The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-23
REF0RMERS FAIL.
Sad Experience of Carl Lentz'
and ''Sam" Dickinson's
Bipartisan Bills.
PEOPLE SUSPECT A LITTLE JOKER
Newarkers Say the Movement
is All to Benefit
Uffort.
PEOPLE SUSPECT A LITTLE JOKER
Tspecial to .srhe Jersey city News."l

Especial to The Jersey CITY news.
TRENTON, Feb. "a, 1898. Notwithstand-
ing the emphatic statementst OF the
Evening Journal and other newspapers
in which the truth is not, the mucn taiK-
ed of bills for bipartisan Police and FIRE
Boards In Jersey City and Newark, We're
not introduced into the Legislature Tues
day. They were in Trenton. however, but
whatever the cause they kept under cover
and refused to let any one interested get
q look at them. They came to the state
House in the company of those three pre-
eminent bipartisan reformers:-MaJor
Carl Lentz. of Newark, and Colonel
Sam" Dickinson and Assistant Post
master Ed Woolley, of Jersey City.
These gentlemen did not appear either
in the Senate or Assembly, but remained
quietly and unobstrusively in one corner
of the big reception room of the Execu-
tive Department awaiting their turn TO
see the Governor. Their idea was to let
the Governor have a look at the bills and
obtain from him, is possible, some idea
of what his course would be in case the
bills should pass and come before him for
his action.
Like the astute gentlemen they are
Ln6Y InOQRnL that II WpulQ bC
ter to have some notion of the Governors
attitude on the subject; it would enable
them to work the more intelligentiy as
they would know just h they had to
contend with. There is no doubt that
their interview with the Governor was
perfectly satisfactory as far as obtaining
from His Excellence some idea of his at
titude upon the subject. for when the
three gentlemen emerged from the Execu-
tive presence their faces were as long as
they could possibly get, and they looked
as glum as professional mourners. Instead
of proceeding to the assembly lamb
and handing the great bipartisan bills
over to the member who, according to
the newspapers thai know it all, had been
selected to introduce them. they hurried
ly left the State House taking the meas
ures with them.
There are many here who are anxiously
awaiting a look at these bills. Like old
dog Tray, they seem to have fallen into
disrepute on account of the company they
keep. People cannot reconcile the ac-
tivity of Major Lentz and Colonel Dickin-
son in the interest of this movement to
make the two boards which can do the
most good to its party on election day
non-partisan, with their heretofore we'll
known rank p~artisanship and activity for
party success. The doubters believe that
there is some woolly headed ~pickanniny
concealed somewhere in this bipartisan
movement and they are anxious to get
hold of the bills and study them carefully.
A story in connection with this matter
came from evil minded Democrats in
Newark. At present out there the Mayor
appoints the Police Commissioners, just
as he does in this city. The present head
of the Newark Board is a Second Ward
politician, better known as Eddie"
Uffort. For good and sufficient reasons,
perfectly known to Eddie he is not a
persona grata with Mayor Seymour and
he has no reason to believe that he will
be reappointed when his term EXPIRES
next spring. Now Eddie" does not like
the idea of relinquishing the power of his
position as the head of the police depart
ment, with the opportunities 1t affords
him to be of service to his party and he
has been. keeping awak nights devising
schemes to retain the position. He finally
hit upon the bipartisan plan and
persuaded his friend and companion in
doing good for the party, Major Lentz
to interest his friend Sam Dickinson in
the movement. And that the Newarkers
declare is the origin of the much Wanted
bipartisan scheme.