The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-28

keep the pledges made to the people.
The n in which the chief execu-
tive of State has injured unneces-
sarily the fair name of New Jersey
should be strongly condemned. If Of
hcials 10 not obey the law, the Gov
ernor should summon the Legislature
to institute impeachment proceedings,
and not seek by spectacular and ridicu-
lous threats to force into submission
officials he himself has appointed.
Our campaign this year will be open
and clean. We will use no funds de-
rived from fiduciary corporations. nor
seek election at the expense of money
extorted from the poo by interested
corporations. I, myself, as chairman OF
the State committee, pledge myself and
my party to conduct a fight of pub
licity. We are not ashamed of our can
didates or our issues, and we do not
fear the most searching investigation
Of our methods or of our
"'Let the people rule Let this cleo
ton mark the regeneration of the State
Democracy. Let us all stand together.
Let us have new men, new methods
and q Democratic victory"
Cheers 1or NatzenDHch.
Frank s. Katzenbach, jr., of Tren-
ton, candidate for Governor last fall
and chairman of the Jersey delegation
in the Denver convention, was enthusi-
astically greeted and unanimously made
permanent chairman.
He was forced to walt for the APP
plause to subside before he could begin
his address. Mr.. Katzenbach said in
part;
Il have four reasons why every
Democrat and all those who desire to
see a return to those principles which
will bring equal opportunity for all
should supper the candidacy of Will
lam Jennings Bryan for the presidency
Of the United States.
Briefly these reasons are that the
nomination of Mr.. Taft was not the
result of the wishes of the majority of
those affiliated with the Republican
party, but was the product of the de-
sire of the national executive to dictate
his successor and the use by that
executive of all the power of Federal
patronage to accomplish that desire.
This is in itself a to free
elections. Mr.. Bryan was the almost
unanimous choice of the rank and file
OF the party. He owes his nomination
to no one man. He believes in the en-
forcement of the antitrust and kindred
laws. but he can be counted to enforce
these laws without fear or favor, n
not select one trust for persecution and
at the same time say grace over the
~devouring by another trust of its chief
competitor.
Says taft Is Handicapped.
Mr.. Taft. no matter how good bis
intentions, will, if elected, be handi-
capped in the fulfIment of the pledges
Of his party's PLATFORM by the fact that
the Republican party in it's partnership
with corporate interests and with the
campaign contributions received from
these interests have elected to the
United States senate and House CT
Representatives many who are the
secret agents OF these interests and not
the representatives of the people.
THE alliance between the great cor
porate interests and the Republican
party is so close. and the refusal of
that party 10 publish a list prior to
election of those contributing to its
campaign fund so suspicious. that we
have the right to believe that In this
campaign the trusts are to again fur
nish the Republican sinews OF war,
n therefore the right to doubt the
sincerity of the promises of the Re-
publican party to correct existing corr
porate abuses.
mo better evidence hat 1t Is right
for the Republican party, In the judg-
ment of Mr.. Roos evelt. to accept large
campaign contributions frcm special in
~terests can be had than the letter writ
ten by Mr.. Roosevelt and published in
this mornings papers.
Bryan Not E~ntansicd.
con the other hand, Mr.. Bryan has
no ~entangling alliances with special in
t~erests, and therefore can be relied
upon to perform his promises to correct
present abuses.
THE tendency of the Roosevelt adj
ministration has been toward the CEN
tralization of power in the Federal
government, with the consequential
curtailment of the powers of the State
governments. To further his purposes
Mr.. Roosevelt has appointed to the
J Ugh judicial positions only those who
could he relied upon to sustain by tu-
dicial constructions his policies
The platform as adopted reads:
The Democratic party Of the State
of New Jersey. in convention assem-
bled, pledges it's alliance to the princi-
pies onunciated in the Denver plat
form, and solicits the suffrages of the
voters Of New Jersey in behalf of the
Democratic nominees, William Jen-
nings Bryan, Of Nebraska, and John
w. Kern, of Indiana.
Confirmed In our Convictions that
the election of the Democratic presi-
Dental nominee, as we'll as a Demo-
cratic House of Representatives, is es-
sential to restore the confidence and in
dustrial prominence of America. we
heartily subscribe without e%quivoca-
ton oil evasion to all the pledges M
bodied in our national platform.
without specifically commenting
Upon the extravaganza of the present
administration and the unparalleled in
crease in the number who ave henc-
flied by a questionably manipulated
federal patronage. we direct the atten-
ton of the people to the insidious
consequences of the policy of EN-
tralizing the powers of government so
that the House of Representatives. con-
stituted for the purpose of executing
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