the proprietors of TIE JERSEY
CRY NEWS, and Luby is the editor OF that
paper.
The alleged libel consists of a series of articles
published in THE News concerning Senator
Daily, in which he is called "The .Mixed-Ale Law.
yer and The Bad Senator
One of the articles to which Senator Daily
takes exception was published June "a, and
reads
ken was in his element today. He had a good
sized mixed ale case on his hands, in fact it may
be said he had a whole mixed ale brewery on
hand, and a happier man could net be found.
Senator Daily told the Grand Jury that the
articles net only injured him in his prof ession
as a lawyer, but tended to hold him up to public
prompted by malice.
The motive for the attacks is said to be duo to
the fact that Senator DAILY is a political lieu
tsnant of Robert Davis, and that during the last
session of the Legislature he opposed severa
hills in which ex-senator Edwards was deeply
Interested. Senator DAILY is counsel for the
Hudson County Liquor Dealers Association.
The accused publisher and editor will be ar
raigned in court some day next week.
We do not know whether the infor-
nation is true or false, and we do not
care. We gather from current gossip
that there is some foundation for it.
1t is at least true, we believe, that the
attempt has been made.
What course Mr.. W. d. Edwards
may pursue, in case such an outrage
is perpetrated upon him as a prosecu-
ton for anything published in THE
JERSEY CITY News, we do not know.
1t is none of our affair, and we do not
propose to NEEDLE in it. Mr.. Ed
wards, we are inclined to think, is
able to take care of himself. He has
the reputation of knowing something
about law, something about contem-
porary history, something about
affairs in general. We have no doubt
he will make life somewhat exciting
for anyone who may modest him.
AS for ourselves, we also know how
to take care of ourselves. 1t is not
our style to refuse a gauntlet thrown
down to us, and we certainly will'not
be slow to pick up this n We, also,
will be apt to contribute a lively
chapter to the history of all who may
be concerned in a fake Indictment
found on a mixed alep basis.
By the time we have done with the
subject, the public. whose votes next
November are to determine the char
acter of succeeding Grand Juries, will
distinctly understand who the men
are, and what relation they bear to
the ring politics of this city, and to
the legislation of last winter of which
the Bad Senator was the principal
promoter, who are behind this
attempt at illegal and malicious
prosecution. We will make all
the relations of persons and
things so clear that the voters
will have no trouble in under
standing why e Grand Jury. which
ignores the strong and public
spirited injunctions of Judge
Lippincott and Judge H%udspeth;
which gives gamblers and thieves
and brothel keepers free rein
in the community, a Grand Jury
which ignores the most overwhelm-
ing evidence against the policy deal
ers, which even, under the lash of the
judicial injunction, balks at the ar
raignment of the green goods men;
which will not investigate the abuses
in the County Jail and which cannot
be goaded into Indictment of the low
dives which are the hotbeds of crime
and vice in this city and county,-the
people will presently understand, we
say. why such a Grand Jury
makes itself an instrument of
outrage and insult by find
finding fake presentments against
those who have the courage and
honesty to espouse the peoples cause.
to expose the villainies of Bob
Davis, of his plant tool, Daily, and of
his corps of ringsters and looters
generally, and to incite the voters
to arise and vindicate their rights
through the medium of the ballot.
Mr.. Days mixed ale indictments,
he will find, are matters of very small
consequence to those against whom
they are launched; but they may
prove very important to him and his
-
nous benefits this fall through the
wide range of inquiry and exposure
that they may open up.
When the fake indictments come to
trial, it will be found that Bill Daily
and his gang are the real defendants,
and they will be convicted and pun
ished, too.
NEWARK LEATHER FIRM ASSIGNS.