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CRANE s YES.
Democratic Standard B Bearer
Responds to the Call Of
His Party.
RUN FOR GOVERNOR BEGUN
Formal Notification of the
Candidate at Newark
Today.
SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
cn;r;+od Iritayaponc Which
Will Give Tone to the
Coming Contest.
SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
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Especial to .sThe Jersey City News.''1
NEWARK, Oct A. 1SsS.-The committee
appointed to notify Elvin w. Crane of
his nomination for Governor, by the
Democrats of New Jersey, performed that
duty this afternoon in the jefferson Club,
on West Park street. John D. Bartine,
of Somerset, chairman of the committee,
notified Mr.. Crane of his nomination, and
the candidate in replying said
Committee
With a profound sense of the RESPONSE
bility assumed, / accept the nomination
rendered, through you, by the Democratic
State Convention. To be considered by
my party as worthy to succeed the long
line of Democratic statesmen who have
made New Jersey great and prosperous,
demands from me a pledge of devotion to
the best interests of New Jersey. That
pledge 1 give. If the action of your con-
yention is ratified at the polls, I shall as
sumo the office of Governor with a deter
mination to advance the best interests of
our State. In whatever position l have
been called upon TO serve the people 1
have been guided by rule both simple
nor susceptible of misconception 1t will
be my guide in the future. Requiring
neither diplomacy to explain it, nor as
tuteness to understand it, it is merely to
do that which, guided by the letter and
genius of our constitution, I believe to be
right TO my fellow men and honorable to
myself.
This government was experimentally in
h11f hicfr n
have proven the wisdom of its inception.
I believe in its principles, in its present
demonstration of strength and its future
grandure. l believe that the objective
point of government should be the great
est good to the greatest number, and that
the people least governed are the best
governed; that the law should protect
the weak from the aggression of the pow
erful; that every statute should record
the voice of the people; that public office
is public trust and that the true honor
of office comes only from full and proper
discharge of its duties. So believing,
have found, and expect ever to lind my
political creed written upon the standard
erected by Thomas Jefferson. He who
reads, studies and follows the creed of
Jefferson cannot be untrue to the State.
servedly endorse and accept the platform
adopted by your convention. Its declara-
ton that the constitutional direction to
impose taxes under general laws and by
uniform rules must be obeyed, is Demo-
cratic doctrine. Public burdens should be
equally borne. Unequal taxation is in
tollerable. It's infliction subtracts from
individual rights and is neither more or
less than robbery under the guise of law.
In this matter, as in all Others if l am
sworn to uphold the Constitution, 1 will
keep the oath.
The demand that our State funds shall
be expended under rules of economy is
one that must be acceded to if the people
desire to avoid imposition of general
State tax; and knowing that recurrence to
such tax can be avoided, I pledge to
the people of New Jersey that there shall
not, with my consent, be expended "a
single dollar of the public funds beyond
what shall be demonstrated to be abso-
lutely necessary to properly administer
economical government. I accept and in
dorse the utterance of the platform in it's
promise for the protection of the inter-
ests of those who work for their living,
and promise every effort to make effee-
tive our pledge to prevent unjust dis
elimination by common carriers
u endorse your declaration of the me-
cessity of legislation to prevent the inter-
ference of the judiciary with the province
OF the jury in the assessment of damages
for the loss of life. I believe that the
State should encourage and protect the
fund contributed by the school teachers
or New jersey for their sf4nnnr whe,,