The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-04
LAST FREEMAN
SALLY AT
FORT
MONDAY Talk Today tt
WOrkingmen-- Challenge
to Murphy.

Alden Freeman concluded today MS
series of ante-election
speeches against the election of j.
Franklin Fort. He spoke at the
Sprague Electric Companys plant and
had a large audience of the workmen
and others. Much of his talk was de-
voted to an effort to show that the
! Standard Oil Company was interested
in the Fort candidacy. He also chal-
lenged State Chairman Franklin Muir
ply, of the Republican State Commit
tee, TO print a list of the contributors
to the party campaign fund.
He spoke on behalf of the Demo
cratic candidate for alderman in the
Eleventh Ward, Mr.. Fenwick. During
his talk he said:
1.-The Republican machine in New Jer-
sey is at last beginning to SHOW us nano
REGARDING its real feeling toward Presl-
dent Roosevelt. In Franklin Murphys I'M
consciously funny advertisements IN the
Evening News, delicate hints are. made
that the President Is Responsible Tor tle
recent banking troubles. Now, the people
of this country are pretty generally agreeq
that Thodore Roosevelt is the best friend
that they have had in high political ONCE
since Lincoln, and they are NOT NJ an
fooled when they seek to creep INTO ONCE
under cover of Roosevelt's name, ana rep
utation. Senator La Toilette made II per
| feetly clear a year ago. how mnen heip
DRYDEN WAS RlXllk W luG 4
For years every Wall street gambler.
every Waterer of stock, every .stealer OF
franchises, every brlber of legislators, a
denounced the President under MS oreath
and on the quiet. These financial, gam
blers are now speaking out more noioly,
and that crooks of this sort are not a rev
Won can Judge from a remark mace py
the president of n great public utility COM
pany to an honest alderman that l know.
Said the president of the corporation;
If we get a franchise In your town
x,ithout pavinp the aldermen for II, 1t Will
be the first time in my experience.
rs not n State where such Things are
said in cold blood quite as mncn IN ~
Of a Public Utilities Commission, with
power to investigate franchise stealers anu
bribers of aldermen, as Governor hughes
found New York State to be-, -
1.-THE chief issue before the people -
whether the government of this state Shail
be continued by the moneyed interests TOT
the benefit of the moneyed interests. 1ou
nave tomorrow the opportunity TO throw
off this corporation yoke. WIN you I'M
prove this opportunity given you oniy VhSS.
in three years, OF will you pc mlsleu ~
that demon OF party splrIL Ssa, tnnow citi.
zens more than a century ago. ms -
of His country said that liberty and inde,
pendence would disappear IN TINS iaiiu =
we placed party above principle;
1T is a sad day when the most neraluee
reformers eannot stretch their patrlol.sn
sufficiently to make 1t extend peyono LIZ
'pent-up Utica of q political parry re
formers within the party are the eas9
| prey to their more astute machine oppo-
nents. The corporation control OF TINS II
any other STATE WIN nesstD 81 toeetbe,
for the common purpose OF putthB tns
financial eroohs anu az Insa tbeir grin on
Tics, Wnen tnese sei ~. octivities Simply
poliucs ana epnnau ~ nc honest b,isi.
ness men of the country VIII be aoie u
take care of them.
Little straws show how the wind blows,
h,tf this letter from a member OI liAS
pue aus nnn,mittee Of the Standard Oh
SAeeuslve nna q y iorfre straw why
Eonpahy idifaione DeS'ocrat suddenly
snouao .ns a deen 7nterest in The election
. ~ ~ Ren,,hliean candidate for Governor
81 Of To- .fersev? Is It because the big
,,lorono1v beIieves that its interests will
~ MI So,arded hv MIR, Fort IL Governor
..Stondord OiG has good reason to rely OF
Mr. Fnrt because he Chose as his campaign
hi good friend and eulogist OF
mahasel s"e Ersspi,Iin Nnrnhv
'If Mr. Mnrnhv makes public the lis
20 noatrib,tar ~ MIR Forts calnpaigi
,hhot lie ,yjl make interesting reading
1nat aiso VII ia bos cbargad eIjtoripIf
nne r 9ssa5o "a al is uniting IN for him
PeonIs ara qroIyine Curious 10 know wh
80 thasa ,SsoriheTs ,rbev want to knoy
- ~ ,nvaators in tbe pool of poll
NJ" nv ~ u - not 6aIieye that these con
t trih, my ne re made out Of charity 70
eitba, ,be moor old lonhan or the dilapi
elthel inc poor 1yh ete ~ srro NAT the rio
aateo doniseS, c, ripbeS ,o al For returns eitht
me ~. W Hhn eeislatmro The civ hail or frol
from the ESQ., w
me ere S9 tba snbscriber bc a railroad man l.
~ .ne +hat his cemnanvt WI, IN. rrsate
eHpqEts = the Hard Of Taxotion ar Asses,
SIN dtS Eor this evil President Roosevelt
~ anorovad lUbaf seems the only possibl
soi,tiop the navment " nil election al
|. nensss Nv tbe people. When that refori
!, pehses py ,He a P ,rtp law the noorest ma
? .sH,,,iH ~ M ~ rmn Tor once without sacrI
: an nc hds I,donendance Tho Indenende
,ntSitti IA me nartv has had no nead ~ n trea.
) rule III, pS,ananng N"' H"N ="
.svva baye issred no call for funds. bt
hova r,ada o,,r onnaaI direct 10 the neopI
nave maoe o1a nupefi tba factories nd q
a. tn1 noo airn ~ T., III "ytnfny ~ roni
ny streoe SotnS I. nv svhsaSiha ! nsnr
cite mas peel NV y ,.n1 ~. IL" HI,
Gnd me Oily hhpney lvouay,, 81. ee,u aoIiar
man mas psen one liz tha 10y ~ III
VIII hieNy pupn0 ~ az TN,
gentlenian stessrs, mntpuES a. sunscriI
speth ulacioseu ane haHi q 90 atulrJinn. y .s1st
ers. l nave provlueu lV,Vvv cvpieS 20 ~
iran Oh ths oerPene clt1ulaI anu -,
OF our platform ana palu me eNpeHtt
or putting the lhuepehuent uchet ~ :,
held. me response OF the woIkihgulen
our effort 10 persuade them TO take con.I
of their own government mas peen INC
gratifying. Gun hearers nave nSpent