The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-18
To WATCH POLLS
At PRIMARIES TO
ELECT DELEGATES
Address Issued by Leaders OF
Bryan Organization in
the State.
"RESIST INTERFERENCE"
WITH RIGHT TO Do SO
Appeal to Democrats to Assist
in Election of Delegates for Ne
braskan to Denver Convention.

Preparations have been made by tine
| State executive committee of he Pro
gressive Democratic League, the Bryan
| organization in this. State, to see that
its representatives get a square deal
| at the primaries to be held for the cleo
ton of delegates to the district
| State conventions to choose delegates
to the national Democratic convention
in Denver.
The committee today issued an ad-
| dress to Democratic voters of the State
calling on them to attend the primaries,
to watch the voting and to resist
| interference with it." The address is
in part as follows:
Through the failure of the Legis-
lature to pass a law demanded by pub
lie sentiment to safeguard the choice
of a candidate for the highest office
in the gift of the American people,
there still exists the opportunity to OBJ
struct n nullify the will of the peo-
pie, which doubtless prompted tha re-
cent public description by the chairman
Of the Essex County Democratic Com
mittee of primaries held under these
conditions as go as you please affairs
The right to register his choice for
the candidate of his party for Presl-
dent of the United States and to have
it correctly recorded should be as dear
to every real Democrat as his right TO
vote, but it is often neglected by men
very deeply interested in their party's
success and their country's welfare.
"This organization believes that the
nomination of William Jennings Bryan
and his election to he presidency are
essential to our greatest progress anG
prosperity, n it appeals to every
Democrat who believes likewise to at
tend the primary election and vote only
for such delegates to the State conven-
tion as are pledged to select Bryan del
egates to Denver.
I'VE ask o not only to go to the
polls, but
"First-Be there when the polls are
opened.
"Second-Insist upon examining the
box to see hat it is empty.
"Third-Watch the voting. Demand
this privilege as a right-it is yours
legally-and resist interference with it.
"Fourth-In case of trouble or con-
ffict Immediately take names and adj
dresses of all friendly witnesses and
report to any of the undersigned.
"Fifth-Count the voters as they vote.
"Sixth-Watch and keep tally of the
count and compare with the number Of
voters, and report discrepancies.
Fellow Democrats. the result is in
your hands; you have it in your power
by standing on your rights to make
our primaries go as you please, and
not as the elements opposed to party
success prefer. Go to the polls in your
respective districts remembering the
| words of our great leader at Newark,
February 6:
""This is no sham battle. This is no
play affair. 1t is a fight on the part of
the common people against the most
potent consolidation of financial inter-
ests that this country ever knew.
1.-THE only kind of an army hat can
fight their forces is an army of volun-
teers that can neither be bought nor
coerced, and will make up in enthus-
iasm what the others make up in
cupidity.'"
To he address is appended the
names of Congressman William
Hughes, James E.. MARITIME, Senator
William G. Gebhardt, Edmond A. Whit
tier, William p. O'Rourke, Allan Benny,
Charles H. Ingersoll, Assemblynan
Joseph p. Tumulty, Julian A. Gregory,
q Spencer Smith, George A. Miller, jr.,
Walter G. Linbarger, Charles Stokes,
Frank McLees, John f. Wynne, Simon
p. Northrup, Charles p. Gillen. John
Moody, John L.. Armitage, William
La Baw, Robert G. Bremner, j. V. r..
Dilts and John v. Wise.