Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-10
WHAT OUTSIDE
PAPERS THINK
Some Editorials from New York
and Philadelphia Newspapers
Regarding Jersey Election.
New Jersey.

and came so nearly delivering the
state into the hands of the democrats
ON Tuesday.
1t was Dryden and what Dryden
stands for.
Without the aid of a fight for a
Roosevelt congress, the republicans
probably would have lost the state on
the Dryden issue. In the face of what
has happened will they persist in the
folly of returning Dryden to the SEN
ate, to help there in defeating the
Roosevelt programme?
We urge New Jersey republicanism
to utter it's loudest protest against
such an act OF assassination of their
party. If they do not get rid of Dry
den now the people will get rid of the
republican party in New Jersey two
years hence.-New York Press.
Reforms Triumph in New Jersey.
Political reforms sometimes are
achieved despite seeming defeat. The
recent history of New Jersey gives
striking illustration of the truth of
this observation. In 1904, Charles
C. Black, democratic candidate for
governor, was defeated in the Roose-
veltian landslide, after a gallant fight
on the issue of, equal taxation. Rail-
road property was taxed at the rate
of SO cents per hundred dollars of
valuation; other property paid rates
running as high at $3.50 per hundred
and the average state rate was over
So. Here was certainly a glazing in
equality. Candidate Blacks shibbo-
leth became the cry of a republican
reform-within-the-party movement In
1905; and, although it failed In Cam
den, it came very near loosening the
grip of the machine on that rock-rib-
bed republican stronghold-and 1t
swept the organization off its feet in
several of the northern counties.
The effect was such that the COVER
nor was constrained to advocate the
reform in his message to the legisla-
ture, and that body, though composed
in the main of servitors of the organi-
cation, will-nilly adopted an equal tax
at the penitential session OF
1906. The law is far from perfect,
and the corporation lawyers may yet
succeed in their contemplated attacks
on it's constitutionality. But mean
while it stands as a monument to the
influence of aroused public opinion.
The schedule filed on Saturday last
with the state controller by the state
board of assessors calls for the pay
ment of taxes upon main stem
property by the railroad and canal
companies of the state to the amount
of $500, 000-considerably more
than three times the tax paid by
these corporations last year. And this
on a basis of valuation which compe-
tent authorities opine to be too low.
Another case in point is the repu-
diation by the voters of New Jersey
of Senator Dryden. When the move
ment for reform within the party
was apparently killed at the primaries
in September last-partly by ballot
box stuffing, as in Camden, partly by
the raising of false issues, as in Els
sex, and partly in consequence of mis-
takes in leadership-the organization
imagined it would have clear sailing.
Dryden was the logical" candidate,
for he owned the Prudential, which
owned the Public Service Corpora
ton, which owned the state commit
tee, which owned the county bosses,
who owned the nominating conven-
lions, which named the aspirants for
last Legislature the democrats had six
primaries Dryden was considered as
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thimble-rig primaries under a defec-
tive law than to carry an election con-
Quoted under fairly good safeguards
against fraud.
There was apparently little life in
the democratic party of the state, but
it had sufficient vitality left to be-
the seats in the legislature. After the
hands of the people to cheat the boss
es of their expected triumph. In the
come available as an instrumental the
out of a total membership of eighty
one: in the Legislature which will as
semble in January next, the demo-
Gratis will have thirty-seven and pos
sibly ~thirty-eight members, leaving
the republicans 43, or at the most "A
on joint ballot. 1t will take Al votes
to elect a United States senator, and
at least four republicans will not vote
for Dryden under any circumstances.
The machine leaders shout victory,
but there is bitterness in their
mouths. Dryden is out of the race.
The reformers have again triumphed,
though seemingly defeated.-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Sorrow of Glorious Holm.