New-York tribune., 1907-10-26
cREELTY TO cANDLDATEs.

1t is really too bad about Mr.. Katzenbach. He
is, as our readers may recall. the Democratic
candidate for the governorship of New Jersey,
nominated ny the grace OF MessrS. James
Smith, jr and Robert Davis For some time
his campaign managers in whose hands he Is
as clay in the hands of the potter, have been
frantlcally racing him around the state in an
automobile, with equal disregard Of the high
way laws and of his personal comfort, and
standing him up to make twenty or thirty
speeches a day, not to mention shaking hands
and kissing babies, until the poor man Is
worn to a frazzle In the first four days of
this week, he says. they let him have less than
twenty hours of sleep. That might have been
all right If he had been Katzenjammer instead
Of Katzenbach but as il is, he feels decidedly
i'll used, and says so.
Nor is the loss Of sleep the only or the worst
thing which he suffers. His managers are keep
ing him much ION the 60" that he hasn't
time to write a single new speech, and he Is
compelled to keep repeating the old ones
over and over, parrot fashion. He has wanted
for a long time to speak fully and frankly on
the excise question and TO declare his atti-
tude toward the bishops law and the Sunday
opening question. lie would have done so long
since if only they would have given him
chance He would have spoken with n direct
ness and emphasis which would have made
John Franklin Fort lOol, like thirty cents. But.
alas, his managers wouldn't let him. How
could he prepare speech Of ar least nifty words
when he was incassaptly being hurried from
Sussex 10 cape May In a Caso.ene buggy? He
did hope to get a word iu edsewlse az New
ark last Thursday night. He said that II ever
he did say a word ON the excise question it
would be there and then The time ana place
and man all came together in an cpochal con-
iuncture. But, despite his high intentions and his
strenuous efforts. all ne could say WAS that hc
could. would or should say nothing He had
his personal views on the subject, but he would
be consistent I'm his silence. And so. all he
cause Of the insatate haste and zeal OF his
campaign managers, the poor man had 10 keep
mum on the topic which his own partlsans
vociferously declare 10 be the paramount and
indeed the only important issue Of the cam
paign. and thus incur the reproach Of being
afraid to speak.
1t IS all very sad It must be an awful thing
for man to be so passionately longing and
yearning to say somewhere from a dozen to
fifty words on a subject on which the public
is passionately longing and yearuing TO hear
him, to clear his record and yindcate his
courage, manllness and good faith, and Yet he
prevented from doing. II IS gross cruelty.
which ought not to be permitted in a civilized
land under whose Constitution cruel and un-
usual punishments are forbidden. II is n pity
Raisuli cannot be brought over. 10 kidnap him,
get him away from his managers, and give him
the chance to speak his mind which he so
earnestly desires Failing that we should he
inclined TO organize Society for the Preven-
ton Of Cruelty to Candidates. Only that might
lead to forbidding the nomination Of any
Democratic candidate at all!