The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-03
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A high State official who wants to be impartial in every
way, and whose intelligence is very much above the average.
has said that he doesn't think that the Trenton Asylum mana
gers are to be blamed for what happened at that institution
The public will respectfully decline to take that view. Those
managers were supposed to be supervising and experimenting the
affairs of the asylum. They did nothing of the kind. They
neglected the duties of the office, and even when an outbreak
of disease compelled them to sit up and take notice, they made
no effort to see that their orders were being carried out. And
the financial end of their management was just as careless. The
auditing was rdiculousy perfunctory-so much so that one mem
Der of the committee didn't know the name of the chairman.
From all the facts and testimony s. far adduced it looks
as if Judge vroom had been the whole Board. The other
members depended upon him and Warden Hayes and DIR. Ward
seemed to understand he was practically the Board.
However that may be, the inef6ciency and negligence of the
Board is indisputable, and the only way to appease the righteous
wrath of the public is to make a clean sweep and install men
who will ably and conscientiously discharge their duties
One counselor Marcus Higginbotham" has read out of
the Republican party Mayor Mark M. Pagan. If that action
had any force and effect it would be a bad thing for the
Republican party.
By the way, who is Counselor Marcus Higginbotham p,
The members of the Ohio Republican Central Committee
must be odd characters. 1t certainly required great moral and
intellectual elasticity to declare in favor of Taft for President,
and at the same time indorse for reelection Senators Foraker
and Dick.
Pittsburg's Mayor says that city employees must withdraw
from politics or give up their jobs. No explanation a $ to how
they are to hold their jobs if they retire from the political game.
All kinds of fool rumors get agoing in the silly season, but
the most absurd of all was that which imputed to George B.
Mcclellan an intention to resign as Mayor of New York. No
man in our time has ever chung more desperately to an Office
and especially one which he held under a clouded title.
Senator Beverdge, the silent young man from Indiana who
rarely talks, o a average, more than ten thousand words a
day, says that we shall have to retain permanent control of
Cuba. This modest young Instructor in all the arts and sci
ences and the philosophy of life and death has several more
guesses coming. Uncle Sam doesn't want Cuba and wouldn't
have it as a gift. His experience thus far as a stepfatherI
has been distressngly painful and thankess.
Gubernatoria1 gossip goes merrly on, and the lines are be-
coming a tnfe less hazy. At the moment, o n the Democratic
side, ex-Mayor Katzenbach, of Trenton, seems to be in the lead.
The Essex Democrats are, however, unwilling to let the honor
get away from this county, and there is talk of nominating
ex-Judge Child, whether he will or nc His biggest campaign
card would be the fact that he was put off the bench by the
Trolley Syndicate because the juries in his court gave large
damages in accident cases.
Something of equal, if not greater, importance is the neces-
siy for retiring all the old leaders and bosses of the party. If
a successful appeal is to be made to those who have become
voters in New Jersey during the last decade, to say nothing OF
winning back the o1d-hmers, the campaign must be waged by
young, active men of character and ability who we're not iden-
tilted with the evils which drove the party from power.
On the Republican side everything now points to a hotly
contested fight at the primaries between the respective supporters
of Supreme Court Justices Fort and Piney. At present these
candidates are far in the lead, and it is a question whether
they won't kill off each other, thus allowing a dark horse to
slip in.
On Judge Forts side re Senator Briggs, F. W. Roebling
and, possibly, Governor Stokes, though the Governor is steering
clear of any positive declaration. Ex-senator Dryden has, So
far, kept his hands off absolutely. Thomas N. Mccarter and
his brother Uzal are for Fort. Quartermaster-G General Murray is
apparently indifferent as to whether Fort Or Pitney be the
candidate. Alfred N. Dalrymple, Chairman of the Essex County
Republican Committee, is not for Fort, but a majority of the
committeeman IRE yet to be heard from. In Hudson the Pagan
men will, it is reported, run Fort tickets at the primaries.
Judge Pitney has many warm advocates, especially among