The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-05
MDBRMOH9 ANSWERS.
Expresses a Not Very Compli-
mentary Opinion Of SEN
ator Daily.

Just to have a little fun with the Senator.
The letter is as follows:-
"Sendtor DAY.
.sDEAR SIR,-I nave wandered through
your letter, printed in Mondays World, and
am forced to the conclusion that it would be
uncharitable to treat you seriously. The
discussion started concerning the organiza-
ton of the Democratic party of Hudson coun-
ty. and the publication of the Grove street
committee. You took offense at my attitude
to that committee, and your twistings re-
mind me of those things which are discover
ed upon the kicking of a rotten apple-those
things which wiggle and wriggle
without the slightest idea of what
they are ~wriggling and wiggling about.
In the first fifty lines you tell me ]
am 'mad,' daft that / I'M an arch de-
magogue,' a Herr Most that l AN like unto
a scared cur and later Oh you make an
overwhelming point by speaking OF the size
of my stomach and the manner of my walk.
Senator, you should not write open let
ters.' By using the mail and plenty of seal
ing wax you will call less attention to the
abnormal length of your ears. OF my COM
parison between the merits of the late Con-
rressman Mcdonald and Mr.. McAdoo, you
write at great length and with a warmth
justified by the fact that McAdoo Is your
relative. I am not going to dispute your
assertion. You say, You talk about Ne
Adoo's ancestors in the far-off Irish battle-a
subject entirely and absolutely foreign to
my communication. and fitting only for a
debased and polluted mind As you are of
the stock, | shall assume that you speak by
the record. l had an idea that the subject
was but did not think it beyond
consideration by other than debased and
polluted minds.
ssYou declare that l did not deny my re-
sponsibility for the vicious legislation of the
past few years. and you furnish q bill of
particulars. This part of your letter l Will
treat seriously.
COAL COMBINE.
"You say that ! was responsible for the
infamous coal combine by this you mean
the bill allowing the Reading to lease the
New Jersey Central Railroad. l was in no
wise responsible for hat bill nor was |, to
the extent of a penny, interested in the cor
porations concerned. l expressed my
opinion In favor Of the bill. 1t CAV to the
Reading those rights, and only those, which
had been given to the Pennsylvania, the
Delaware, Gackawanna and Western, and
the Erie Railroad Companies. | have had
time to examine the subject, to read the
testimony taken in the suit to enjoin the
Joint operation of the roads, the decision
against them and the report OF the referee
that the injunction against the combination
was receiving obedience, and l frankly ex-
press my opinion that if the Reading had
been allowed to lease tie Central, it would
have given the people OF the State better
competition between the carriers, and would
not have advanced the price of coal.
ssIf you will take the trouble to learn how
the price of coal is fixed, you will under
stand my attitude when [ say that, not hay
ing the slightest interest in any corporation
affected by the bill, l would tomorrow give
the same advice l did in 1899. | believe that
the bill sh ould lave become a law, n | am
not swerved in this belief byfinding it OPP
posed by those who never read it.
"My second offense was the bill to create q
State board of control and regulate the
placing of electrical wires under ground.
You say it gives the commission absolute
control of the streets, avenues and highways
of the State. Itdoes nothing of the sort.
The Subway Commission cannot do any
thing without the consent of the municipal
authorities. 1 drew the bill as a substitute
for propositions to create municipal boards,
and / included a provision that the expenses
of the commission should be paid by the tele-
graph and other companies using electrical
wires. So the commission has not been a
public burden, and $4,000 will cover its cost
from the day of its creation to date. You
should have engaged a lawyer to read the
bill for you.
GROWING c
"The bill which is the browning act of my
%iniduitous career is, you say, the amendment
of the Criminal Procedure act. 1t beats, you
declare, anything that Tweed or McKane
ever did; that is, in the line of pure cussed-
ness. The owners of Monmouth Park, de-
string the owners of the North Hudson Driv-
ing Park to join in obtaining legislation to
legalize betting on horse races, employed
counsel in Jersey City, who obtained war
rants from Justice Lockwood, charging per-
sons known and unknown with betting ON
horses at Gutenberg. The warrants direct
ed the c~onstables to drag the defendants
about six miles, through two townships and
two cities, before they could be released on
bail. / prepared an act providing that any
person arrested should have the right, If en-
titled to give bail, to demand that he be
taken before any Justice of the Peace, for
the sole purpose of giving bail. The act
should remain on the statute book. When it
is taken off. a Justice of the Peace in Bay
oane can direct a constable to bring a person
charged with assault and battery from the
Bergen county line to Bergen Point before
he is admitted to bail. There is considerable
humbug about this cry against everything
and everybody connected with horse racing,
and there is more than one hypocrite cover
ing his ro~ttenness with a placard declaring
his horror of betting.
I'm both your letters you harp on the fact
that | was defeated for Mayor of Jersey
City. l have not denied it, and candor com
pels me to say that my defeat was a very
good thing for Mr.. Wanser, a very good
thing for myself and a very bad thing for
Jersey City. But you say you received a
majority of votes when you ran for Sena-
tor. If I recollect the affair correctly, you
caught the coat-tails of Grover Cleveland as
they were whisked through the State en-
route for Washington. However, I am will
ing to go with your argument. 1t is that, as
YOU were elected and | was defeated, you are
the better equipped for public service.
Therefore, if l wish to become popular and
get votes / must become like unto you.
This dooms me to ~unpopularity, for | have
neither the manner nor min to meet the
conditions, and | have great respect for the
good opinion of those who have honored me
With their friendship. l will have to stay
content, and watch you absorb the popular
ity that is floating hereabouts.
TILE wITHERING POINT.
1.-THE whitening point in your ~letteris your
attack on my religious opinions. ! am will
ing to admit that I am not orthodox; that I
think the fires of Sheol nave abated under
the cold gaze of science, but | v never. at
tackled any mans religious belief. II l cal
culate that punishment IN the hereafter will
last only seventeen billions of years and you
insist that you lave a chance for eternal
~damnation, / will not dispute. 1t is true /
do not believe that if the Creator of a soul
wants it in heaven, there is a wicked power
that can prevent the qualification Of that
desire. l believe that the scheme of what
hereafter there may be will be catholic
enough to include equal happiness for all
but / have no anger against any one who
contends that he must have a chance to be
damned. You will see that my belief In
cludes yourself. [ believe that you will en-
Joy the next world-but due regard for
others there induces me to qualify this ex-
preston, by adding my further belief that