Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-14
Start Made at KeypOrt and Con-
tinuGt ThrOughOutthe COun-
ty Yesterday.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM.
Farmers in the Country Districts
Cheered RefOrmerS and
Congratulated Them.

RED BANK, July 14.-In a cam
paign which covered about sixty
miles, taking in the edges of the up
per end of Monmouth county and
winding up here at o'clock last
night, the leaders of the movement to
reform New Jersey state politics yes
terday addressed more than 1,O00
rural citizens, who gathered in the
open squares of the towns visited.
They listened attentively to the story
of the states shameless control by
the railroad corporations, as related
by Senator Colby, George L. Record
Austen Colgate, Henry c. Hines and
Mayor Mark Pagan, of Jersey City.
The swing around the circle was an
experiment, but its success determin-
ed the leaders to arrange for similar
campaign tours in other counties OF
the state. Everywhere yesterday the
party of reformers were received
with a welcome that was apparently
sincere and indicated the strength Of
| the movement was relatively as great
in the rural districts as in the cities.
In Freehold the meeting was held
on the steps of the court house under
the noses of BOSS" McDermott and
his lieutenants. In the other towns
visited the meetings were held in the
public squares and the speakers adj
dressed their audiences from the
steps of hotels. Carriages, autom0-
biles, farm wagons and all sorts OF
conveyances were drawn up in the
squares and from their coigns of van
tage the people listened to the
speeches.
The start was made at Keyport at 1
on the shady side of the largest hotel
| in the place. Here a crowd Of 1bo
assembled and there were among
them men WHO were fnciined to view
the proceeding in a cynical light. It
was something new to have the town
stormed in political campaign and
the reformers themselves were skep-
tical as to the results Until Senator
Colby had made his speech, when the
enthusiastic applause that broke out
as he stepped from the platform con-
vinced them they had friends in Key
port, and his recital of his personal
experiences with the bosses in the
legislature had stirred the people.
Preacher Offers Congratulations,
There was in the crowd preacher
who heard with looks of amazement
the story the reform leader had to
tell. When the senator was retiring
to his automobile the preacher grasp
ed his hand and congratulated him on
the fact that there was one man who
had come out of the legislative cruz
chile of corruption. p11scathedA
Corporation CoYhsel Record of>I<<2f-
sey City, followed and explained the
reasons that existed for the people to
get out and vote at the primaries and
defeat the bosses. Then followed
supplementary addresses by Austen
Colgate, Mayor Pagan and Henry G.
Hines This order of speaking was
followed and the schedule was adj
hered to until the last meeting place
of the day was reached.
Matawan was reached by Senator
Colby promptly at las o'clock, as
the schedule provided. He found
about eighty persons assembled be-
fore hotel to receive him. In the
shade of the building benches were
arranged Several men laughed at
him, as he spoke, and, directing his
remarks to them personally, the sem
ator laid down the facts with such
great stress that when the meeting
closed the men who had laughed COM
graduated him for making his fight
and promised their support.
When Record and the others arrlv-
ed in their schedule time, they found
the crowd had become so enthusiasts
tic that every man who heard them
promised to do all he could to remedy
the conditions described by the speak
ers.
Scoffers' Minds Changed.
There was a disposition to soon in
Marlboro, the next stopping place,
but the plain narrative of the senator
from Essex won the scoffers. Farm-
ers gathered about him and express
ed their thanks for his remarks. Sew
eral of them said they had never
heard the situation explained before
and they had no idea such things as
Colby spoke about we're ever heard
of in the state house. They were
further astonished by the revelations
made by Record, which have been
told to thousands in the counties In
which meetings have been held.
Freehold, the county seat of Mon-
mouth, was the scene of the biggest
meeting of the day, and the square
before the court house was crowded.
Senator Colby spoke for half an hour
and Record for three-quarters Of an
hour, but the crowd hung on until the
last of the speakers departed. This
meeting was inveharge of Assistant
4 Prosecutor Andre J. Stokes, who