The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-04-05

! tion. These efforts at adjustment are
! looked at differently from New York city
! From here ii is observed that the trend
/. has changed at Trenton In addition 70
4 the new legislation last year-giving Two
/ thirds OF those present the power for
merly held only by "two-thirds OF ALL
ana abridging the necessity OF declaring
| MS dividends practically ''all the surplus
and the passage of the Steel-Trust Bill
the other day by pressure OF the lobby,
old methods of administration in the CHIEF
offices have given way. Gov. Murphy,
though a man of ideals and good inte1-
tons. seems TO have already gone long
step backward, or sidewise, and, is any
way, quite off the path that is strew with
durable satisfactions
Certainly today New jerseys policy
| is not that of the past. which included
keeping lone Secretary of State for twen-
ty-seven years Governor Griggs made
break in that when he put out Stockton
as Ottorney General and appointed Gen
eral Sewells friend Grey to the place,
and put in George Wurts as Secretary u
State as personal appointment He
| had the excuse, which Governor Murphy
is deprived OF. that the men removed were
i
/ and his appointees did keep in subordi-
nate places men who had proved them
selves valuable during many years. Gov
ernor Murphy has not only refused reap
pointment to Griggs's men, who are of
his own party, and against whom there
was no known criticism, but has placed
in their offices politicians with no special
qualifications, who are removing the ex-
henchmen. Governor Murphy probably
| makes no secret Of the fact that his ap-
pointments to the Attorney Generalship
and the State Secretaryship we're made in
payment of political debts.
PAYING POLITICAL DEBTS
Senator MeCarter. who got the Attor-
-Generalship, was the Chirman of the
committee which conducted Mr.. Murphy's
campaign. and was the one who had
nominated him in convention. Samuel D.
Dickinson, who was made Secretary of
State, has long been Republican boss of
Hudson County. and was the original
Murphy man" of the State. Senator Nc
Carter, the new Attorney General, is or
was general counsel for the Fidelity Title
and Deposit Company. which is the bank
ing institution of the Prudential Life In
surance Company. He is young, but was
Republican leader in the Senate, and
from what is told of his attitude toward
questionable bills, seems scarcely de-
sirable man for the place. Col Dickinson
is like all political bosses. Already,
though he has hardly yet taken office, his
friends have suggested to at least one Jer-
sew corporation that it would be grand
idea to find dictatorship for him at
salary of 2,500 a year. There is no evil
dence that Col Dickinson knew anything
about the suggestion. Politicians are in
variably lied about in these matters, as
everybody knows.
It is expected that Colonel Dickinson,
being political boss, viii not fancy the
custom of keeping men in his Secretary
Of States office simply because they have
been faithful and efflcient and are famil-
lar with corporation law and the business
of the office generally. Mr.. Hickey, As
sistant Secretary Of State for thirty-eigfht
years, will have to go to make room for
]. b. r. Smith, who owns a couple of
newspapers in Warren County. where he
wields no little influence in politics. and
is a much more important man for that
reason There are some Democrats in the
moved by other Republican adnlfnistra-
tions on account of the stability of JeT-
sey's policy in all that concerns her re-
lations with corporate interests. But
Colonel Dickinson it is announced. is not
the man to allow ''the heavy burden OF
responsibility to devolve upon a subordi-
naJte,s and he Will "inaugurate a reform"
by doing good deal of the work himself
on these corporate interests.
AS Comptroller, a man named Morgan of
Camden has been appointed, of whom it
is said that he has had no experience in
financial management The worst thing
against him is that he is a politician, and
dlspiaces a Comptroller long in office
Not the law alone, but the policy back
of it-fifty-six years record in the admin
istration of it's what capital has lik
ed about New Jersey. Most of the new
great consultations and interpretations
which raised up the doubt referred to III
the presidents message are New Jersey
corporations. If there is to be a change
toward laxity in her policy and control
at the very moment when people general
~ desire special strictness, the movement
to defect her privileges to the Federal
Government at Washington will receive
an impetus. 1t is held by numerous
economists that it is wrong. anyway. fol
different States TO have different laws af-
feeting corpora tions whose businesses
extend through many States. Interstate
warfare has resulted; and 1t is remarked
that this contest between States has
reached that point where the State Of
Minnesota has openly charged the State
of New Jersey with permitting a great