The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-25
Il. McGiII,

Philadelphia Record gives the follow.
ing interesting account of Chancellor
Alexander L. McGill's career:
Search all over the State of New Jer-
sey-a State noted for its brainy states
men, brave soldiers and eminent ~jurists
and it would be difficult, perhaps i'm
possible, to find a mar of Chancellor
Alexander L. McGill's sterling judicial
attachments, grand nobility of charac.
ter and high standard of morality and
integrity. That is undeniably the opin-
ion of every man in the sturdy little
State of New jersey who is in any way
acquainted or familiar with the remark
able mar chosen by the Democrats as
| their G~ubernatorial candidate.
Chancellor McGill is the son of Pro.
fessor Alexander McGill, a learned and
deseryedly noted Presbyterian divine of
genuine religious impulses, and who
was one Of the most beloved and aLlest
professors of old Nassau Hall, better
hnONb W NV HlScCub SCbClullOh TO
Princeton College. His ancestry is OF
the finest In the land, and reaches back
in a long, honorable and distinguished
American line to the very earliest
Scotch Presbyterian settlers of Pennsy-
lvania. The Chancellor's brother, DR..
John d. McGill, is one of the most EN-
inent, widely.known and respected ply
sicians in Jersey City. lie himself
made a brilliant record as Prosecutor
of Hudson County and during his in
cumbency of that important Office was
frequently referred to as the ablest and
most upright Prosecutor of the Pleas
in the State. AS Law Judge of IIud-
son County the splendid judicial mind
of Alexander Z. McGill quickly won
him renown, and it was in recognition
of his rare ~attainments as a jurist that
Governor Green appointed him to the
high office of Chancellor. This was on
March 20, 1887, and his appointment
was unanimously confirmed by the Sen
ate two days later.
Chancellor McGill was born in Pitts
burg, Pa, on October 20, 1S43, and be-
came a resident of New Jersey in 1854,
when his distinguished father accepted
a professorship in the Theological Sem
mary of the College of New Jersey. lie
graduated from that college in 1864,
and from Columbia Law School in 1866.
The Chancellor vas admitted to the
bar in 1867, and become a counselor in
1870. lie was counsel for the thriving
city of Bayonne for two years-in 1874
and 1S75-and at the same time repre-
sented with distinction what was then
the first district Of Hudson County in
the House of Assembly.
Those who know him best say Chan.
cellor McCill is not nor never was a
politician. Iu not one instance has he
ever sought public office. Public posi-
tion has been invariably thrust upon
him-always a case of the office seeking
the man. His eminent fitness for the
commanding judicial trust with which
he is now vested is forcibly attested by
the fact that not one Republican cam
paign orator, and not a partisan news
paper in the State, have fonnd a single
blemish in his magnificent record.
The Chancellor is a very scholarly,
truly cultured and Christian gentleman,
and the embodiment of that sort of lof-
ty, noble manhood which makes every
man his friend and admirer. lie is ex.
~ceptionalIy ~mild-mannered and kindly
in his treatment Of everybody. The
humblest citizen in the State can ap.
proach him without the slightest hesi-
fancy, and be assured of a friendly
greeting that leaves NJ doubt as to its
genuinenesS. Yet the Chancellor is
peaceful and positive in his character,
and has never been known to recede
from his stand in any question of mo-
ment when once his wisdom and DELHI.
Grafton assured him Of the tenability of
his position. Although pressed with
business of the greatest and most vital
Importance, Chancellor McGill, i'm his
high and dignilied official capacity, has
never been known to hurry anyone in
the statement of their case; and it has
frequently been stated, since his NOM
ination for the Goyernorship, that there
is not Il young lawyer in the State of
New Jersey who has ever been before
him who will not only vote but work
with a will for his election, so great is
their love and respect for this quiet,
unobtrusive, kindly, talented man,
whom the Democrats of New Jersey
have hon0red and exalted themselves in
naming as their standard bearer in the
present Gubernatorial campaign.
The last Republican legislature refus-
ed to reduce the big salaries of the lead
ing offices of the State because they
hope to fill them. They are economic
reformers when it strikes the other fell
low.
DOubly Taxed.
Chapter $50 of last winters laws pro-
hibits a person from swearing off frcm
their assessment of real estate, the
amount owed on a note in bank. Ifthe
note or account is owed some one else
IL ~ ~ /
ed by the banks is left there by the de-