The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-07
Campaign of the Young AS
semblyman Creates Panic
Among the Old Timers.
MACHINE DISCONNECTED
AGGRESSIVE MEASURES OF THE
OPPONENT OF UNLIMITED
FRANCHISE PROVE PUzzLING.

Especial TO THE Jersey City News-'D
NEWARK, Aug. Z, 19O5.-The Call
yesterday says: Whatever satisfaction
the Republican organization may feel in
the belief that it has blanketed the Colby
platform, it is becoming more and more
evident as the fall campaign approaches
that the movement launched by the
young Assemblyman from West Orange
is not to be sidetracked by any artifce of
the machine. The average voter has his
own opinions regarding machine prom
ises. Whatever his opinion may be re
garding the principles for which the Col
by movement stands, he knows that Mr..
Colby is at least honest in his declara-
tions and that the cause of reform can
be intrusted more safely to hands that
are unfettered by corporation influence
than to those which are stretched con-
stantly toward the moneyed interests for
the wherewithal to perpetuate their
power.
In his campaign of education, Mr.. Col
by wisely began early. Had he waite,
as the Democrats did last year with their
equal taxation issue, it is probable his
cause would have been doomed to share
the fate of the just cause of equal tax
alton. That every voter may have OPP
portunity to become acquainted with the
principles of his platform, and know
their exact bearing upon The political sit
uation in this State, Mr.. Colby is carry,
ing his speechmaking campaign to every
nook and corner of the county and is pre-
pairing to supplement his oral efforts
with literature which will be distributed
broadcast.
Should he succeed in his effort to OBJ
tain the senatorial nomination, it is Ger
tain he would receive the support of
many Democrats at the polls. He has
not only forced the Republicans to take
advanced ground. but he has embodied
in his platform principles for which the
Democracy has been fighting hard but
hopelessly. But the Colby movement is
more than political. 1t appeals to the
better judgment of the average voter,
irrespective of party, and has developed
citizens who care less for organization
victory than for the triumph of princi-
pie.
Latest among the political rumors is
that the Republican organization viii at
tempt to persuade Frank Fl. Sommer,
one of the most enthusiastic of the Colby
supporters, to take the field as its can
didate for senator. That such an effort
would be absolutely futile is regarded
as a certainty by those who know Mr..
Sommer and his loyal adherence to Mr.
Colby. And it scarcely seems creditable
that the organization could entertain
any such ridiculous scheme
During the last week Mr.. Colby and
his spellbinders have been carrying on
their hot weather campaign with unre-
| mitting yigor. Thursday they initiated
series of MONDAY open-air meetings for
factory employees. The first meeting
was in the neighborhood of the Celluloid
works and was addressed by Mr.. Colby
and Mayor Mark NJ. Pagan, of Jersey
City. 1t proved so successful that the
plan will be continued throughout the
campaign. Incidentally, these meetings
will be utilized for the distribution Of
the Colby committees campaign book
and other literature.