The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-09
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command, for a bunch of designations now very much overdue
Here is the list
Colonel Dickinson, Secretary of State.
Foster M. voorhees,, State Water Commissions.
All the Managers of the Trenton Insane Asylum.
The best interests of the State demand the. retirement OF
these officials and there is no good public reason for their re-
tenion. There are ways and means for getting rid of them.
Those who have the power of election and fail to Use it can
hardly complain if the voters find methods of their own to ex-
press dissatisfaction.
After Warden Hayes gave his testimony he had served his
purpose so far a the Trenton asylum managers were concerzed;
And so they persuaded him to resign Now, if they'll only
follow his example we shall, all of us, try to forget and forgive.
There can. be only one sound and logical reason for Eugene
Enjoys appointment as counsel to the Senate Investigating
Committee. If the intention is to probe the Paterson election
frauds, then he is the best man that could have been chosen,
because he is familiar with the facts and knows all about the
testimony submitted to three Grand Junes and ignored by them!
Other justification for his selection there is not. Eliminating
the election scandal, his appointment would be improper, mas
much as he already holds Office as Prosecutor of Passaic County.
To show up the election c~rookedness is, however, sufficient rea-
son for employing him.
Alfred N. Dakymple is lining up the Essex County Repub-
lican Committee for Judge Fort, and it looks now as if Major
Carl Lentz, in his fight for Judge Pitney, would find a majority
of his former lieutenants ranged against him.
The man who said of ohceholden that 'few die and none
resign" would be acclaimed a prophet had he lived in New
Jersey.
Edwin Robert Walker, a Trenton lawyer, is out with a brief
in which he, proves to his own satisfaction that managers are
not expected to manage, that they Ire simply expected to look
handsome and that they have neither responsibility nor culpa-
for mismanagement, neglect, incompetence II calous indif-
ference. A very comfortable doctrine-for the managers. Try,
you can, however, to conceive of the managers of a private
business making any such plea.
By the way, is this the same Mr.. Walker who has been the
and adviser of Colonel Sam Dickinson all through his
Our Wall Street friends are. having a great game all by
They want to prove that it is both wrong and
unwise to make the railroad companies, the Standard Oil Com
pany and other Trusts obey the law.
"We1l show them" is their valiant declaration.
Their way of showing US is to hammer down the price. of
stocks and then have all their agents. claqueurs and newspaper
organs ready to shout in chorus
"Now, see what you've done Killing prosperity Bring
ing on a panicP'
But, somehow, there is no panic. Outside of the specu-
lators and gamblers, nobody seems to be exched-not even dis.
turbed. The prospects are good for fine crops, manufacturers
are busy, >drummers report large orders and, altogether, the
outlook is exceedingly rosy. The conditions do not favor a
made-to-order panic.
1t is so easy and seLsaisfying to blame all our mis-
governments and maladminstraton on "the foreign element. ;"
Yet when we look across to Pennsylvania and make inquiries
about the grafters who have made the very name of popular
government a mockery in that State we find few of the So
called foreigners,
Between railroad grade crossings, reckless automobiles and
the discovery every day of new microbes and germs, there is
apparently little likelihood that this country will be overcrowded
for some years to come.
For Governor: A man who will see to it that every right
of the State is protected, that State officials shall do their full
duty, that the wards of the State are humane1y cared for and
that disloyaty to the public interests, or neglect or incorn-
potency shall be swiftly and adequately punished.
Possibly-just possibiy-the colbyites in Hudson County are
right m their contention that Senator Colby would be a stronger
Gubernatorial candidate in that county than Frank Sonmer,
but that is certainly not the case in Essex.
There is some curiosity to know why the Hudson folks are
so urgent in their revival of the Colby boom. They know full
well that Senator Colby won't run. Rightly or wrongly, their
attitude creates the impression that they want to get up on the