Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-28
REGULARS SCORE
PROGRESSNES At
COUNTY MEETING
Former Senator Colby Accused
of Insincerity in McCran
Water Fight.


action of former State Senat Everett
Colby in assuming the role of a
lobbyist and appearing in Trenton in
behalf of the bondholders of the Hud-
son County Water Company in an
effort to secure the enactment of an
amendment to the McCran anti-diver-
sion bill thai would enable the COM
pany to take 10, 900, 900 gallons of water
a day out of the State and supply
the borough of Richmond with 1T. Mr..
Minard continued:
It would like to know IL that isn't
monopoly n doesn't stand for every
thing that the former Senator has so
long been preaching against? He
wanted it to appear that his cause was
go righteous that he said that he wasn't
there because of the paltry retainer
that had Deer given to him, but be-
cause it was just and right that the
Hudson County Water Company should
be given a monopoly of the right to
take water from New Jersey. If he
had said, as did Governor Griggs, that
he had been retained by the bondhold-
ers, and let it go at that, appearing as
a lawyer representing a client, / think
we would have little criticism of him,
but he came there with the declaration
that the paltry retainer had nothing to
do with his case
Addresses sustaining the attitude OF
the regulars and drawing comparisons
betwee their work and that of the So
called Progressives in the House were
made by Assemblymen Thomas Gold
ingay. Harold Miller. William Lee n
Coleman Nissan. Mr.. Goldingay SAID
in part:
Scores Progressives' Methods.
1.-THE Progressives do not do things
the way we do. When was nominated
for Assembly, l was entered In the race
by the members of the executive COM
nittee of the Fourth and Fifth wards,
who met and Endorsed me. The Pro-
eressives. five or six of them, go over TO
a New York hotel, and one lays: III
run for Governor. you run for Congress-
and you run for Senator Then tney
come back and have a dollar dinner
and announce what they have decloeo'
and that's all right"
emblym Harold A. Miller dis
cussed his fight to get through a Dill
that would permit Belleville to vote
on the question of town government.
Mr.. Mlnard in his talk had declared
that while there had been powerful
moneyed interests behind the water
diversion lobby, the vote in favor OF the
McCran bill in the House had always
been unanimous, proving to his salts
faction that the interests didn't cut
a bit of ice." {.
Mr.. Miller evidently a a different
view. for he said that to get through
his bill with Francis Hendricks, OF
Belleville, lobbying against 1t, 1t was
necessary to fool Hendricks by intro
ducing two measures, one or them
couched in language that would not
betray Its purport to the opponents OIL
town government in Bellevile.
Mr.. Dalrymple said that Assembly
man Goldingay had q famou Dill,
too" and asked for a statement about
the measure that was intended to per-
nit the Pennsylvania Observation-Disclosures
interests to have a station for their
Newark and New York high-speed line
under the southern n of Military
Park.
Goldfngay Charges Deception. ,
II saw a little blue-book the other
day. said Mr.. Goldingay, entitled
Reasons for Vetoing Certain Bills.
Among those mentioned was House
APO. known as the Military Park bill.
The Board of Trade was against this;
at least the men who represent the
Board of Trade said The board was
against 1t. Every member of the board
that I have seen was in favor OF 1t. but
Reeve and Reilly told the Governor
that the board was against the bill,
n he believed 1t, so that settled the
bill" The speaker said that the bill
should have been a law, and he hoped
that another rear would see 1t enacted.
IT believe in organization" Mr.. Gold
ingay went on, whether in business
or politics. We cannot get far without
strong organization. All our railroads
and steamship lines and great busi-
ness interests are successful because
they are handled by good business or
PLANTATIONS. Political parties must be
we'll organized.
"a party organization is not stronger
than its weakest link. We have In our
organization a man who Is able to find
the weak spots n strengthen them,
a man who has pulled the party from
the slough of despair to the pinnacle
of success, Alfred N. Dalrymple, our
county chairman"
The county committee showed its ap-
probation of that sentiment by cheer
ing.
Pleads for Regular support.
IT want all of you to support the
chairman Of the committee and the
committee faithfully and we'll In this
years campaign Mr.. Goldingay re-
sumed. We've got to elect a Gov
ernor, congressman and a Legislature
that is to choose a United States SEN
ator, and we want them all to be Re-
publicans, and Regular Republicans, at
that"
Mr.. Nissan cited as constructive
work of the last session the women's
reformatory bill, the anti-white slave
law, the anti-child labor law, the mar
riage license law. the railroad %revalua-
ton measure. the Moor bill making
contributory negligence in railroad
crossing accidents a matter for the
Jury to determine, the McCran anti
water diversion statute, and last and
most important the public utilities
law.
He dwelt on the public utilities law
at some length, asserting that it was
broader than the Hughes law of New
York State in many particulars.