Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-10-24
THE GREED|EST CROWD
Not Even Postage Stamp Pen
MES Get Away From Them.
TELLlALE OFFICIAL ITEMS.

For Incidentals or Stationery Gets
Back Into the State Treasury.
Unique Proof of the Need Of katzen-
bach's Turn the Rascais Out" Cam
paien.
Trenton, Oct 16 In the series of
striking addresses he is delivering to
the voters all over the state Frank S.
Katzenbach. the Democratic candidate
for the governorship of New Jersey, Is
going on the assumption that there can
be no clean government without
clean ofiicialism The glimpse the
Hahn investigators have given of the
nest of corruption into which her in
trenched and arrogant latter day rul-
ers have turned the statehouse had
stirred the people into an agitation for
change even before he came to lead
them with his slogan, Turn the ras
Gals outr' Their discussions are all one
needs to convince him that the people
readily grasp his point when he con-
tends that there is no use of trusting
party long in Office with the duty of
purifying itself. Indeed, a body so
drunk with power that it baIks not at
the killing Of the unfortunates in the
state lunatic asylums or at the de-
bauchery of the youth in the state re-
formatories would take favoring
vote as a vindication or a conformation
and find in popular victory for its
side only fresh license for new ex-
cesses. 1t is the history of all parties
the moment they are sent out to re-
form themselves they are more wicked
and reckless than before.
1t is the unhappy fate Of New Jersey
that her very greatness and prosperity
should have submitted her to the inya-
sion of the hungriest crew of looters
that ever tried to pluck community.
1t was her growing wealth that lured
them. Little did that great Democratic
c0mmoner, Leon Albeit, dream when
he provided new sources OF a splendid
income for her that he was to fill her
purse with gold that would only make
her the prey of the political bandits
He gave her progressive and his
torically vigorous government with less
than million and a half to maintain
it. They speedily ran the annual outlay
up past the $3,000,000 mark and last
year up away beyond $4,500.000, and
yet their greed was unappeased. New
Jersey had to go down into her stock
ing for another $4,000 before they
were gorged. For the new year the
balance sheet will exceed the S6,OOO,-
900 mark by some $4,000, and if they
be left in power to do it they will prob
ably consume all of that and want
more again.
The Hahn committee has dra gged
some of the unworthy crew into the
light Of day. But what has been re-
yeaIed is doubtless but the smallest
part Of what there is to find. The par
Elephants could a thousand other and
worse tales unfold But they won't.
They burn their books or run away
when the limelight is turned upon
them. Even today the state is treated
to the inspiring spectacle of one of her
chief men making fugitive Of HIM
self because Of his guilty knowledge
The care with which Squire, the chief
of the Railway reformatory managers.
is keeping himself beyond the reach of
the committees process is his own
confession of the wickedness of which
he is at least cognizant.
But. then. in spite of all the book
burning and of all the flights from the
pursuit of justice. enough has been
disclosed to show how shamefully the
state has been looted by her rulers and
how persistently and Systematically.
They have not allowed a single guilty
penny to escape, and they resort to all
tricks. big and small, to reach her
fieshpots Some drain her gold into
their pockets most all of the state
chiefs. indeed-by taking pay for sery-
ices and not rendering them. Riker.
the supreme court clerk. he who takes
$4,000 per year for walking around his
Office for four hours week. is the
most shining of this class of offenders.
One can imagine the smiling uncfion
with which the states finance officials
put his $4,000 check in his hands. And
yet in almost pathetic contrast is the
story In State Comptroller Morgan's
last annual report of his refusal to pay
a little boy page a ten dollar check be-
cause the child couldn't wouldn't,
rather swear that he had rendered the
paltry service for it, and right follow
ing it in the report is the story of the
holdup of an humble First regiment
guardsman's seven dollar and half
check because he had not put In full
time at the camp at Sea Grit
And then, to get all of the states
gold that can be had. there Is a whole
slew of commissions made up Of com.
mIssioners who do not see their Offices
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