The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-26


independent IN its vietos on all local questions.
The Thirteenth Street Improvement,
"The News IND Corporation
Counsel Edwards.
At a meeting held Monday evening
Of gentlemen interested in the im-
provement of Thirteenth street, a
certain Mr.. Michael Mcmahon ap-
pears to have said some very foolish
things. We extract the following
from the Ecenfng Journals report of
the meeting, published last evening"
Michael McNahon scored Corporation Counsel
Edwards for his hardness in looking after the
interests of the people. He said:-"I believe
Street aud Water Board. NY o pinion of him is
very small. 1t is ridiculous for him to ridicule
our counsel in bis newspaper. as he did yestet-
day.
Of course Mr.. Mcmahon meant THE
JERSEY CRY NEWS. He is evidently
under the same absurd delusion that
pervaded the Bad Senator's mind
when he tried to induce the Grand
Jury to find those mixed ale indict-
ments
We are just a little tired of saying
the same thing over, many times; but
Mr.. McMahon's remarks appear to
call for some correction. First, then,
Mr.. Edwards does not own THE
NEWS. This paper is the property of
a corporation, regularly organized
under the laws or the State of New
Jersey and called the City Publishing
Company. Second, the stock in that
company is, like that of most other
companies, held by a considerable
number of persons. Third, Mr.. Ed
wards does not exercise or assume to
exercise and has not at any time exer-
cised or assumed to exercise any
dictation, control, direction or guild
ance over the editorial, news or
business policy of this paper
in any respect whatsoever, whether
political, municipal or otherwise.
The affairs of the paper, including
the editorial and news policy, are now
and have always been in the direct.
al4o aOSOl0uC SOLtlOl VI nv
Editor and Business Manager of the
paper, whose individuality is sufi-
GENTLY well known to the people of
Jersey City. These gentlemen are
limited and restrained in the exercise
of their professional judgment only
by nj single general condition, which
is that they conduct the paper as a
steadfast Democratic paper on all
bona t5de political issues in State and
National affairs. These two officers
of the paper are the sole conductors
of the sheet, and they alone are re-
sponsible for its utterances. No other
person shares this responsibility in
any degree, and no other person ever
has previous knowledge of any pub
LEGATION that may be made in it's
columns.
So much for one part of Mr.. Nc
Mahon's speech. But his error does
not end there. He seems to think that
THE News does not favor the Thir-
tenth street Improvement. He evil
IDENTIFY is one of the few people who
do not read the paper. We are most
heartily in favor of it. We have de-
voted many columns to advocating it,
and if there were any need we would
continue to do so. But there is not.
The improvement is certain to be
made. The fight is won and there is
too much aggressive work to be done
for The NEWS to linger over dead
issues. As for the alleged ridicule of
the young lawyer, THE News simply
made a truthful report of what took
place. The young gentleman who
appeared at the Street and Water
Board meeting was in the somewhat
ridiculous position of making a spread
eagle speech over a petition which
was retarding the work he wanted
done by its informality and illegality.
That is all there is of it.