The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-26

discovered that the most acceptable STUN
that he can produce is that which deals
with political corruption, the political
degeneracy Of the officials and citizens,
and the general moral corruption OF the
various communities. The
has been that th space tiend has gone
about prying INTO she cutters. cesspools
and garbage heaps of the political house
hold inc whenever he finds an atom OF
un-pleasantness he gazes at 1t through a
powerful magpifying glass and tells ms
paper what he sees.
Outside of the State, New Jersey is
therefore coming to be regarded as the
home of ballot box suffers, the theatre
of the most heinous election frauds, the
abode of the most corrupt officials and
the scene of the deepest, blacklist, political
corruption in existence.
One of the rankest offenders in this
respect is the New York 'Tribunes
latest Importation from the wild ana
woolly West" This omni-sapient young
man. in order to give local c~oloring to
his tales of woe, has secured a furnished
room in this city n every afternoon
about two o'clock he walks four blocks
to the ferry and about one O'Clock walks
them back again. and, Of course, as ne
reads while he runs, he knows all about
New Jersey and her official corruption.
No better illustration of the thorough
acquaintance he has with Jersey City's
affairs could, be mentioned than his out
break in Yesterday mornings edition of
his paper. He began by lauding the
Tribune for it's crusade against the
numerous pool rooms and gambling hells
in Jersey City-when did it take place, by
the way-and then he infinitely described
the manner in which the police were now
closing those places and had the gamblers
on the run. All this, of course, showed
how very, very bad the wicked Demo-
Gratis are who control Jersey City, ana
how very, very good the Republicans are
as represented by the virtuous Tribune.
Had the young space grabber spent a
little more time in acquainting himself
with the affairs of this city he would not
have led his paper into such a detestaple
libel on a respectable community, and
into such a gross political biunder He
would have learned that during the time
when these gambling evils are alleged to
have sprung into existence. h Police
Board, the Chief of Police and a majority
of the police Captains of this city were
active Republicans, members of the local
party machine, and at the time he says
the police, moved by the Tribune" began
to eradicate the pests, the Police Board
passed into the hands of the Democrats.
The truth of the matter is there is no
gambling or poolroom evil in this city.
That there may be one or two small,
timorous dens where cards are played
scattered around may be a fact, or it may
not. We really do not know. The law
can no more stop gambling than it can
drunkenness, immortality or opium indule
gence. But if there are any such they
are conducted in a guarded manner and
it is an extremely difficult matter for
anyone not known to the touts and cap
pers to gain any knowledge of their
whereabouts.
Even if these one or two gambling dens
do exist, be it remembered. however, they
have fourished during the time the Re-
publicans had full control of the Police
Denarfment