Modern battles of Trenton .. . Middlesex, and Strahan andHonce, of Monmouth, had been tarred by the coal combine , of Passaic, was another of the coal combine supporters;his Passaic colleague, FJynn, was the starter at $100 per day•on Thompsons race-course. Kelly, of Union, was the distinctproduct of thegang that heldthe city of Eliz-abeth by thethroat. Thus every-thing that wasvenal or corruptor offensive inthe manage-ment of publica ffa i r s waslargely reflectedin the Legisla-ture; and thelawless ground-lings who hadsucceeded insecuring theascendancy inState andcounty and city,fo
Modern battles of Trenton .. . Middlesex, and Strahan andHonce, of Monmouth, had been tarred by the coal combine , of Passaic, was another of the coal combine supporters;his Passaic colleague, FJynn, was the starter at $100 per day•on Thompsons race-course. Kelly, of Union, was the distinctproduct of thegang that heldthe city of Eliz-abeth by thethroat. Thus every-thing that wasvenal or corruptor offensive inthe manage-ment of publica ffa i r s waslargely reflectedin the Legisla-ture; and thelawless ground-lings who hadsucceeded insecuring theascendancy inState andcounty and city,fo u n d license for fresh excesses. It was typical of the whole sitting thatFlynn wa^ made the Speaker of the Assembly, and the soundof his falling gavel sent a tremor of alarm throughout the when Adrain was re elected to the Presidency of the Sen-ate, it was argued from his activity in forcing the passage of thecoal combine bill that the Senate was to be the fit complementof the Assembly in its legislative Thomas Flynn. 442 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. The session began with an extravagance in the employment ofa needless retinue of attendants, that showed its trend. Half ascore of doorkeepers were assigned to the care of each door inthe Assembly Chamber. There were more pages than desks of the Clerks of both Houses were hidden beneath apile of bills creating sinecures, increasing salaries, prolongingtenures, changing governments, ousting incumbents that refusedto bend the knee to the gangs, opening the doors of the munici-pal and county and State treasuries to the invading vandals—helping along, in every conceivable way, the unholy invasion ofprivate rights for which the control of the public places affordedopportunity. It is neither the purpose nor possible in a workof the scope of this to enter upon the detailed description oftheir saturnalia. It would involve an exposition of local affairswhich have no necessary connection with the States hi
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