The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-06-26
a DEMocRATlc view oR I'M.

George L. Record, the self-app pointed
Moses Of the " reformers'' Of New Jer
sey, has followed the announcement Of
his candidacy for United States Sena-
tor with an open challenge to SeEa-
tor John r. Dryden to meet him in
joint debate upon the issues of the
campaign.
AS Democratic newspaper our pol
icy would be, in ordinary cases, to let
the Republican party air its own dirty
linen and indulge in its private Kill
kenny cats fights to its own undoing
and to the Denocracy's advantage.
But we must make an exception
when fellow like this presumptuous,
office-hunting Record sounds his own
praises to the masses.
Record, as the boss and mouthpiece
of the holier-than-thou" wing Of the
Republican party, makes bid for the
support Of the mercurial and dissatis-
fed among our voting population for
the backing Of that element whose
natural place is in the ranks of the
Democratic party, but who have been
led by the few crumbs that have fallen
to their lot from transient prosper
ity" (?l to vote with and make the
Republican party supreme.
Who is this man Record What
has he ever done for the common peo-
pie that entities him to not only ask
for, but confidently claim, their sup
port? What grounds has he for claim
ing that Mr.. Dryden represents
everything that / am fighting to de-
stroy?n
This is the same George E. Record
who, in 1896, when the issue was
drawn between the common
people and the trust bossed Republic
can party, crooked the pregnant
hinges Of the knee, that thrift might
follow fawning, and paid his homage,
with the rest Of the Gold Democrats,
at the shrine of Mammon.
This is the same renegade Record
who plunged the knife into the vitals
of the Democratic party and Then left
it as a cowardly night assassin would
leave his victim.
When this political soldier Of for
tune cast his lot with the Republican
party he was well aware Of the fact
that everything am lighting to de-
stroy" shed it's sinister influence over
the ranks of his new allies. Why did
he not then and there start the COM
bat? No. He waited until he had
eaten from their flesh pots and waxed
strong, and now he is paying them in
the same measure Of rank ingratitude
that marked his parting tribute to
Democracy.
In partisan sense, George L.GRec-
ord is not now, nor never has been, a
neither has he ever been,
in the same sense, a Democrat. He
belongs now, as he has ever belonged,
to party Of his own creation, whose
perpetual candidate is George Il Rec
ord and whose platform may be sum-
med up in two words Boostthyself. "
The hope seems rather vain that
Democratic United States Senator
could be chosen at the next session of
the Legislature. With holdoyer of
fourteen Republicans and two Demo-
cratic Senators, we would have. to
elect thirty-three Assemblymen to re-
place the present three Of the minor
lty, as well as to elect the entire six
Senatorial candidates. A well nigh
hopeless task in view Of the present
status of our party in the State.
If we must have Republican Unit
ed States Senator to succeed John f.
it is the best that the present
should succeed himself. \
Then we would have man at least
honest and sincere in his public policy.
John f. Dryden stands for everything
In Republicanism to which Democrat
ic principles are opposed. He is and
has been ever consistently loyal to the
party that has honored him.
Better the honest foe than the polit-
ical charlatan From the Bergen
County Democrat.