Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-01
1T MAKES THEM sQUIRM.

The following editorial which APP
reared in the Newark Evening News,
is making Boss Strong's forces squirm
some and well it might. Read it and
Judge for yourself:
Boss Strong, of Middlesex county,
is finding that the constitution IS a
very dangerous weapon in the nanus
of those who don't know how to use
it. For example, he charges Colonel
Fordyce with holding the military
Office of deputy quartermaster gener-
al. with the rank OF lieutenant-colo-
nell and with drawing $3.50 pay dur
ing the time he was on military duty
at the Sea Girt encampment, which
was during the term for which ne
was elected assemblyman and while
he was holding the latter office Boss
Strong quotes the constitution, which
declares that members of the senate
and general assembly shall receive an
nually the sum of $500 y y y and no
other allowance or emolument, d.
rectly or indirectly, for any purpose
whatever
That this refers to civil offices is
made perfectly plain by another sec
ton of the constitution, but in trying
to make it appear that Colonel o
dyce is guilty of graft Boss Strong
~entangles himself in the constitution
: al snare that he set for another. For
it D that in March, 1908, while
Strong was still senator from Mid
dlesex, he was appointed a member
. of the state board of assessors at a
salary of $4,000 a year, and that un-
: less he paid back the $500 he receiv-
4 ed for that years salary as senator,
or refused to receive any pay as as
y SCISSOR from March, 1905, 10 Jaft-
ary 1, 1904, he received double pay,
in the appointment to n holding OF
n civil office. which is expressly pro-
hibited by the states fundamental
n law.
.With reference to the coming
struggle for the senatorial nomina
ton in Middlesex, it is insisted by the
regular organs that the question is
h whether Senator Jackson shall be Civ
en- another term or Colonel Fordyce
be given the toga. In truth this is
not the question at all. 1t is whether
h the Joss shall continue to be boss, or
whether the people shall say and do
= what they think is right and best, IT.
respective of what the boss may think
or say about it.. If Mr.. Jackson were
as free and independent as Colonel
1t Fordyce, which he is not, the issue
\ might be between men,, but now 1t Is
between the principle of Independent
4 citizenship and the policy of bossism.
Mr.. Jackson is held in the leash oil
Boss Strong. He does everything the
u boss demands and nothing the boss
opposes. He is good if the boss al
. lows him to be good, but he kills such
= bills as the boss tells him to kill.
Colonel Fordyce was subservieni
20 to Boss Strong till he got his eyes
opened by experience, and then he re.
a fused to veal the machine collar anc
a. be dragged at the wheels of thu
Strong chariot. He declared his in
y dependence, just as did Colby in Els
bit sex. and when Boss Strong says tina
Jackson and Jackson only, must hav'
d" the nomination, Colonel Fordyce l
an inclined to see about it. AS far a
90 the constitution goes it condemn
Boss Strong without harming For
ne dyce, but as far as the principles O
f. independent citizenship and good gov
eminent go, the MiddleseX boss Is III
alterably opposed to them, and IL n
en- can't name Jackson he Significant
predicts a democratic victory
as