The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-17
Republican Boomerang Tactics.

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The Grand Jury of this county Is DUSTY
engaged in throwing boomerangs, ana the
Prosecutor, Brother James s, is ably as
sisting 1t. The attempt to find a sensation
in the Hoboken ballot boxes has already
resulted In 8 miserable dasco. Instead OF
the anticipated result, the Grand Jurors
have Increased Mayor Fagan's vote by
one. In the examination Of the first Y
boxes taken up. This, 1t Is said. has been
90 d,scouraeIug to the member that they
have dropped the account in disgust. II
does not matter, however, whether they
dron # or not. The further they push it
the more good they will do the Demo
cratic party.
The spasm Of Sunday observance, IN
which Brother James s. is INDUCING. can
hardly prove anything short of disastrous
10 Brother John J. Among persons OF
liberal tendencies, 1t 10 sure to produce
unqualified disgust. The question VIII
freely be asked what W. would haye 70
expect should the Prosecutors and
sheriff's offices become strictly a family
affair, when the one brother in order TO
get the other brother into Office, begins
trampling on the public In general and
reviving obsolete and out-of-date statutes
In. order to do 1t. There is something re-
pulsive to ones sense of justice in the
idea of one brother drawing the juries be-
fore which the other brother is to conduct
prosecutions, and If Brother James 5.
Ergin,s Sunday antics are a fail, specimen
OF the tyranny that the joint rule of the
W Erwins would give Hudson County.
the people have a right to pray thai such
a calamity be ayerted from them. :
We should not think that Brother James
S. has made much of a success with the
rigid sabbdtarian element, either, by his
fardy spaslil of virtue. Church people are
not fools. They cannot be hoodwinked
or misled by any sort of ante-election
humbug. They are apt to ask why Mr.
Erwin's virtue waited for such sudden de-
velopment until Brother John J. became
q candidate for an elective office. They
are apt to very much doubt the sincerity
Of acts lone under this particular con-
dition, and those Of them who are fair
ana thoughtful are far more likely to be
impressed by the hypocrisy than the sense
Of duty which prompted such a jerky pre-
text of strict enforcement of the law"
Ait the very enthusiastic meeting held
by the sixth Ward Democratic Associa-
tion, last evening, one OF the speakers,
Mr.. Fallon Of Hoboken. exposed in Its
true colors the seizure of a number Of
rickle-in-the-slot machines on Saturday.
He showed that these machines were the
property of a western concern. They
were simply stored in Hoboken for ship
nent abroad. They were In a storage
warehouse, and they were boxed and
Grated as they came from the factory. all
ready to be put on trains or steamships
far delivery as fast as they were sold.
Not one had ever been in use In Hoboken
They were not designed for use in Ho-
boken. and the attempt to make it APP
pear-for campaign purposes-that they
are evidences of the prevalence of
gambling in that city is a piece of incom-
parable b-lackguardism on the part of the
Republican Ring to which the Erwin
Brothers belong.
If Brother James 8. and Brother John J.
and Colonel Sam. who WINS them. ex-
pect to capture this county through acts
Of this description, they will find that they
have moderated the intelligence OF the
voters. claptrap and conspiracy will not
do, The people see through It, and the
only feeling It excitos in them is the de-
termination to punish Its perpetrators.
Brother James and Brother John have
1 sad experience ahead Of them upon
election day.
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