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By David Dayton McKean
Frank Hague's first governor had an unofficial cabinet that
included Alexander Simpson, his successor as Hudson's senator,
John Milton, James R. Nugent, and Frank Hague.
These advisers, seeing how popular the anti-prohibition
campaign had been, urged Edwards into one attack after another
upon the Anti-Saloon League, the Volstead Act, and the
Eighteenth Amendment. Early in 1920 a boomlet developed
for Edwards for President because of his outspoken
opposition to prohibition, and petitions were filed for him in a
number of presidential preference primaries, but nothing
came of it.
During Edwards' term the legislature passed and he signed
bills repealing the last of the `Seven Sisters' corporation laws. These statutes had been passed during Wilson's administration
to curb the out-of-state corporations that took advantage
of the lax laws and low taxes of the state to make New
Jersey their legal headquarters. With the passage of the
seven acts that limited their activities, most of them moved
to Delaware, and it was in the hope of enticing them to return
that the legislature repealed the obnoxious laws; but, once
offended, few returned. (For accounts of the history of the New Jersey corporation laws, see Lincoln
Steffens, Autobiography (1931), pp. 495-501, and Kerney, op. cit., pp. Q60-968.)
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