The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-01
JOEY MARS REPLY.

The above may seem to be hard hitting,
but it is refined and ge~ntlemanlike fighting
at any rate. Mr.. Mar replied yesterday
morning in the columns of his W paper.
There can be no doubt as to the vigor and
effectiveness of his strokes. As for the style
of delivery THE News leaves the judgement
to each reader for himself. In the words of
Lincoln: "For those who like that style of
thing, they are just the very sort of thing
they. like" Mr.. Naar, as has already been
said, also couches his remarks in the form of
an open letter. 1t is published without head
lines on the editorial page of the True Amer
ican. The spirit in which they are written
may be gathered at once from one of the con-
GLIDING paragraphs, which may be quoted at
once. 1t reads thus:
will not send this to the Gazette because
Boss Sewell would not like them to publish
it, and therefore will put you under the pain
full necessity of paying two cents for a copy
of the True American or persuading the
hotel waiter to borrow one for you.
SOMEWHAT PERSONAL.
In opening his attack, Mr.. Mar does not
take long to get down to business. After one
or two preliminary sentences, he launches at
once IN nasdias res, as follows
l know YOU nave not read much of value in
your long life, but if you nave ever glanced
at Mark Twain's "Roughing It," you must
nave been struck by the evident points of
similarity between yourself and that other
American o~utcast, the cayote of the prairies.
The cayote says Mark Twain) is a long, slim,
sick and sorry looking skeleton, with a despair
ing expression of forsakennsss and misery, a
furtive and evil eye, and a long. sharp face. He
has a general sinking expression. He is always
moor. out of luck and friendless. Tue meauest
creatures despise him. He is so ~splritless and
cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are
apollo .iziag for it. Aud he is SO homely! SO
scrawny, and ribby, and pitifui.
Every plainsman so understands the
cayote that no one fears it, and while, in
order to stop its yawping n whining, n
may SHE a beer bottle or a last years
almanac at it, no one would waste a cart
ridge on it or seriously resent the sneaking
attacks which it makes from the outside of
every camp.
The day has long gone by when you were
either courted or feared by anybody, except
those perhaps for whom you pretended a
friendship.
MR.. NAAR -REMINIscEs,
Mr.. Mar proceeds to take the hide of his
adversary in small sections, by illusions to
alleged biographical facts. Let him tell his
own story
As fer back as the sixties, to which period
you, in your smile loquacity, refer, you
opened up your path to office at the expense
of a man who deemed you his closest per-
sonal friend. When your appetite had been
created for unearned money, by ten years
occupancy of the richest Sinecure in the
State, you quarreled with your benefactor
because he thought it was time for another
man to enjoy the office. While you were in
the enjoyment of the then princely salary
of that office, you took a fee of $500 for a
legal opinion on a subject of which you adj
mitted to q legisla tive committee you knew
nothing, which came within a hairs breadth
of compromising another of your few
friends who had every right to expect fair,
open and honest dealings from you, After
you were obliged to get on the public hust-
lings in Monmouth and deny that you would
be a candidate for reappointment to the
same fat office, you quarrelled with and ever
afterwards abused the Governor who re-
fused to belle himself and ~re-appoint you.
How you, without a particle of information
or experience, secured the appointment as
Receiver of the Central Railroad, with its
salary of some $4,000 a year, is as well
known as that you made almost o IL first
act the Reputation of a contract made by
predecessor and benefactor, and your
last, your admission of an ignorance of the
affairs of the company so dense as to defy
the caustic criticism of Roscoe Conkling.
Since then, besides boarding your easily
acquired wealth, and keeping it from the tax
.gatherers by an oscillatory residence between
Matawan and Trenton, you have done little
than play the cayote, swapping at the
heels of the men whose toe you dare not
meet; pretending to be a better democrat
than the men who are fighting Democracy's
and winning Democratic victories
without having to pay you a commission on
them, and at the same time communing and
colloguing with Republican leaders and Re-
publican candidates for Governor and Con
gress, and fighting Democratic nominees for
the United States Senate.
H ENTHUSIASTICALLY FIGHT.
Coming down to the present day, Mr., Mar