The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-26
REPUBLICAN, SINS
WILL COST PARTY
ELECTION, He SAYS
Senator Harry v. Osborne De-
clares Voters Will Not For
get When Time Comes.

Only a short memory on the part OF
the voters would permit the election OF
a Republican ticket this fall, Senator
Harry V. Osborne declared at a Demo-
cratic meeting in Unity Hall, Mont
clair, last night. The sins of the party
in control OF the last Legislature, he
said, were so fragrant that there was
no excuse for forgetting them. Bills
were smothered in he Senate and any
attempt to take them out of committee
were throttled, he declared. He cited
several instances of apparently good
legislation backed by the Republicans,
which in reality was but a sop thrown
to the voters and meant nothing at all.
In part he said:
AT the 1908 session it cost the State
over $780, 900 for compensation alone of
officers and employees of the LegislaI
ture. It was notorious that many of
these men did little more than draw
their salaries"
1.-THE practice of smothering bills In
committee regardless of their merit las
becor !, notorious; yet when Senator
| Gebhardt proposed a rule to relieve a
committee of a bill ON the request of
seven members of the Senate every Re-
publican member voted against it; n
when a rule was proposed to relieve a
committee of a bill on a vote of a ma
jority of the Senate every Republican
Senator voted against its adoption in
spite of the fact that they had a ma
jority; evidently they feared to trust
themselves, and it's so much easier to
control the chairman of a committee
than to control the majority on the
floor when 1t is desired for any reason
to kill a bill.
you will recall that there was wide
spread public interest throughout the
State concerning the school moneys.
When Senator Hinchcliffe moved 20 re-
lieve the committee of, the further con-
sideration of the bin which would nave
provided for the immediate payment Of
a large sum of money which was being
withheld and which the schools sorely
needed every Republican member
voted against the motion n every
Democratic member for it. With the
details OF the looting of the school fund
by the Republican party you are all
familiar; every effort was made ny the
| Democratic minority, both in the Sem
ate and House, to prevent it, but the
Republican majority voted consistently
and unanimously for this gigantic
grab. and the responsibility is theirs.
The details of their record on this
question can be found In the files of the
press and the minutes of the proceed
ings of the Legislature.
Don't let the Republicans fool you
into the belief that when you vote for
the Republicans who are seeking cleo
ton that you are voting for Republic
can principles William P. Macksey
told the Fifth Ward voters at an oper
air meeting in front of h John f
!, Monahan Association in Ferry street
"You are voting for men who win prob
i, ably act in the next Legislature a
Bowden and Brooks, who made sucl
= notorious records. did in the last"
Seven places, five in this city and
{ one in Orange, were visited by the can
| didates last night. After h meeting:
the candidates attended a smoker OF
the Michael Leveen Association at Its
headquarters, the annual ball of the
/ p. & II. Murray Association al
Krueger's Auditorium, and the recep-
ton of the Hill and Democratic Club al
Persons Hall.