The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-09

not an extreme statement to say that your
Receivership was the chief, if not only blot,
Chancellor Runyon's administration.
When Judge Lathrop died, there were en-
gagged in furnishing lumber and timber for
the railroad company the firm of Wander
bfit. &c Hopkins, OF which Mr.. Edward Hop
kins, a son of Judge Lathrop, was a mem
Der. Shortly after you took hold, Mr.. Van
derbiIt, the partner, swears that he met you
at your Office, at your request, when you
inquired as to the partnership between him
and Mr.. Hopkins; that you asked him if his
partner was of much help to him, and when
he said Eyes" that you said, "Mr.
Hopkins does not do you any good and
better hold confidential relations with
me-" that he told you that he could not drop
his partner, and that you said, sWell, he
won't do you any good" that at another
meeting you made the same suggestion, and
upon his saying that he could not do it, you
said, "You viii be sorry" that Immediately
after, the company stopped accepting the
lumber which had been bought for its use by
Vanderbilt & Hopkins, and difficulties We're
thrown in the way of payments for lumber
and timber already delivered and then suit
was begun by Vanderbilt q Hopkins against
the Central Railroad Company.
A MEMORABLE SUIT.
That suit has been in litigation for years.
1t has involved vast expense to these parties.
| They have twice, and | believe finally, got a
| verdict against the company for a very
large sum of money. 1t is in evidence in
that suit, and is said by Mr.. Barker Gum
| mere in his brief, that although you refused
to accept this lumber from Vanderbilt &
Hopkins upon the ground that you were be-
ing flooded with it, you almost Immediately
bought from other parties $4,000 ties, 1885,
| 491 feet of timber and LOIS S5 feet of lum-
Der to meet the necessities OF the road for the
year 1882 You were evidently making
| Mr.. Vanderbilt sorry that he had not dis
| carded his partner and opened confidential
relations with you.
Your COUNSEL do not believe you will
deny that it was with your knowledge and
assent-besmirched the reputation OF Judge
| Lathrop. YOUR friend and benefactor, by
| lastifying your taking away this contract
from his grandson, upon the ground that 1t
| was improvident; that it was given through
| fayoritism to his grandson, and at a
time when he himself was sick and
unable to exercise good Judgment.
You stood by and saw that done!
You, who when Judge Lathrop was alive
| could not fawn upon him enough to satisfy
| even your greed for notice and favor. And
| after YOU had driven these men to the
| courts and out of contact with the Central
Railroad Company. you turned around ana
gave to a lumber firm in Matawan, New
| Jersey, in which you admitted you were a
partner, an order for a very large quantity
/ of pine and spruce lumber, despite the nmpu-
tations OF dishonesty in the similar practice
| which you and you counsel had cast upon
| Judge Lathrop.
The Court of Errors and Appeals, by its
emphatic Judgment, awarded large damages
| to Vanderbilt & Hopkins for your treatment
| of them, and thus fastened it's censure upon
| your acts.
With this knowledge of your own acts in
your own heart, you talk about printing
| jobs, back in the sixties!
UMMIN UP.
Mr.. Mar "sums up' at great length
| Here are some of the spasms from that pro-
1onged agony
I have tried to state nothing but facts
/ concerning you in your public and semi
| public careers, derived from the public rec
| ords, and when I look back at the events re
lated, and consider ~ your treatment OF
| Amos Robins; t2) your Judas-like behavior
to Henry G. Kelsey; () your attack upon
| the reputation of Francis s. Lathrop; AZ
your persecution of his grandson for your
own betterment; ~ your pltlless treatment
of your employees in the Chancery office;
(6) and your falsity to George M. Robson;
| [ thoroughly understand how it is that you
| stand alone in the world. discredited and.
| distrusted by allan outcast, whom one
would only pity but for the malevolence and
| conceit which forces you into matters III
which you long since lost a place.
But there is another phase OF your career
worthy of notice. There was no man in the
| State of New Jersey, and never had been a
man, who owed more to the Democratic
party of the State than you-if honor and
e%moiument can create a e to the party.
| You had been enriched in it, and you had
been given a prominence far beyond your
merits, and you were asked only to be honest
to the men that had been honest to you,
had made you what YOU were.
PARTY T~REACHERY
But you went out of office forgetful of all
benefits, and loaded with grievances against
| this one and the other one. You were no
| sooner freed from the burdens OF office than
YOU assumed the work of reprisals upon your
| party itself, and upon those men in it who
| had not catered to your personal de-
sires. To Governor Ludlow, who dis
| placed you, you were and remain
vindictive, bitter, malicious and u%nforgiv-
ing. Leon Albeit you have pursued, III
company with his party enemies, in season
and out of season, in Office and out OF office
everywhere except before the people-with
O m~alignity unequalled. Governor Green,
who perhaps failed to recognize fully the
| fact that his support for your nomination
for Congress placed you under an intending
load of debt to him, you attacked IN the
midst of his campaign for election as Gov
ernor and did all you could to defeat him.
More than one member of Congress III your
| district say ''your district because L be-
| Iieye YOU hold a residence in Monmouth-has
been fought by you and your rail-
road company and by your associates, IN
favor of a republican. You, who had first
favored the nomination of George w. Pat
terson for Senator, when you found that he
would not pledge himself to you, turned
against him and defeated him.a and earned
some credit for it until you employed this
same Patterson to practice against other
| democrats the SAM means he had pract1ced
against you, with the general result, that
the county of Monmouth, once the foremost
| and most reliable Democratic county, has
been in the last fifteen years represented by
republicans. for nine years, most Lot them
owing their election to the disturbances that
YOU, with your selfishness and egotlsm, Gre
ated. ft4
TERHUNE'S F
No wonder that you refused to run for
| Senator yourself; no wonder that the young
| man who bears relationship with you was
| defeated; despite the $4,000 that is said to
| nave been put into the county to elect him.
/ You need not look anywhere outside OF the
! County of Monmouth to discover the condi-
| lions that led to his defeat.
You need not charge it upon any one other
than yourself, and least of all upon me-. l
cannot take the credit of that defeat if l.
would. 1 saw and noted the first formation
| of the cyclone that swept the Democracy
from power. In the True american |
warned individuals that party safety lay in
/ -disconnecting the race track legislation
aud the Democracy. You saw, with
Tn MU0HA lit nAV f0MnTOU,