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

erty, or the happiness Ct the people,
individually or as a whole.
However, hardly it is announced
that l a W. again become a candidate
for this position when all at once there
is a raid, as it were, against me n
a cry goes out: Why, he cannot, he
shall not be elected The papers, the
streets are full of the assertion that
every leader is against me and that it
is impossible for me to be elected.
People say why, the State leaders
are against him; Governor Fort is
against him; Davy Baird is against
him: almost every man who claimNo
be a State leader is against him." GEN
tlemen. they have always been against
me for the last twenty-five or thirty
years, and | still live. One of my
friends last week, the proprietor of a
newspaper in the city, met one of those
State leaders, and he asked him What
chance has the Major got to be elect
ed?' My friend said, Why. he is go
ing to be elected. certainly He said, I
hope not Well he said, why not?'
He replied: He may be a good leader
for Essex County, but he is not a good
leader for the State
Il have read in the public press hat
it is a difficult thing for Mr.. Colby and
his associates in reformation to select
a gentleman to accept the candidacy
for chairman of the county committee.
They have no difficulty in filling the
positions for surrogate and for mem
bers of the Assembly n for Board of
Works; in fact. any pace to which a
salary is attached they have plenty OF
candidates.
II am a little disappointed, because
/ had hoped to rave had a head put
up on the other side, n that I-would
be able to hit that head in the most
proper way. The only mention that is
made in the public papers is this, that
Austen Colgate. of Orange, is likely
to be the candidate. Now, | will say
this for Mr.. Colgate, that he is a gen
tleman of the first water; there is moth
ing to be said against him personally:
the only thing I have got to say
against him is thai he keeps mighty
bad and if he is really to be
my opponent in his fight, why. then,
gentlemen, my fight against him will
be not so much directed. against the
gentleman personally as it will be
against the bad company that he keeps.
Nov, that brings me, gentlemen, to
some of the questions, or some of
the objections hat are raised against
me or my candidacy at the present
time. | don't believe there is any
thing that can be said against me,
or proven against me, for Mr.. Som
mer has been sheriff for three years
and l have learned of no capias, no
Indictment or no charge or anything
made against me while he was adj
minstering the office of sheriff. For
a citizen at large, like l am, this
certainly ought to be a certificate of
good character, because If anything
could nave been produced to put me
in jeopardy, either of my life, liberty
or my property. why then, gentlemen,
tina would have been produced during
the term of our late sheriff; therefore,
l think they cannot produce anythi 6
of that character.
However, they say this: We'll, the
major did not support Mr. Colby last
fall
'"Well, now, the major says right
here before you gentlemen of the
Sixth Ward. before all my friends in
the city of Newark and before all my
friends In the county of Essex. that
1t is true that | did not support Mr..
Colby at the last ELECTION, and / am