The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-04

how last winter the Board of Trade pnt
Its Official seal of approval upon a bill
Went to the Legislature and asked for
the passage of that measure only 70 pc
laughed at and kicked out of the STATE
House. They also remember how their r
chief opponents were John w. GrfSgs
and Garret A. Hobart. They remeraber
further the arguments of Mr. GTlggS,
he heaped upon Jers ~. City and her CIT
izens, and how he called them thieves
and robbers who wanted TO Steal tsSM. ti.a
vested rights. -
!" If Jersey City wants water" MI;
Griggs would say let her g9 pus t ysstatl " ted
rights of Others" ,
THAT was the same John W.. Griggs
City and asks them to make him GoyI ,,i
ernor. He tells them that II they WIZ WI.
only vote for him he will at an FL ,.iiies les
approve s'any legislation having TOR lts
object the preservation of the waters OF
the streams of New Jersey Tor the use
and benefit of the public put ms :. ISif1 pIiSl
record on the question proves the lalslly
of his promises and shows that he can
n.y. y GRIGGS A FOE TO LABOR.
New Jersey has produced but few pub
lie men who are such bitter and reient-
less foes of the worlingmenl lai ana eIepy ye
thing thnn THIS Maiea Same ee.h9 John " Griggs Few
men who have served in the Legislature
have so unblushingly ,paraded the mon 4.a
When he was in the Senate the bill set
ting aside one day in the year as
general holiday for workingrtn,en t,sn no,,se 70 ne
When it came over into the Senate, Mr.
Griggs opposed it with all the strengtn
of his intellect He wenht mt Out 1aborin or ms man
and tried in every known manner 20, oe-
feat the bill. He was unsuccessaul Ill. dn IN
On on other Senator, and he was a Repub-
iican liz. n too. to vote with him against the
The fact that the Senators were SO lost
IN fhe fitness of things as not TO Vote, as
Mr. Griggs told them they snouid, SO
piqued the gentleman from PasSalc sSsoaila, nnar
The Republican candidate for Governor
when he returned to the Senate the next
wear made up his mind to get square
with labor somehoW; ana rtrdd,,ced ne ep that hat
Car was one providing that it should be
q misdemeanor for any employer 10 ex-
act on frgm gbor an uoP epp0yfMf Mr. Gggs had had
himself made Chairman OF tne. 1odhlnir- iiii,
fee on Labor and Industries, fer the pnrf-
ppiaee piHse and rebuking him for his presump-
fion in endeavoring to obtain leglSlatlon
favorable to his interests so ne st nag
this Union bill referred to his commit
Zee and. although it was demanded by
ORGANIZED labor he promptly killed 1T IN
committee. : ,,ofo,a +bo
senate another measure in the interests
of the workingmen. 1t proyloeo @ llla'
any employer in factory Wnere coiii- u
pIicated and dangerous machinery ls
used. should, before employing any MINOR
under the age of eighteen years 70 oper-
ate such dangerous machinery, Iuily ~ ~,
Strl1cf and inform such minor as to the
nature and character of such machihery.
The average citizen would naturally sup
nose that, whatever ms Ieaii,gfs yo9,ld
have induced Mr.. Griggs to chsampii66n ION
this measure, which was clearly LOT tne
purpose of saving human life ana essen EN-
do of Dnnfil9tlOn
;niury But he opposed it, and opposed
it strenuously. 1t had passed the house
Senafa Committee Thet humane friend
of the worISing-people killed the e., Dill; He te
declared that it interfered with me Tlgllos n,,
of the employers which were settled cen EN-
flIries ago. and if the elnploye d1d not
want to take the risk of being killed or
manned for life, he did not take the pos
Rights of the employers, Mr.. Griggs,
If Will be observed. declared must pc
protected It was always e Jhe TIer We're his
eneciar care and never thought or
word for the poor wage-earner or ne ne
9afIV a. need. Mr. Griggs furnished an
ofI,er cogent reason that year why every
WorlSingfnan in the State should vote
against him. Another bill having 1or
ifs object the protection of the lives OF
factory hands was sent to his commlttee;
It provided that all factories over tnftS 1.;tt5
stories in height should be furnlsnea oHbe, VIII
sesa11lt 1Inon the centuries-old vested
rights of the employers; 1t assalIen a tne1f If
tbe moor working girls life and llrnp ana
it til must be killed. He tried his bfst Ito to
do So But even his tetioM MAT FeRuis theV are
fo Ia bor, could not stand this brutality,
and the bill became law desplte ,;,ld an Mff If
Grggs npp60Sist 4pposiifitopM Mr. oh john W Griggs IS
90 q 4bis is fhe record he considers en-
titles him to the WorkiiTnggmaann,rIs5 an,I5 1sT S0te'
There i has seldom been exhibited in IN
hvTpocrisy 1lgT as that which the Honorable Pc
John W. Griggs is dispiiayingl Ia ing, On TnoWn 5Re
that in 1883 when he was in the Senate
Mr.. Griegs was one of the chief agents
in securing the passage gwbicb Gd DE depriVed
large number of citizens of this State,
who do not consider it a crime, to drink
M5iIe tf1is bill was pending in the SEN
ate a large number of influential Ger
mans called upon Mr.. Griggs and asked
bill They said that they considered the
measure a blow at their rights and wish
ed to present their side of the case. =.
Mr. Grjggs snubbed the German citi-
zens, ms made some sneering remarks about
Germans and beer drinkers, which We're
not at all gentlemanly, to say the least
Now Mr. Griggs is going about among
the brewers of Newark and the saloon
Keepers generally about the State and
trying to convince them that hc IS an
up to date candidate who likes his beer
from Passa;c county in 1888, Is an al
tn@atrer different man from .Tohn W.
csrirgs. Republican candidate for Cover
M Mr. - Griggs, Ike every other Republi-
ean orator, has lost flesh denouncsng
the Democrats for their W'ckecre reSs n
passisag the race track bils ane laud-
;ng the Republicans for repeating those
laws. The fact is that the lsws were
declared unconstitutional by Democrat
in Sr,nren1e Court before the LeGisla-
fure which went through the ferce of re-
healing them had convened. But that
Is not the. extent Of Mr.. Griggs' hypoc-
risy He voted for bill authorizing
races when he was in the Legislature,
and there argued for its constitutional
ity before the Supreme Court with a fee
IN his nocl1et which was given him by
thu l,ool1makers-
Tt is we'll known among sporting men
that all the hookrnakers and others con-
nacted wifh the race tracks are SUPPORT
that if tfle Passaic man. is elected Gov
ernor things wrl be so fixed that racing
in euraner VIII be leeaiized in this
state Down in Monmouth the race
track men are wearing GriggS buttons.
and IN in Gutenberg the saloon-keep-
the race track was in oneration. are all
shouting for Griggs and giving their
natrons to understand that if he is
elected fhe rack wiz be open again,
over IN New York the pool sellers
and booiSmallers declare that there viii
he racing .agsin in Jersey when Grig,se
fort than about the time Chancellor
McGjll gave the race track people to
distinctly understand that they need ex-