The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-02-27
In .MTsNT JERSEYMAN.
Vigorous Protests Against the
Race Track Bills.
IMMEDIATE REPEAL DEMANDED.
Jersey City Clergyman Denounces Gov
efnor werts' Hasty Action in Vetoing
the Bills So Quickly. and Ex-Mnyor Col
Iins Defends the Chief Magistrate.

the Bills SO Quickly, and Ex-nInyor Coll
Iins Defends the Chief Magistrate.
JERSEY CITY, Feb. a7.-The regular SER
vices of the Congregational Tabernacle, of
which the Rev. John l.. Scudder is pastor,
were omitted last evening and an anti-race
I track indignation meeting was held in
stead. Pastor Scudder denounced the leg
islature for passing the bills, and also de-
nounced Governor Werts for vetoing the
bills before their opponents had been
given an opportunity to work up pub
lie sentiment against them. ExMayor
Gilbert Collins said he could not endorse
Mr.. Sudder,s remarks about Governor
Werts. He believed the governor had acted
In good faith. 1t was his habit in all
matters of Importance to act promptly
when he made up his mind. Public senti-
ment was against these bills. 1t demanded
that they should be vetoed, and he had
vetoed them.
In bringing the meeting to a close, Mr.
Scudder said that he had been informed
that an indignation meeting would soon
be held at Trenton, and he asked all who
were willing to go to the meeting to stand
up. Twelve persons arose. The congrea-
tion of the Heeding NJ. Il. church and the
Summit Avenue Baptist church also
adopted resolutions denouncing the race
track bills and the persons who voted for
them
ELIZABETH, N. j., Feb 27-In pursuance
with an announcement made from the pull
pit at the morning services in all the
churches yesterday, a mass meeting to de
nouncc the passage of the race track bill
was held last evening in st. Johns Episco-
pal church. The crowd was so large that
1t was necessary to hold overflow meetings
in the First Presbyterian church, which
w nj lad ln Inv
clergy and laymen, in which the legisla-
ture was arraigned in scathing terms. The
| sentiment of the remarks was that the cit
iZens throughout the state should rise in u
| body and insist upon the immediate repeal
| of the obnoxious laws. Addresses were
| made by the laymen to demonstrate that
the clergy We're not alone in their OBJ
| jections to the bill.
NEWARK, Feb. 27.-The race track legs-
| lation at Trenton last week occupied the
attention of nearly every cergymen in the
city either in the morning or evening. DIR.
| Aylesworth, Of the Degroot Methodist
| Episcopal church said that Senator Bar
| rett and Assemblymen Lane and Hutchin-
| son should have their names handed
down to future generations for opposing
measures which steep New Jersey in
shame. Rev. l.. II. Dyott, of the Hill
Street Methodist Episcopal church, said
that the bills were disgrace to the state
| AT the South Park church last evening q
mass meeting was held and resolutions
condemning the legislature We're passed
Speeches were made by John Y. Foster
| and others.
| ORANGE, Feb. %. = In almost every
church in this city yesterday the ministers
had something to say relative to the pas
sage of the race track bill by the legsla-
turc. The measures and those who passed