The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-26

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fore N any city IL the country While
placed BY the Law in control Of the
management of elections. he has con-
tinued to be Chairman Of the Republican
County and City Committees, q gross
-misdemeanor. which should be prohibited
by law. as IL is by every consideration
of honor and proper feeling. At no time
In his conduct Of the elections. has this
man Woolley been free from suspicion
Of partisanship. Everyone recalls the
gross scheme of disfranehisement, which
he adopted In concert with County Clerk
Fischer. last fall. This spring he has
not even published In his plaoards the
lines of demarcation of the wards and
precincts, and the voter is to that extent
For his services in thus disfranchising
voters Mr.. woolley's obedient tools in
the Board of Aldermen, only a few weeks
ago, made him a present. out of the city's
money of $500, for extra election SER
vices. His regular salary is 5000 a year,
and the extra services consisted in sit
morning after Election Day. smoking
cigars and watching his subordinates re-
ceive the election returns. This raid on
the treasury was made all the more scan
dalous by the fact that Woolley had de-
Tended his refusal to print necessary in
formation regarding the election on the
ground of economy. his economy was
Of the sir that did not begin at home.
It was $500 for himself. but not a cent
for public purposes.
TIL 5000 salary paid the City Clerk
is ar ample compensation for all the SER
vices performed, but Mr.. Woolley, it is
said, more than doubles that sum in the
year. Besides the $1,000 g~ratuity for the
two elections there are various fees for
searches and other official acts, which are
not covered into the city treasury but go
into the capacious pockets of the Chair
man of the Republican County machine.
1t has recently been publicly asserted
that Woolley manages to milk $1,000 out
of his job in the course of the year. This
may be an exaggeration, but it is none
to say that the place pays him s1o.O 900. as
much as the salary of the Governor of
the State of New Jersey.
It is the duty of the voters to break
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lie business. This can only be done by
restoring to power the party which kept
John e. Scott in the City Clerks Office
for twenty years, just because he was
as impartial as he was efficient. The
bosses of the Republican party have
turned over the Aldermanic nominations
to Woolley, and in every ward ne has
picked out men who are pledged to vote
for his retention in Office. This is the OBJ
manic campaign, the -prolongation of
Wooleyism. 1t should be the aim, not;
only of every Democrat, but of every
honest voter to turn this man down by
defeating his creatures.
There is victory in the air this spring
fer the Democratic party, and 1t is the
harbinger of a greater victory in the fall.
Everything is coming our way. A little
courage. a little energy. a little unselhsh
ness are all that are needed now to swell
the tendency to a~lrush, and to land our
men at the head of the polls.
Now is the time for Democrats to show
that theyIare Democrats, by all pulling
together for the chosen STANDARD bearers
Of the party.