The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-13
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ~. 1893.

This paper is Democratic in principles and is
Independent in its vietcs on all local questions.
The News and the Backnumb Der.
Beats on the Journal AVE become
so common of late, that we cannot
spare the space to call attention to
them except when they are of special
Importance. The most prominent
local one yesterday was the report of
Judge ~Lippincott's decision in the
matter of the Railroad avenue vaca-
ton. The Backnum6er sheet will
come out today with the announce
ment that the Judge has refused to
grant the writ of certiorari. But it
will be stale news. THE JERSEY CITY
News told the main fact and
the general grounds of the
decision yesterday. The time has
gone by when the Journal could com
pete with this paper in getting news,
whether local or telegraphic. We
have the inside track. We have the
influence, the money, the energy and
enterprise, and the Journal is not in
it with us. Every day we will go
farther and farther ahead of our late
competitor, and in a very short time
we shall leave it where the Newark
Eeening NeoS has left the Newark
a Hsa4ff.as on1 TosHrODT
Just keep your eye on THE NEWS
for the next year, and you will see
developments that will astonish you.
Two Jud: es Great Charges.
Yesterday was a very cold day for
the lawless gambling element of the
State. Two of the upright and cour-
ageous judges of our Supreme Court,
yesterday, dealt crushing blows to
the illegal pool rooms, and to the
scandalous policy shops which have
brought disgrace upon the State and
made vice and ruin common incidents
of everyday life.
Judge Dixon dealt with the pool
room evil in Bergen county with
characteristic vigor. He incontinently
kicked off the Grand Jury the repre-
sentatives of the gamblers who had
been placed there to protect the
scoundrels who have turned Fort Lee
into a moral plague spot. In his
charge, Judge Dixon further levelled
the severest condemnation at the
Sheriff and Prosecutor VINO protect
these dens of infamy. Presumably,
the remainder of the Grand Jury con-
sists of honest men, and there is good
hope that the pool rooms will be
closed and the proprietors indicted
within a few days.
In opening the term of the Crimi-
nal Court in Hudson County, Judge
Lippincott displayed the same splen-
did earnestness that has marked his
whole career, in warning upon banded
vice and crime. Yesterday, time
permitted us to give only a synopsis
of his able and impressive charge.
Today, we give a verbatum report of
it, believing that every citizen desires
to read every word the Judge had to
say on this occasion. and believing
that the cause of good order and good
government will be greatly forwarded
by a general study of his remarks.
Judge Lippincott denounces the
banded gamblers with all the old fire
of indignant rectitude. The change of
location of the pool rooms from Harri-
son to Weehawken does not blind
him to their existence o to the
moral pollution which they spread.
But his most impressive remarks ar
those directed against the policy evil.
This form of gambling, he points out,
is so cheap as to entice the elements
of society which most need protection
the poorer and humber classes,
young clerks. mechanics and laborers,
boys and women It attacks the
morals of the community in the weak
est and at the same time the most
vital spot.
The Judge'swrath is increased by a
consideration of the vast profits which
accrue to the INSCRIPTIONS hackers of
this game from the plumber of their
unfortunate dupes, and, though he
named no names. one Fan easily i'm
agine that his particular Indignation
rested upon that notorious criminal,
who. while a leading partner in this
viIlainv, still assumed to be a political
boss, and the arbiter OF the destinies
of two hundred thousand people
resident In this county. We speak of
Robert Davis.
In expressing confidence in the
present Grand Jury, Judge Lippin-
colt conveyed a strong inferential
compliment to Sheriff Stanton.
We hope the members Of the
jury will vindicate the Judges
endorsement and the Sherif's
choice. just and public spirited ac-
ton on their part, fearless prosecu-
ton OF crime. wherever found, is all
that is needed to make Mr. Stanton's
election q certainty.
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