The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-24
Republican Encouragement.
From the elizabeth Times, Dem.l

L TOLL Lit GliAdOCbh IAiCDg DCAAHI
Mismanagement, cruelty, Incompetence
and practical theft of public funds has
been the practise in the various State in
situations. The public has been mulcted
in the sum of hundreds of thousands an
nually in order that favorites might be
maintained in official sinecures and party
leaders and helpers lead lives of ease and
luxury at the taxpayers expense. 1t is
needless at this uncture to go into details;
the papers have been full Of them, and the
tale is not yet half told. The wards of
the State, helpless and erring individuals,
to whom was due kindness and good care,
have been treated as one would hardened
criminals, yea, even worse than that and
all of this in an age and in a community
supposedly distinguished for the practise
of the most modern and effective methods.
Evidently something is ''rotten in Den
mark and If the party in power is not to
blame, then upon whom, or what, is the
responsibility to be placed? One or two OF
the offending officials have resigned. but
that is all to have followed the disclosures
of the House committee. Not one has been
removed. nor does the Republican candi-
date for Governor. or the, Republican party
in its State platform, place itself on record
as favoring this, the only reasonable and
fair method of procedure in these extraor-
binary premises.
Here, then, is the paramount issue be-
fore the people Of New Jersey, the very
issue of which the Republicans themselves
made such effective use fourteen years
ago. Rascals are in control of many of
the State departments, and their influence
has been felt in all of them. Fourteen
years ago, the party now in power aroused
them to aetSbn. with the result that the
~rascals, then Democrats, were turned out
of office almost en- maSse. AS usual WITT
the voters. the effort required to achieve
this purpose has been followed by a period
of Indifference and lethargy, during which
another powerful and disgracing political
machine has been constructed, producing
a condition Of affairs that differs from the
one existing in the late eighties and the
early n~ineties of the last century only
in that it is much worse, the worst, in
fact. in the history of New Jersey.
This Is the situation which the people OF
this State are now called upon to remedy.
A vote for Fort will signify a belief on
the part of the voter that the conditions
now existing are not at all d~iscreditable
to the State, or, il they are so, that a
remedy will be found and applied by the
very men who are responsible for them.
Isn't it absurd to suppose that the present
regime would do aay more than effect the
appearance of having cured the intolerable
evils of whose existence the public of New
Jersey has lately become aware? Isn't 1t,
on the other hand, reasonable to suppos
that a change, a complete change in the
governing power of this State would
speedily make for a radical improvement
In its administration? If that be true,
then the only logical thing to do is to vote
for K~atzenbach for Governor and for the
Democratic candidates for the House of
Assembly.