The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-15
The Bad Legislature.

We give today in ournews columns,
a number of extracts from other
newspapers, rejecting the opinion in
various parts of the State, of the Bad
Legislature and its work. If We had
merely wished to fill space, and make
a display on this subject, we might
easily have filled our entire front
page, or. indeed, the entire paper,
by including all that has been said
upon the subject. But, except in h
case of the Jersey City Journal, whose
local authority is too great to be Ig-
nored, we have rejected all the utter
ances OF partisan Republican papers.
The Ecenang Journals editorial is
a particularly able discussion OF n
municipal legislation enacted by the
Bad Legislature to the eternal dis
grace of the State, and to the deep
injury of the Democratic party. Ii
strongly urges upon the Mayor and
public spirited citizens to make a
legal fight for the salvation OF the city,
for the vindication of the ballot,
and for the overthrow OF
the gang of conspirators who have
Robert Davis for their chief. If n
Eceaing Journals course continues
to be shaped on the same lines down
to the end of the contest, it will be OF
great aid to the popular
cause. But the trouble about the
Journal is that it neve can be relied
on. Last week, Benson's end of 1T
was trucking and cringing to Davis
as badly as if it were his own personal
organ, and we suppose half its ener-
gies will be devoted all through the
coming fight to a crooked, u~nderhand
support of the Ring. That, at least,
has always been its policy in the
past.
One misfortune about the race track
legislation is that it has wholly over
Swallowed the other w~ickedness of the
Bad Legislature, the bribery and cor
ruption that were rife in advancing and
obstructing corporation measures
and the political d~epravity, whose
worst ebullitions were the defeat OF
Governor Albeit for the SeEatorship
and the shameless partisan legislation
for Jersey City. The race track mea-
sures arouse a certain element of the
community to an unprecedented de-
gree, and drew to the State and the
Legislature the eyes of the whole
country. The abominable venality,
and the brazen ruffianism for which
that hideous fortnight, during which
they were on their way to the statute
book, will be forever memorable,
served as a cloak for other acts equally
scandalous in themselves and infin-
itely more hurtful to the public,
But the end is not yet. The race
track measures are falling into theil
proper place in the public mind, and
other acts are looming up bigger and
bigger as their meaning and intent
become practically apparent. 1t is
becoming plain, too, that more than
one scoundrel made his vote against
the race track bills the xcu for un-
checked villainy on other measures
A dissection of the history Of
the session will show that many Of
the worst strikers, the worst promo
tiers of bad bills were fellows who
played virtuous on the occasion
when they thought they could rivet
public approval upon themselves.
But time is tearing away the veil, and
long before the season for renomina-
lions comes around the whole truth
will be known.
Broadly, n thing may be said
The Democratic party all over the
State cannot afford to renominate
owe five out of all those who repre-
sented 1t in the Bad Legislature. To
do SO, will be to incur certain disaster.
The party will have to leave these
rascals to make the most of their evil
gains in the ~disgraceful obscurity to
which they have relegated them
selves.
BRILLIANT FIREWORKS.