The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-02
NEW IDEA NDORSEs
REPUBLICAN SLATE. BUT TO
CONTINUE QUARTERS.
Colby, at Executive Committee Meeting,
and Sommer Also, Find No Fault
with Situation.

the speakers committee of the Repub
lican County organization, which
adopted plans for the Republican cam
paign, as told elsewhere in the EVEN
ING STAR, the New Idea men met il
the New Auditorium. in Orange street
and their advisory committee approved
the recent action of the executive com
mittee. That action was the formula
ton of a resolution indorsing all thu
Republican party candidates, and alst
the plan of continuing the headquar
ters of the New Idea so that If occa'
sion required it, the movement nigh
be sent into full swing once more.
After the approval of the resolution
the meeting developed into a discus
sion of the history of the New Idea
with Senator Everett Colby. Sheriff
Frank H. Sommer and Alderman Will
lam p. Martin as the principal his
torians. Sheriff Sommer said that the
Republican party had satisfied him
Among other things, he said:
I'm this building. during the primary
campaign, | said that the price of my
support of the Republican ticket would
be the adoption of the vital planks OF
the New Idea platform and the nomina-
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the county ticket who were broadly In
sympathy with the principles set
forth In those planks. The party has
adopted those planks and nominated
such men.
ut has been said that the platforms of
the Republican and Democratic parties
are very similar, n that the indie
pendent voter with Democratic leanings
would be justified this year in voting
the Democratic ticket. ! want to say
TINT while there are a lot of sincere
young men in tie Democratic party who
are working for practically the same
ends that we are endenvoring to accom-
plish, they are not organized This
league is an organization absolutely
within the Republican party. organized
solely for the purpose of seeing to 1t
that the principles which we advocate
are enacted into law. If the Republican
candidates are elected this league as n
party organization will devote its ef-
forts as In tim past to seeing to 1t that
campaign and convention platform
pledges are kept and the laws we adj
vocate enacted"
After the resolution introduced last
week had been taken up and passed,
Chairman Gardner Colby, of the league,
spoke. statiIg that he believed it to
be h unanimous sentiment thai the
organization should continue actively
to work fer the enactment of gre
laws and the nomination of men
with new IDEAS" by the Republican
plrIy.
Alderman Martin, one of the eleven
Republican Assembly nominees, went
quite fully into the details of the Or
ganization of the Colby movement and
recalled that it had been in~augurated
in the summe of 1905, when Everett
Colby went before the people and
began a fight within the Republican
party for the nomination for State
Senator.
1.-THE enactment of the limited fran
chise law and the forcing Though of
the Perkins tax act in that winter"
said the Eleventh Ward man, are suf-
ficient in themselves to justify and vim
dictate the existence of this organiza-
ton within the party"
Austen Colgate, another Assembly
nominee. and Harry ]. Hines. also on
the ticket, expressed qualification at
the harmony in the party and enlarged
the necessity for the continuance
of the league.
fright at this point in the campaign
we are going TO lose our small men
in the league, IL we have any," Senator
Colby said, 81 think more of this or
ganization and the things for which
1t stands than / do of the Republican
party"
The speaker said that there had been
false statements and hints at some pri-
vate understanding IN h h~armonizing
of the Republican party. He said
that so long as the party had adopted
the platform that it had and selected
such candidates as it had, he was
going to support 1t in a whole-hearted
manner. He said hat he believed the
party would stand by the platform or
he wouldn't support it.
"There are a few who think we have
it within our power, as a league" the
Senator said, ito correct every evil at
one time. We can not do it. They
think thai because Baird, Voorhees, and
Dickinson are on the State executive
committee we ought not to stand for
the party ticket.
IF the decent men will stay in the
party they will force the bosses to the
wall. These men are already being
driven into insigniicance."
THE charges of a deal that have been
made by our political opponents" Judge
Jones said. show what the Democrats
when they get together and accept u
platform.
Some of the things that we have been
fighting for have come to pass. We rave
one member of the State committee OF the
party and enough members of the county
committee. ! believe. to shape the policy
OF the party. II was demonstrated that
we had enough delegates in the county
TO get many OF our planks in
the platform and to get o Of the AS
sembly nominees"