The Penn's Grove record., 1895-10-18
Comment.

Mi. GrIggs' speech was nOteu more
for what he did not as what he did say.
Everybody knows the political revolu-
ton in New Jersey was due more to
race track legislation than anything
else, but he did not say race track once
nor mention his legislative record
what he had done TO help labor, make
the corporations pay taxes, or his work
for temperance in the local-option bill.
He did not tell that a Democratic court
convicted and sentenced the ballot box
suffers to prison and that Chancellor
McGill voted against their pardon. The
rebuilding of the State House is conced-
ed to be the finest piece of work in the
| State and no fraud was found in 1t by
the Senate Investigating committee,
nor did a man in the audience have to
a a cent Of the bill. OF gerryman-
| dering he might have told of the form
er one by a Republican legislature
which kept a Republican Legislature in
power for years when the State had a
Democratic majority of from 5000 to
IA, 009. The coal combine bill never
became a law because Gov. Albeit We.
toed it, and ordered the Attorney Gen
eral to fight the Combine in the court
and Chancellor McGill gave a decision
that will forever kinder such combina-
lions. The ballot box stufling and coal
combine having been before the last
G~ubernatorial election is rather stale
capital in this campaign, and to claim
that one should vote against Mr.. Nc
Gill because Barney Ford paid extrava-
CANT prices for furniture is about as rea-
sonable as to say one should vote
against Mr.. Griggs because a Republic
can State Treasurer got away with
100000 years ago.
After complimentiDg McGill aud say
| ing he could trust him and that the
party had repented and the angels
were now running the party machinery
it seems inconsistent to say he will be
controlled by the old race track gang.
Mr.. McGill showed last summer he will
not be by voting against pardOning the
race track men convicted after the
tracks were closed.
The Senate investigating committee
and tbs last two Legislatures do not
prove that Mr.. Griggs party has a mono
poly of honesty and economy. OF the 5
indicted as a result of the investigation
5 we're Republicans and 6 have been
| cleared in court. Local taxes have
| been increased by the last two legisla-
| lures by their school legislation and by
increasing the salaries Of assessors and
| collectors. The legislature refused to
pass the bills introduced by Democrats
to cut down the big fees of the Clerks
of the Supreme and Chancery Courts.
Their appropriation bill for next year
exceeds by $500, 600 the amount spent
last year with the treasury under con-
troll of the Governor.
Boss rule !! The first man he paid
homage to when he arrived in Camden
on Monday was W. j. Sewell. Assem-.
blyman W. L. Drake, of Hudson, prin-
cipal of a school, aud Supt. of a Sun
day School, was refused a nomination
this week because he bolted the caucus
! and refused to vote for W. j. Sewell
| for Senator. Assemblyman Bullock in
Passaic has been turned down for the
same reason. w. J. Thompson holds
no office nor position in the Democratic
organization. McDermott says he will
not accept a reappointment of Clerk IN
| Chancery from Mr.. McGill. Pidcock
has had a financial failure and holds no
| office, Albeit is dead. Miles Ross has.
been driven from power in Middlesex,
but was not too bad for a Republican
Senate to confirm as Riparian Commits.
sioner under a law of their W making
in 1894. jim Smith is Senator and so
is Mr.. Sewell. Iionors and T~ascality| is
about even in the parties and he sim
pie question is whether a Republican
| or Democrat shall be elected Governor.