The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-08
RACETRACKS AND RACE
TRACKS.
Showing That Circumstances Alter
Cases in the Minds of ReDub-
lican Organists.
From the Trenton True American.

FROM Inc ITeWtCH ITu
1t may be possible hat the True Amer
lean misunderstands the position which
the State Gazette has taken upon the race
track question, as the Gazette alleges,
but it does not think 80. The Gazette Is
understood to have defended and apollo
gized for Monmouth Park on the ground
that it was conducted by reputable gen.
tlemen,n was "open only for a few
weeks during the summer" q
was conducted in a Seemly respec1-
able fashion, and it heaped re-
proach and scorn upon the moral and
religious elements OF Monmouth who nad
epdeayored to have the Jaws enforced
against the unlawful practices carried on
at the Park, stigmatizing them as "PecK-
sniffian' and 'smugfaced" hypocrites.
who were actuated In their efforts Dy
jealousy. because they did not get some
OF the pork"
In defending the claims OF Monmouth
Park the Gazette was well aware or the
fact that legislation could not DE mao
legalizing poolselling and gambling at
the Park without which the managers
declared they could not SUSTAIN
the institution, unless at the same
time the same privileges were granted
to Guttenburg and gloucester,
the twin enormtttes at which the Gdzette
pretended to be SO exceedingly shocked.
There was no conceivable reason why tne
Gazette should have entered into TINS
defence of the Park, or for its abuse OF
the people who were trying to put a stop
TO its unlawful practices, except to help
the Park in the efforts OF its managers
TO secure the passage of a law repeating
that section of the statute agalnst vice
and immortality prohibiting gambling
aud the keeping of disorterly houses, SO
far as 1t applied to race tracks.
Neither Ia it true that The True Amer
iea,l sis the only newspaper in the
country that 'misunderstands' the po-
sition of the Gazette" If there has been
any misunderstanding" of that
n~osition the columns Of the Gazette
itself furnish ample proof that Mt least
two other respectable influential
newspapers-the Elizabeth Journal and
the Camden TelegrGm-have both been
referred to by The Gazette as contro-
yertipg its position on this question.
The journal went SO far as to charge the
Gazette with having gone over bodily ito
the worst enemy that morality has in
New Jersey" and begged it, for the sake
Of its party, to take some position on the
question hat would enaoIe the hepuo-
3ican and otherwise moral papers OF the
Sraten to follow it's lead. Other respect
able newspapers might be quoted In the
same vein, but these are sufncient to
show that the Gazette has falsifed the
record in this regard.
The fact is, that the position of the
Gazette has not been "misunderstood,"
either bv the newspapers or by the public,
and that is where the shoe pinches. The
Gazette has made a mistake and it has
been made In some way to realize that
tac., and not having the moral courage
to honestly acknowledge it, would seek
to eyade it By charging misrepresenta-
ton. The only way out It's dilemma is an
honest confession and that is what the
Gazette is not capable of except under a
pressure that will oblige 1t to do so or do
worse,