The New Jersey State Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade.
Actually this whoopdedoo was a prelude to grim business. The Republican majority in the Legislature was out to get Boss Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City. Hague-bossed Governor A. Harry Moore had vetoed a bill to install voting machines for Hague-bossed Hudson County. By New Jersey...
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