The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-23
STRIKES At
. STOKES AS FRIEND
OF THE RAILROADS
Singing Retorts Made by Gov
ern0r in Open Letter to
MontcIair Man.
DECLARES HE IS FOR
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Explains His Views on the
Financial Situation in
Bitter Missiye.
From a stair correspondent.

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From a STAFF correspondent.I
TRENTON March Z3.-Governor Fort
in an men letter todav breaks ott with
q v,,ra,ng 1900 - HE o,it,os ra aaus
In rp thine ahout his fellow penuhli-
cans and protests that ne Is q friend OF
rho nul1;o schools Tha lattar is al
dressed 10 Julian Gregory, OF $50 Hlooni-
heid venue, Montela1r, who, among a
few hundred others, wrote recently to
know what the Governors views IN
school finances really were. Here Is one
a''si"p"f
knowing as ! do and as ! see every
day that the maximum tax rate act, the
couutv hosra. -, ,.x.,,o. 40, ana tho
' """f"s oi "A"' " ""o 'ne
average tax rate act. were all enacted
solely and entirely FIR the uurnOse of
.- ~
me - =
behind this attack upop me on the
....., v.~... ar. r...ou,,. 90.
"o" d"'s''"" Nv "
helping the railroads in this way, and
did, n for that uurnose and that nurnose
sione' IL In difhcult TO resi- quietly under
these i~mputntions."
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~ toriiei 1oNerh"f co"aIo Iaspe'
stokes as has been made since the re
1atiors - +ha po,,hiio,, na,t, iaada,~
49,.
n"Ne oeoh seiaiheu' ooFeihoi roIt iHi-
pusns the motives OF Governor Stokes,
and says pOint-blank that he was work.
~ - ~ -. -, - ,.an.,
lis the ioliioduS hhch ne ithSieu
the three laws cited and brought them
into existence in 1906 by his official
signature.
tic assaiis senator Thonlas j. Hillery,
of Morris county. SPONSOR for the Hill
lery mavi,n,,,n ,ax ,atc law ana a..
@ heoph .eA i"'e 'a"' anu az
tacks the Republican majority in House
and Senate in 1906. when these measures
came int ha,ro AItasatho, II is ths
State paper of the year, growing
on one az II ls dipested
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rbe Letter In Emil.
Here Is the letter in iuH:
My Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your let
, s rl, n The Ia lS Ms l as ,%s and s,b, sepre ef tss your .one
preparation OF the railway money OF the
for public school uses.
The misunderstanding which seems TO
position or this subject has arisen from an
absolutely false ana. I fear Internationally
false, interprets tion OF my position.
ANYTHING that i can do for The public
svs1em IN this stafe / yv,,, do No
man an1,racjat az tho ,,n,,iie ,choois ar ,yoniJ
Go more To- sirenetben nromote and sd.
~ t,a ahaasinS" o" ~ sua
h haree .ne e nm. an ~ L. N , ~ any .,rmo
n,,,s ,,eyans,eg v,iicb fhe STAT de,i,as from
ra,,wav taxes All t6c racn'nn, onSa.
'aim"y nanes. ~ ,ni aaa ~.
hate haan tbaa annrnn,;s tions shooiJ ta
",I ~ ina. ppaVp ."t,o.s saouiu ~
, na"e aun,uaiiy ialiie. inan unu1. ING ny.
,av O, ~, 4 ,inuN = : a ~ ~" 70"
pp'opi'"'io u '"esc ho"es'-
Must Support state.
The first thing that we must do is to sup
port the state III ail or us institutions, az
70 support the schoois ~ only one Oh the
duties cast upon the Legislature;
should be carried out, the Legislature could
appropriate TINS year sz,uv,Vv 70 the pnnnc
and Il am III favor OF that amount
being appropriated at once Tor the school
ending July 4 lslo, which ~ the next
year Tor which appropriation must
This year the amount which. will be sent
to the public schools, under the act of
1906, is ~, 226,000. The recommendation of
the legislative committee Is TO take from
the railroad revenues $4,000 before the dis
tribution of these revenues, which would
O0O. Ii my suggestion be adopted, there viii
l,e more money sent down to the sscllools
than there woula he If The $242. 900 was first
This s242.00o is made up OF the
Following items:
State NormaI School At Montclair.''. 33.00G
Stata stuaaats Of p,,iya,s * tsI00
Scnho,l ~ nnaf G,006
ocnooi % Deui.. : i !, i Ri
School for Foreign horn ............ 10000