The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-24

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railroad rate regulations contest In the,
debate upon the rate Dill he offered or
supported an amendment postponing for
| five years the provision requiring rail-
roads 10 abandon the ownership and
operaf4onro1aoos ss@inAs. "a :practice which
has led to 4gDoss Discrimination and to
virtual monopoly, and which has been
declared Illegal by the Supreme Court.
During the vigorous agitation in New
Jersey for equal taxation and against
boss rule, he has never publicly said one
word to those who were fighting the peo-
pies tight; on the contrary be has regu-
larly endorsed for appointment to Fed
the party sbosses. Mr.. Dryden therefore
stands for What the machine and the
boss stand for; he represents politically
everything we are lighting to DESTROY To
defeat him is TO destroy the control of
the party organization by the corpora
tions. In order to defeat him candi-
date identified with the antismaehine
forces must take the field. You cannot
beat somebody with nobody.
at is the epinion of-some of.1the lead
ers of the tight against the machine that
should make this contest, and for that
reason 1 have sbecome candidate. /
shall make the sbestsfght4I know how to
make. | shall go into every county and
state our case to the people wherever
can get hearing. shall appeal only
to reason, 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 it.
s'By making the contest, / hope to
make perfectly clear that the fight is on
to finish against machine and corpora
tion rule in the Republican party, and
| for the control Of that party by the vot-
ers thereof. hope by my candidacy to
force every Republican legislative caAdi-
date to declare openly, in advance of the
primaries, for whom he intends to vote
for United States Senator. / 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 candidacy to put an end to
the practice in New Jersey, of elect
ing to this high Office men mainly because
of their wealth or corporate financial
backing. hope by this fight to increase
the attendance of the party voters at the
primaries so that the machine every
where will be compelled to fight in the
open, which means in effect that its i'm
potence as a legitimate political force
will be made clear to the public In ad-
| dition to these reasons there is another.
There is now shaping up in the United
States, in my judgment, one of the great
est 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-
tai in the hands of the few, which are
characteristic of our day, and in the in
fuence which these exercise over the
railroads, our national highways. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has recently pointed out
this danger. Thoughtful men everywhere
i perceive it. In some form or other the
attempt to remedy this and similar evils
is bound to shape our politics in the fu-
ture. 1t is the old, old question of spec
ial privilege in a new form. The doctrine
of the square deal is but an expression
of this feeling.
1The beneaciaries of special privileges
will bitterly oppose any attempt to abol-
ish these evils. In Washington will be
fought out the same irrapressible conflict
which in another form is being fought
out locally in New Jersey. In this fight
we have reason to expect TO find any Sen
atorial candidate, whom the machine
would support. arrayed against any at
tempt to abolish the special corporate
privileges which depend upon the ma
tional law. Considerations, therefore,
not only of State but Of national import
ance, require that a Senator should be
sent to Washington by the Republican
party whose syfnpathies are against the
special interests which have so long domi-
mated our politics. and arelwith President
Roosevelt and the policies which he has
come to represent in the popular mind.".
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