The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-16
REFORM IN NEWARK
SCanda1ous Record Of the.
Present Republican
Administration.
CITY TREASURY PLUNDERED
Petty Swindling Right and Left
Disguised Tax Payers Will
vote for McGill.
Special to the Jerseu cltu Ne,rs.

| NGWAiLfAs oct 10, 1oSo.-Al - u US 'A-NS
the majority of the Germans of Newark
are opposed to the election of John w.
Griggs as Governor of the State of New
Jersey. It is equally true that there
are several causes to account for this
and not one only as is popularity sup
posed. 1t is remarkable howfssoon many
of the Republican chickens have come
home to roost and few people would have
predicted any time during the last two
years when the Republicans were de-
nouncing the Democrats will all the V1tu-
| peration at their command for refusing
| to give a hearing on bills before them
| that they themselves had been guilty OF
| Just such conduct and would do so again
before the last echo of their rantings had
died away.
In the session of 1888 when the county
/ option bill was under consideration in
the Senate and was in the custody and
keeping of John W. Griggs, a number of
| Newark's most influential German citl-
zens went to Trenton and requested to
| be heard upon the bills They said that
| they had views upon the subject which
| they wished to lay before the committee
| having ostensible charge of the meas
ure. Up to, that time the Senators had
mainly heard only the side of those who
| favored the bill, and the German cltl-
zens thought that it was but right and
proper for the lawmakers to hear at least
what the opposition was to the bill
| 1t was nothing more than the right to
which every citizen of this Republic was
| entitled to be heard by the Legisla-
| ture upon any matter affecting what he
! considered his liberties.
| KICKED OUT BY GRIGGS.
r. -;a RI these ecaOt1n-
men from Newark in anything like the
| spirit in which they called upon him. He
practically refused to listen to them;
| said some very hard things against the
| brewers and Germans and others, who
| did not consider it a crime to drink a
| glass of beer and sent them home
| smarting under sense of. having been
| snubbed and insulted. They have not
| forgotten those insults and do not pro-
| pose to allow Mr.. Griggs to remain in
| ignorance of the extent of Their remem-
brance after the fifth of next Novem-
| ber
There are two daily newspapers printed
| in the German language in Newark. The
| New Jersey .Deutsche Zeitung," Demo
| cratic, ana the 'F'reie Presse," Republi-
| can. The Democratic paper Is doing an
| excellent work in the interest of the
| good cause. 1t Yields great influence
among the Germans of all shades of
/
| spected by them The '.F,reie Presse" is
! the newspaper with which John Kuser
/ was connected, and it's proprietor Mrs. B.
Prieth. was ind .cted with kuser upon
the testimony dragged out before the
| Senate Investigation Committee. Mr..
| Kuser. as is wel known. was acquitted
when the evidence was laid before
court of law, and Mrs. Prieth was never
| tried.
| per, the .'Freie Presse has had little to
| say about the campaign thus far and
| from its editorial urterances, you would
never know a spirited and important
/ s due to the fact that the Germans are
| not taking much interest in Mr.. Griggs
| have not forgotten the d.scourteous man
| ner in which he snubbed them al Tren-
| ten, and no amount of up to Date
| beer. drinking, attendance at German
| singing society. festivals or grand tours
with fayor gp9n his candidagy ssSs ay ,r
| But this IS not the only reason why
| the Germans of Newark are. opposed to
The Republican party this fall and its
| more law loving and law abiding citizens
! in this country than those of German
| descent. and those in Newark, N com
| population, are completely disgusted al
4 the failure of Mayor Lebkuecher's Re
form Republican administration; all the
more SO because they had prominent
| part in making possible that govern
| nent
| Nowhere in the municipal history of
this country can there be found com
| mon council noted for such petty
| swindling as that of which Newark S
| last Fourth Of July celebration provided
| BY the city. There were appropriated
for this 5000 and all who saw the display
| declare that it, was miserable failure
| and not worth one-ninth of that amount.
/ Tt is known that two Aldermen each re-
csiyed 500 for giyying out the contract.
| themselves a dinner which has become
| famous in Newark on account of the
scenes of riot IT, and !. disorder that took
Of fireworks and bombarded a couple of
| lnoffensive Cinnamon. the rear of whose
abbhdry @bicb they eah we're m adng the Their r0o org
| Ending that the fireworks did not in
spire a sufficient degree of fear in the
men took up the champagne bottles
| which they had emptied and thew them
at the inoffensive Celestials. All thf
'sup-to-date" manner was borne by the
1922 THE Horse SCANDAL.
| While all Newark was ringing with
this scandal another was brought to
light which was even more contemplate
and mean. Alderman sehmidt sold a
asSFaas biaehsmih oa naed fl Moee for $50 fe
days later Mckee sold it to the city for
three times what he gave for it. The
known facts in this case were SO glaring
/ that the Council was forced to hold an
| investigation, and Schmidt practically
| acknowledged that he was interested in
the deal. The case was taken UP by
the Court and is now being considered
| by the Grand jury
THE Board of Works is equally tainted
| with scandal 1t is notorious that speci-
fcat.ons are SO drawn that fat contracts
| invariably go to relatives and friends of
the members. Vitrified pavement has
| recently been introduced into city and
i several contracts awarded the speeifica-
| tons of which were SO wor1ed that the
| Mack Company Of Philadelphia secured
the contracts AS the city is going to
spend many thousands of dollars on
seen what a good thing some one has
more glar.ng is that the bricks which
company are not up to the contract
4 ers are expressing their minds in forcible
that from all indica tons the pavement
| other scandal of the Reform Republican
administration of which they Will have to-
nav tlan COST
SHAM ECONOMY EXPOSED
i One of the points upon which the Re
| publcans attacked the old adninistra-
j fion of Newark was its reckless extrava-
gance and they promised to conduct the
4 If Your Baby Is Cutting Teeth
Be sure and use the old and well tried