The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-13
And of Dalrymple He Says
Things Calculated to Stir Up
County Chairman.
LETTER ASKS VOTERS TO
TURN DOWN BOTH MEN
Sizzling Attack Today Is Sequel
of Sensational Speech by
the Major.

Friday night by Major Carl Lentz, who
is out for the Republican county chair
manship on his own ticket, in which
he flayed Assemblyman William p
Martin, former Senator Everett Colby
and Colonel Austen Colgate, Mr.. Mar
tin today in a public communication
to Essex county voters urged them to
turn down at the pools both Major
Lentz and the present chairman, AL
fred n. Dalrymple.
Assemblyman Martin goes into the
history of the downfall" of Major
Lentz, whose reelection. he says would
mean a return of the boss system"
and credits the reform legislation
enacted in the last two years to the
= fact that there were New Idea men,
aided by clean Democrats, in the As
senbly. He says;
"The administration of the present
chairman of the county committee Is
no better than that of his predecessor
except that in some particulars it Is
not so odoriferous.''
He concludes:
"It is therefore respectfully sub
mitted for the consideration of the Re-
publican voters of Essex county that
neither in the present nor the past
chairman of the county committee can
they find a man whose administration
of the affairs of, the Republican party
would be for their interests
Newark. N. j., September IL, 1909.
Editor Newark Star:
Looking backward a few years. be-
fore Everett Colby was elected senator,
? the boss system prevailed in all its
completeness. contributions were given
Dby special privilege, including railroad
( troiley, gas and electric light COM
l,anies or lbeir owners and others de-
string tn9 maintenance or extension OF
1nelr Special privileges by retaining
fMs,lag legislation or securing new
s,sgss 81 4ution or the prevention of host lA
legislation The bosses appointed
candidates In the guise and form of a
convention, and when the candidates
were presented on election day TO the
people they had no choice. They couio
vote for the candidates of special prlvi-
lege on the Republican ticket or they
could vote for the candidates repre-
senting the same interests on the Demo-
cratic ticket They could not vote Tor
other candidates who would have the
slightest chance of election. When the
appointees arrived in the legislative
halls of Trenton, many of them. with
rare exceptions. voluntarily or involun-
tarily, upon direct orders or Indirect
suggestion, carried out the purposes
"a special privilege. In word, we mao
!, State government of the special in
terests for the special interests, by the
special interests.
After Colby's Election.
"After the election of Senator Colby
the railroads did not volunteer to pay
more taxes. nor did the boss decide tc
give / sEis Job and the State govern
= ..,asss>ssEs not turned over to the people
The bosses simply became more wary
md adroit and followed more secret
methods Special privilege, with the
aid of some of the best legal talent IL
tha state and the astute representatives
NJ The boss system in high places IL
public life, held on to much of what
special privilege had already obtained
but here and there. where public sentl-
n.ent had been specially aroused, ana
the attention of the people had beer
directed to particular issues, some OF
the more prominent evils. which had be-
come a stencil In the nostrils of every
decent man, were remedied. Then, II
was that more equal taxation by the
\ enactment of the Perkins bill, the lin
tied franchise act the increase of gross
recent tax on franchise, the amend
ment of the Hillery maximum tax rate
law, the enactment of partial dlfect
nominations Law, means for the express
sion of the party choice of United STATES
senator, repeal of Fraudulent pro-
moters' protective act. primary recount
and other important primary reforms
civil service, city ownership OF electric
light plants. employers liability act,
compulsory election of county commit
Ssemen, and the joint resolution for
Royaluation of railroad and canal prop
erty were all accomplished by public
opinion aroused largely by the efforts
of the progressive wing of the Republi-
can party, together with the assistance
of progressive, independent and clean
Democrats like Mark Sullivan, Joseph
sT,nulty, Ed Kenny, William C. Geb-
berdt and Senator Silzer. One by one
these things have been accomplished
against the CON hined forces of the
special interests and the bosses and
their appointed members of the Legis-
lature.
"Tbe system, as I have said, became
more careful and adroit, but continues
doing business in the same old way
and with great success.
"The county committee of each party
is a necessary adjunct of the boss sys-
fem. and may be used to further spe-
,iai privilege, 1t makes no difference
,1eho the chairman of the county com
mittee has been, the system prevailed
10 a greater or less extent
i"Tbere are some matters which have
been given public attention in the pas
and which should be recalled at this
time, as they are pertinent to the is
sues of the present campaign for chair
man OF the county committee and OF
the Progressive Republican campaign
for the nomination for the Assembly
Upon the request and at the sug
rest,on Of several Of my friends in the