The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-11
LENTz REVEALS
SECRET HISTORY
OF PARTY FIGHT
CONTINUED from First Page,

acter Of men. Now, gentlemen. that is
all for Mr.. Book.
Yesterday Colonel Colgate said he
compared himself, or his as
%sociates, with eggs. He stated tina they
were a bunch or eggs; that Mr.. Colby
and Mr.. Martin were fresh eggs, and
that he himself was not quite so fresh.
Well, you know he says L am Just
eggs In other words, he clearly defined
his position that he is not fresh. eggs.
Now, l ask anybody here, [ ask any
body's wife when she goes to the
grocery store, when they buy eggs, If
they don't want to have fresh egg? If
1t comes to stale or rotten eggs. why
nobody wants them. Now, Mr.. Colgate
is one of those stale eggs. l can tell
him now that nobody wants him, and if
that is his entire proclamation to the
people of Essex County, when he says
to them, Here, gentlemen, there is a
choice of eggs, and l am a stale egg
the answer will be unanimously, No,
we don't want you, we want fresh eggs
That is all you can get out of him. [
expect to get more out of him before l
get through with him tonight.
In his Indictment of the New Idea the
major said:
Colby's Record.
Who forms his combination of re-
formers? Mr.. Colby, MI. Sommer, Mr..
Martin. Have l forgotten one? Colby,
Sommer n Martin. That is all. Now.
take those three gentlemen. Mr.. Colby,
born in Wisconsin, a child of fortune;
that is to say, if it is a child of for
tune, n born with lots of money and
without the necessity and without the
incentive to work for any He comes
here, young, ambitious, and enters into
politics. Ex-Governor Murphy came to
me one day, and he says to me, Major,
there is a young man who is a friend
of my son Frank, by the name of Col
by; he is bright, able, all that sort of
thing; he wants to enter politics in this
county; l wish you would shove him
to the 'front.' l told him, Why, Gov
ernor Murphy, we are always looking
for men of that calibre, and If he is a
bright, able young fellow. why, there
Is his chance; let him do some work,
show what he can do, and we will
stand by him. Mr.. Colby came up to
call on me at headquarters, and he
looked quite well; he vas well dressed,
he s~miled-you know his smile-he was
very pleasant, and he said hat he was
willing to enter the ranks. Well, our
ranks are always open, at least they
were in those days, INC he was well
come. We sent him to meetings to de-
liver speeches, and while I see my
friend, the old chairman of the speak
ers' committee, over there, DIR. Vinson,
and I charged DR.. Vinson particularly
with the duty of letting me know what
sort of a speech the young gentleman
made, and how he took. we have to
do that, you know. We have to find
out what is in a man. Well, some of
them said, Well, major, it is all right
Some of them said, Don't send him
any more Som of them said, We'll,
let her GO, and we will hear him, be-
cause the major wants us to hear him.
etc. They were very kind and nice to
me N Those days, and he got along all
right. The next thing. Governor Muir
q ply again said to me, Major, | think
we ought to nominate him for the AS
sembly; he wants to go to the Assem-
bly, All right He lived in West
Orange, where the farming population
Of our county lives. I went out and
saw some of those farmers, and my
friend, George De Camp. and a whole
lot of them; they live in this dlstrlct
that Mr.. Colby was from.
'aThey sale to me, Major, now we
don't want him, he lives in West
Orange, here in a big house, and If we
want to see him, we have got to send
our card in through a butler and all
that sort of thing, and he don't suit us;
we are farmers, we are milk dealers,
and we are countrymen, and we want
to have a man going from this district
that represents us and whom we can
speak to ard reach at any time
II told them that this would all be
changed; I told them Governor Muir