The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-24

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The ..Tribune'' Is vastly amused this
morning by 1.-The News 1t says persons
afflicted with the blues are cordially
to a perusal of our editorial
columns. This is what it finds so funny
IF any one is such a fool or sucn a
preiudiced malignant as TO attach creusave
10 such nonsense. it Is useless 10 alsoe
with him. He is a hopeless case. Inc So
called damaging evidence was given ps
esroes of the lowest type. proIess.onai
criminals and creatures OF simlal ih.sa,ia
gence. whose word would pc OF ~ ~
weight In a court of justice thah ths
barking of a dog or the singing y
jackass.
The extract is from an editorial III last
Nondav.s paper. Perhaps the bright
paragrapnist of the Tribune VIII NOT
think it so funny when he reads IN Ihe
News of today the incident which oc-
cnrred in the Grand Jury room YESTERDAY.
and which, beyond all doubt. proves the
ueriury-the gross. deliberate, villalnous
ner,,rv-of one of the star witnesses of
last Fridays Gledhill show.
The Tribune" thus proceeds
Somehow. there are people so stupid as
to give weight to the testimony Oh ihe
witnesses referred to.
OF course there are. There are people
foolish enough to believe what they reao
in the tribune There are people VINO
are always ready to believe evil OF tneir
fellow men. There are fools of every sor.
"a tbora are ReDublicanS
who think that to be a Democrat is ipso
facto to be a rogue.
But the number of such people IS
smaller than the Tribune thinks. Inc
number of people in Hudson county VINO
attach the slightest Importance to the
Gledhil Committees revelations may be
reckoned in hundreds not thousands
Among those who are most bitterly con-
demnatory of the entire foul proceeding
are decent Republicans. and we know
that they are preparing to desert their
party in thousands on the 18TH OF next
month. The Tribune will be taught a
lesson on that day.
Ot the witnesses VINO aPpedfeu dot
day. the Tribune" very d-isingenuously
says
but came positively near disregard
ing their oath in trying to shield polltical
friends. How about .Whelan, the poliey
man. for example. whose testimony was
literally dragged from him.? How about
the sfolid German who told of SherlH
Heller's visits to Monte Carlo?
There was only one unwilling witness,
whelan, and he did not say one thing in the
least degree ~damaging-as the 'sTribune"
perfectly well knows.
The others were all most suspiciously
willing. One of them the .stolid Ger
man. to whom the Tribune alludes so
malapropos, is the gentleman whose per-
jury was So conclusively demonstrated
yesterday.
THE Evening Journal" in an editorial
on Maurice J. Stacks explosion of ex-
Under Sheriff Erwin's little fabric, said
yesterday
Some other officials and ex-of1icials of
the county nave not seemed to consider
that the testimony of the witnesses war
rants a denial. Before this investigation
is over those who have not had enough
experience with previous investigating
committees to know that evidence re-
ceived by them is mighty serious bust
ness for any man accused, will probably
find out just how the matter stands.
If the Journal were not edited from a
carpet bag, it would remember that the
evidence received by previous investigat-
ing committees has proven to be of no
Importance whatever. Indeed, as the ex-
perience in New York has been exactly
similar. we are forced to think that the
aJournal" misrepresents wilfully as
usual.
In the case of the one investigating
show which was previously held in this
state, a number of indictments were
found, but each and everyone resulted in
the triumphant acquittal of the accused.
IN the case of the Lexow infamy in New
York, we do not recall one single convic-
ton which resulted from the evidence
ELECTED and which stood the test of appeal
to- the higher courts.
Can the carpet-bag editor recall one?
Tha Reuublfcau Platform.