The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-04-28
100 solidly for Smith, Katzenbach
Hinchliffe and Carrow, was unfair.
Chairman viehmann said:


Chairman Viehmann said:
I'VE have been passing through
strenuous times. This has been the
day of the big stick. Whenever a head
has bobbed up the club-swfnger would
get into action. Predatory wealth has
been severely denounced; undesirable
citizens have been publicly branded.
men have been proposed, elected and
initiated into the Ananias Club with
lightning rapidly; nature takers have
been taught that there is only one re-
liable source of authority; race sui
elders and mollycoddlers have been
chastised, and spontaneous outbursts
of denunciation have been kept on tap
to meet the public pulse for the exist
ing moment.
"All these have been successfully
used to keep in the limelight for The
time being him who is supposed to
serve, but whose actions indicate that
he believes himself predestined to rule,
Boldly proclaiming the necessity for
tariff reformation at the beginning OF
his administration, he was led to see
a brighter light. and party supremacy
and political demands have beaten the
IdllOIidl H66u dit Tic SCllCld al NEiLcii i
Vigorous in his denunciation of cor
ruption. shocked at the suggestion that
his righteous cause was being adj
vanced thereby. subsequent events
have proved that he was the recipient
of the fruit of such corruption and
was knowingly meeting some who are
now undesirable citizens to arrange for
the then existing needs.
"a bugler of civil service and violent
advocate of the independence of opin-
ion, he is now in devious ways using
the power of the peoples office to fur
Their his private desires in the selection
of his successor.
"Vacillating policies, changeable de-
examinations n the irresponsible inn
pulse to accomplish his wishes with
out consultation or consideration mark
our present executive. His damna-
ions nave been many; his accomplish
ments few, and the inal verdict of
history will be that he was a shrewd
and crafty politician governed by i'm
pulse, who disturbed conditions without
improving them, who started reforms
but lacked the independence to establish
them in defiance of his party.
"Hnrd times arc now existing. The
full dinner pail is full of wind. The
protective tariff is not giving every
workman three full meals every day
and an abundance of work, and the
prosperity and good times incident to
the adoption of the principles of the
Republican party, always claimed by
their campaign orators, are now being
practically demonstrated. They can no
longer shift the responsibility or avoid
the results of their own work.
THE protective tariff, possibly of
some benefit when industries were
young, furnished to shrewd and I'M
scrupulous captains OF industries a
weapon with which they brought into
being, by consolidation and combina-
ton, the trusts and monopolies which
nave by their active work in corrupting
elections m more to hurt our our
try han all other causes combined.
They may have advanced business
methods, but they have been the curse
of good government n the octopus
with it's tentacles ever reaching but and
destroying every effort of proper civic
advancement. Republican DONNA
ton in this State has resulted in the
creation of commission upon commits
sion to manage and control this mat
ter and that matter, partision or BIZ
PARTISAN; they are filled by party bosses
or ~sub-bosses on the n side and with
incompetent ingrates, traitors or weak
lings on the other.
"If Newark, Jersey City, Trenton,
Camden, Paterson, Atlantic City and
every other community is to be con
trolled by having a commission of po-
litical bosses given the right to retain,
dismiss or appoint all their civil en-
ployees, from janitor of the police sta
tons to clerks in the executive offices,
why not advance n step further and
surrender all civic control to our lords
and masters at Trenton?
Back to the people! Let that be our
cry.
But today your highest conservator
of public morals in your county is gen.
orally a political factor, who preserves
the morals of members of the opposing
political faith and frequently uses his
office to wink at violations of the law
If votes for his side can be gained
thereby. Excise boards are named by
judges who, in turn, are named by a
party boss, and then exhibit their sub
missiveness and slavery by acting as
parrots in announcing appointments.
The reo cent legislation at Trenton was
a most beautiful exhibition of the con-
temptuous disregard of the desires of
the people and the mastery of their
puppet by party bosses"