The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-01
that meetings be held in all parts OF the
State to protect against the action OF the
Legisiature. -
HOW IT WAS WORKED.
Preparations for the Great Demon
stration-The Governor De-
ceived.
Special to The Jersey csty Nevs.

Special to The Jersey City Nelos.
TRENTON. March l, i1S93;-The mem
bers of the Citizens League made up
their minds yesterday that they would
not be put down by the race
of Speaker Flynn. They put thei r
collective foot down just as emphatically
as the Speaker had done upon all the
motions made TO give them nearing,
and sOlemnly resolved to beard the hon
in his den, even II the lion was away.
They would hold their indignation meet
ing in the Assembly Chamber. whether
the Assembly was willing or no, and
they wanted TO see the race track starter
or Legislative boOkmaker who would
stop them.
ORDERLY PROCEDURE.
Being lovers of law and order, and
professed conseryators of the same, they
further determined that whatever
should be done, should be
done In an orderly aud legal
manner. No matter how much their COD
stitutional rights had been trampled up
on, they would respect the rights of the
lie gislature. So they looked about them
| to see how their intention could be car
ried ouG. They found that the Legisla-
ture recently passed bill which, while
it increased the salary of Barney Ford,
the popular Superintendent OF the State
b ouSe. made MIN also Sole cus1oulan oL
every room in the building.
Yesterday afternoon Judge Lannfng OF
this city, who Is one of the Comment
anti-race track men in the city, called
upon Mr.. Ford and asked him If the peo-
pie could hold their meeting in the AS
sembly Chamber.
Certainly" the genial Barney Is re-
ported to have said, "the State House be-
longs to the people OF the State, and II
they want to use one of it's rooms, who Is
to prevent them from making use Of their
own propertyW
Judge Lanning thanked Mr.. Ford for
his kindness but mindful of the manner
in which Flynn & Co. have ridden rough
shod over all law aud precedent, he pro
posed to be on the safe side and went and
engsged the Taylor Opera House con-
dittonally so that if it should happen by
any hook or crook they should be- barred
out of the chamber. they would srill have
suitable place for holding their meet
ing.
Dr. Kempshall telegraphed to Judge
Lanning in the afternoon, that the meet
ing would be held, rain or shine, and
that such delegation would be down to
Trenton as the CAPITAL had seldom seen.
THAT BROKEN PROMISE.
Speaker FLYNN was asked in the af ter
noon il he had anything TO say ia reply
to The Governors declaration printed
| in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS last evening :,
| that ne and Duke Thompson had prom
| ised him, the Governor, that the Law and
Order people should have hearing upon
| the bills before IN attempt was made to
pass them over his veto.
The Speaker admitted that he had made
| such O promise. although he said that
Mr.. Thompson WAS not before the Gov
ernor In the matter. When asked when
| he had proposed to give the hearing he
| replied. ia that imperturable manner so
h Nfalsf sfpffa fxf h ia
| the middle OF next week would be a good
time. He could not help it il the Gov
ernor had misunderstood plain English
| and understood that he meant he would
give the hearing before the vetoes were
acted upon.
A gentleman said yesterday that the
speaker told him II it had not been for
| that little subterfuge with the Governor
| they would not have gotten the bills
| through.
WORRIED AND ANXIOUS.
1t is plain that the race track people
| journmenr. They fear the effect which
the universal condemnation which is
heaped upon the men who voted for the
| racers will havc upon the Asssmblymen.
| They are not SO we'll satisfied as they pre-
| tend to be, and appear to have adopted
the motto. "aternal Vigilance is the
price of racing and betting" They
| watch every movement that is made, and
whenever anything appears which looks
| as though it might effect their cause,
| Teddy Carroll, who il an old Gloucester
bookmaker, is on his feet with some mo-
tion to kill the bill or resolution. and
Speaker Flynn sees that it goes through.
Many people will be surprised to
learn that after all the hurry and
| rush to get the race track bills through ou
| Saturday they did not become laws until
late Monday night. When they passed
the Senate. Secretary Carpenter. instead
of taking them back to the ASS embly,
where they should have gone and where
| the Committee on Passed Bills were wait
ing for them. rushed them to the Secre-
tary of States office and filed them.
They were acted upon by The Assembly
Monday night. This has given rise to
| the question whether the licenses granted
| to Clifton and Monmouth Park on Mon
| day were legal.
A competent authority says that the
| the bills bear date of having been filed
| on Monday. and they become a law rs of
that date SO that anything done under
them on that day is legal.
MRS. BROWNS FATAL DISTINCTION.
She Is Liable TO BE Dynamited for the
Sake of Mohammed Webb.
Mrs. W. Hunter Brown is the irno-
cent victim of circumstances and the
New York daily press. Wnen Alexande r
Russell Webb, ex-Consul to the Philip
mines, and now prophet of Islam to the
United States, visited Jersey City last
Friday, dined with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
6. Lyle of Suydam avenue and afterward
accompanied them to Mrs. Browns
evening '.at home," The JERSEY CITY
NEWS, Of course, mentioned the fact, ex-
clusively. and said, further, that there
was a prospect that Jersey would see
| much moro Of the great 'Mahomet of
| America" When the New YORK papers.
according to custom, copied from its
| columns, they managed to get things
beautifully mixed, and one in particular
said that the prophet of Islam was stay
| ing at the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs.
| Samuel Brown. No. 9 Clinton place.
Since then Mrs. Brown has received one
succession of letters, documents, tele-
| grams, all for Mahomst; her maid is kept
busy warding off recorders. and now, t o
| cap the climax, yesterday afternoon came
long screed, written on six or seven
sheets of paper sewn together. evidently
| by an insane person. breathing vengeance
| on Mr.. Webb for countenancing Islam
| and Mrs. Brown for harboring him, as
alleged. 1t begins in the middle of a
sentence, goes on in the most incoherent,
rambling way; expresses an earnest de-
sire to eat someone Immediately. aud has
an uninteligible signature and many in
6 i lar,