The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-31
Let Us BE Lexowed.


The proposal to have a "Lexow" Com
mittee in this State is quite entertain
ing There is lots of material, and as
Anew Years treat the enterprise could
not be surpassed by our Republican
Legislators-unless they took a fit of
grace and gave us equal taxation.
We are glad to learn that Jersey City
is no longer regarded as the sink of mi
guilty of the State; but we think our
brethren are a trihe too optimistic when
they saw there is nothing whatever to
Investigate down here. Judge L~ippincott
and the Rev. Mr.. Gates are authorities
for the statement that the liquor saloons
are open on Sunday in spite of the Re-
publican police commissioners. TIL
Journal from time to time tells of
policy shops, pool rooms and other gam
bling dives that flourish here. Burglar
les are alarmingly prevalent in the
Fourth Precinct, despite the Republican,
ism of its captain, and there is a fascin-
r1lltlE story u SIcth SOOdo, VIII Oil NhN
In the Postofice still untold, though we
understand one of the city detective
force is burning with a desire to tell all
he knows about it.
The City of Paterson would make a
profitable field of investigation also. 1t
is understood to lave more disorderly
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any other town of its size in the coun-
try. Dean McNulty would no doubt be
glad to set the committee. on the right
track there. He can tell all about the
Sunday liquor traffic too, for he has
made a sort of P~arkhurstian speciality
of it. There have been a good many in
dictments of prominent Patersonians al
ready. There is room for many more if
the facts were looked into. There will
be no room for any suspicion of partisan
spite if the Republican Legislature I'M
earths the abuses in Paterson, for nearly
all the officials are Republicans.
Then comes Atlantic City, the Graves
end of New Jersey. 1t is a great Re-
publican stronghold, and every form of
crime known on the Coney Island Bow
est vice, fourishes there. The summer
boarder is used to pad registry lists. and
his influence is the excuse for the con-
slant presence of the scarlet lady and
the gentleman who turns the wheel.
In Camden, the parties are about at a
stand-of. While Duke Billy de Glouces-
he has not all the corruption of the
county to himself by any means. The
city of Camden is about as Republican
rs it well can be, and its morals, private
AID public, are simply deplorable. Then
thore is Trenton, who's own citizens
pronounce it the abode of all sorts of
wickedness. 1t is also under Republic
can rule. and haunts of vice flourish
with astonishing vigor.
Yes, there is room for a Lexow Com
mittee to make a sensation in this State.
1t can STIR up all SOftS Ol Hiuu. buL Will
it do any good. Yes, if it is honestly
conducted! 1t will help turn the Re-
publicans out of power.
THE Newark Advertiser in its Sat
urday edition disclosed a shocking state
of affairs at the State Prison in Trenton
The Institution is disgracefully over
crowded and is infected with all the
physical and moral pestilence inevitable
under such conditions. In another part
of this paper we give a condensed sum-
mary of the Advertisers revelations.
The thanks Of the State are due to that
paper for it's enterprise in laying the
facts before the people.
The responsibility for the abuses as
they exist rests upon the Republican ma
iority in the last Legislature. Governor
Werts laid all the facts before the
Houses in his message. But the Repre-
sentatives of the party of moral ideas
were too busy all the session with poll
tics 70 pay any attention to the peoples
aeeds.