Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-12-18

Thoroughly aroused over the wan
ton attacks made upon Hoboken in
an effort to injure him, Mayor Pat
rick r. Griffin, of Hoboken, on Mon
day went back at his traducers in a
manly straightforward manner. For
several weeks past all sorts OF &C
cusations have been made against
Mayor Griffin and Director of Pub
lie Safety Merely, and threats made
of recall proceedings being started,
but the people of Hoboken evidently
did not take kindly to the efforts OF
Outsiders" to butt into Hoboken at
fairs, and the movement has died
of inanition.
In his reply to the accusations,
which is addressed to the people OF
Hudson county, Mayor Griffin has
the following to say:
Cannot SANDER HObOken
"The SANDER that has been heaped
upon the fair name of the city OF
Hoboken within the past week or
two by few vicious and envious men
who do not live in the city, cannot
be longer allowed to pass unnotlced.
AS far as l am personally concerned,
l am ready at any time to submit,
myself upon my public record to the
judgement of the people who have
honored me by choosing me as their
executive. But because l am Mayor
of the city l consider it my duty to
let the residents of neighboring cities
know that Hoboken is a well-governed
and morally clean place to live IN,
and not the modern Sodom that
Sheriff Kinkead, Tom Martin, and a
few others have conjured it out OF
their own evil minds to be.
Doesn't Think Much of Kinkead
"Most of us know that Sheriff
Kinkead is liable to say or do any
thing under the stimulus of the arti-
fetal exhilaration to which he sub
iects himself. Likewise, the lying
filth which Tom Martin is continually
disseminating in an effort to injure
men of whom he is jealous because
they hold the respect of the COM
munity, has come to be taken by
those familiar with the man at his
face value-which is nothing. But
lest these false reports of conditions
in Hoboken be taken seriously by
outsiders who only know that Kin
cad is Sheriff of Hudson County,
II. that he is mentally irresponsible;
"a who only know that Martin is
retary of State, not that he is
,imbued with malice and hatred OF
every man who, unlike himself, tries
to live an honest life, l take this
method of letting the truth be known.
No Dives in HObOken
"The statement that dives and i'm
moral resorts have been running in
Hoboken during my term as Mayor
is an absolute, unqualified and ma
licious lie, and the people who have
uttered it, including Kinkead and
Martin, knew it was a lie. There
have been no dives running in Hobo
ken while l have been Mayor, nor
will there be as long as l occupy
a position with the power to prevent
them.
Gives Reason for the SANDER
"The whole foundation upon which
seems to be based the SANDER of the
City of Hoboken arises from a raid
conducted by Sheriff Kinkead upon a
licensed saloon on Hudson street, at
which time he made arrests for vio-
lating the law against selling liquor
on Sunday. l do not purpose to dis
cuss the merits of the Bishops Act
nor the possibility of it's being strict
ly enforced in Hudson County.
Various judges, prosecutors and the
like have tried to enforce it without
any appreciable success. All l wish
to remark is that Sheriff Kinkead
has shown an extraordinary agility
in Sunday raids on saloons operated
by men who disagree with him po-
litically and a surprising blindness
toward similar violations on the part
of his Friends / have not used my
power over the excise department of
Hoboken to punish my enemies or to
reward my friends in the liquor bust
ness. All have been treated alike.
Kinkead proved Himself Liar"
"The thing that should appeal to
everyone, however, is that Kinkead,
by his own course of action following
his raid proved himself to be liar
and a slanderer of the City of Hobo
ken. He and his mouthpiece, Martin,
shouted from the housetops that the
place where the arrests for Sunday
violations were made was character
lied by vice and immoral practices
eff that were true, why was SELL
ing liquor on Sunday the only charge
that was made in court p? Of what
did the vice and immoral practices
consist? Why was it not brought
tn the attention Of tho court hv means
of proper complaint?
II have no personal knowledge of
how the place was conducted, but /
do know that Director Merely and
myself have been positive in our in
structions that no place of dis
reputable character be permitted to
exist in Hoboken, and l have the
fullest confidence that Chief of Police
Hayes has carried out these instruc-
tions to the letter.
Kinkead and Martin Charged
"Had there been the slightest straw