The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-31
DAVIS SCORED.
Rev, MI. Halleron Pays His Re.
spects TO the Little
Jailef.

The Rev. DR.. Halleron. OF the Simpson
NJ. Q. Chugch. preached on "The Twin
Gamblers Of Jersey City" last evening
He said: 'My Christian friends. / have
taken as a prelude tonight The Twin
Gamblers OF Jersey City, You perhaps
ask who are thesef Twin is a coaven
tional word aud means born OF the same
mother and at the one birth. don't
say these men are twins IL that sense.
But they are twins in politics, in pur-
pose and i'll character. They are dem
ocrats TO the core. They are determined
to enrich themselves aE the expense of
the public. They aim to and succead in
law courts, though In the last
they are not always successful.
Their character is slnirched almost be-
yond the cleansing. They are sharp, sly,
genial, crooked. They shonL for freedom,
yet they throttle liberty, They talk of
home rule, bat it il self rule that they
want. Their principle. In shorr, is rule
or ruin-ne, rule and ruin. Hence the
crooks OF the counIpT ave learned Of the
protectlon criminals receive among W.
Hoboken aud Jersev City exteud their
sheltertng arms to the yagabond and the
promoters of fraud end vice. For de-
cency's sake q raid ID ordered OCCASION
ally. The nest il found, but the birds
flown. The first OF the twins
we pay our respects to is Reoers Davis,
ex-Sheriff, ex-Poilee Justice aad ex-pro-
motor OF oallotDox stuflng and at present
1ailer OF our county. He IL smooth OF
face u low of Siza. Looking ut him
you would think he was a gentleman.
speak to him aud you will .hnd him Il
poltroon. tie cannot speak ten words
of the Queens English without murder
lug 10. # has been shown that this man
Davis ia tbs head ana front Of the mean
est SPECIES OF gambling known Ms policy.
| don't understand it. hut | am informed
that 1t Is the most INSCRIPTIONS OF all
games known to S~aarners. Women and
even eatldFen are betveled. Ii is simple
but the fraud is colossal. Now this man
Davis while Sheriff of Hudson County,
upo whom the execution of law de-
pended, who carried our lives in his
maud, who eeuid tie up courts, judges
aud Juries, swore to administer iaw and
ostensibiy performing his duty. was all
tho time promoting. not simply CON
nlvlng at, hut promoting. fosterIa2,
urGin& tue violation of tue law hs Wa
sworn to uphold. He had the summon
lag OF JurIes, grand aud petit, the execn-
tiou OF distraints, iu tin 81 of riot the
conlmanG of the militia, enforcement or
T jsetmeat>; i'll fact, as u codnty off cial,
lie chief executive. Then when tired Of
this position, Oh the furtherance vi his
pians urged 1t, be s~ursenders the ofice
and becomes u judge. melting out pun
ishmea1 TO- the guilty, protecting the in-
novent, con irving morals, August dis
penser of law. and all the time cHief law
breaker himself"
Here the Rev. Mr.. Halleron switched
of from t ,e subject of his aIsoourse aud
scored several prominent citlzsns. SEEM
lagiy only because they We're members
Of the Democratic party. He also. with
denunclation of Davis, scered the Gut
tenberg race track and County Clerk
Mclaughlin, because the latter nad
touau the track a profitable investment.