The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-01
. D. LAUTER co.,
Broad ST.. Newark.

that could deprive him of the seat you
| helped him with all FOUR might to win. He
has simply brought the usual credentials to
| the capital upon which every Senator that
ever sat in that body has been seated with
out a single exception.
So. too, if Mr.. Terhune was not q proper
! person to represent Monmouth county, as
you necessarily urged before election, he
| must have made most phenomenal improve
| ment in two short months to be entirely &C
| ceptable to you after election, when it turns
out his vote was necessary to make a Demo-
| cratic majority in the Senate.
Since Saul of Tarsus there never was such
| a sudden conversion as yours. SauPs was
| miraculous. Yours financial and comic.
THE REASON WHY.
Next, Mr.. Little undertakes to tell the
reasons of Mr.. Mars '~'malignity" in the fol-
lowing cruel paragraphs
You thought, with the State redistricted
as it was, with eight Senators elect from the
counties of Warren, Monmouth, Essex.
| Union, Salem, Somerset, Gloucester and
Camden, and all but the county of Camden
| represented last year by Democrats, you
could safely indulge in assaults upon such
| candidates as did not suit you. 1t is an old
trick of the True american. Away back in
the sixties I was Senator from Monmouth,
and in discharge of my sworn duty was COM
| PEELED to sit down hard on several of its
'sjobs that were jobs.p From that time
to this writing I have had the benefit of
its opposition and will try hard never
to lose it. 1t is not improbable that
your objection to Mr.. Terhune was due to
the suspicion that it was a disease that
| might run through the family. Be that as
it may, and to resume my story, with last
years Assembly containing t~hirty-nine
democrats and twenty-one republicans,
there was nothing to fear then, as you sup
roral. mifh .fbo Snnata containing ciYtoon
democrats and five republicans, there was
| even less danger of losing it, as it seemed to
a surface observer like you. That out of
seven Democratic counties all but one should
send republicans to the Senate, never en-
tered your mind. You regarded it as simply
impossible. When the next day after cleo
ton it dawned upon 0 that the election
of Mr.. Bradley, your dearest candidate,
made the Senate Republican, you quickly
realized that you had, SO far as you could,
lost the Senate to the Democracy.
You Withdrew your certificate as to Mr..
Bradley's piouS and conscientious character,
and admonished him in so many words ''to
be a truthful man, and not sacrifice his rep
utation for such a little matter as a three
year tenn in the State Senate" Such a
change of base with you means but one
thing, a loss of revenue.
AN APPEAL TO THE RECORDS.
Whenever I witness such a change in your
conduct. / turn instinctively to the State
Treasurer's report to find an explanation.
Do YOU know, it is by all odds the most in
structive book published in this State, and
the hardest to get? The edition is very lin
tied; not one to be bought, and only a polit-
zeal pull will produce one. I nave been
quite a student of that book, and have
learned from it that the True american has,
say for the last forty years, taken anywhere
from ten to thirty thousand dollars a year
from the State Treasury. In 1888 a law was
passed providing that the State printing
should be put out to the lowest responsible
bidder. The most of it is SO done
now. l an told by a responsible,
competent and intelligent printer that the
True american never made but a single bid
for work under that law, and, of course, did
not get the work. There is no trouble to
underbid it. ! am further told by the same
gentleman that you get more work IN VIOLA
ton of the letter and spirit of that law, from
Democratic officers and public institutions,
than any other man, and that it costs the
State 300 per cent, at the least, more than if
lone by contract. l have just run my eye
over last years report to find that you took
from the treasury S12,5O0.31, without any
competition whatever. 1t is very likely l
overlooked many items, so skillfully are they
distributed through the $50 pages of the re-
mort. From this statement it must be plain
tsWhat is the matter with Hannah? as the
song goes. From the uncertain proclivltles
of Mr.. Bradley when he came to Trenton,
now made entirely certain by the crusade
waged against him, he is a very announcement
man for you to have around. What do you
care for consistency? What you want is
printing at your own price. Whenever / see
in your paper a particularly complimentary
notice of a State official or the management
of any of its large institutions, | turn to the
Treasurer's report and Invariably lind you
are doing the printing and furnishing sta
tionery for that official or institution.
MR.. NAAR AT HOME.
Mr.. Little now launches out into a TRADE
against the State Prison management, which
seems to be wholly irrelevant to the subject
under discussion. THE NEWS therefore
takes the liberty of skipping it and getting
down to the real ssmuttons" of the business
as quickly as possible. Abandoning Mon
mouth. Mr.. Little sails into Mercer county
politics and Mr.. Mars party loyalty in the
following breezy style:-
1 know of nc two men in the State who
are getting so much money, as democrats,
as you and the keeper of the State Prison,
and who do so little for party success. When
your own county of Mercer is without a
Democratic representative in either House OF
the Legislature, and a republican Sheriff is
elected by over z, 200 majority, it would seem
as IL JOo1 1OlbO u "a NHJI |
could be profitably employed right
here in Trenton. The Clerk and S~urrogate's
offices, too, are filed by republicans: | am
credibly informed the more valuable one by
your assistance. While you and the Prison
Keeper were doing missionary work for Mr..
Bradley in Monmouth, the three Republican
candidates for the Assembly in Mercer piled
a majority of 1852 against the democrats,
the largest relative majority of any county
in the State. Ii your influence is so baneful
at home, the least you could do was to keep
your hands off of a Democratic Senator who
was only beaten two hundred and sixty odd.
NEwARK's DAILY BAcKNUMBER.
Mr.. Little pays his addresses to Senator
Smiths personal organ as follows
AS for the charges made against me by
your sspal," the Newark J%ournal, permit me
to say that some idea of its recklessness of
may be gathered from a para
graph following your text. 1t says:-sIt
has been perfectly well known why Terhune
sat down and refused to make n contest
for himself, when Bio knew that his opponent