The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-27
COLBY SEEKS TO
BREAK RECORD
It Is Said TIE Hudson Deus
Ex Machina Plays Proyi-
dsnce Too stren1oasly to
Please the Essex Leader
BOSSES GUT B0sSED
JERSEY cITY's CORPORATION
COUNSEL THINKS He RUNS F'A-
GAN so SUCCESSFULLY He
SHOULD RUN EVERYBODY AND
EVERYTHING IN THE STATE.

SHOULD RUN EVERYBODY AND
EVERYTHING IN THE STATE.
Especial to The Jersey City News.'')
TRENTON, Dee. %. 1905. There is
story aaoat here, with no absolute
source of verifcation, thar George r..
Record. Of Hudson County, and Everett
| Colby, of Essex County, have quarreled
about the program to be followed in the
coming Legislature and that accounts Tor
Colby staying in the Republican Sena-
toTial caucus last week.
1t is said that Record wanted to com
promise with the Republican State lead
ers, and get as much as he could from
them and then next year try to elect
more members from diffe@nt counties so
that the full program might be carried
! out
Records idea was that campaign
could be carried on all summer as it
was in Essex County last summer, and
in the different counties strength would
come TO the Colby plan in the next Legjs-
latyre
! Colby did net relish this plan and he
/ said to Record that its adoption would
compromise him with the people in Es-
sex County who voted for him, thinking
that he would not compromise with the
Republican State leaders.
Colby says that the Republican State
leaders Will have to bow to the peoples
wishes as expressed in hi3 election, be-
cause they will hardly wish to antagan-
ize against a coming election of COVER
-nar: in .iarge prnpnrtiona of the
/ 81, ,1M Republicans who cast their bal
/ lots in Essex and Hudson Counties last
fall. In fact Republican Governors Of
this State have generally been elected
by majorities of about 17,G00 except in
the last campaign when the popularity
of Edward Casper Stokes carried every.
thing before it.
Because of an these things Colby be.
lieyes that he should not compromise as
rumor has it Record is trying to force
him to do. "The issue is clear cut
one" says Colby.
In the midst of all this activity, Gov
ernor Stokes is writing his message 10
the legislature. The document viii be
done next week and during the holGaya
the governor is doing much work ON it.
While there is no way to get at the
facts he will use in the message, it is
believed that the governor will discuss
in no uncertain tone the limited fran
chise proposition He is a believer in
the principles of home rule and If is
thought that he VIII advocate limited
! franchises as a matter of home rule
right IN various counties calling atten-
| ton to the fact that these franchises
are getting more and more valuable qpd
that they are eating up the assets of
the people without any adequate return.
| Beng an ardent advocate of enriching
the municipalities from the wealth Of
the state, it is likely that the goyernos
will discuss in his coming message meas
ures for helping the people in paying
their municipal bills. One of these ways
is to cut off entirely the state school
tax. At present it IS II cents on the
one hundred dollars, made so by ove-
| one million of dollars of railroad and
corporation franchise taxes being dis
+ tributed TO the various school districts.
/ The governor is likely to advocate the
use Of more state moneys to the total
| elimination of this tax on the people,
One of the ways to raise this money
and not impair the states revenue. has
4 DSSii SuSSCSlctl III lhE OpStt AtlleI III
State Chairman Briggs to the county
chairman. and is to increase the taxing
of railroad property, not on the alleged
unfair basis of the Record idea, but on
such valuations that the school tax be
eliminated.
The Governor has been studying the
multiplying of municipalities by the OPP
Grafton Of the borough law and the CON
sequent increase in municipal expenses
through many political offices, and he is
likely to sayN something about this mat
ter in his message. In fact he inti-
mated strongly to q committee the other
day that he would do 50. He cannot
see that it would help the taxpayers Of
the State to eliminate their school fax
and then allow them to run into greater
taxation thr ough the forming Of mn
necessary boroughs.