Gloucester County Democrat., 1908-10-01

senablyman Shows the Absurdity Of
the Claims of Mr.. Murphy and His
PupiIs-Says That Republican Lead
ers Are Really Aiding the Cause Of
the Railroads as Against the Inter-
ests of the People.
[F'rom the Newark Sunday CALI
To the Editor of the Sunday Call:
Chairman Franklin Murphy is surely
what Artemus Ward used to call "a
most amoosin cuss.n In the pronun-
ciamento issued by him last week he
writes himself down as-well. let us
just say. in the spirit of Christian char
ity, that lie is only coyeting the ghost
clothes of A. Ward.
Mr. Murphy starts off by saying that
the settlement of the litigation con
corning railroad taxes, etc, is due to
! him and his.
Settled Z! Whewi Everybody but
| Franklin Murphy and his political pu-
| pills knows that the railroad tax ques-
| ton is not settled, that the backbone
| the supreme court at the first shot.
chat the railroads are still fighting the
law. that the railroads are still fighting
| the valuation, that the Perkins act was
absolutely useless, that the Perkins
act was introduced and passed as fran
ed for the express purpose of being
nullified and declared Illegal and that
AIr. Murphy and his political pupils
are now engaged in an effort to elect
men to the senate and house of assem-
bly, who Will still further help the
railroads and their attorney to make
the home owners of the state. instead
of the railroads, pay the taxes the
railroads ought to pay
In his desperate efforts to defeat the
aspirations of decent men to represent
the people and not the railroads in the
legislation and TO elect Murphy regu-
lars to the legislature to represent the
public service corporations and not
the people he tries to show that it was
the Murphy regulars who enacted rail
road raX legislation
Does he think that people don't read
Does he think that people don't re
member?
Does he think that people don't
know?
The people know even if Murphy
forgets. that year after year railroad
tax bills were introduced in the leg
islature only to be consigned to tho
wastebaslSet by the regular Murphys.
The people know. even if AIr. Muir
ply forgets that while Mr. Murph.
was governor and while the regular
AIurphys were in control the railroa
tax bill was. as usual. consigned to tht
graveyard by the regular Murphy
with the acquiescence of Governo'
Murphy until Mayor Fagan's thunder
bolt letter awoke the state and scared
the regular Murphys.
The people know, although Mr.. Mrr
ply would have them forget. thai
scared as they were. the regular Muir.
phys were equal to the occasion ana
instead of passing good railroad tan
bills substituted bills approved of bs
railroad attorneys that We're so full o.
holes that they would not and did no
hold water before the supreme court
The people know. though Mr. Muir
ply thinks they don't. that the Hitler
tax law was framed by railroad attor
neys and passed by the regular Nfur
phys for the express purpose of max
ing the home owners of the state pas
the railroad taxes that the railroadi.
ought to pay.
The people of the state know. though
Mr.. Murphy would blind their eyes hs
figures that are made to lie. thar
through the medium of laws passed by
the regular Murphys, the railroads pay
less taxes now than heretofore. while
the home owners pay more taxes Is.
help the railroads.
The people know these things, though
Mr.. Murphy and the Murphy regulars
think they do not. The people know
that it is by a combination of Mr. Col
by, Mr. Gebhardt Mr. Martin. Mr. TH|
multY, Mr. Hendrickson. Nj. Sullivan
and others like them, without regard
to party, that their only hope for COOS
government and decent government de
peuds, ana that the desperate eHOftS1
now being made by the regular Aiul.
phys of both parties to beat these men
are being made not in the interest Of
the state. but in the interest of the rail
roads and of the public service corpora
tion and against the interests Of the
state.
Mr. Murphy and the other regular
Murphys can try all they like to hlinl!
the people to the real issues by figures
that lie. but the people read, the people
think. the people know, the people re
member. and believe the people vii
vote at the open primaries, not for ths
candidates. tools of the regular Mul
phys. but for men red blooded men
men who are free men who have sery
ed the people, men who have shown b.
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