New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-23
SCORING THE GAMBLERS.
JERSEY CITY PASTORS PREACH VIGOROUS
POLITICAL SERMONS
TIE ELECTION OF COLONEL ToFFEY As SHERIFF
OF HUDSON COUNTY STRONGLY URGED
EACrTEACK LEGISLATION MUST
EE REPEALED.

BE REPEALED.
Tho ministers OF Jersey City last night made a
simultaneous attack upon the ring and the race
track and policy gamblers that have so long ruled
cities. counties and State. from the precinct
primary up to the Legislature. The Rev. DIR. John
l.. Scudder. pastor Of the Congregational Taber-
naclc, entitled his prelude. "Wanted an Anti-Race-
track Sheriff." He spoke. in part, as follows:
The paramount in coming election Is racetrack
gambling In lIrdsOl County and the state OF New
Jersey the gan is In the saddle but respectable
rcopc with one ord. determined 10 pull him of
his high horse and put him bclnd the bars The -cns
u the time. plainly inllcat that rho gambling legislation
" Ia, winter viii b. repealed br those who live
in Hudson County and In the vicinity Of Guu"nbnrg is
assurance I, enough. When the now an'l-eambl'ng
statute /, enacted want y Sheriff NO. through III"
Grand Jury % appointment, will see that TIE statatr
+. enforced Now which Of the two candidates before
gives hope Of such cnforccmcnt-Edwatd
Il. stanton Colonel j. J. Torcy' This Is not a
question party Il is matter of moral principle Of
Individual responsibility and ti" welfare Of COM
munlty. The best elements OF all parties hayc resolved
TO vote for Colonel Tor-y and do all in their power TO
elect him. they he will not show fayortsm
"a ceraln criminal classes.
Mayor Pagan. ~ foloaen who Is Democrat from hl-
shoes to his scalp and well represents the better hall Of
his party declares Stanton t. IT, ''crcaturr Of the
gang" question Of this character the Mayor i
competent to Judge.
The Issue before u.s. then. Is very clear Those who
are Opposed rafetrack Gambling with nil s blightlne
Influence viii vote Mr. Tonrv. while those who favor
and uphold rhi, accur.cd ring that has dlscacl this
county long T. u be DESTROYED will east thois
iniqntous ballots for thi- nan stanton The lat y
bon sngy allrns that be- has n"v"r yet boon DEFEATED
Then all have say Iii, Waterloo Il very
az hand. Brother Stanton yOrr star has alr'1ly begun
to set. You might have won hal you no; allowed your
self becom" the tail Of Mcaughn's KIT but such you
arc. and prophecy that November the tail viii
10 carFhd by gale Of popular nianatIon and tn
kite after o few fanLr gyrton. will fall 10 earth with
a thud and Ic smashed boYoni RECOGNITION.
The Rev Or David Mitchell. pastor Of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church. preached on "The Duty Of
the Hour" lie said that every man should stand
by his home and his friends in the coming cleo
ton and vote for Sheriff who would put down
gambling In every form. and for members or
Assembly who would do their utmost To suppress
III" SalOon..
The rev !. ". Daily. pastor Of the Centenary
cal Corruption In Now-Jerscy." lie said. by way
Of Introduction. that h" did not believe IN political
Ncw-Jersey that II vas simply moral cowarhice
- nyeJv chye,ian To- cast his vote in the interest
Of reform - ne coming LECTION ,h y, tho po,.
Danicl fiallcron Of the Simpson Methodist Episco-
pal church II continuation OF MIS- pre-.
vous sermon. "A Broadslde for the Gamblers
and he handed Davis and Mclaughlin and their
followers without rloy"s ,-,.-..- ..o,s, 49,, g,
Political and Moral Campaign" am in the course
Of his sermon showed concusively that II WAS
the duty OF every fhl'fN Ul'ilbtI ~ VIZ ~. t"'
suppression OF the twin evils from which New
Icr;ey IS suffering political corruption and gam
bling. 80
Th. rsev. Dr. Cornelius Brett. pastor of the Der
gen Reformed Church. IN which Colonel John j.
ToIev ia an ,ld"-. also preached on the political
SITUATION and counsel his congregation to vote
FOR The sheriff who promised to abate the evil
from which fhe community suffers.
The mas.-mecting OF tho Moral Reform League
win b. he,l 80 the Cor srcgationa Tabernacle to-
morrow evening
Tho Rev Theodore Hasig pastor OF the First
Eapfls' Church preached on The Saloon in Poll
tic lie believed that the rum shop was the
foundation 'ipou which was reared the whole SUPER
structure Of avil that dominated politics In Hudson
County to-day lie believed that II that were swept
avn all Other evils might easily be rcmedled.