The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-24

going to give you the reasons why.
They say | am not a regular Repub-
lican because 1 did not do that. [
know one of my friends in particular,
the chairman of my ward executive
committee, says, Major, you know
what a great friend of yours l am.
you know my heart is with you, and
all that sort of thing. but why did you
rot support Mr.. Colby?' Well, now.
why didn't I do it? l will tell you why.
Mr.. Colby, in the first place. when
he announced his candidacy, said hat
he was an independent with Republi-
can tendencies, and while l can sup
port and vote for a man who is a Re-
publican with Independent tendencies.
| do not and cannot vote for an indie
pendent with Republican tendencies,
with the word Reformation with a
big r attached to it.
I'm the second place, Mr.. Colby said
on the loo of the Senate, and l have
the word of three Republican Senators
and three Democratic Senators for it,
that the veterans of the Civil War
were a lot of lazy loafers. Now, gen
tlemen. i am a veteran myself. l
resented that statement of Mr.. Colby
that | was a lazy loafer.
And hen the third reason why 1
did not support Mr.. Colby was because
while he was Senator from his county
he voted for local option. I am tee
totally opposed to local option and pro-
hibition, and those things in every
form, shape and character, and 1 de-
sire no man to vote for any of my
r,N-Ir .,A-,l1,- AF +lA z@,.-f-
committee who in the slightest degree
think that l will ever stand for any
such legislation as that.
Now, gentlemen, you have my three
reasons.
Now, the next thing is this: What
am l going to stand for when 1 am
elected? l will tell you l got into this
e~lection as free as a bird. 1 am under
no obligations to anybody, except to
my personal friends and to you. the
people here of this ward and the
". l have made no pledges, no prom
Uses of any character whatsoever. AS
a. matter of fact nobody has asked me
for any, l don't believe they think L
have got a ghost of a show for my
election and therefore they are not CO.
ing to ask me for I'M promises. Well,
that is an advantage, that l don't have
to refuse it, because 1 won't make any.
81 am pledged to no candidate for
United States Senator, either directly
or indirectly, nor, what is more, will I
pledge myself to one. 1 will leave this
election of the United States Senator
of this State to the primary vote Of
the Republican party of this county,
and will be guided by it.
II am bound or pledged to no corpora
ton; as a matter of fact l am informed
they are against me; whether they are
or not. gentlemen, they shall obtain
through any power l nay have or OBJ
tain the power Or the rights that they
entitled to under the law; they will
get neither more nor less; they will get
the protection of the law to which they
are entitled; they will get the rights
that they are entitled to, but no more.
| shall act in the interest of the people
in such a manner as the peoples inter-
est demand, and as the corporations
rights and their interests are con-
cerned they shah get what the law
gives them so long as they do not con-
fict with the rights of the people in
the premises. /, as l stated, am under
no obligations to any of them, The
election of the members of the Assem-
bly, is made by the people.
For the. sixteen years hat / was
chairman OF the county committee l
have V asked a single member of
the Assembly to vote for a single meas
ure; l have never asked n of them
to support any measure except such
as were laid down by the platform of
the Republican party in their conven-
ton, and 1 have always insisted to the
utmost of my power hat the promises
so made should be kept; but, so far
as legislation in the interest of corpora
lions or special interests is concerned.
during the sixteen years of my chair
manship there is not a member of the
Assembly that can say that I ever