The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-29
FREEMAN HITS
MURPHY AND
FORT HARD
Leader of Independents At
tacks Records of Candi-
date and Chairman.

Alden Freeman, chairman of the In
dependent Citizens party. is holding
MONDAY as we'll as evening meetings,
and today spoke to the employees of
the Crescent Watch Case Company.
He continued his attacks on Judge
Forts record and incidentally brought
former Governor Franklin Murphy.
chairman of the Republican State
Committee, into prominence by refer
ring to the message he sent to the
Legislature in 1903 in which he de-
Tended the trusts.
Mr.. Freeman said in part
''Just once in three years the people Of
this State are given the opportunity TO
throw off the yoke of corporation contfol
in choosing a Governor to rule over theff;
The power is yours, my friends, why not
improve your opportunity and own your
government? When once you nave electeu
a man to the Governorship he is Vestep py
the State Constitution with the powers, OF
a monarch, so little does our Constitution
differ from the old royal charter.
Personally | agree with Lincoln anu
del Tocqueville that the remedy Tor tll9
evils of democracy is more democracy, ana
I would place in the hands of the people
the power of electing judges and public
prosecutors as we'll as the Secretary OF
state and other chief State officials whose
election by the people is demanded in our
platform.
''I did not fully realize how far we had
retrograded from the ideas which gave
birth to the Republican party until ] be-
held the CONSERVATION pictured upon the
faces Of the leaders of the more progress
sive element of the Republican nartv IT
the final New Idea meeting at the New
auditorium Just previous 10 the primaries.
when the following extract from Lncoln's
message to Congress from which I have
already quoted, was read. The dismay
depicted upon the faces of the gentlemen
upon the platform was only euualled by
the enthusiasm of the worlSingmen in the
audience when the extract was read, as
'Iihe indication OF approaching despot-
ism is the effort to place capital on an
equal footing with II not above, labor, in
the structure OF government, Labor Is prior
to and independent of capital. Capital is
only the fruit of labor and could not have
existed II labor had not first existed. La
Dor is the superior Of capital. and deserves
much the higher consideration
''These are the words OF the founder Of
the Republican party in his first annual
message to Congress on December 3, 1861.
BY any stretch Of the imagination can
you persuade yourself that the group OF
flnanciers who dominate the Republican
party and did also the Democratic party
In this State, entertain any such socialistic
and dangerous doctrines as President Lin
coin here seriously sets forth in great
state paper? This pronouncement was no
break or exceptional statement of Lin
icoln's. The same idea runs through all
the thought Of the foremost man that
America has yet produced. In speech after
speech. covering period OF years before
he became President find that his prime
idea is the dignity of labor
To me the most impressive speech he
ever made was contained in those few
uttered in Independence Hail. in
Philadelphia on the morning of Washing
tons Birthday, 1861. He was on his way
to- be inaugurated in Washington, and
only the night before had been informed
by Robert Pinkerton Of the plot to kill
him in the railway station at Baltimore
on February %. to which no less than
eight men had pledged themselves. In the
shadow Of impending death his spirit
shone forth in these words:
:" 'All the political sentiments ] enter
tain have been drawn from the sentiments
which originated and were given to the
world from this hall. l have never had a
feeling politically which did not spring
from the sentiments embodied in the Decla-
ration of Independence. The great prlnci-
pie in this poblest of English Documents
he said, was that sentiment which gave
liberty not alone to the people OF this
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