Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-10-31
GRAND REPUBLICAN,
RALLY AT WILDWOOD
County Candidates Make address
lei and DR.. william Carter. of
New York, was the Orator
OF the Evening. d.
p Miles Rigor Presided
1915 REGISTERED VOTERS ON ISLAND

Hunts theatre on the boardwalk. The
second and third ward Republican
club, with drum beating, marched to
the hall in a body headed by its pres
ident, John McConley. Councilman
ID. Miles Rigor presided at the meeting
with much ability and pleased the au-
dience with his Introductory remarks.
Lewis T. Stevens, of Cape May, candi-
date for Assembly, was first introduced
and II the course of his remarks said:
"Cape May was erected into a coun-
ty in 1892, and from that time, by rea-
son of its importance, has had excel
lent proportionate representation in
the Legislatures OF the Colony and the
State of New Jersey. From 1902 when
the Royal Projectors gave up their
control wei the Province and 1t came
under the Jurisdiction of the Crown,
until the Constitution of 1776, this
county had W members OF the Assem-
bly,, the council being appointed by
the Royal Governor.
The Provisional Congress of the Col
ony at Burlington In 1776 adopted aeon
stitution which provided for an upper
and q lower house, the first being call
ed the Legislative Council aud COM
posed of one member elected from
each of the thirteen counties, and the
second, a house of Assembly composed
of three members from each county,
providing that for more equal repre-
s~entation the Legislature could in
crease or decrease the number from
each county, but that in. no instance
should the number exceed thirty-nine
members.
Cape May county continued to have
three members at each session until
1g87 when the number wssaEedsieed
to one as 1t is today.
When the second under the Repub-
lie and present constitution OF the
State was adopted in 1874, the number
of counties had been increased from
thirteen to nineteen, and a House of
Assembly If thirty-nine members
seemed to be too small to represent
the whole state. At this convention
the name of the Legislative Council
was changed to Senate with M
Senator for each county, and the num-
Der of the members of the General
Assembly increased to sixty, as 1t is
to-day, based upon population to be
apportioned after the taking of the
National Census every ten years.
$50 wisely made was u original
state constitution that its general prin-
ciples were adopted by the Continen-
tai Congress when they framed the
constitution for the United States of
America. The ideas brought forth by
William livingston, David Brearie,
William Paterson and Jonathan Day
ton, when proposed were called the
"Jersey Plan," and as this state had
provided for equal representation in
the upper branch of the Legislature
for each county, SO the Federal con-
stitution makers, provided for equal
representation for each state In the
national Senate by giving each state
two members of the body, and pro-
viding, like New Jersey. for a lower
house of Congress with representation
based upon population.
"What was good for that God-in-
spired Continental Congress, is still
good for New Jersey, and experience
has shown that the people are reticent
toward changing their fundamental
law from what has worked well to
what might prove uncertain. Only
twice since 1874 have the people OF
New Jersey thought it of sufficient
moment to amend our fundamental
law.
I'm 1875 the people voted for amend
ments which provided against the
making Of laws by the Legislature reg
ulating the internal affairs of munich
palities, and preventing the munich
palities from subscribing for stock or
lending their credit to private corpora
lions or individual enterprises, although
they appeared to be for public benefit.
The second amendments came In 1897,
when the rae track operators at
Gloucester and Guttenburg became so
n~oxiously notorious under Democratic
rule that the people ousted that party
from power and placed John w Griggs
in the Gubernatorial chair and after
which followed a time of good Repub-
lican Governors and excellent admin
STATIONS, which time was temporarily
broken into by the election of Wood
row Wilson In 1910.
'sThe constitution Of 1874 provides
how that instrument can be amended,