The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-28
The Republican Managers, Cam
patgn Address.

The Republican Cam
patgn Address.
The Republican party must be hard Up
for honors if it can only build them in the
mud of Mill Creek. The address of the
County Committee, promulgated Friday
evening, al a great fuss about a bill
passed by the Legislature last winter to
remedy the technical defects in the old
law. so that the expense of the enter
prise might be more conveniently ar
ranged for. This is magnifed in the adj
dress into a great public boon, and the
result is a great deal of laughter among
those who know the facts.
The Improvement is one of some magni-
tude, but otherwise quite ordinary. The
taxpayers themselves are paying for it.
The Republican party has no more to do
with it thar has the Congress of the Uni
ted States, except that it accidentally
was in a majority in the Legislature when
a formal act was passed, which n Leg
~islature would have passed without oppo-
sition, facilitating the assessment for
benefit.
Another measure for which credit is
claimed is that which provides for more
bridges between Newark and Harrison
and Kearny. This is a thoroughly bad
measure for which the Republicans
should receive severe condemnation. 1t
is a feature of the annexation scheme
which is still part of the Republican pro-
gramme. The idea is to increase the
bonds between Newark and the Hudson
towns, so that ultimately the latter may
be added to Essex, and thai Republican
county given a twelfth Assemblyman,
stolen from Democratic hudson.
This question, fortunately, is to be sub
mitted to a vote of the people. 1t should
be utterly defeated in Hoboken. Why
should we vote our money to turn the
business of Harrison and Kearny into
Newark. If the proposal were to build
more bridges over the Hackensack and
more roads from Jersey City and Hobo
ken to the towns, we would enthusiastic
ally advocate the expenditure of all the
money needed. But we hope every Hud-
son voter will negative his impudent Re-
publican job on Election Day, and cast
a vote against that party to punish it
for it's chicanery.
Another scheme of infamy is the propo-
sal to substitute a little party ring of five
Legislative Commissioners for the present
Board of Freeholders. This is directly
in line with the Republican policy of
ly inconsistent it is with the howl, two
years ago, about returning the power to
the towns We all remember the spe-
cious arguments that were used when the
office of County Director was abolished
and the choice of Freeholders by Assem-
bly, districts came to an end. What has
become of all these arguments now?
The same old gang of greedy office
grabbers hoped to capture the Board at
ladI nix 1olhI tAO PCOPAS ASboACo h4ANAh
emphatically by electing a Board of
Democratic complexion. So now there is
no talk about 'shome rule or the rights
of the townships. Oh no, what we want
is a good old-time legislative commits
sion of five to spend the peoples money
something like the City Hall Commission
you know.
The journal says the County Commit
tee walked up" when it adopted this adj
dress. We believe, in good sooth, it did.
1t walked up the people to the rascality
of the schemes represented by John W.
Griggs and the Republican ticket in this
election.
THE New York Press thinks it is
amusing that we should be excited over
the Acknowledgement of over 10000 citi-
| zens in this city and over $1,000 in the
State by the vicious and useless formality
Of personal registration as a substitute
| the Press" people may lind that the
laugh is on them ON November 6. An ex-
| animation of the figures by precincts in
| dicates that this scheme may prove a
| boomerang. The argument in favor of the
personal registration is hat 1t prevents
colonizing and repeating. New York has
had a personal registry law for at least
twenty years, and yet the Republicans
howl just as loud about colonizing and re-
peating there as anywhere else, when the
people roll up a majority of seventy or
eighty thousand against them.
But there is no satisfying some people.
SOME sarcastic wight writes to the
journal suggesting that the County
Road be called "Pangborn Avenue
There is a delicate reminder in this of the
vicious opposition which the Journal has
made to the roal in every stage Of its
history, and the captious criticism with
which il has aspcrsed everyone con