The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-07-17
COLBY'S STAND
Defeat He Declares Will Not
Make Him Abandon
the Fight
CORPORATIONS MUST YIELD
Republican County Commit-
tess R fusal Of the Lists
Mere Set Back

alderman Wl-iam T. N ri aDi i Ell
followers. met WITH a po iieai Water 0
at the HANKS Of the Re. u1lican Cou y
COMMITTEES Friday nsat beiore cr5 d
taas jammtyl every part Of de cy iii az
ed headquarters. at Academy AID Hal
sey. streets. They wee vose doSn n
the most emphatic main +, an h se.
occasionally marked the words tl.at iney
uttered in deeease of their position
In place Of the Colby les 3hpti. n p r
m.ttirg an irspsc ion Of the ea..a 5
books Of the orgauiza ion the comm t ee
adopted one introduced by Frederick r..
Lehlbach. refusing TO turn over to tie
Colby faction, or anybedy Sc, cspes OF
the canvass books in tha p sse son
the county committee. Tht4e was o
vote on the Cosby resolution declus.ng
against the use of the organization or its
funds to further any candidacy for any
nomination. but The commit ;ttea adopt 4
another, introduced by Henry Ka i-eh.
refusing to indorsa any can idta FIR
nomination and requesting all can iidntes
to abstain from the use of money for
primary election pufpas-s
Assistant Artorney-Genepal Edward
D. Dufield then made a flank move )
Introducing a series of resolutions as a
declaration of principles, ceiling for linn
ited franchises. when voted for by t e
people of municipality; the continuance
of main stem. railroad taxation by sse
State, the abandonment of The ATorr S
Canal, The abolition of Pas=aic po lu-
ton, and number Of other matters. The
declaration was adopted by rising vote,
and Major Carl Len5z, who pres.dsd in
his shirt sleeves, had the sdtisfac ion
seeing Colby and Martin alone stand Up
when he called for those opposed u ii e.
This defeat does not meant that Mr..
Colby win throw up the sponge L ST
week at meeting of the Eighth Wand
Republicans, he made this dec.aiation:-
1T is a great source of encouragement
to me to feel that am backed by men
of the fighting caAbre, by men who do not
know what it means to quit. and b., men
who do not know when they are beaten,
for want to say right here, that. if this
contest for right and justice is not won
next fall / shall keep on asking for your
support at the primaries until we win a
| signal victory tor the people Of this
county. say this and say it with
emphasis, because l know that in a con-
test for just and fair laws the fortunes
4 of war rest not forever with the OPP
i pressors but will in time favor the efforts
Of those who are fighting fer what they
honestly believe to be right
81 have felt for some time that We have
surrendered our natural right to govern
and turned over the business of governing
4 to certain political agents. the corpora
tions. who have run the business to suit
4 themselves, and without regard to the
+ rights or interests of the people. What
are we going to do about it ? This: Quietly
and nationally with the Knowledge that
] we are right. and armed with the might
and power of an aroused public senti-
ment we shall demand at the primaSies
! the nomination of men pledged to specific
/ legislation TO remedy the present evil and
establish an equality before the law be-
tween corporations and individuals.
The specific legislation to which re
fer is embodied in the platform upon
watch we make our fight They are laws
offered in the interest of the people,
and to my own thinking stand the test
which should be applied to all sprospec-
tive legislation; namely, do they aim to-
ward the ideal and yet in practice lead
US one step nearer tile true democracy
and a spirit of brotherhood between man
and man.
.'The laws which we advocate are not
offered as a remedy for all political evils
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