Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1905-08-18

MEN ON THE
HONOR ROLL.
Everett Colby Tells Who We're
With Him in Fight for Linn
ited Franchise.
HENRY AND FORDYCE.
Mr.. Colby Writes to Local As
sembIyman Regarding Mat
ter Refers to Editorial.

Inc HBHl ENerell -. COlDy, VI n-S-
sex county lis putting up for limited
! franchises and equal taxation is be-
ing watched with interest through
out the state. Mr. Colby was un-
successful in his efforts to get his
! limited franchise resolution through
the legislature last winter and he
now appeals to the people for elec-
| tion to the state senate to continue
his fight.
Mr.. Colby has been misquoted re-
garding those who stood with him
during the legislative session and the
following letter has been received by
DR.. f. c. Henry, assemblyman from
Middlesex last year.
Newark, N. j., Aug. IS, 1905.
Hon Frank G. Henry,
Perth Amboy,
New Jersey.
My dear Doctor:
/ noticed that some of the news
papers in the state have incorrectly
quoted men in one of my speeches
to the effect, that only two OF the
republican assemblymen stood by me
in my limited franchise resolution.
| regret very much that this mis-
take has been made, An editorial
appeared yesterday afternoon in the
Newark Evening News correcting this
impression and giving the names of
those who stood by me in my fight.
I appreciated, at the time, your
| lo If 70 from
my intention not to give full credit
to you for our splendid stand.
Wishing you the best of luck,
[ remain,
Yours very truly,
Everett Colby.
The letter is written on stationery
bearing the heading: Republican
Committee for Limited Franchises
and Equal Taxation"
The Editorial.
The editorial in the Newark News
to which Mr.. Colby has reference,
appeared last night under the head
ing, "Mr. Colby's Seen Assembly
men" 1t was as follows:
"Some of the newspapers of the
state have misread the reports of the
remarks made by Everett Colby in
this city recently when he was ex-
planning how the corporation man
ayers and lobbyists had defeated his
resolution intended to put the leg
islature on record as in favor of linz
tied franchises. The papers referred
to are making it appear in their com
ments that Mr.. Colby charged that
all members of tho Assembly had
( seen" and persuaded or forced
to vote against the proposition after
the great majority of them had prom
ised they would support 1t. But that
was not exactly the meaning Mr.. Col
by intended to convey. His asser-
ton was that he had pledges of
enough votes to pass the resolution,
including nearly the solid Essex del
egation, but that after he told one
of the county leaders of that fact
he discovered, much to his chargin
hat his supposed friends had been
''seen," and that all but two of the
Essex observation-disclosures. Man
ners and Johnstone-had gone back
on him.
sit will be remembered that 4
republican caucus settled the fate oil
the Colby resolution. That gather
ing was behind closed doors and no
record was kept of its proceedings.
, It is to. be regretted that no official
check list of the vote there taken on
the Colby resolution was kept, for
had such list been available 1t
would be possible to pick out every
republican assemblyman in the state
that Mr.. Colby alleges had been
"seen." The nearest approach to a
! record that would throw light on the
, actual vote in the caucus was on the
floor of the Assembly on February
IA. when the Colby resolution came
lup as the special order or business
= Before the roll could be called, Lead
er Duffield offered amendments thai
made the resolution entirely mean.
! ingless from Colby standpoint, and
pushed it to vote. There were
! nineteen assemblymen recorded
, against the amendments and ten o.
\ them were republicans---Me
Coyne, Fordyce, F. G. Henry, Hoag
land, Johnstone, Manners, Mareli
Shaw, VanDerveer and Wright.
. that list, with Mr.. Colby himself, in
cludes all who stood up to the pledg
es made to him, then it must b.
figured that the other thirty-four re
publican members of the assembl,
) we're either seen" or were amoni