Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-16
THE COLBY MOVEMENT.
John H. Cook Strongly FavOrs IT.
Has Not Promised $1,000.

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county. The paper also stated that
the editor of the Register had prom
Used to contribute $1,000 toward the
movement and that other contribu-
lions of an equal amount would be
announced later.
| don't know anything about the
other contributions referred to, but l
do know that the editor of the Regis
ter hasn't offered to contribute ST.
900 nor any other sum, either to the
Colby movement or to any other
political organization. / believe in
the Colby movement, of course. The
Colby movement embodies the prin-
ciples for which the Register has been
contending for the past twelve or
fifteen years. These principles are
now about to be adopted by a large
section of the republican party, with
the prospects that the principles will
be made law.
The Colby movement represents
the idea that the common people of
and that all legislation should not be
devised especially for the benefit of
corporations and politicians. Every
man who believes in special privi-
leges for corporations at the expense
of the people generally will oppose
the Colby movement. They opposed
it in Essex and Hudson counties last
year, and they will oppose it through
out the state this year. The republic
can state leaders get wealthy out of
the special legislation granted to or
pQrations, to insurance companies,
and to politicians with special ends
to serve Politics forms a part of
their business. They are not in pol
itics for their health or because they
believe that the welfare of the state
will be advanced by what they do;
but because they know that their
own fortunes will be increased by
running the state in the interests of
their business and in the interest of
the corporations with which they are
affiliated and allied.
The Colby movement ought to be
successful in Monmouth county. 1t
ought to be successful in every other
county of the state. 1t represents
principles which are becoming rec
ognized as some of the rights of man.
Every man who believes that the
government should be run for the
benefit. of the people will favor the
movement. Every man who believes
that the government should be run
for the benefit of corporations and
for the benefit of politicians will OPP
pose the movement.
A very gratifying thing about the
Colby movement is that it is a re-
publican movement. The men who
believe in 1t are the men who believe
in the principles of Theodore Roose-
welt. The men who oppose it are
men of the same stamp as those who
oppose Theodore Roosevelt in his eff
forts to get legislation enacted for
the benefit of the people. Just as
Theodore Roosevelt is being fought
by the beef trust, the coal trust, the
insurance grafters, the railroad graf
tiers, and other men who have been
%fattening on the public, just so every
CRATER in the republican party in
New Jersey, every corporation which
wants special legislation for it's bene-
fit, every politician who wants favors
for his special interests, will oppose
the Colby movement.
The men who believe in the Colby
movement will go to the republican
primaries and will undertake to get
candidates nominated who will
pledge themselves to work for the
special reforms desired. The matter
will be up to the republican voters
of the county and state. If they want
the present conditions continued,
they will nominate candidates who
will keep the corporations and their
political agents in power. If they ac-
tually want a change in conditions,
whereby legislation will be enacted
for their benefit, instead of for the
benefit of corporations and politi-
clans, they will nominate men who
will support the Colby movement.
The Republican voters of the state
will have the matter wholly in their
own hands.-Red Bank Register.