The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-28
SULLIVAN SCORES
c. 0. P. RECORD IN
ELOQUENT ADDRESS
In Strong Indictment He Cites
List of Broken Pledges at
Parker Dinner.

Hudson county Joined forces with Es-
sex last night at the banquet to the
| Democratic candidates given by the
Joel Parker Association in Achtel-Stet-
ter's by sending over the leader OF the
party in that county and the leader OF
the Democratic minority in the House,
Assemblyman Mark A. Sullivan. The
eloquent Hudsonite talked for forty-nVe
minutes and when he concluded rhere
was not a phase of the Republican
administration of State affairs that he
had not held up to his audience and
commented bitterly upon,
"Victory!" was the keynote OF the
whole gathering. City Counsel James
r. Nugent, chairman of the state DEM
ocratic Committee, said that the Par
kers, who always tender a banquet to
the candidates shortly before election,
had gathered for many years on such
occasions as that of last night, some
times on the eve of victory and some-
times before a defeat. This time, he
declared, he could say with all sin
certify hat 1t was to be a victory,
aIlu SuCH IL NlCtOiy as WYNN fOHo
remembered in Essex.
MIR. Sullivan, who had been cam
palgning in his own county, entered
| amid great applause. Mr.. Nugent, act
ing as ~toastmaster. dispensed with the
regular introduction, saying:
you all know Sullivan. Everybody
in Jersey knows him. 4
The Hudson Assemblyman plunged
boldly into his subject.
81 will try to live up to what Jim
Nugent says about me-" said Mr.. Sui
livan. 'In the last three years he and
| have had many quarrels, but they
were In the beginning when we didn't
understand each other. l have found,
after long acquaintance. that Mr.. MI
gent was uniformly my friend.
THE principal Issue this year is the
failure of the Republicans to live up to
the platform pledges on which the peo-
pie were persuaded to put them into
power.
"As Democrats it seems to mi we
| should stand for the further extension
of the direct primary system. l may
say some things you don't agree with
me on, but l am going to say them
Just the same. l believe that one OF
the most important things before the
| state today Is the extension Of the d.
rect primary to include the nomination
of Governor and Congressman.
1.-THE last Republican platform, the
! one on which Fort was elected, called
for an extension Of the primary system.
That platform, you must remember
| was made up under the spur of a
Democratic House. Remember That
while tho convention was making the
platform the Legislature was still In
session. Remember that a committee
of that Democratic House of Assembly,
under my esteemed friend here, Judge
simon Hahn, had one up and down
this State and showed that the Repub-
lican administration Of the State in
stitutions was rotten to thec core.
"Remember that this Republican plat
form. I say, was put forth with its
promises with all these things, In the
minds of the men who prepared II. And
one of the things that was promised
was the extension of the direct primary
system.
sHow well I remember when the d.
rect primary extension bills came up in
the House. The New Idea men, Re-
pubiicans. mind you, reminded their
colleagues OF the pledges they had made
to the people, urged them to keep faith.
Not a speech was made against the bill,
not q word in reply to the arguments
of the Democrats and the New Idea
men, and yet when the roll was called
the Regular Republicans beat 1t. That's
not playing fair.
1.-THE Democratic party must stand
for tho restoration of spring elections.
Municipal elections must be separated
in some way from the State and ma
tional contests. How often does 1t hap
pen when you have a chance to win
that Taft or Mckinley or someone else
In a national contest comes In and
overrides the local issues?
1.-THE Republicans have been talking
for years of an employers liability bill,
an act to give the workman when in
jured a chance to ecover some COM
pensation when he is not responsible
for the injury. Last year a bill was
introduced by that Senate from
Union, Mr.. Alderman. When we
showed him that 1t did not change the
existing situation, didn't broaden out
the law, that calling 1t an employers
liability bill didn't make IL one, we
could not change his purpose. The Re-
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