New-York tribune., 1903-03-27
LIVE JERSEY TOPICS.

LIVE JERSEY TOPICS.
1t is bad enough in all conscience TO see oii-
popular and fndefensible measures passeo py
A legislature having a Republican majority put
to make bills O: that kind caucus measures Is
surely the height of folly Is 1t really deslraOle
to convince the public that some OF the cof-
pcration a1ts, for instance. which are now beng
TANNED through are party legislation? Be
tween sins of commission and Of omission the
lawmakers will have enough explaining to 90
without deliberately hunting for trouble
The Morris Canal schemers not quite so
cocky now as they were two weeks ago Ihey
have realized that at least a few things can
he done no matter what money and political
and corporate influence are behind them.
Several enthusiastic opponents Of the canal
grab have been shouting that 1t is a commission
bill or nothing That is scarcely correct
statement of the situation. Something ls gohs
to be done and pretty soon. too, and II won
be along the lines suggested by the Len1sh
Valley Railroad Company. II satStactory
commission bill be passed and the right kino OF
roap annointed It may be decided to await &C
ton through that body, but that isn't alto-
sether certain. One Of the possibilities "hlch
may gernninate into a probability, Is tnat the
canal company may be indicted for MAINTAIN
ing a nuisance and the Essex County 1Fanu
Jury may arraign the Newark Board or AeaVh
for permitting the nuisance. and tnat the Al
tornev General or somebody else representing
the State of New-Jersey may take tegal pro-
ceedings 10 have the canal charter foFfelteo'
An fncorrigible Joker writes from Trenton
firm
delivers votes on any old bill In return for dele
oo.as IN next wears Gubernatorial convention"
Secretary of State Dickinson owes it to the
public and to himself to investigate fully ana
report the reasons for suppressing the news
about the incorporation of the Beer Lrust ufilll
it suited the trusts purposes to have II naoe
public The fact that any organization mas
been incorporated under the laws or Ne"-Jer-
sew is and ought to be matter of public record
and there is no sound reason why such news
should be kept secret.
Fnitaph for the Primary Elections Reform
hill. Ozone TO death in the house Of its friends
There is mystery about the quiescence OF the
Hon Bob" Davis while his followers are re-
cefvnR orders from ex-senator Smith. Can II
be that these two doughty champions OF all
that is good and noble in political life have mace
or are about to make an alliance covering a
period Of say, twenty months? Their relations
| have undergone many ups and downs. II Whs
Davis who made possible Smiths election TO
! the United States Senate ten years ago by di-
yiding the Hudson delegation in order to get
| even with Albeit. The Senator and the Hudson
| boss gradually drifted apart, however. and when
| the former launched his bitter fight to prevent
| James NJ. Seymour's nomination for Governor
| II was Davis who upset Smiths plans Smith
| repaid the compliment later on by contributing
| TO the defeat of Davis's candidate for Mayor Of
| Jersey City and he took special satisfaction in
| doing this because the candidate happened to
! be E F. c. Young's son-in-law.
| The Passaic News' is another sturdy Repub-
Iican newspaper that cannot swallow the things
| being done in Trenton in the name OF the Re
| publican party. 1t starts plain spoken edi-
| tcrial by saying that no Republican newspaper
| with a soul of it's own can follow the course Of
| legislation at Trenton with any feeling other
| than one Of regret" The News has been one
| of the few Passaic County newspaper champions
| of the trunk sewer project, but it confesses it
self unable to overlook or forgive the part that
| the Republican managers of Essex County have
taken in the legislative halls during the present
| session And The News says that, while 1t is
| probably true that the Morris Canal grab cam
not pass, it is II the shame of the Republicans
| of Essex :hat the bill fathered by them.
1t is in order however. 10 interject here the re-
! mark that those who undertook to deliver the
votes of the Essex delegation for that measure
! couldn't fulfil the contract
The News goes to say that 1t is to the
| shame of the Republicans that the Primary Re-
| form bill has been emasculated, and that 1T Is
| a further source of shame that Republicans have
| introduced measures TO wipe out the rights of
! minority stockholders and TO require indemnity
| bonds from persons securing restraining orders
| against corporations. No such legislation as
| this has been authorized by the Republican
| party, and no such legislation is wanted"
Reference is made to the deal between Essex
! Republicans and Hudson Democrats on the
| Trunk Sewer and Excise hills. to the fact that
! the popular demand for repeal OF the Meeker
| Act has been ignored am the turning down
| OF William Stairsby. Chief OF the Labor Bureau.
, on the order OF Majo- Carl Lentz, which is de-
| scrbed having ar uTssavory appearance" q"
! And last though not least, 1t is declared 10 be
, the shame Of Republicans that there is a very
| evident desire among certain members TO do all
J they bid by the railways and other corpora
tons"
Still while there's lite there's hope. The leRis-
| lature has week yet h Thich TO do some re-