The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-29
DR.. SCUDDHR'S TRADE.
He Thinks Daily Took Up the
Herreman Case Out Of Sym
pathy With Crime.

Before a large congregation in the
Tabernacle last night the Rev. John L.
Scudder delivered a political harangue
apropos of the Mathilde Herreman kid
mapping case. He said
During the past week Jersey City has
been misjudgcd and become the victim
of unpleasant notoriety through the en-
deavors of senate DAILY to prevent Mrs.
Herreman. formerly the keeper of a
disorderly house in New York city, from
t%estifying before the Lexow Committee.
This attempt to thwart the ends of JUS
tice and prevent the Introduction of GRIM
mating evidence against blackmailing
officials across the Hudson is something
for which Jersey City is in nowise re-
sponsible. Neither u Mayor, nor the
Chief of Police, nor Justice Potts has
shown the slightest sympathy with this
endeavor to shield the riminal classes,
and the good people of this city depre-
cate and repudiate the whole disgrace
full proceeding. After Hereulean efforts
to purify herself she has secured at
last a fairly good name, and now she
proposes to keep it. Be 1T known, there
fore, to all men that the aforesaid SEN
dlor Dill LAZY comes not from our own
city, but from Hoboken. Let us put this
honorable where he belongs. The deed
was perpetrated within our city limits.
but the perpetrator, we are glad to say,
was not a resident of this municipality.
STANDS UP FOR JERSEY CITY.
I'VE will not allow my unjust refiec-
lions upon the character of this city
OR those who govern it. We are as jeal-
Gus of the reputation of Jersey City
as we have been ready to denounce great
evils that nave flourished here in times
past, and demand their correction.
I'VE pity our neighboring city of. Ho-
boken for the peculiar position in which
her favorite son has placed himself,
while we all agree that he might have
been engaged in better business. The
charge of kidnapping preferred by Sena-
tor Daily makes the community smile,
especially when we remember that the
kid in this case is forty years of age
and weighs about $50 pounds.
There are two lessons to be drawn
from this sensational attempt to keep
a woman off the witness stand. First,
it is one more evidence that Tammany
is lettering, and that the braves, who
felt a year g as If they owned the
earth, are trembling in their shoes. 1t
is another side-light cast upon the rot
tenness of the government In New York
City, and serves to confirm the people
in their opinion that they M have a
total change of administration. We pre-
dict that on November 6 New York will
enter the procession OF cities that are
declaring in favor of municipal reform.
Jersey City led off in the election of
Mayor Wanser, Brooklyn ollowed by
electing Mayor Shieren, and New York
will fall in line by electing Mayor
Strong.
TT second lesson is that the senti-
ments of the old Hudson county ring
politicians have not changed one iota.
Their sympathy was largely with the
criminal elements, and it Is today. When
evildoers are in trouble, they know
where to go to find assistance. 1t would
be a great detriment to this city II, in
the coming election, the ring candidates
should be elected. The opponents of
good government are hard at work in
their endeavor to regain what they have
lost in recent popular uprisings, and
unless the people are yigilant and do
their duty at the polls the vicious ele-
ment will be in control again through
popular Indifference. We Americans are
a queer lot. Occasionally when things
become exceedingly corrupt and unen-
durable, we rise in our might
smash things. Then we settle down
for another period of Inactivity and let
things take their course. Let us not
become SO absorbed in New York poll
tics as to forget our own. Let those
who have toiled SO hard for good gov
be on their guard. Let them
study the record of every candidate and
vote for none but clean men,