The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-19

put in his bid n waited until the time
for the closing of the bids had passed.
He then heard Mr.. Morgan, of the
commission, ask several times, Where
is George Tobin?" and Tobin's bid
came in after the receipt of bids should
have closed. In this instance. he said,
Tobin was awarded the contract.
In his speech at the opera house to-
night Mr.. Katzenbach still refrained
from mentioning the excise or local option
issue, in accordance with the policy he has
studionsly adhered % since the campaign
opened. He said in part:
We have entered upon a campaign that
is fraught with very great interest and
one that Is of great moment to the peo-.
pie of the state. for the time has now
come when they must get back their
| rights usurped by the Republican party.
Fol twelve years a Republican Governor
has been elected. and this party. reign he
gan because. when the Democrats were in
power, they abused the privileges accord
ed by the people and the. people exercised
their right, as they should have done, In
order to get the change In administration.
We believe today that the conditions are
exactly reversed from what they were
twelve years ago, and that today the Re
publican party has been untrue to Its
trusts and that for this reason the people
of New Jersey will demand a change at
the coming election.
In s~ubstantiation Of charges of misrule
| the CdiluludtE Wtlb mtO a AVhB NNfAo
nation of the illegitimate manner in which
the work of administration has been car
ried on at the State Capitol. To secure
good administration, 1t is necessary, he
explained. that the heads of all depart
ments of State supervise with great vigil
ance the detail work of those departments
He continued;
And yet We find not one. but many ma
lignant violations of trust. There was the
clerk of the Supreme Court, drawing a
salary of $4,000 a year. but, in testimony
submitted before the investigating commit
tee that a Democratic Assembly appointed,
the clerk admitted under oath that he went
to Trenton but one day a week to perform
his official duties; that he arrived at the
Office at IL o'clock and left at 4, taking
about an hour for lunch. and also incident
ally discussing with the heads of other de-
~partments, not the welfare of the State OF
New Jersey, but the welfare of the Repub-
lican party. So we find that this man
worked approximately 20S hours a year,
drawing $1,000, or $50 for each hour he
worked, and that is more than the average
Jerseyman gets for q full weeks work
composed of six days Of from eight to ten
hours each.
Another favorite way of getting money
out OF the State government was for these
ottieeholders to lake two or more posi-
tons. We find the State Treasurer draw
ing 5000 a year ana another salary as
Clerk of Morris County. We contend that
no man can fulfill his duties as treasurer
OIL IniS state ana LIKEWISE QlScndIEt lHOoC
as clerk of a county. We say that dual
office-holding is wrong and that 1t shoufd
be stamped out In the State government;
In most every department of the State II
is found that there are men holding an
office the duties of which are all they can
attend to, yet occupying twp offices and
drawing two salaries.
The Assistant Secretary of State is like
wise head of the Department of Motor
Vehicles. and the Secretary of the De-
partment of Labor is also secretary of the
! Comrnfgci0p h1 wing I'm phnTQp the exhibit
of New Jersey at the jamestown Exposi-
ton. Go into the State Capitol and you
find the men there not d~ischarging. their
duties because not properly supervised.
The commissioners of banking and insur,
ance is the very man in the whole State OF
New Jersey who ought to know best thai
public moneys of State should draw inter
est, but this man took 500, 600. for exam
Ipie, out of the bank where 1t was drawing
interest, and placed 1t In two banking In
lstitutions in one OF which he was director
and for the other Of which he was counsel
and all these are but a few instances show
ing what mismanagement has been going
on under Republican rule which Judge
Fort says has not a stain upon 1t. Till
method of doing business that / have beer
telling about, IL you. as taxpayers, wouic
but realize 1t. has been just the same in 1t;
effect upon you as II the money had beer
taken directly and fraudulently from you
In this connection, speaking of the "Ga
vored" award of bids to Louis Lawton &
Son. Trenton contractors. and the burning
of the FIRMS books when they were calleS
for by the Hahn Investigating committee
Mr.. K~atzenbach concluded with consider
able emphasis as follows:
1t is our claim, gentlemen, that homes
men do not do these things. and that tn
relations between this man Lawton ant
State House commissioners and the Stat
architect were therefore not honest.
could go on at great length telling of sucI
deals. but surely these will call to you
! mind ntharG ahnfIf VuhfaIa tFn14E hnNn oil
ready been informed-and are enough tc
convince n careful thinking man that
Is his duty to vote to change the admin
istration.
Considerable attention was given by the
speaker to his assertion. already made
more than once since he went on the
stump. that a favorite method of the Re-
publican party for distributing money
among its henchmen has been the appoint.
ment OF various commissions, many OF
them having commendable accomplish.
ments as their pretended purposes. Mr.
K~atzenbach declared that to most all OF
these boards men had been appointed who
because of incompetency, could not, il
they desired, render service to the State
And he charged especially that the Board
for the EQUALIZATION of Taxes was made
up for tht sole purpose of keeping the Re.
publican party In power by giving its
supports a good, salary and but very little
Why some of them didn't know as much
as the assessor / heard of who, getting
the values of property. came across his
old friend Pat. II have no property but
a goat" said Pat. And what kind of a
goat?" said the assessor. oh" said Pat.
hes a great butter and he can bound
over the fence with ease" 81 am sorry .
SAID the assessor, but you must pay 81
for that CONT" What. 81 for a goat
said Pat. Yes said the assessor. There
are the written instructions for every piece
OF property abutting and Astounding on
Many of the assessors appointed to the
State board, | assure you. know no more
about the value of property than did this
man. and you here in the audiepce who
have had any extended experience with
the boards will bear out What I say.