Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-09
MONEY, CANNON,
TAMMANY, ISSUES
OF PR0GRESsNEs

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wanted to vote for a reform measure
said in excuse of his opposition that
he was elected in Camden by David
and simply had to do as Baird told
him. A mar from another county said
that he was against a certain bill be-
cause they did not want 1t in his
county. They meant 1.-THE machine.
Others who had had shown signs of
progressive views have related to me
how they were called off by the bosses
Daniel s. Voorhees,, State treasurer;
Theodore Strong, a State assessor;
David Baird, until recently president of
the State Board of Assessors; Dali
rymple, of Essex; Lewis, of Passaic,
and Rotterdam, of Hudson, are the
bosses who control at Trenton. Either
they or their emissaries are continually
on the floor, of the House directing AS
semblymen how to dispose of this or
that measure. The go-between Of
Lewis and the Passaic Assemblyman
is one George f. Wright.
HEST dlleScu lcdhSlS VI AZ iCPoOiA
can party, before election corral cam
paign funds from the railroads. trolley
companies. telephone companies, water
companies. They gather large sums of
money from these and similar sources.
and 1t is generally given out in dollar
bills on election day. On one occasion,
1t is currently reported, the workers
came to Essex headquarters with peach
baskets and carried away their tainted
dollar bills in these receptaeles. The
first man who handles 1t gets his hold
out, the next retains his share Of the
spoils, and finally a lot of 1T Is used
for the buying Of votes.
Legislation Influenced.
"Hence your legislation at Trenton
is influenced. It is nearly time that
the people took the government In their
own hands and out of the hands OF
the Public Service and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad"
Duncan NJ. Ferguson paid his re-
spects to the Essex a~ssemblymen In
general and to Duane e. Minard par
ticularly. Among other things the
speaker said:
Nobody should be at a loss to under
stand why Duane E. Minard fought a
bill to let a jury determine the merits
of the argument hat u person Injured
at a railroad grade crossing Is guilty
of contributory negligence. .
"Mr. Minard recently appeared for
the Erie railroad in defending a suit
to recover damages COR an injury sus-
tanned at O point where the tracks of
that road cross a busy thoroughfare
at grade. 1t suits him better to AVE
the question of contributory negligence
left to one man than twelve, and so he
fought to an extreme to prevent the
passage of a bill leaving the question
to be settled by a jury. We gather
from Mr.. Mlnard's public u~tterances
that he doesn't believe in juries. He at
tackled the jury system In general and
Essex county juries in particular.
would 1t not be well at this time
for the eleven men who were charged
by the voters with representing them
at Trenton to give account of their
stewardship in so far as formulation
of the rules of the House was con-
cerned?
Every Essex man voted to go back
ward in the matter of rules. They
dropped all the way back to the rules
of the days before the light was turned
on Trenton. While Progressive con
gressmen and senators were struggling
at Washington for progressive rules
to bring back real representative gov
eminent in Congress by a%bolishing the
power of bosses in House and Senate,
Messrs. Minard and company were
busy throttling representative govern
ment in New Jersey by voting for re-
dictionary rules in the Assembly.
Trenton Rules Committee.
'Mr. Minard and his ten <choristers
voted the speaker absolute and to &c
back to an impregnable committee sys-
tenn. The rule to force committees to
report bills when petitioned by twenty
assemblymen was voted down by
Minard and his associates. a step back
ward, undoing several years of hard
work of REFORM
Does any man here believe that his
representative al Trenton should as
sumo unto himself the right. secretly,
behind closed doors, with the public
and the press locked out, to kill any
bill, good or bad? No honest mani
repeat ll--HO HuHcSt iHdH VIM Wohes
to serve the people will stand for any
such high-handed procedure as this
stripe of New Jersey Cannonism. Any
assemblynian who introduces a bill ha,
a right to have that bill considered II
open session. None but a moral coward
or a man of doubtful principles viii
dodge treating an bills by daylight ant
in the presence of the people who elect
ed him and whose servant he is sup
posed to be.
1T is useless to kill Cannon ant
leave Cannonism alive. If Cannonisn
is bad for the United States. 1t Il
worse for New Jersey. If you hat,
Cannonism In the nation you must hat,
1t in your own State and IL you hat,
it, Their see that your sword is sharI
on September IS, and don't overlook
fnardb