The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-24
Planned Raids on the City
Treasury While in
the ssembly
TRIED TO CRIPPLE WANSER
Voted TO Sustain Flyan in His In
solent Treatment Of the Citr-
zens and Their Wives
and Daughters.

~ 1ANAS AtLAA IA h1tLAN
nation for member of the lower House of
The New Jersey Legislature. MIR. Kelly
asks this as a matter of right AMI pleads
the party custom which has heretofore
given an Assemblyman a second term
upon Que condition, however, which Mr..
Kelly appears to have entirely ignored,
aud that condition is that the member
should ave made a good record during
his previous term. Unfortunately. for
Mr.. Kelly, his record was a bad one
even in the Bad Legislature. which
is considered the worst that ever
sat in the State House or suy wnere els @
in this Stale. The JERSEY CITY NEWS
has seen to it that the people of the dis
trict should be thoroughly acquainted
with Mr.. Keliy's record and. If The con
ventlon this evening dominates him. the
loss of a Democratic seat in the mex AS
sembly will be upon their heads.
1t needs but a glance at Mr.. Kelly's
records to demonstrate the foolishness of
placing him IN nomination. He had
hardly been sworn in before he began TO
make his record by starting d rard on the
City Treasury in The snaps OF TWO bills:
one creating a new Office at a salary of
$1,000 a year, aud another increasing tn g
salary of q city official almost 100 per
SSabs wv AI Wis LO hCI III
ated another raid on the City Treasury
with a bill increasing the pay of the cleo
ton officers from So 10 IS per day.
He GIVES THE TREASURY A REST.
Then dropping the treasury for a while,
Mr.. Kelly undertook TO do a little favor
for his three friends. who were known
about the State House as 1.-The Three
JiE.S." The story of how these gentle
nen-James n. Davis. james Hunt aud
james TumuIty-overreached themselves
IN their effort to get more money out of
the taxpayers as Commissioners of As
sessmeut, and legislated tnemselv9s out
of Office. is too well known to be repeated
here. Mr.. Kelly was their stauuch
ftiend in their efforts to get their
clutches again supon the City Treasury.
aud introduced a bill for that purpose.
1t was no fault of Mr.. Kelly's that the
measure was lost on final passage. He
did all he could TO make it u Law and his
three friends have nothing to reproach
him with.
Returning to the City Treasury Mr..
Kelly planned another raid upon the
taxoaysrs money by a bill which sought
to pay a number Of workmen. whose war;
rants Mayor Wanser had refused to sign
because the men had been appointed
without warrants of law or 10 an irregu-
lar manner. Not only did Mr.. Kelly pro-
pose to run the city into dept for these
unlawful claims with a clause in the bill
1l1A II LOak0 VI G1uhlC6 u OOET
Tow on temporary bonds the amount
required to pay them: but, in order that
the people might be deprived of all voice
IN this high handed manner OF disposiug
of their money, another claus of Mr..
Kelly's bill provided that the consent of
the Mayor TO the proceeding should not
be necessary. the whole being one of the
most Outrageous attacks upon the rights
of the citiZeas which this outrageous
Legislature undertook.
These measures OF Mr.. Kellv's attracted
the attention OF his constituents and they
began TO ask MIR. Kelly some uncomfort-
able questions. IE fact their questions
soon changed TO protests aud emphatic
denunciationr Of the manner in which
their interests were being betrayed by
Mr.. Kelly. Then it, was that the good.
the upright Hugh A. pulled himself to-
gether aud attempted TO pull the wool
over the eyes of his Constituents with
his much vaunred equal taxation bill.
THAT GREAT EQUAL TAX BILL.
This measure provided that all railroad
aud canal property should be assessed
aud taxed Inc same as any other property
and should pay the tax 10 the muuicipal~
ity in which the property was situated
instead OF to the State rs now.
There is no doubt of the good
uess OF this bill and the great benefit
which it would DO The various ci les of
the State il which vast moun of rail-
road property are now situated. Mr.. Kelly
spike very enthusiastically about ali that
his bill was intended to accomplish and
his friends and ad miFers talked themselves
boarse telling what a great and good
man Mr.. Kelly was. But the bill never
passed ana there are many who are un-
feeling enough TO say that Mr.. Kelly
never intended that 1t should.
But be that as It may, 1t is certain that
when the measure was dying of stagna-
ton In The committee to which it was
referred Mr. Kelly never raised his voics
In protest nor made the slightest effort to
have it rescued from the miasmatio at
mosphsre of The committee room. Other
Assemblymen, when the bills III hlc
they wore deeply Interested were being
sMothered to death by the foul air SO
characteristic Of the COMMITTEES room.
fought desperately upon the f1oor and re-
sorted to every known parliamentary
tactic 10 have the bills reported, But
Mr.. Kelly WAS dumb ana his much
Wanted equal taxation measure died
from neglect.
On every one of the bills introduced TO
prevent Mayor Wanser from Carrying out
the policy OF reform, which he started in
the municipal affairs of this civ. Mr.
Kelly was always On the side OF bob
Davis and the worse element of the
Hudson County Democracy. He voted TO
pass the bills over Governor Werts' veto.
and 10 continue the affairs of Jersey CITY
IN the han0 or those ringsterS whom the
people had so Enthusiastically turned down
vt the poles. Regulated aud kicked out
by Il righteously indignant public, these
men sneaked down to Trenton, and by
deals. combines and unholy alliances
sought to hold on to their places at the
public crib by pretending TO be demo-
erats. NJ one. was more Jealous or did
Elore according to his ability to further
J, this deception ana continue the iniQuity
hthan MIR. Kelly.
SrRAMPLIEG ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
When thousands Of the best c~itizens of
New Jersey attended by their wives and
daughters came knocking at the State
House doors and demanding the right
given them by the Constitution to tell tue
legislators, the peoples servants what
they wanted, and the ~citlzens were
laughed at and kicked out, aud their
wives and daughters, whose sex at least
should have protected Them. grossly in
suited Mr.. Kelly was one of the kickers
sud insulters. His vote was always on
The SIDE Of Flynn aud Thompson. When
even SONS of his followers rebelled