The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-15
HOPE FOR OLD ESSEX
Lebkuecher's Reform Ad-
ministration Has Dis
gusted the Better
Citizens.
DEMOCRATS ALIVE AND ACTIVE
The Action of Newark's Excise
Will Alternate Many Re-
publicans from Griggs.
THE CORRUPT POLICE FORCE
Board of Works Peculations Have
Awakened the Voters-McGilI
Will Carry Newark.
e,,eofn1 10 t1n Icracn c,tu Ne1rg.

NEWARK, Oct. Is, 1S95.-It begins to
look as though the present Guperna-
torial campaign vas the old faple race
of the tortoise and the hare over again.
at least as far as Essex county is con-
cerned From the great outpourlng
of the people at Caledonia Park the
other evening, when men, women ana
children of all shades of political falth
and social status fiooked to get a look
at John W. Griggs, just as they do Wheh
John L. Sullivan. Jim Corbett or any
other sup to date" attraction is at the
Park: and the wild predictions which
the Republican newspapers and party
managers of the county have made con
cerning the size of Mr.. Grlggs' majority
in the county, one would be forgiven IL
he became imbudded with the idea that
the Passaic monopolist was the only
man in the race.
There is a peculiar state OF aIalrs
here The Democrats have no daliy
newspaper published in the Enghsh
language supporting their candldates'
and the two dailies that are laboring
for Mr.. Griggs have, either through pre-
iudice or ignorance been SO misrepre-
senting the true state of affairs mere
that it is not to be wondered at should
cratic voter in the county. When Mr..
fsriggs was first nominated the Repub-
1ican managers jumped into the race
and started off with an ninety mile an
hour gait while the Democrats settled
down to the quiet steady plodding OF the
tortoise. While their friends the enemy
wereg citing up shows which Mr.. sGrlggs
as the principal attraction and were
grinding out of their literary bureau
in the Prudential Building editorials
claiming Griggs' election by maJorltles
ranging from 5000 to 10000 to be printed
--fu.tf1e country weeklies at ffteen-cents
ner line straight away, the Democratic
MANAGERS We're quietly and systeman-
cally at work getting their people on the
rsgistry lists. They have an exceliene
organization with an executive COM
mittee of responsible workers IN each
voting precinct in the county whose
business it has been to see that every
Democrat is registered before the BOOKS
are finally closed tonight.
Having accomplished that they are no"
preparing for an aggressive campaign
Meetings will be held in all parts OF the
county and the true issues of the cam
paign will be laid before the voters,
ESSEX NOT ALL FOR GRitJefS
Things are not altogether so rosy mere
for Griggs,- even when viewed IN lnroqgal +, Il
Murphy-Peale syndicate in the Pruden-
al Building. You have only to clrcu-
late among the citizens and taxpayers OF
Newark TO learn that there is a dis
gust among them for everything he
publican which will manifest itself at at
the polls next month in a way that VIII
make Mr.. Griggs and his master, Garry
A. Hobart W sh the word Reform had
never been coined, Tor II IS the 6tonorapie
Julius A. Lebkuecher and his republican
Reform adlninistra ton which is respon-
sible for the present deploraoie state OF
Republican prospects in Essex county.
The scandals most Of them mean, con-
tempt BILE petty scandals which have
brought the Lebkuecher government into
such disrePuMte g M both nrt1 WI5n 91[zgds wad m ana
book and a good, old-fashioned quarto at
that His administration has been a
ifs appofntees to office, with probably
popular with or condemned by their
sens sensions ' which that has caused in al
most every precinct N the city, now re-
qure big share of the leaders time to
THEIR NEW MOSES.
For long time Newark has been a
pretty wicked city. No worse So, perhaps,
than others of it's size Throughout the
country. but still altogether too wicked
in the eyes of her large church going
adm nistration came into power the good
people of the city thought that at last
their opportunity had come and that
Providence had raised up for them new
Moses in the person of the Honorable
Julius A. to lead them out of the land
of sin and bondage.
might be sustained in the good work
which they felt sure. he would 90, they
chrisaa an ctzenshp cG9has0P pnoa aoa called uhe
Their faith in the Honorable julius and
the Reform Republican Administration
was most sublime, and with an enthusi-
asrn akin TO that of the Crusaders of
old they started in to clear their be-
loved city of those modern infidels-the
Sunday rum-seller and the girl with the
adjustable complexion.
One of THE first shocks their faith in
the Reform Regublfefan s fa ~ Government e5
dency on the part of the Reform Excise
Board to turn them down." as the men
they were lighting called it. -, But tt that
which ran through tfleireframes soon af-
As' sNUBBED THE GOOD PEOPLE
There was a vacancy in the Excise
Board. and the new Noses appointed a a
man named Henry e. Elfrich. who ls kept 81 t
right of confirming the Mayors nom
fnees and a committee of the association
song ct pr9dRe9 n , eierggen b9T nd and Te
ouested it to hear their affections to
the nomination before Elfrich was con-
T,lrblscans denounced the wicked race
track legislature for denying the repre-
senitatives of the Law and Order Society
their constitutional right of hearing
r7lte committee Thought, of course, that
a Republican legislative body would
never think of denying any citizen the
opportunity to oppose any measure be-
fore IT. if he saw fit to do so. What
then. was the committees astonsshment
when, instead Of getting their constitu-
Gnave been ready lo these many years
10 shed their hearts blood-on the cam
mafgn stump, they were unceremoniously
Ssdclzed out of the Alderulanic Chamber
with more discourtesy than ever Tom
FLYNN showed the anti-race track people,
The Union did not lose any time weeping
pyer the treacherv and perfidy on the
BART of the Great Reform Republican Adj
hinistration, but declared the office Of