The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-12

for such Investigation? Why did he not
mention counties like Camden, his own
county, Passaic; Atlantic and Mercer and
other places? Why did he not advise an
investigation of the affairs of that county
from whence comes the President of the
House, Gloucester?
But" continued Mr.. Davis, with a
sarcastic laugh. political buncombe he
can only force into one county. and that
is Hudson.
''I suppose there is a chance here for
an investigation continued Mr.. Davis
after pause and with meaning SMILE
"a good chance if they will only go back
two years, for instance, and look into
the water deal with the East Jersey
water Company If the Commission
will go back that far and investigate
that, it would give Governor Griggs him
self a chance to testify in his own be-
half as to his relations with the East
Jersey Water Company. But oh! no, the
resolution and the Governors message
shuts out all things like that. 1t would
be embarrassing, you know, and decided
ly awkward and uncomfortable for Gov
ernor Griggs-oh, beg pardon, the At
torney General of the United States-to
suggest any inquiry into a company SO
closely identified with Vice President
Garret A. Hobart who secured his new
annointment. That would never, never
do.
For any acts done by the Democratic
officials of this county since the begin
ming of their administration continued
Mr.. Davis, .sthey are perfectly willing,
as I said before to stand a full investi-
cation. but what kind of an investigation
has it to be? We would like to get as
fair a one as possible. We would like
the Republican Commission to give US a
possible chance. We know we will not
get a fair show, but we respectfully ask
for a part of show and then we are
confident that we can show to Governor
Griggs how false his sweeping charges
are We will show him that they are
unfounded and baseless, at least so far as
the Democratic administration sof Hud-
son county is concerned and we will then
show him the position in which his in
formants stand.
His private secretary came to TINS
county some time ago at his command
and when John ]. Toffey was in office,
gambling and other things. They still
went on irrespective of the Governor,
the Private Secretary, the Judges, the
Grand Juries, the Sheriff or anyone else.
There hasn't been any gambling going
on or pool rooms operating in full blast
in the towns, or townships rather, in
Hudson county since Sheriff Heller was
elected to office. He, the Governor and
every other person knows, cannot ac-
count for cities where the local police
are in control. If Governor Griggs thinks
that the Sheriff has a right to pry about,
poke his nose in here or in there to dis
cover crime or offences, that Sheriff
would need force of $50 men. Where
the police. with a force of 800 men, can't
ferret out pool rooms or gambling, how
on earth is Sheriff Heller going to do
any better with only two men? The
charge is ridiculous. But, as said be-
fore. let them investigate and investigate;
but let it be fair and impartial. If such
course be pursued the Democratic ad-
ministration of Hudson county has moth
ing to fear. 1t is very easy to make
wholesale accusations for political pur-
pose by political schemers, but when it
comes to a proof then we will see. ]
repeat let them investigate, and if we
get fair show we will show the lie in
the message
Sheriff Heller did not seem to be partic-
ularly disturbed today about the contem-
plated partisan attempt to make political
capital at his expense. He is not worried,
neither is he losing any sleep. He said
that the Grand Juries he has drawn have
been composed of representative men from
all parts of the. county, men who are well
known for their integrity and ability, and
he proposes to put just that kind of men
on all of his future Grand Juries.
MY Grand Juries," said the Sheriff,
will compare favorably with any Grand
Juries that have ever been drawn in this
county by either Republican or Demo
cratic Sheriffs. The general public are sat-
isfied with them and have not made any
complaints. The only fault found has
been by Republican organs and bitter
Republican partisans, whose motives are
so apparent that the people are becom-
ing disgusted with them. Let them i'm
peach me If they think best No matter
what the result may be the whole people
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