Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-07
INVOLVED
: IN ANOTHER ROW
Excise Commissioner chal
Ienges Orange Executive to
Make Statements Good.

Mayor Frank J. Murray, of Orange,
whose brief tenure of office has been
marked by quarrels with moving
picture folk and the street commit
zee, has another row on his hands.
In a public statement today Excise
Commissioner Patrick Regain chal-
lenges the executive to prove the in
formation contained in a message
read at meeting of the Board of
Fire Commissioners on Friday night
yetoing a bin of Commissioner Regan
for supplies to the city department.
Commissioner Regan expresses pity
for the mayors inexperience and res
urrects the statement used by former
Mayor Seymour last. fall that the
Republican aspirant for mayoralty
honoTs was "lzindergartenish in his
methods" He also assured the
mayor that he would characterize his
veto statements by the shorter and
uglier word il it were not for the
dignity of the mayors job
BY a coincidence today brings to a
head three of the mayors chief rows.
John A. Bainton wants to meet him
in public debate tonight at the coun-
ell meeting over a moving picture
house permit bids will be opened for
the oil for street sprinkling, which
the mayor originally vetoed because
of published preference for water,
q demand that less oil than adver-
tised for be bought. Commissioner
Regain demands full investigation
and challenges the mayor forthwith
to make good his statements
Commissioner Regain in his letter
says in part:
ut is evident from the tone of
Mayor Murray's veto of the Fire
Boards action in awarding me the
contract for supplies that he desired
the public to read between the lines
and thereby seek by implication to
connect my name unfavorably with
the boards action. This is q method
common to politicians of certain
calibre. If the mayor is correctly
quoted in the papers his veto reads
like the product of a boy who had
Just shed his kindergarten garments
without any apparent proof on his
part, except. perhaps, the word of a
disappointed competitor. which would
appear TO some people like a joke, he
accuses a number of men of wrong
doing. He has nothing else on which
TO base a statement, as there was nc
goods or samples furnished ON which
10 make comparison. 1t Is apparent
from the statement of the boards sec
rotary that had Mayor Murray's man.
Mohor, received the contracts he
could furnish any grade of goods he
desired as Mr.. Farnham states, he
could not make head or tail out of his
bid
Withholds "Uglier Word.'
''15ut Mohor being useful politician
and friend of the mayor, and moi
seeking any reward for services rem
dered, he would not take advantage
of the city. The mayor states-eyi-
IDENTIFY IA the authority of Mr.. Mohol
--that the said Mohor would furnish
: better grade of goods at the prices
quoted by Mohor than furnished a.
a higher price, but he waited until ths
goods were delivered and put in use
before making this assertion. 1t Is
not fair to the city that the mayor
should be so neglectful. Knowing
the grade of goods L furnished ant
the prices charged for same, If Mr.
Murray had made this statement il
any other capacity than that Of
mayor of Orange, ! should character
lie his statement as a deliberate false
hood, but my respect for the high
office which he holds iInpels me tc
treat him with consideration and
charity for his lack of knowledge OF
business methods and commercial
values.
II have been in business in Or
ange for twenty years and / have
never. directly. or indirectly, tried to
influence any city official or politician
to give me city business. feel 1t is
due to the taxpayers of Orange, tc
the Board of Fire Commissioners and
myself to have full and open inves-
tigation of this matter and l chal-
lenge Mayor Murray TO make good
the statement in his veto and ! viii
promise when the inquiry is closed
he will have better knowledge OF
his duties towards his fellowman and
a higher conception of the dignity OF
his office"