The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-12
Chancellor McGill's Testimony
Boomerang for the Defense.

We are Informed that the same or d
similar expression was blazoned upon ehe
bulletin board in front of the "Journal'
office
Now M vdler or more deliberate mis-
representation was ever put before tne
public. The effort is to place a construc-
non Spon certain answers to certain ex-
traordinarv questions of the Attorney
General, which in no way belongs 10
them. Taking the Journals
garbled version, these are the questions
and answers
BY the Attorney General
"Have you ever heard anyone SPEAK ap-
provingly of Mr.. Noonan respecting MS
81 can't recall an instance"
ssHave you ever heard anyone speak
approvingly of Mr.. Noonan respecting ms
II amt recall an instance"
Have you ever heard anyone spean
epprovingly of Mr.. Noonan respecting
his truthfulness?
$50 you cannot say When you have
heard anyone speak approvingiy!
No. sir" replied the Chancellor.
.Do you recall any remark of disap-
proval?"
"Do YOU recall any remark disap-
provingly of Mr.. Noonan's honesty
II do not" -
DO you recall n remark ~dlsapproV-
fngly of his truthfulness"
"Do you recall any remarks disap-
provingly of his probity?
= SGT 40 mot
So far from being a boomerang. this
sort of testimony is the most favorable
that can be given regarding reputation.
when a man is of. good reputation, people
do not go about talking of 1t. 1t goes
without saying. 1t is when a man begins
to have a bad reputation that his reputa-
ton begins to be praised, for his friends
then consider 1T necessary to go around
telling what an honest man he is as an
offset to the derogatory things which are
said about him.
Previous to the "Journal's'' sensational
publication, nobody had thought it neces-
sary to go around shouting, "Joe Noonan
is an honest man." because no one
thought of doubling that he was one, or
thought that anyone else would doubt ne
was one.
We desire to say that, under ordinary
circumstances, we should not feel at lib
erty to comment thus upon the testimony.
We feel that it is a duty, however, to
counteract the wilful perversions of the
sJournal.' So long as it is permitted to
mislead the public and manufacture
preiudice against the accused, we shall
not fear to continue our fight for far
play. ~
BEFORE leaving the subject, WE cannot
help once again remarking the wide
spread error or malice which character
ICES the reports of the trial. Even the
sTrue American" yesterday, printed a
brief despatch which absolutely reversed
the situation as it exists, and put over
It headlines ludicrously as well as in
5uriously mistaken in tone.
Who shall Reform The Reformers2
Commenting on the doings of the Ebie
Contribution Committee. the Newark
s.Evening News very justly says that the
attempt made on the floor of the House
to defend Mr.. Ebie's course was almost
worse than the original offence. 1t uses
this properly severe language
7s-.rto4on --1,o 4tso1xc ba &c 7aipo tho
proper thing when he palliates or attempts
to excuse such a condition of affairs as
was disclosed in this matter, is sadly IN
need of instruction in the obligations or
delegated representation. Kindly feeling
for an associate is a fine thing on proper
occasions. but there are higher duties i'm
posed upon men honored with the dignity
of the legislative office.
We opine thai kindly feeling for an as
Bociate had very little to do with the case.
There was far more than politics in IT.
Remembering the extraordinary sue
cess which attended the session of the
Voorhees, Investigating Committee, it oc-
Cured to the leaders of the g. o. P. that
a cheap and easy way out of a bad hole
of Investigation this year. If a Senate
Committee could manufacture material to
elect Governor Griggs, why should not an
Assembly Committee in turn drag Gov
ernor Somebody-else through a nice slip
perry course of mud to a triumphant seat
in the Governors chair?
The gentlemen never thought of the
aanger OF s'encores." 1t forgot that they
seldom Ego" like the original perform
ance.
And this years encores have been going
very badly. After being slapped in the
face by the Great Republican Investigator
Mr.. Corbin, and by another eminent law
yer, the main mud delving committee
came to the sage conclusion that the path
was too dangerous ahead to be trod in
public. Therefore, the announcement of
the intended star chamber sessions was
made.
Just at this critical juncture, the other
eorasasttee went wrons, TOO. The Newark