The Monitor-register., 1897-12-03

up tne nope Oh having set aside the vote
by which the anti gambling amendment
was carried at the special election on
September %, Notwithstanding the
Governors proclamation declaring the
anti-gambling amendment a part of the
organic law of the State, and the fact that
a branch of the Supreme Court, composed
Justices Dixon Van Syckel and Collins,
denied the motion for a recount of the
vote some time ago. Their counsel, lex
Senator Edwards, gave notice on Tues
day of a motion for a writ of error re-
moving the decision of the Supreme
Court to the Court Of Errors and Appeals
for review. The matter is to be argued
to day, and ex-Attorney General John P.
Stockton has been retained to assist Mr..
Edwards and Allan L. McDermott 10
having the will of the people set aside
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, who has got back
from a long vacation in Europe much i'm
proved in health, says that to return to
New York and find it ''at the mercy of
the same gang from whose clutches it was
wrested three years ago. makes him in.
expressibly sad. He has no doubt in bis
W mind as to the cause of the disaster.
"The present deplorable result" he says,
sis primarily the work of one man,
Senator Thomas c.. Platt. He it was who
gave US a greater New York. 1t was for
bis own selfish purposes that he crammed
down our Threats an undigested charter,
and now he has delivered it over to
Tammany to be administered. No sooner
did he find that he could not control abso-
lutely the anti-Tama vote than he
turned to Croker, and became his accom-.
plioe in handing the city over to the
corrupt gang whose ~dsbauchery made the
election of Mayor Strong possible in 1894.
1 said long ago that 1 would rather fight
five Crokers than one Platt, and the in
%tervening events have only served to con
firm my diagnosis. To-day, as in the past,
Plat stands the most dangerous enemy
we have of American ideas, American
institutions and American welfare.
Croker, besides bin, presents a figure of
frankness and openness which almost chal-
lenges admiration. The two may be
likened, one to a great, clumsy, brutal
gorilla, and the other to assgleaming-eyed
serpent" DR.. Parkhurst says that the
struggle against bossim must be Kept up.
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Lanai MAf,kk nhn NAG romantic ~
pointed Internal Revenue Collector for
the First New Jersey District, to succeed
James Butcher, promptly dismissed the
three Democratic deputies, who served
under Mr.. Butcher, Messrs. r Fl. Page,
VIM. ]. Casper and Benjamin P. Worth
ley and appointed in their stead three
Republicans, Charles H. Ellis, Jr.,
Thomas F. Austin and Adoiph Ernst.
The three deposed deputies at once be
gan proceedings in the United States
Circuit Court under the civil service
regulations to prevent Collector Moffett
from removing them, and Judge Kirk
patrick issued an order temporarily re.
straining Mr.. Moffett from removing
them. Collector Moffett is required to
show cause on December 9Th why
the Injunction should not be made per
manent. The effort to restrain the re
movsl of these men is based on an order
made by President Cleveland in 1894
including the Internal Revenue Depart
ment in the classified service, and 30
order by President Mckinley of July
9th, 1897. which provides against the
removal of men in the classified service,
except from charges, after a hearing.
The question raised is a comparatively
new one, and the issue presents
matter for reflection to the average New
Jersey office holder. AS to the con
struetion of the law there are two con
fiicting opinions by United States judges
on the questions involved in this matter.
One by Judge Jackson, who decided that
men could not be removed without a
hearing, and one by Judge Jenkins, who
took the opposite view. The cast is likely
TO get into the United States Supreme
Court before the point n dispute is
frall; settled.