The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-07
CORPORATION SERFS
How the Republicans Keep
Their Pledges to Re-
1ieVe the People.
ERIETRAcKS ELEVATION BILL
Twenty-nine '4Friends Of the PeO-
pie" Vote to Kill the
Measure.
ERIE TRACKS ELEVATION BILL
THE RAILROADS. NICE YOUNG MAN
Special to the Jersey cttp Neses.

TRENTON, May Z, 1S94.-When it became
known after the election last fall that the
Legislature would be Republican, the mem
bers of that party enveloped themselves In
large mantle of sanctity and began to shout
from the house tops that the political Utopia
was about to dawn upon New Jersey. Their
State Committee met in solemn conciave,
and with all the impressiveness Of some great
religious convention promulgating new
dogma, proclaimed that now al the ills from
which the people suffered, all the burdens
under which the taxpayers have groaned
during the years the democrats had control
of the Legislature, would be wiped away.
On the strength of these assurances the good
people of the State shook hands and con-
graduated themselves that at last they were
TO have Legislature which would legislate
for the people and the people alone.
AWAKENED FROM THE DREAM.
Today those same people are, figuratively
speaking, kicking themselves and saying all
sorts of hard things against their own
stupidity in ever thinking that Republicans
would SO far forget the fundamental princi-
pies Of their political being as to pass any
measure tending to break the grip which
the lnonoplies, trusts and corporations have
upon the State
The manner in which the Assembly laid
the Erie Tracks Elevation bill to rest in its
little grave hes done much to open the eyes
of the good people who trusted the Republi-
can party to alleviate their burdens. 1t is
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City about the necessity of that measure.
Every one who reads the Jersey City news
papers knows what a slaughter pen each one
OF the Erie's crossings is, and when this Re-
form Legislature, which was going to do so
much for the dear people and take away
every burden imposed upon them by the
wicked Democrats, got to work. all thought
that at last the evil would be remedied.
MARROW ESCAPE IN COMMITTEE.
So the bill was introduced and a commit
tee of citizens joined down here and told the
committee to which it was referred how
much the measure was needed, After all the
promises and declarations of the Republican
leaders they had reason to believe that the
bill would be passed, but they had yet to
learn that the Republican idea of Reform
and amelioration of the Taxpayers condition
consists entirely in turning out Democratic
Office holders and putting Republicans in
their place. Nothing was heard from this
bill and it soon became evident that ihe com
mittee intended to smother it-all in the in
terests of reform and the poor, downtrodden
taxpayers. After a long and desperate fight
Mr. Carroll succeeded in forcing the com
mittee to report the bill. Then the other
railroad companies Joined the Erie
and made common war upon the
measure A nice young man from
New York, lawyer by profession and a
lobbyist at Albany by practice, brought his
courtly manners and elegant person to the
State House and began to make himself
agreeable to the members. He made the
private room of the Speaker his headquart-
ers and there he read the papers, chatted
bates on the floor. The Erie never had a
nicer or more gentlemanly representative at
the New Jersey Legislature or, it might be
added, more successful one.
KILLED BY REPUBLICANS
After many delays and preliminary
skirmishes Mr.. Carroll democrat succeeded
in forcing the bill to an issue. 1t was de-
bated long and earnestly, being favored by
Hudson members of both parties and op-
posed by such red hot uncompromising
friends Of the people as c. Bigelow Storrs,
George Pugnacious Olcott, Thomas Flynn
and William J. Thompson. The bill, as is
known, was defeated-not, however, by the
votes of the wicked democrats, who have
brought SO much evil upon the State, but by
those of the pure, the upright and unswer-
ing champions Of the peoples right, the
Republicans, and here they are:-
Messrs. Austin, Baker, Bates, Burger,
Burton, Codding, Coursen, Cross Davis,
Denise, Exton, Ginder, Glaspell, Speaker
Holt, Lewis, Matlack, Murphey, Olcott
Reading. Ross, Slower, Somers, Stafford,
Stanger. Stecher, Storrs, Wilbur, Woolsey
and zabriskie, %.
The only democrats voting against the bill
were Messrs. Beekman, Dewsnap, Thompson
and Flynn Mr. Beelman is an attorney for
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and Mr.. Dews-
nap is a friend of the Erie Company
Everyone knows Messrs. Thompson and
Flynn.
SERMON FOR LIFE-SAVERS.