Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-26

he VOTED FOR THEM EVERY TIME.

BE VOTED FOR THEM EVERY TIME.
The corporation laws Of this state. as
originally enacted in 1872, made it i'm
perative upon corporations to file in the
Office of the Secretary of State annually,
within 80 days after every election OF
Directors, statement authenticated by the
signatures of the president and secretary,
containing the names of all the directors
and officers, with the date Of election or
appointment, residence and post Office ad-
dress of each, the character of its business,
the location, giving the street and number,
if any, of its principal Office in this State
and the name of the agent in charge of
said Office, upon whom process against the
corporation may be served etc, etc.
These laws were amended in 1875, 1877,
aud again revised in 1896. but this import
ant feature was retained The intent and
object of this provision in the law was that
the public should have the opportunity to
Judge of the character of the men who
managed and directed the corporate con-
Germs; that the business man might measure
the credit of the corporation by the repu-
tation of its officers and directors; that
suitors, in this and in any other States,
might have easy access to serve process in
order that their grievances might be deter
mined and redressed that the States in
terests could be best subserved by policy
which admitted of the keenest scrutiny
and every faculty for readily obtaining
information.
1t remained for the legislature of 1898 to
eliminate this just provision from the New
Jersey corporation laws, and open the way
for the imposition Oh the people of tbs
horde of Trusts which are now oppressins
the people.
The bill was twice defeated in the Sen
ate in that year, but revived and pushed
bY powerful lobby, at last was passed
At every stage of its enactment Senator
StaDger, representing a constituency surt
to suffer from greater laxity Of these laws
voted in favor of it.
Isee Senate Journal 1898, page 3O4 which
records tine -iessa sct tie bill by tie vote;
and page 533 Senate journal of 1893 the
vote which passed it by one msjority
During the session of 1898, Senator Stan
ger voted against Senate bill No 80, bill
reducing the salary OF the Governor from
$4,000 to 5000 per year.
During the session of 1893 Mr.. StaDger
voted for the corporations and against the
interests of his constituents on Senate bill
No. 20, :" An act to regulate charges and
freight rates on peaches and other fruits. !"
He voted also in favor of the dishonoI-
able partisan scheme TO combine Spring
and Fall elections in Hudson and Essex
counties, which bill was Immediately after
ward declared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. The only object of this
bill was to retain a lot of Ring Office
holders in Office six months after the
terms for which they were elected had
expired. [speaker Watkins spoke and
voted against it because it was both un-
constitutional and unjust.
he voted too, against the repeal of the
notorious Delaware Dam bill, a law which
if eoncurred in by the legislature Of Penn
sylyania would have ruined the sbad fish
cries of the Delaware River.
In the matter of legislation affecting
labor. those men who, as told in recent
report of the State Bureau of Labor and
Statistics, were forced to trade in Company
stores and pay extortionate prices for all
necessaries of life, bis vote was always and
ever cast as the men who profled by that
scheme of payment desired.
If the farmers, business and work ing
men of this county like Trust and Ring
ruled Senator, they will vote for Mr.
stanger. If they want representative of
their own, they will elect Thomas M
Ferrell
The former was nominated by the Ring,
by the use Of a great corruption fund fur
pished BY those he has served so long and
well, and who will at the election on
November use the same methods to
secure his reelection.
The latter was taken from his business
pursuits against his earnest protest, be-
cause of his known fidelity to duty in the
past. The people can trust him to aid in
undoing evils perpetrated and aid in return
ing our state government into an engine of
good for all.