The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-01
HERE'S FULLHR'S RECORD
A Jekyl1 and HYDE BUSH
ness, Wiz Jeky1l
Left Out.
DUPLlcITY AND TREAcHERY.
How He Deceived o. F. Randolph
Attorney for City and Corpora
tions While Streets We're
Being Stolen.

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seH-respecS, or they wouiu never have
nominated a man like Charles w Fuller
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such creature--men who know the pub
lie and private character Of rhe3r
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snaI CANNOT solve. me Only conclusion
that have been able to reach Is that the
party of moral ideas. had depended on
the short memory OF the people and
trusted that they had forgotten the many
shortcomings of the lawyer Of the notori-
Gus Eva Mann.
II this be true brief mention of some
Of the many incidents ia the public career
of Mr. Fuller may be acceptable TO all
men who respect themselves renem-
Der well when Fnller was first member
OF the Assembly in 1887. That year sue
cessor TO the late Judge Randolph, Of the
First District Court, was to be elected on
joint ballot.
Judge Randolph was Democrat, and
the Legislature Was Republican. Judge
Randolph's sole ambition was TO be re-
elected. H0 was at the time member OF
the State Board Of Education, and that
Board had the appointing Of State
Superintendent OF Public In
struction- This Office Fuller want
ed. He knew that he had been
elected to the Assembly by accident and
II was hopeless to expect a second term.
Judge Randolph was old and feeble, an d
the cunning Fuller, Ia bis oily and willy
manner. sought an interview with him.
The result Of the confah was that Full
Ter convinced Judge Randolph that
person building judicial position
should not be bound BY party ties. That
he should be above party and indepen~.
dent and then came proposition that II
Judge Randolph would cast his Demo-
cratic: vote for Fuller for Superintendent
Of Public Instruction, he-Fuller--would
vote In joint meeting Tor the reelection of
Judge Randolph
TRUST THAT WAS DECEIVED.
The old gentleman believed what was
told him and his vote made Charles w
Fuller State superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Did Fuller keep his part Of the agree
mentf
He eudeavored to-just a little-and
then the party whip fell across his shout
ders and like whipped cur he fell into
line, and In caucus and Ia open meeting
voted for William p. Douglas, the Repub-
lean candidate, and Judge Randolph
was LEFT to ponder over the depravfty OF
1 some men. a. Rapuolloan Assembly men,
who saw Fuller vote, muttcred audibly,
| Is not this q nice record for man who
asks to be sent to the Legislatures
| But more recently this man Fuller has
shown to win greater degree his du-
piicity and treachery. He succeeded in
| joining the ring which. under the leader
| ship OF himself and ex-Mayor John
/ Newman, worked SO much damage
| to the Interests of the City OF Bay
onne. Fuller is one OF the attorneys
Of the Standard OIL Company. and
\ also of the Atlantic Dredging Company
| and the Bayopne City Terminal Railway
sufficient to secure him the Office Of Cor
| poratlon Attorney of Bayonne City. The
| corporations had use for a man in this
| Office, and they knew Fuller was the man
| they required. Both companies had
/ schemes which they wished 10 put through
| to the injury of the city and they knew
| that with lawyer who would fight for
| the city these schemes would not be sue
cessful. Fuller, while City Attorney,
neqer opposed these two corporations,
but aided them all he could.
AS CORPORATION COUNSEL.
It was Fuller who, while Corporation
Attorney of Bayonne. permitted the
Mayor and Council to receive, May g.
| 1890, petition from the Bergen Neck
Railway Company TO vacate six streets
and to grade East Twenty-eighth street
to suit itself. and to grant the petition the
1 oethAr - - ~ 80 VIZ - " oAA.Sth "a tAo
city Fuller did not interpose q single
objection Co the stealing Of six streets in
| one night. He did not even ask for q
weeks delay to examine into the matter
Why was thiss
Because Mr.. Charles w. Fuller was at
| the time one OF the attorneys of the rail-
road, aud he was serving both bosses--the
city and railroad-Ht the same time
Is not man like this delightful sub
ject for the sufdrages of respectable menu
John Newman thinks SO now. but very
mournfully, for it was the task of carry
ing Fuller that broke his back last
spring and defeated him for reelection
for Mayor.
The steal of the six streets in Bayoune
was contested by Ralph G. Packard with
an injunction, and when the Vice Chan
ceilor rendered his decision. he de-
nounced in severe language the acts of
the ring in the steal.
A still later case of Ful1er's duplicit y
was exposed when the Board OF Free
holde1s laid out the route for the new
County Road. The Freeholders originally
decided to pass through Avenue A.
ANOTHER DEAL
Scion Humphrey ana Martin r. Cook,
VINO own much very valuable land on
this street. petitfoned the Freeholders to
select Avenue B for the route. Fuller
was at this time Corporation Attorney.
Humphrey and Cook employed Fuller to
have the change made. He. as the rep
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