The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-15
ROBBINS DEgIES
EMPHATICALLY
Assemblyman selscsed by
the G. @. P. Caucus As
Speaker Says He Made No
Trunk Sewer Promises
TAUaTs COLBY ON HIS RECORD
SAYS SENATOR ELECTS CON
NEcTIoN WITH THE CANAL
BILL WAS NOT SUCH AS TO
RENDER HIM IMPROBABLE
TO CRITICISM.


RENDER HIM IMPROBABLE
TO CRITICISM.
Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News.'')
NEWARK, Dec. Is, 1995.-In a
statement issued TO my fellow citizsrs
of the State of New Jersey" Assemb, y
man Samuel X Robbins. of BurIng Oh
County, who was chosen last Tuesday
at thee aueus of Republican members of
the Assembly in Trenton as the candi-
date for Speaker of the Horse. delied
that he had given a promise to ASSEM-
blyman Henry Marelli, of the Passaic
delegation, to allow no trunk sewer bill
to be passed by the Legislature that
will affect Passaic County, and also de-
nies the insinuation of the anti-caucus
Republicans of Essex, Hudson and I'm
ion counties. that corporation influences
were responsible for his selection as the
party nominee.
He characterizes the charges "as whoi-
~ false and without foundation and
known to be so by those who made
them" He charges unfairness of treat
ment and compares his record in the
House with that of Senator-elect Everett
Colby. especially on the Morris Canal
abandonment bill
The statement, which was sent from
Mr.. Robbins's home in Moorestown, and
is signed by the prospective Speaker. is
as follows
"To my fellow citizens of the stale of
New Jersey
Il cannot notice all of the tings that
may be said by an unfair enemy. will
not, however, permit any aspersions upon
my personal integrity to pass unnoticed.
Fer this reason l will cali the attention
of the people to two references to myself.
One contained in the Newark Evening
News of yesterday to the effect that
had given some sort of promise that no
trunk sewer bill affecting the County of
Passaic will be passed in the House, and
ng Mr.. Marelti of the Passaic dele
;, as authority for the statement;
d. the insinuation contained in the
lie address of the Essex delegation
and portion of the Hudson delegation
read before the Republican CAUCUS that
corporate influences of this State were
responsible for my selection as the Re-
publican nominee for Speaker
Both statements 1 wish to brand pub
licly as wholly false and without founda-
tion, and known to be so by those who
made them. As matter of fact, do
not believe that Mr. Marelli ever made
the statement attributed to him, for the
reason that both Mr. M:relli and myself
had. the very afternoon that the publi-
cation wss made. publicly stated at a
caucus of the Republican members, at
which the Newark Evening News had
a correspondent present. that l had not
given any such pledge or promise
III the Newark Evening News had
been fair in its publication it would not
have left cut the answer to this reflection
upon my candidacy for the office of
Speaker, by suppressing that portion of
the proceedings CT the Republican caucus
at which this denial was explicitly made
by me and confirmed by Mr. MareEi. So
much for that. 1t viii not hart me; nor
do believe that such methods are CON
eeiSed in a spirit of reform.
"My record in the House of Assembly
for two years has been an open book.
The intimation, that no one has dared
openly to make, is the first suggestion
that I was or could be made subservient
to corporate influences. l have neither
asked or sought the support of single
corporation, either within or without the
State. My record in the Assembly has
been such that l would not expect to re-
eeive it if had asked.
when the present senator-elect frem
Essex County, then member OF the
House, was last year swallowing bodily
the. Morris Canal Abandonment bill aud
voting against every amendment caleu-
lated to protect the interests of the
State, and finally for the bill itself in ali
its Objectionable form. which of all
measures coming before the Legislature
was probably supported mora strenuous
y By corporate Influence than any 9TH
er, il is not for him and his followers to
sit in Judgment and condemn me as a
creature of the corDora fifq,s The rn,sn,.d