The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-30
THURSDAY, JUNE 30. 1893.
This paper is Democratic in principles
and Is Independent in its vie,cs on all local
questions.



I'm Jersey city, says the Tribune"
in a recent issue, "a Democratic admin
istration has been wrestling with the
water problem for over a year, but there
is no settlement in sight" 1t would have
been graceful in the Tribune" to have
mentioned. at the same time. that a Re-
publican administration had wrestled
with the problem for five years and left
Ii without any settlement or even hope
of settlement.
The "Tribune'' might also have mem
toned that a host of Republican agencies
have been busy rendering it difficult, if
not impossible, for the Democratic ad-
m%inistration to take any steps towards
effecting a settlement. Thus, we have
the two Republican members OF the
Board of Finance opposed to anything
the Democratic officials may prove. Com
missioner Reuben Simpson, who, in the
good old days of Mayor Wanser, could
see no good whatever in the Rockaway
and Hudson proposal, is now out for 1t,
first. last and all the time. OF course
he knows 1t is a hopeless imDossibility,
no one better; but what matter when a
fight can be made on it to down the
Democrats.
Then there is the Hon. Thomas Nc
EVAN, who was a thorn in Mayor Wan
ser's flesh. He keeps on smearing mis-
~llaneou legal information all over the
situation. Just what his idea is. we have
not been able to grasp; but we know
that his labors ought to be handsomely
compensated by the East Jersey Water
Company. for they certainly are of huge
advantage to its policy of delay. t
course. the Hon. Thomas does not in
tend this. for is he not a -corporaphobist;
but his misguided zeal has the very eff
feet that he would most wish not to pro-
duee-the furtherance of monopoly.
And next comes the Journal with its
Financial end" sticking out through its
editorials with shocking visibility. Mr.
Joseph A. Dear, after proving his paper
a liar and a wrecker of the city's credit,
is none the less conducting a new n
rigorous tilt for the postponement of all
action Until the next session of the Leg
islature. Then he wants it takens out of
the hands of the city authorities, chosen
by the people, and calmly turned over to
a Commission, to be appointed by a Re-
publican Governor, at the dictation of
Carrot A. Hobart, Grand Panjandrum of
the East Jersey Water Co.
1t is indeed both fair and timely for
the Tribune to make complaint against
the Democratic administration-fair and
timely ON the Republican plan; first make
a thing impossible and then howl be-
cause it is not done. AS for the allega-
ton that there is no settlement in sight,
we are not sure that it is true The
city is about to call for proposals again,
and the indications are hat something
may come of 1t. We are not overconfi-
dent. We know what the diff1cultles are.
But we think there is more prospect Of
success now than there has been any
time since the Journals conspiracy
with the East Jersey Company nefarious-
ly defeated the award made under Mayor
wanser's advice to the Jersey City Water
Company.
WE are a little puzzled by the attitude
of the Newark Evening News towards
Senator 'Jim" Smith. Is he just bad
enough to earn its approval and support,
or is it ~stabbing him in the back?
THIS headline was in Wednesdays
Estate Gazette":-
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