The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-28
REPUBLICANS ON
STUMP ATTACK
SILENCE CHARGE
Declare They Are Willing to
Meet Issues, but Will Not
Make Promises.
SURROGATE RUSSELL ON
BIG LIST OF SPEAKERS
Seven Meetings at Which Candi.
dates Appear Are Attended
by Good Sized Crowds.

Seven well-attended Republican meet
ings, five in Newark. one in Bloomfield
and one in Belleville, were held In Essex
county last night. Most of the candi-
dates appeared at all of the gatherings.
They declared that the statements be-
ing made by their Democratic oppo-
.nents that the Republicans were UNI
willing to state where they stood on
public questions were foolish; that they
were spending every night trying to ex-
plain Just that point to the people Of
Essex county.
1.-THE one great cry of the Democrats
is that we are SILENT said Assembly
Candidate Thomas Gillen. I'VE are
not. We are coming before you every
night. There is not one issue In this
campaign that either 1 or my fellow
candidates are afraid to meet squarely,
honestly and straightforwardly. But
we are not making foolish promises. 1t
is better 10 make a few promises and
act according to o own conscience.
Every question will get careful consid-
Grafton. Every question that comes up
in Trenton will be dealt with in favor
of the voters of this county and the
Dtdtt. we diC sums 'onC
of office, and we are men enough to
know what that means
william p. Mungle. candidate for tho
Board of Works, asked for the votes or
the people on the ground that there
should be q business man on the board.
..The Democrats say they are stand
ing on their principles" said Duane H.
MInard. "They want us to declare
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are principles IN which everybody
stands. To say that I, or the rest OF the
Assembly candidates, stand for the
same things would be an insult TO your
intelligence. IL I should get up before
you and say that ! stood for them 1t
would be like getting UP and saying
that I was not a thief; that I had
never been convicted Of any crime.
One would be just as sensible as the
other.
THE Democrats are asking us where
we stand on about 1000 questions that
they have never votchsafed. The peo-
pie OF this county don't care for prom
ises. II they did, any promising crook
would have q better chance to get to
the Legislature than either myself or
any of the other ten candidates for the
Assembly. Better have a mai with
character than one who makes a whole
lot of empty promises. Personality Is
what is needed dow at Trenton.
1.-THE Democrats say we are afraid to
talk. Does it look so? But that Is just
a sample of the foolish things they are
saying this year. We have been talk
ing every night for q week and a halt
to everybody and everywhere we could.
They say we haven't made any prom
Uses. We haven't l wouldn't stand up
before you, gentlemen. n solicit your
vote on promises, any more than l
would steal a mans pocketbook without
a consideration.
1.-THE Democratic platform Is like
that dress women wear called the
Mother Hubbard-it covers everything
but 1t doesn't touch anything A
Democrat can promise anything and
everything, because nobody ever ex-
poets him TO keep them. The Repub-
lican candidates can't do anything like
that. The fundamental principles Of
our party has been don't make rasf
promises, but deliver the goods.
Haven't we done 1t? Every man or
the Republican ticket will do the right
thing at the right time, and the only
boss any of them know or will stant
for Is the men who elected him."
The other speakers were Surrogate
George E. Russell and Assembly Can
didates William Lee. Robert S. Ter
hume, J. William Huegel and Coleman
e. Nissan.
The meetings were at the Northern
Republican Club. 1877 Belleville avenue
the Second Ward Republican Club. 4
William street; Franklin Hall, Parl
avenue and Stone street, and at Wiese
mann's Hall. 200 Ferry street. where tn
Fifth, Tenth and Twelfth ward Repub
Leans held a reception for the candi
dates. The out-of-town meetings wer
held at the Bloomfield Republican Club
Bloomfield. and at Belleville Hall
Belleville.