The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25
FORT PARTY
ON TOUR OF
MORRIS co.
Received Big Receptions
in Democratic
Sussex.
DECLARATIONS CHEERED'
Senator Colby Raps Candidate
Katzenbach, Declaring Him to
Him to Be "a Craven and a
Coward Severely Scores
Opposition,
Especial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening Star.l
CHATHAM, Oct. 25.-John Franklin
Fort, Republican gubernatorial candi-
date, and party arrived here early to-
day after spending the night at New
ton and began their tour of Morris
County, stopping at all of the principal
towns and addressing two meetings to-
night, at Dover and Boonton.
The party was Joined here by State
Treasurer Daniel S. Voorhees,. execu-
tive committeeman of the State COM
mittee, James H. McGraw, chairman
of the county committee; Edward X.
Mills, secretary of the county COM
mittee; Secretary Thomas j. Hillery,
George Shaw, John Mills, George
Clark, Isaac r. Pierson, David Young,
Henry w. Buxton and James A. Lyon,
candidates for Assembly. and Stephen
Griffith.
The party went to Morristown in
automobiles, touching several towns en-
route. At Morristown lunch will be
served at the Mansion House, and then
Denville and other adjacent towns will
be visited.
The candidate is scheduled to speak
at a mass meeting at Boonton and one
at Dover. Both meetings Will be made
In an auto by Judge Fort. Assembly
man Alfred N. Barber, of Trenton, will
speak at the Dover meeting, and will
be followed by the gubernatorial can
didate, who will then proceed to Boon
ton, where the spellbinders will be
Thomas J.. Hillery and William H.
Spear. of Hudson County.
The county committee has arranged
for special cars to be u o the troll
ley lines from Denville Inc other towns
to the place where the candidate will
speak, and with the remote towns the
energetic committeeman have provided
stage transportation for the natives.
NEWTON, Oct. 25.-In one OF the bit
terest arraignments he has ever made
Senator Colby attacked the Democratic
party in an address here last night, de-
claring Frank g.. Katzenbach, jr., tlss
nominee of that party, to be "a craven
and a coward" The Senator admitted
the Republican party was not perfect, but
he declared it was nearer to perfection
than the opposing party.
Judge Fort followed his schedule closely
yesterday through all the important towns
of Sussex County. reaching here last
night. to be greeted by al audience OF
more tha 1000 in the schoolhouse hall.
Mr.. Fort shared the stage with Sena-
tor Everett Colby and the county can
didates. The day was comparatively easy
after the tour of Warren Wednesday;
only eight towns had been listed, with a
twenty minutes stop in each. Prosecutor
Henry Huston. the county chairman, had
arrangements in hand To help out Will
lam Dalrymple, candidate for County
Clerk; William Van Blarcom, candidate
for the Assembly, and Sheriff Judson K.
Gum also went along. Assistant Secre-
tary of State ]. B. r. Smith also made the
trip with them.
The first and last miscaIculation oc-
Cured the first thing In the morning,
when. at the Andover Junction, 1t was
found that but one automobile was on
hand. There was another waiting at the
next station and all was right again.
Sparta. where Mr.. Fort went from And
over, had quite a little crowd out to meet
the candidate and received the accustomed
handshake. The crowd was not large, but
1t received. Mr.. Fort cordially. Not to
keep him out in the cold, and 1t was q
cold trip, the committee arranged
that, in each place where the candidate
was to stop. the meeting should be held
indoors.
At Ogdensburg Mr.. Fort met the voters
in Sweeney's Hotel. He had no time to
talk there and soon had to leave for
Franklin Furnace and luncheon, which
was served at the Franklin Hotel, whose
proprietor, Watson Littell, was a member
of the touring party. Even lunch time hao
been figured Town almost to seconds and
the candidate had scarcely swallowed his
last mouthful before he was on the road
to Hamburg. On the way he stopped al
the factory of the Union Wallpaper an6
Parchment Company and met the 15(
hands employed. He also took time
enough to talk to them a few moment:
on the growth and future of State indus
tries
Before Hamburg was reached Mr.. For
passed the old home of former Governor
Haines, the war time Governor, whose ad'
ministration was the last under the ole
Constitution and the first under the new
1t had not been Intended to nav hin
speak at Hamburg, but the se~venty-flvt
people who rowded around him on his
arrival insisted that he go over to the
band hall and say a few words. He spok'
of the Bishops bill and also told of Demo
cratic Governors, whom he said, had beer
among the greatest in the list. Governor
Bedle, he said, had done more than any
other for the State in the matter of taxa
tion.
At McAfee and at Vernon, where twenty
minutes were to be used NJ, Mr.. Fort dix
nothing but shake hands In the larges
milk-shipping centre OF the world. Sus
sex, which used to be called Deckertown
had the hall opened and decorated ant
everything ready to receive him..
There the crowd, although it was no
large, was evidently glad to see him. For