Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-04
REUUkD Is NUI
WORRIED By 1T
If Regulars" Have ANY Expos
urss to Make Let En- Come"
He Says.

He Says.
George L. Record, the only an
nounced republican candidate for the
ONCE of United States :enator, now
filled by John F. Dryden, says that
the anonymous threats of an expos
ure of some kind. calculated to put
him out of the running. emanating,
he assumed from the Irregular" or
ganfzatfon, was giving him little or
no concern.
Harry Seovel, an assemblyman
from Camden, attacked by standing
during the last session Of the legisla-
ture," said Mr.. Record, and / i'm
mediately issued to him a challenge
to demonstrate the proof of the as
sertions, which he, as a privileged
assemblyman, had made on the floor
of the house. My challenge was not
accepted, and | can hardly be called
upon now to answer attacks made up
on me by innuendo only"
Further than this Mr.. Record de-
clines at this time to discuss the sit
uation. His attitude is one of de-
fiance, which a be changed only by
specific allegations, instead of the
vague assertions of something which
do not at the present time place Mr..
Record on the defensive.
AS to the intimation that his can-
didacy is only a/subterfuge to CON
fuse the situation and make the issue
one between himself and Mr.. Dryden,
to be settled by his withdrawal at the
proper time in consideration of an
appointment of encouragement, to
succeed Robert H. McCarter, Mr..
Record says 1t is too absurd to war
rant a denial.
AS to any allegation of wrongdoing
on his part in connection with the So
called Jersey City bond sweetener
BILL" the new idea" candidate for
Mr.. Dryden's place says his record in
that matter is like unto an open book.
Records Work for Flynn.
In 1899, when Patrick Flynn Sc
cured a contract from Jersey City to
furnish that municipality with a new
water supply Allan l.. McDermott
was the corporation counsel of Jersey
City. Mr.. Record was counsel to the
State Riparian Commission. He had
quite a reputation at that time as be-
ing an adept in engineering water
supply contracts because of the sue
cess he made in financing the SYRIA
cuse Water Company of New York,
and Flynn, who was in need of mon
ey, appealed to Record as an avail
able man to secure for him a loan of
$4,000, 900.
Mr.. Record, as a broker, took the
contract on a contingent fee and APP
peared before the Railroad and Can
al Committee of the senate In 1900
in advocacy of a bill permitting the
abandonment of the Morris canal as
a step preliminary to obtaining for
Flynn the desired loan.
Mr.. McDermott then a senator,
William d. Edwards, as special coun-
sci for Jersey City, and William H.
Corbin, representing the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad and the East Jersey
Water Company, all argued in favor
of the bin.
Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pit
ney, at that time president of the
senate, opposed the measure, and 1t
was defeated. Some time thereafter
the East Jersey Water Company,
through the First National Bank of
New York, advanced to Flynn the
money necessary to complete the Jer-
sey City water supply system.
Meantime Mark M. Pagan was
elected mayor of Jersey City, and
when Mr.. Record was suggested as
corporation attorney objections were
raised because of his connection with
the Flynn end of the water contract.
The objections did not prevail, and
he was made counsel, to succeed Mr..
McDermott, who retired a year be-
ore his term expired.
BY that time Mr.. Record had sew
ered his connection with Flynn. for
whom he was unable to secure a loan
and from whom he received no fee.
Jersey City wanted it's new water
supply, and Mr.. Record, advised by
william H. Corbin, prepared a bill
authorizing a bond issue which would
be a lien on the e water plant.
Corbin Approved Bill.
AS originally prepared, the bill
would have made the bonds a blank
mortgage on the city, a feature to
which Mr.. Record objected. With
the bill changed to suit his ideas, he
sent it back to Mr.. Corbin, and the
latter Endorsed it wv. III. c., o. K"
In that shape Record offered it to AS
semblyman Fielder to introduce, and
the latter declined that task.
Assemblyman Duff took the bill
introduced it and it was defeated.
One year later Duff re~introduced the
bill, which then appeared to be OPP
posed by Mr.. Corbin and James B.
Vreedenburg, who was associated
with him as special counsel for the
East Jersey Water Company. The
bill passed, and several weeks after
the session adjourned 1t was vetoed
by Governor Stokes.
The object sought by the water
company in opposing the bill, Mr.,
Record said, was a continuance Of its
contract to supply the city for per-
haps twenty-five years at $35 per mil
lion gallons. AS for the investiga-
ton into his record as an official OF
the riparian commission, Mr.. Record
says he is willing to abide by the re.
suit of the proposed investigation.
"Too little and too much spoil ev
erVthing"-Or WOu1d do so ~ It wars