Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-27

paid $500. They have added a
weights and measures department to
| the county government, even though
every city in the county has an
| efficient similar department The SUI
| perintendent gets $500. He has three
assistants, who receive 81 440, 81, 800
and 1920 each, respectively, while a
| secretary gets 5000. They increased
| the salary of the superintendent of
| county roads from 81, 300 to $1,000.
| They have added a purchasing agent
to whom they pay $1,000, and they
gave him a secretary, to whom they
pay $1,000, or 81, 500 in all, 1t costs
$8,125 more today to operate the free
| bridges and the Essex County end of
the Plank road than it did in 1908.
A Peep at the Legal Department.
Let us look for moment or two
at the legal department of the county
board. Here is one of the finest ex-
amples of political legerdermain that
was ever presented on public stage.
When the Democratic party con-
trolled the board a county counsel
looked after all the legal work of the
board. We paid him $4,000 year,
and he had time to spare. No sooner
did the Democratic party pass out of
power in the board and the Republi-
TO look around to see in what way
they could manipulate the affairs of
the legal department so as to take
care of some of their own good folks.
They were after patronage to satisfy
a hungry horde
The first thing they did was to
increase the county counsers salary
$l,O0O per annum, from $4,000 to
So,ooo. Then they thought he was
oVerworked. and they gave him an
assistant at $3.50 per year; and they
put couple of Stenographers at
work to whom they paid 81 ,410 and
81 800 per annum, respectively. Then
When the tide in national affairs
turned Dennocraticward. they found
they had one of the big fellows to
look after. And they created q spe-
cfal office called county attorney"
for mis- especial benefit, and they pay
him $4,000 every year And no one
has ever yet been able to find out
what the duties of his office are. He
has been repeatedly asked himself;
ana al he>does is to smile, shrug his
shoulders and say Isch- ka- bibble!'
THE Republican party has Gre
ated twenty-one distinct positions
in the county, all of them sinecures.
and every one of them occupied by
"a friend" of the G. o. p.
These Seek to Run Newark.
"These are men who want to run
the city of Newark; these are the
men who are running the Raymond
campaign; these are the men whom
the Evening News is supporting.
1T lore is only one thing to do,
gentlemen, and that is to 'rout them
out, bag and baggage Let us re-
turn to the efficient and economical
days of Democratic rule in the Board
of Freeholders; let us get rid of ex-
travagance in county affairs; let us
trim the tree; let us cut off the
ragged limbs let us destroy the
fungus growth of useless jobs and
sinecures; let us elect Democratic
Board of Freeholders, so that the
citizens of Essex County will get a
square DEAL"
In closing, Mr.. Lewis referred to
the pledge of his two colleagues,
Michael Higgins, of Bloomfield, and
DIR. Angelo Bianchi, and himself to
the public welfare committee that
the books of the county would be
open to the citizens of Essex County
and that If elected the Democratic
members would insist on an eco
nomical and efficient administration.