The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-24
Jersey Oity's Cooperation
Counsel Formally An
noRnces His Candidacy
10 SUCCEED SENATOR Dryden
r PLATFo-RM ON WHICH HE
STANDS CONTAINS THE-PRINCI-
PILES ENUNCIATED BY MAYOR
FAGAN AND STATE SENATOR
COLBY.

Corporation Counsel George L. Rec
ord formally announces himself asa can
didate for U. S. Senator to succeed U.
S. Senator Dryden. He says:
Il have decided to become Republi-
can candidate for United States Senator.
If elected shall act as a Republican.
I shall support every act looking to the
maintenance or adoption of the princi-
piles of the Republican party as set forth
in the Hast national Republican platform.
Within the party l shall be a Roosevelt
Republican.
II have been moved to enter the field
by various considerations. The equal tax
agitation, led by Mayor Pagan and Sena-
tor Colby, has disclosed the fact that
the. State republican organization, and in
barge measure the local county ones, are
controlled by political leaders who are
directly or indirectly the representatives
of the great corporations of the State.
While these leaders. in fear of popular
opinion. have allowed us measure of
railroad taxation, their determination to
grant as little as possible to the people
was shown Y the Organization of the
Legislature and the suppression in COM
mittee of many bills demanded by the
public interest. The control by these men
of the party machinery has been TO them
very profitable. and they will net sur
render that control until they are driven
out. The financial issues at stake on the
part of these leaders and their hackers
are much more than the publie suspect.
To make this contest successful we
must fight the machine all along the line,
wherever we find it entrenched. The
principal offices which are the key to the
machine strength OF the State are the
Governorship and the United States Sen
atorships. These offices control a vast
amount of patronage, the possession of
which is absolutely essential to the ma
. chine. The United States Senators prac-
tically select all the Federal employees in
the State. These offices are bestowed in
accordance with the demands of the local
bosses in each county, and are thus used
to strengthen the whole machine That
the corporations, acting through the
State leaders, will endeav& to select the
United States Senator to be elected next
winter. goes without saying. The choice
of the machine is Senator Dryden. They
viii not proclaim this fact from the
housetops, because they fear that Mr..
Dryden's corporate affiliations and his
record have made him unpopular with
the people Their legislative candidates
will therefore dodge the question, so far
as they can. They will say that they
have reached no conclusion on the subject,
or that they Will decide after considering
all the candidates who may be before the
Legislature NEXT winter, or they will give
who may have some local popularity.
But this lodging will fool nobody. The
machine, the bosses and the corporations
are all for Mr.. Dryden. They know him.
They have tried him. OF all men. in
public life in New Jersey Mr.. Dryden
best typifes and represents the funda-
mental idea of machine politics, the al
lance between corporations enjoying or
desiring special privileges and the bosses
Of the party machine. Mfr. Dryden is
president of the Prudential Insurance
Company, whose surplus of over $12,-
100000 gives him powerful influence
in sundry great banks and trust compan-
les He is or has been associated in New
Jersey enterprises with the leading men
of the United Gas Improvement Com
pany OF Philadelphia, the disclosure OF
whose relations with the corrupt Repub-
lican machine bosses of that city recent
" attracted national attention. He il. or
was one of the leading menin the control
of the Public Service Corporation Of New
Jersey. whose alliance with the bosses of
both parties has become notorious.
ss1Ir. Dryden has been five years in
public life. Although his wealth came
s'fronl the fingers of the poor. as Mr..
L;ndapury phrased it, he has7by his rec
ORD created the impression of being in
sympathy with corporations having or
desiring special privileges. He mas op-
posed in the Senate the proposition e
elect United States Senators by popular
ys+e. He mas been counted among the
sAidrsch1 or corporation Senators in the