The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-02


The Republican Legislative Record.
Senator Stokes is, of all republi-
ANS in the present Legislature, per
haps the wisest and most disinterested.
Yet under the influence OF partisan
zeal sven he is capable OF the widest
Misrepresentation. He has in the
State Gazette this morning a long and
elaborate review of the acts of the
late unlamented Legislature. OF
curse he carefully selects the heads
Of his discourse,s ignoring all those
matters which admit of only the se-
Observation-Disclosures such as the
2.cene ierr$ Bit, tie Erie track ele-
vatioa and tRsspaid9nppolicy bill; but
even with this careful culling of ma
teriai he is forced tostrain aud falsiiy
facts to make out a case for his party.
One of the acts he has the effrontery
to mention was that which turned the
Democratic police justices out of Office
TO make room for the members of the
Republican County Committee in
Jersey City and Newark. Mr.. Stokes
makes q great yawp over the saving
OF 81. 600 a year, which, he says, this
measure secures to each OF the cities
concerned. This i. of course, the su-
periicial pretext which was used for
the defense of an obviously office
grabbing bill; but he entirely fails to
tell why, if this was the purpose of
the measure, the Republicans did not
content themselves with abolishing
the third court aud leaving theother
two as ~thegpwere. presided over by
excellent judges-even if they were
awful democrats? This would have
been really a reform measure, but it
would have made no places for re-
publicans. and so Mr.. Stokes and his
fellows never thought OF doing the
thing that way.
Mr.. Stokes further claims credit be-
cause the judges of the District Civil
Courts were not turned out of Office.
This is certainly an odd sort of virtue.
The claim might be multiplied to
cover every Office in the State 10
held by a democrat. Politics are GER
tainly coming to a pretty pass when
the mere forbearancs from stealing a
salary which might be stolen can be
paraded before the people as a title to
confidence aud support. But what is
the truth about this civil justice mat
ter? 1t Is just this. The capture of
these Offices was early in the session
made part Of a gigantic scheme OF
spoliation covering the entire county
Judiciary of the State. The plan and
purpose was to steal everyt hing be-
low the level of the Supreme Court,
which is protected by the Constitu-
ton. The entire bench was to- be
III lle Il party machine, the places be-
Ing distributed among the faithful of
the G.. 0. p. But the scheme was a
little too big. The pieayuue gentle
men who made up the Republican
majority we're afraid OF 1t, and SO the
whole business fell through. This is
the truth of the case but, naturally,
1t did not suit Senator Stokes to
tell it.
The Senator claims credit for a
number of other things He thinks
the Republican party deserves praise
for repeating the, rasesSfraek laws.
Why does he not confess that this
was q mere o1piecea of empty bun
combe? Why does he not own that
the Supreme Court had ~elfectually
disposed of the entire subjectf
In our news columns, today, we
give a recital of the personal records
Of some OF the Republican majority
whom Mr.. Stokes euloGizes. 1t is q
savory presentment. Mr.. Stok es him
self does not figure in ii, for. as re-
publicans go, he is a clean nan as
we'll as an able one. But the in
confrovertible facts speak for them
selves regarding the wreichedecrew
of corporate slaves and Bipartisan
crapks who ruled the Toost all
winter, the Rogers, hes9Skifmsb the
Storrs and the Hollis, who sold out the
people to the railroads, the indus
trial insurance cormoraats and the
other Incorporated birds Of prey who
fatten on poor mems pennies and on
the public domain. Mr.. Stokes. in
his article. has one word in a sneak
Ing way about sins of omission. Yes,
indeed, they are al scarlet. Ii he
undertook to explain away the Equal
Tax bill, the State Water bill, the
Cheap Gas bill, the Ferry Fare bill.
the Paid-up Policy bill, and some
other like episedss Of the session, he
wonld have needed 1GSyaez times tile
space that he WIS gub3s tY scetasume In
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what he knows TO De oithcE bad or in
significant nNYEON a
NEW COAL SPECIFICATIONS.
Ths new Street and Water Commissioners
win probably prepare new specifications fol-
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