Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-10
COLBY is IN
BURLINGTON.
General E. BHrd Grabb Heads the
Reform Movement There
a Permanent Organization.

BURLINGTON, May 10.-Under
what its leaders consider more than
ordinarily favorable auspices, the
, Colby movement was launched in
Burlington county last night. About
nifty representative citizens of the
county met at Edgewater Park at the
home of General Edward Burd Grub,
republican candidate for governor
against Leon Albeit in 1889 and for
mer United States minister to Spain,
and took steps for organizing a
branch of the movement.
Among those who participated in
the proceedings were former Assem-
blyman George Wildes, Postmaster
Nathan Hays, of Burlington, and for
lei Mayor Charles Flanders, of Bur-
lington. Word was received from for
mer Assemblyman Charles Wright
that he favored the movement and
was unavOidably compelled to remain
away from the meeting.
Senator Everett Colby, of Essex,
and Corporation Counsel George l.
Record, and Comptroller Thomas Nc
Evan, of Jersey City, addressed the
assemblage.
The meeting was called to order
by DR.. Ellsworth Adams, of Beverley,
and General Grub was chosen chair
man. The general explained that
the meeting was to i%naugurate in
Burlington county the movement for
better government which was MAX
ing such Roadway in other parts of
the state. Those present who want
ed a new, a better government in
New Jersey were not boilers, he de-
clared, nor rebels against the republi-
can party. They were, however, all
loyal republicans who desired to
bring about that better government
they sought through the republican
party.
He then introduced Senator Colby,
who was enthusiastically received.
The Essex man related the history of
the new idea" as he called it, from
it's inception. He told of his entrance
into politics and of his awakening in
the assembly to the fact that the re-
publican party in New Jersey was
dominated BY the corporations
through the bosses.
Senator Colby then told of the eff
forts of the reformers In the last leg
islature to obtain much-needed re-
forms, and how all those efforts were
thwarted by the control the corpo-
rations maintained over the majority.
He retold of his experience with the
promoters liability BILL" and that
of Assemblyman Bierck, of Hudson,
with his bill to allow Jersey City to
sell water to West Hudson townships,
the pledge to report which was stolen
from his desk after it had been bro
ken into. IS
1--WE are going into every county
in the state to make this fight" Mr..
Colby said, in closing, land we want
you here in Burlington to help us,
and you cannot help us unless you or
ganize."
The Essex senator was followed by
Mr.. Record, who spoke, of the shock
it gave him when, at the instance of
General Grubb, the Hudson ballot
boxes were opened in 1890 and dis
closed the great frauds of the fall be-
fore.
Comptroller McEwan also spoke,
telling of the fight which Mayor Fa-
gan had waged in Jersey City in the
interests of the people. and Rev. Mr..
Stockwell, of Beverly, told of the
need of the new idea in Burling-
ton.
Former Assemblyman Wildes
spoke at length, giving some of his
experiences with bosses and machine
rule while he was a member of the
house.
Chairman Grubb was authorized to
appoint a committee on permanent
organization, which he said, he would
announce later. The meeting adj
iourned to meet two weeks from last
night, when it is thought that a per-
manent organization will be effected.