The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-27
SOMMER
TELLS HIS
POLICY
CONTINUED from FIRST Pnse.)
subsidized the Sheriff began his speech
which lasted almost two hours.
Senator Colby said in part:

subsidized the Sheriff began his speech,
which lasted almost two hours.
Senator Colby said in part:
never knew what real pleasure was TIL
I got into a political fight. We fought
hard, and I think we accomplished some
thing. There was one thing last ys saT
said to .me you had Utmost a SOLO LABOR
vote in 1905. while in 1906 you lost II All.
They said If I had tried hard wouio not
Now I am down here to talk not for my
self. but for another whom you all Know;
l am here to speak for Frank ommer
want to talk business. the business OF the
ballots. / want your ballots for him. he
Is a reform candidate. and Is one OF tne
ripples in the great reform wave tnat Is
sweeping over this entire country to secure
for the people their rights. Roosevelt pc
gan II. and we are all trying TO carry II
out.
Sommer is n man very much like Roose-
welt. Roosevelt began In politics as a
young man. and his rise was rapid. He
was first a police Commissioners in New
York city. and rose from that In great
Jumps to the Presidential chair.
The Sheriff was the son of poor parents,
and he studied law in his spare moments.
He went without his lunch In oroer 70
till he gained n reputation. Now we want
him for Governor. and we wnnt your hcip
I voted for the Bishops bill. It is not
being enforced. and If 1t isn't to be en-
forced it should be corrected TO meet with
public approval. l. IS not enforced as IL
all right, while others wink at its provl-
sinrs.
I was down at Atlantic City some time
ago and saw what was being done there.
There is no attempt to enforce it there.
There are a lot of people in Atlantic CITY
who are always crying for. good govern,
they were loud in their demands to have
1t strictly enforced. They weren't long n
finding when they tried to. enforce It,
though, that 1t threatened the very ex-
istence Of the place. All Of the people
who go there to spend Sunday, expecting to
get their beer and wine, would not go II II
up a deal with the saloon keepers TO al
low them to sell through their side doors.
AS a result disorderly house keepers say to
saloon men. Dom you complain against
u.s." and the gambling houses the same.
Then the saloon men say to the city Of
ficials, Don't complain against us or the
ruin the city" This is what l don't want
to see. Nor do | want to see liquor sold
in the clubs and not to the men who can
not afford to belong to them.
Sheriff Sommer in his speech an
nounced tina If he were elected Gov
ernor he would follow the same line of
duty as he has done in the Sherif's Of
fee. In part, he said:
Some, time since l was moved by SEN
ator Colby's insistence to announce that l
would accept the nomination for Governor
of the state if it was rendered to Inc by
the Republican party on q platform on
which l could stand. 1 said that L could
do no campaigning for the office. however,
as the duties i o 9f my present rnSh : o fhinr are apo
going to stick to this, too, but people tod
me that l could not come into the Tenth
Ward for some reason or other without
receiving an unwelcome reception, You
cant tell me that / cannot go into any
part of Essex County without my getting
arenas as fast as my feet will carry me.
Now 1 have come here tonight to have a
heart to heart talk with you and try to
find out why l can't come into the Tenth
Ward.
When I ran for Sheriff you know that 1
went into the Fifth, the Tenth and the
it. | came before you and presented a
platform of my own that expressed as
clearly as English will admit what 1 in
tended to do If you d d1dnt want tine the
to vote for me and L didn't want the office.
You did elect me and you knew what to
expect when you put me there. Whether
| have done as l promised you yourselves
best know.
Some time. ago | was asked by q PROM
inent politician why did SO and so.
replied that the people wanted it because
l had promised 1t to them and was bound
to give. it to them. HELL" he said, who
believed your
here are laws that must be enforced. Not
because it was n duty did say this, but
because as a father l wanted to see every
lad and lass In Essex County rise to typical
American manhood and w~omanhood. | had
little trouble in finding the law violated.
but it was not by the laboring man. Few OF
these gentlemen who / had occasion to ar
rest later and taxi to Jail had the signs OF
toll on their hands.
l didn't begin d crusade against the sa-
looms because they were saloons, because
a saloon is licensed by law and perfectly
legitimate. What l went after was the
cases where | found them to be saloons III
name only, a trap set for your son or You
them out, and l will continue to wipt
them out wherever / run across them. III
this particular work I want to say that
have had the hearty support of a large
majority of the saloon-kaepers. In many
cases l have had their aid in collecting
evidence. They have frequently supplied
The law requires that the saloons bt
closed on Sun1ey. Now | didn't make thu
laws. You. through your legislatures
made the laws, and as long as they remain
on the books of the State, they simply
must be enforced. True, the law was no
observed, as there was II general sentiment
against many of its provisions. Their
there was passed hat license law known a.
the Bishops bill. There are provisions II
the law that make 1t impossible to do
many of the things that were IL common
vision made 1t practically impossible Il
serve drinks in a cafe unknown to outsid
eFS. Inere is no longer an excuse LOT tnt
non-enforcement of the Sunday CLOSING
law.
III tell you how 1t worked before. In
this city a saloon-keeper of good reputa-
tlon, n herman, and unfamiliar with the
practise of the green goods man, was call
ed on recently by two supposed gentle.
men who proposed some sort of a betting
scheme. He didn't see the one-slded par
of 1t and soon toe. two men left with ST.
Of the mans money. About then he
woke up and he followed them to a Ger
tain building In B-9ad street. He watched
them disappear .nto a building and HI
called q policeman and had them takeT
to the station house.
The sergeant on duty hailed them a.
friends. They were never slated, never
arraigned before a judge. This is h
happended: A police officer called on tn
saloon-keeper and said, here's you $50
The saloon-keeper thanked him and thei
the policeman said, We'll, amt you go
Ing to do the right thing?" The ma
said sure he would, and he peeled off
his superior. The cop looked at 1t n min
ute and then he said IN a sneering tone
DO you think the captain is going 4
stand for this?" looking at the bill. TIL
saloon-keeper asked for the bill back, am
then told the cop to go to blazes tn
) next Sunday this man had to close up nj
business or be raided. Every other sa
loon In the precinct was doing a goo.
! business. No one has the right TO sci
/ privileges of violating the law.
/ haven't gone to saloons and close
them up. Somehow or other they hav
J been closed up though. In one precinc
{ the, captain gets n complaint from m
/, against a certain saloon, and what doe
he do with il. He sends in to the saloon