The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-07

want 1t reported because he feared tn
voice of the people.
1 agree with you that a Senator's duty
Is to the whole State and not to a singll'
county. His duty is likewise to a Who'll
community. and not to- a single wealthy
resident Of it.
You mention the fact that not any Of the
representatives, of either house from Esse'
County eviuced any interest in the bill dur
ing the few weeks 1t was in the hands o.
your committee. We experienced TIM
same lack of interest while the bill was II
the House. Just why tie representative
from our county should show such little in
terest in the Question of annexation Is con
jectural.
You missed the point. Senator, Of the
heading of the editorial l sent you. The
heading which read "A Rotten Boroagf
Power at Trenton In no way referred 4
or implied that Cape May County was rot,
| ten in the sense in which the term is used
today. To find the true meaning, we mus'
turn back to English history.
Al annexation bill will be introduced al
the next session of the Legislature and !
hope you will do your utmost to have II
Senator Hands letter. which drew DR.,
Yarrow's fire. follows:
Thank you very much for the interest
you have shown in sending me the
STARS editorial. 1t often happens that
rected against a man, but he, not
knowing of 1t, proceeds blissfully on
his way, ignorant of the great perils
that beset him and even the great evil
he is accused of having done. If you
had not sent me the clipping ] would
not have known anything about II.
1t frequently occurs, but 1t Is. never
theless, surprising, h a a great. or,
rather, a big, newspaper like the New
ark STAR, should aunch into denun-
citation of a maj and ~insinuations
against him before to discover
which are made the pretext for It.
The bill for the annexation or Belie-
vile to Newark was In the
Senate several weeks before the close
of the Legislature and referred TO the
committee on ~boroughs n borough
commissions. of which / had the honor
TO be chairman. Soon after there came
to me and other members of the COM
mittee people interested In the bill and
in Belleville, some of them vehementiy
opposing the bill and others favorable
to it. The committee agreed TO give
a public hearing whenever a time
should be agreed upon, satisfactory to
both sides, and waited until those IN
terested should express themselves as
to the time.
Nothing was heard from them until
the evening of the last session, when
the senator from Essex and a Few
other men who claimed to be inter-
ested. urged the committee to report
the bill. Several of them attempted to
secure this by threatening US. and the
newspaper criticism you have sent me
Is part OF the mdkiHB Soou VI hnO
threats. The committee declined to
report the bill because 1t was mani
testify unfair to do so, in view OF the
fact that the invitation to agree upon
q date for a public hearing had been
ignored, and the committee was I'M
able to secure sufficient to
Justify a report. either favorable to or
against the bill.
The postponement of effort to get the
bill reported until the last evening of
the session impressed the committee
with the idea that the promoters of
the project desired to avoid a public
pro and con discussion of the matter
and hoped to rush the bill through
without debate in the last hours.
None of the representatives of either
house from Essex county had evinced
several weeks it had lain with the
committee.
incidentally. what has the relatively
small population of Cape May county
to do with the case? A State senator
Is sworn to support the national and
State Constitutions and to Faithfully
discharge the duties of senator" These
duties relate to the whole State, and
not to a single county. Whether from
of the State. chosen in accordance with
the Constitution and laws, and 1T is
difficult to understand why 1T should
be thought necessary to insult one of
the Oldest counties of the State by the
implication that it is a rotten Dor
ough' merely because the critic de-
sires to cuff it's senator for alleged
necessarily imply "rottenness." In
fact, the smaller communities are apt
to be the most solicitous to maintain
their purity.