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The discussion, while it lasted, was entertaining. It was 
also instructive, in reflecting, as it did, the practical aims 
and ideals of many otherwise good citizens in dealing with 
questions of party control, and in showing how services, pro- 
vided for at the taxpayers’ expense, are, in party parlance, 
really looked upon as “the spoils of office.” 
The Newark News of May 29, 1895, gave an amusing ac- 
count of this episode, quoting from some of the aggrieved 
publicists who thus had opportunity to vent their 
grievances. 
“Why shouldn’t the county pay the legitimate expenses 
of the man who goes to Trenton in its interests?” was the 
way one of the party statesmen expressed his sentiments. 
This observation might, by the cynically inclined, be deemed 
of much significance, in view of the appearance, a few 
months later, of Mr. Munn before the Assembly Municipal 
Corporations Committee in favoring the “Roll trolley bills.” 
Then, with much earnestness, he contended that the control 
of all such county roads as Bloomfield avenue “rightfully 
belonged” to the freeholders, “the only logical body to con- 
trol county roads”—a board then, as since, well under “trol- 
ley” influences. When objection was made to the “undue 
interest displayed by the Board of Freeholders in reference 
to the passage of those bills,’ Charles D. Thompson asked 
if Mr. Munn “represented the freeholders or the Park Com- 
mission, or appeared as the counsel of Hast Orange in this 
matter.” Mr. Munn replied: “I do not; I represent my- 
self ;” but added that “he knew several freeholders who 
» were in favor of the bills.’ As these measures sought to 
deprive municipalities and property owners of all control 
or voice in granting trolley road franchises, and vested that 
right exclusively in the Board of Freeholders—then, as 
afterward, to all appearances, under corporate and party 
boss dictation—the counsel’s efforts to secure their passage 
was, indeed, significant. 
POLICY IN SELECTING PARKS. 
In public matters, as in other affairs of life, there are 
