The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-15

Moses vacant and started in to purity tns
city on it's own hook The members iouiiu i
themselves, hampered ana opposen pp ADJ on
ministration. Their agents secured ". M
doubted evidence that a place was dis-
orderly house under the statute put tne ne
Reform Republicans refused to close II oT
even to revoke its license. The boaru
granted licenses to places which were
shown to be disorderly beyond doubt ana 9aa
in other ways showed their contempt LOT
the law loving and law abiding cltlzehs,
for all the world just as If they were "a a
wicked race track Legislature instead Oh
MR.. GRIGGS' MISTAKE.
1t did not in any wise alleviate the
righteous wrath which these good people
had for the Reform Republicans, for Mr
Griggs, the high priest of up to Date
Reform, to make his great demonstra-
tion in Caledonian Park. On the con-
tempt with which these good cltlzens had
been treated by Griggs' followers IN New
ark and drove as it were the knlfe deeper
Every variety show in Newark by law
is required ITO have a license and abstain
from giving a performance on SUNDAY.
1t is a law VIII ch the Reform Republl-
can administration strictly enforced and
tolerated not the slightest infractlon OF.
Nevertheless this same Caledonia Park
was not only allowed to give a variety
show on week days, but also on Sun
day. The nature of ITS performances
We're such as are not generally tolerated
in cit.e where Reform Republican ad-
ministrations are unknown and the Park
soon came to be the rendezvous of the
worst element of Newark's society. The
large area which IT covered. together
with the trees and shubbery it con-
taned, afforded ample opportunity for
this element to assert itself and the
disorderly scenes wh .ch nightly took
place there were scandalous even for
The Christian Citizenship Union made
vigorous war against this place. They.
secured evidence of its nature and laid
it before the Mayor, the police and the
Excise Board, and respectfully asked to
have the Park closed or at least its dis
orderly features removed. Their treat
ment was the same as before. They were
kicked out as uncermoniously as they
were on the former occasion. Then the
Union went before the Reform Republic
can Grand Jury drawn by. Reform Re-
publican Sheriff, and sought to have the
place indicted, and came away rubbing
the spot where the boot had alighted
which had again kicked them out Uzal
McCarter, son of Thomas y. MeCarter;
The veteran of the ESSEX bar. declared
openly that Mayor Lebkuecher mad
0-''i Known BY THEIR DEEDS.
All this came wildly before many OF
throng tiir py'pin in Caledonia Park the, other
night. and as they listened to the fair
promises Griggs was making of the
State if the people would only let him
;naugurate a reform administration in
Trenton. they thought of all the good
the Republicans promised, that I1eb-
kuecher and his Reform administration
would work for their city. and went
home with that text of Scripture:-."By
their deeds ye shall know them,' ring
inc in their ears.
When the RepubT cans .exultingly de-
clare that Mr.. Griggs will carry Essex
county by 5000 5000 or 10000 majority.
they either forget these good. church
people. or else they are like the man
Solomon had in mind when he drew the
attention of his son TO "the fool wise
in his own conceit."