The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-16


financial affairs of the. city with such
economy and spartan honesty, II they
were only irltrusted with power, thai
the municipality would have money TO
ises appears by the last tax budget,
which should be between 100000 and
$500, 900 IN excess of the Democrats
fact from the taxpayers they began a
system of juggling with the items. Fhey
left off all the. cost of street improve
so as to delay the issuing of bonds there
for untn after the budget was adopted;
OF course, 1t will have to be met next
year. but then the election will pc over
and 1T won't make SO much difference
many important Boards at least one
half of which viii greatly cripple those
departments. The Board Of Health and
the Department of Poor and Aims and
the City Hospital appropriations We're
all reduced one half. The manipulators
said that there will be no danger IN
be made up from the contingency fund,
which is supplied by the license moneys
and certain other revenues created for
proprlaiPons rre latiP9ne Now pey nd out p
that fund Will not be able to stand the
strain and the Board of Health will have
to suspend operations by November.
what Sthat means in case an epidemic
should break cut next summer or the
health of the city be menaeed, they
L
form Republican administrations and re-
solve to have no more to do with them
either in the State or municipal govern
THE STREET CLEANING SCANDAL:
on top of all this has come the scandal
in the Street Cleaning Department
They have system here whereby cart
owners are paid fifty cents for every
load of street dirt they cart away. The
q
load for which ticket the owner col
lects fifty cents from the city,. 1t has
Just come to light that ever since the
Republicans have been in power the fore
man of the night gang has been in
combine with, several cart owners " where here
by the city has been robbed of $1,000:
William Stainsby for many years the
Republican leader of Essex and himself
a member of the Board but a man
whose honesty is believed in by his
friends and foes alike, discovered this
scheme some time ago and attempted to
expose it. The members Of the, Reform
Republican Board threw all kinds of OBJ
stacles in his way. They would not
listen to him and as a punishment for
his temerity in questioning. the action OF
a Reform Republican Board took patron
age from him.
But Stainsby determined to expose the
sw.ndle. He employed detectives. who
secured positions as sweepers on the n
gang when suddenly eight men We're ar
rested for completely in the, deal.
The members of the Republican REFORM
administration are trying to get rid Of
some of the odlum of this scandai py
claiming to have broken it up themsei-
yes, but they did not DO SO unit! they
and was going to make the exposure.
Even if they did, the fact that they al
lowed it to exist so long after 1t was
brought to their attention, the ~ taxpay- AK
ers think is enough to condemn them.
SHORT IN HIS ACCOUNTS.
Right on top of this comes the discov-
cry that Joseph s; Morris, a ReIoLm ia Re- re
counts, but how much the officials VIII
not say until after election. What makes
the taxpayers the more lnceifsfd f fa as AZ
or. Ever since he has been in office he
has been carefully scrutinizing small
G5ls for economv ono Stsf for his Reform admnistra
and Quarter there. While he has been
engaged IL this peayqae bay 6eepse een wa1
ing away with the city's money under
his very nose.
Republican Legislature last June violat-
ing it's solemn promise to consider any
measures except those recommended by
the voorhees, lny,estigation Commltsee, az, a
that truly good man. Senator Ketcham.
stood upon the floor of the Senate and
to render a decision which would turn
out this strictly up to date Reform Re-
publican administration and restore the
wicked Democrats to power, he spoke so
eulogistically in his Sunday school whine
of this Republican administration that
everyone thought it was a paragon of
political virtue. 1t did not take long af-
ter the law was safely passed for the
paragon to show its wings. They We're
not the white downy pinions of the eel
estial regions, but the scaley scorpion
like appendages of the inmates of the
Internal region
When the long suffering taxpayer of
Newark takes all this into consideration
he loses all relish for Reform admins
trations, especially of the Republican
honesty of Alexander t. McGill. This is
why the Democrats predict that Essex
will not give Mr.. Griggs anything like
the majority the Reform Republican
managers are claiming for him.