The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-15
NEW IDEA MEN
SEND HOT PROTEST
TO AN DALRyMPLE
Declare Republican Chairman
Has No Right to Dictate
Nominees.
SAY HE is UNFAIR AND
CONDUCT COURAGEOUS"
Has Ignored One Third of Party
Voters in Big-Stick
Methods. .

In a letter sent today to Chairman
Alfred N. Dalrymple, of the Republi-
can County Committee a number of
Republican district leaders, who belong
to the New Idea element of the party
protest against the conferences which
have been held during the past three
weeks to select men to be supported
for nomination at the primaries on
September %.
The letter is signed by John s. Gibson,
Charles F. Gerken, Theodore d. Gott-
lieb. William Bailey. Henry Hahn, f. l..
Driver, H. C. Higginson, c. B. Yardley,
jr., Arthur Fletcher, A. e. Condit,
Henry p. Baldwin, Irving s. Abbey. c.
b. Norwood and F. II. Mead.
They sent the letter, they said, with
out more signatures, because they heard
that another conference is to be held
The communication is very lengthy.
The premise that the conferences
were called by Mr.. Dalrymple as county
chairman and effort was made to force
the party organization to the support
of candidates of your own selection"
Use ONCE wrongfuiIy.
Continuing, the letter says:
I'VE deny your right to hold a con-
ference of leaders of the county organ
ization for this purpose, or to dictate
who shall be the nominees of the Re
publican party before the voters have
expressed their wishes at the primaries.
1t is your function to secure Republi-
can success at the election, not to die
tate to the voters who they shall nomi-
nate.
Heretofore it was the custom of the
county chairman to dictate nomina-
tions with the aid of manipulated con-
ventions, but" says the letter, 'the in
justice and evil of such conventions
brought the direct primary to deprive
leaders of the power to manipulate con-
yentions.
Vested with power for the purpose
of securing Republican success, you
are wrongfully exercising that power
to win a personal and factional ad-
vantage in the making of party nomi-
nation.
You call together certain of the
ward and district leaders of the party
organization, many of whom are under
obligation for positions or patronage,
announce to them the men you have
selected to fill public positions, and
try to frighten them with the fear of
defeat at the primaries unless they
concentrate their support upon the
candidates of your selection. Then you
attempt to impress the public with
the belief that this is the official ac-
ton of the Regular Republican organi-
zation
Say He Is Unfair.
"In this you have been outrageously
unfair. At the primaries of last year
the Republicans of sixty-four of the 2O9
election districts of the county elected
as leaders and members of the county
committee men who were affiliated with
the New Idea movement.
'If It was your prerogative to sum-
mon the leaders chosen by the party
voters, for the purpose of tndorsing
candidates selected by you, why did
you neglect to summon sixty-four of the
leaders selected by the Republicans of
this county to participate in the coun..
ellis of their party.
Ibid you wish to declare your un
fairness by excluding the representa-
tives of Republicans who in the pri
maries of last year polled nearly ono.
half of the Republican votes of the
county?"
The GA district leaders excluded, says
(Coatinued ON Second Page)
Rubber Hose and Lawn Mowers.