New-York tribune., 1899-01-10
THE NEWS FROM NEW-JERSEY.
AS A JERSEYMAN SEES 1T.


eoling Itself with the notion that the Legis-
iature cannot reduce the price OF gas because
the corporation has a contract with the city
that does not expire before March /. lvo0.
Maybe So but II the gas managers are wise
they Will not depend too much on that. II the
Legislature Is really in earnest about scaling
down tho gas rates It Will find ways and means
OF doing so. just as Governor Albeit found
plan for making the Morris and Essex Railroad
Company surrender its tax exemption privi-
leges. There moro ways OF killing dog
than by choking him. II the Legislature cam
not pass n constitutional act regulating the
prices II can at laast enact laws to promote
the formation Of competitive companies. and
II was competition that brought dollar gas to
Trenton.
Most discouraging is It to see Camden's Re-
formers disagreeing and saying hard things or
each other even ns ordinary politicians do
Camden's city government was for many years
controlled by the Republicans. Then noble
band OF patriots arose and said: Let us re-
tire those politicians and nun this town or
pure. upright. non partisan basis. And tney
called themselves Reformers. The voters took
It into their heads that perhaps there might
be something in the old saying that changes are
delightsome and they turned the municipality
over to the Reformers. But. alas for human
expectations, The ideal government that was
to follow Immediately has apparently been
thrown of at the wrong station. for It hasn't
reached Camden. And instead Of showing the
wicked politicians edfying examples OF unity.
brotherly love and liberation, the Reformers are
actually Quarreing among themselves. The
Committee OF One Hundred which directed the
Reform campaign. has called for the resigna-
tons from membership in that body OF seven
Aldermen who voted with the Republican AL
derrnen to award an eectric-ight contract To
vote with straight Republicans on anything Is
an unforgivable sin.
Robert Davis aNectionately known az Bob,
is as supreme politically in his section OF New
Jersey as Croker is In Manhattan. When
Bob gives signal the city OF Jersey City and
the county Of Hudson respond man. His
followers say that he is the greatest Democratic
leader IN the State. and they point to Hud-
sons majority OF 10000 In last years cam
paign as conclusive proof No wonder Is 1t,
then that the friends OF the Little Fellow as
they admringly refer to him, are pushing
Bob" TO the front the Moses Of his party
in the State. and the successor Of United States
Senator Smith In the leadership. THE Jersey
City News tells the State Committee that 1T
should first get Mr. Davis to enter Its councils
and then the members should listen to his ad-
vice and follow It," In urging that suggestion
It is unknd. however. for the Jersey City paper
to hit at Senator Smith and State Chairman
Gourey IN this unkind fashion:
"It Is an open secret that Mr.. Davis in the
late campaign told the State Committee how
Essex could be won. and urged the taking Of
measures to bring the Democratic voters to the
PoIl daar rvrff
vanity Now perhaps the gentlemen who ran
the last campaign realize how little they know
about scientific political methods or the cam
pagn sort and they will be more ready 10 listen
to the advice OF man VINO mas deHonstrateo
that be knows what ne IS talking about
Truly elevating ana inspiring are the declara-
tions made by the Democratic leaders In jersey
City that the party pledges must be kept by
men elected to office on the Democratic ticket
They say these things with straight face and
without depressing or elevating their eyebrows
Faith Is a great thing. and in this instance II
there's enough Of It. supplemented by g poor
memory, one should have no difficulty In accept
ing the statements made articles OF faith
Only a cross-grained iconoclast would call at
,snt,on TO the fact that In 1897. when the Re-
publican administration was negotiating a water
contract for $4,000 00O the Democratic leaders
denounced this and promised that II the people
elected their candidates a contract should be
mad. az a cost not exceeding $o.WO,0OO. just
now these same gentlemen are hustllng through
a contract under which the city will pay not
less than 1850 But. Of course. It would
be uncharttable and unfeeling to refer to
little thing like that AS Chimmie Fadden says
Forget IT,
A beautiful moral lesson is embodied in the
aHpiI pa
correspondent OF THE Hackensack Republican
sends TO that paper:
who said craps? Wasn't craps killed when
a number OF first family representatives were
run 10 cover and then let of on promise never
to crap again? AS long as sin goes unpunished
the average sinner will continue in his wicked
ness Pinch EN- just once. but pinch EN- hard,
and the sinners will fall across the mourners
bench and repent with every manifestation OF
sincerity. How long they will remain good is
another story. But 1t would pay to pinch EN-,
anyhow. for the moral effect. or as the turning
of new lear
State Road Commissioner Budd is against
permitting trolley companies to use the public
roads for a right Of way He says that they
can az we'll afford to purchase IT" as steam rail-
road companies are compelled to do. and they
should not be permitted to do otherwise" Now.
on the eve OF losing his services, Jerseymen are
tust beginning to appreciate Mr.. Budd's states
manship.
Get out your summer clothing Professor An
drew Jackson De Voc. whom Weather Observer
Probert of Paterson. refers to as the Hacken-
sack Profit" says that there is to be blizzard
today He predicted 'moderatng" weather for
last Friday cloudy for Saturday. cloudy
snow" for Sunday. and Snow" for yesterday
The discussion going in the papers regarding
tho publication of the assessors list, with view
raatl tlA.. LIZ