Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-24
Endorses Republican Platform and
Will Stand By Roosevelt.
PUT LEGISLATORS ON RECORD.
Declares Himself a Candidate for U.
S. Senator and Appeals to People.

During the vigorous agitation in New
Jersey for equal taxation and against
boss rule, he has never publicly said
one encouraging word to those who
were fighting the peoples fight; on
the contrary he has regularly endors-
ed for appointment to federal Offices
the candidates approved by the par
| ty bosses. Mr.. Dryden therefore
stands for what the machine and the
boss stand for; he represents politi-
cally everything we are fighting to
destroy. To defeat him is to destroy
the control of the party organization
by the corporations. In order to de-
feat him candidate identified with
the anti-machine forces must take
the field You cannot beat somebody
with nobody.
1t is the opinion of some of the
leaders of the fight against the ma
chine that should make this contest,
and for that reason l have become a
candidate. | shall make the best
/ fight | know how to make. / shall
go into every county and state our
case to the people wherever ] can get
a hearing l shall appeal only to rea-
son, and shall rely for success upon
argument and discussion. | shall try
to call things by their right names,
and to state the truth as | see 1t.
BY making the contest, ! hope to
make perfectly clear and distinct that
\ the fight is on to a finish against ma
chine and corporation rule in the re-
publican party, and for the control
of that party by the voters thereof.
hope by my candidacy to force ev-
cry republican legislative candidate
to declare openly, in advance of the
primaries, for whom he intends to
vote for United States senator. IL
hope to arouse a public interest in
this campaign which will compel the
passage of law giving the people a
right to express their preference at
primaries or elections for United
States senator. hope by my candi-
dacy to put an end to the practice, in
New Jersey, of electing to this high
Office men mainly because of their
wealth or corporate financial backing.
hope by this fight to increase the at
| tendance of the party voters at the
primaries, so that the machine every
where shall be compelled to fight in
the open, which means in effect that
! it's impotence as a legitimate political
| force will be made clear to the pub
lie. In addition to these reasons there
is another. There is now shaping up
in the United States, in my Judgment,
one of the greatest political contests
| in the history of the country. 1t is
becoming plain that there is great
peril to our institutions in the huge
| fortunes and aggregations of capi-
tal in the hands of the few, which are
characteristic of our day, and in the
Influence which these exercise over
the railroads, our national highways.
President Roosevelt has recently
pointed out this danger. Thoughtful
men everywhere perceive it. In some
form or other the attempt to remedy
this and similar evils is bound to
shane our politics in the future. 1t
is the old, old question of special
privilege in a new form. The doc
trine of the square deal is but an eX-
nression of this feeling.
The beneficiaries of special privi7
leges will bitterly oppose any
attempt toi abolish these evils. In
washington will be fought out the
same irrepressible conflict which in
another form is being fought out To-
cally in New Jersey. In this fight we
have reason to expect to find any sem
atorial candidate, whom the machine
would support, arrayed against any
attempt to abolish the special corpo-
rate privileges which depend upon
the national law. Considerations,
therefore, not only of state but of ma
tional importance, require that SEN
ator should be sent to Washington by
the republican party whose sympa-
thies are against the special interests
which have so long dominated our
/ politics, and are with President
! Roosevelt and the policies which he
has come to represent in the popular
mind.