The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-11

ply wanted it, told them 1t was for
the good of the Republican party, and
all that sort of thing; and, gentlemen,
| had the hardest time in my life to
ever talk a lot of men into working for
n electing delegates for Mr.. Colby as
l did those hard-fisted farmers of that
district of Essex County, and today I
make public apology to those farmers
up in the northern section of our
county, and say nat they had more
common sense in their little finger than
Carl Lentz had in his whole body from
top to sole, and If those farmers will
only bear with me and help, to elect me
chairman of the county committee
again, l will promise them on my word
of honor that Colby will never have a
ghost of asshow in Essex County if l
car help it. (Applause)
well, while he was there the second
year, he became the leader of the
House. Every corporation measure that
you can possibly think of, the worst and
the worst, he stood for and protected
these corporations in the Legislature as
the Leader of that House l never wen
to T~renton-very seldom-and the rep
resentative of your district here, Ed
ward Gnichtel, came to me one day and
lOlQ llt. ne says, MAUI, Ind WOil
do; that man is running the Republican
party by his. actions Well, I went tc
Mr.. Colby and 1 old Mr.. Colby that he
was not elected to represent the corpo-
~rations in the Legislature, but the peo-
pie. His answe to me was that he un-
derstood his business. Well, I had
nothing more to say. You know his
record-and it is as rotten a record, as
i he bipaonIf orye nc INV MAN Na nnc-
sibly make. The only excuse he gives
for it is this, that he says he didn't
know any better, and that he was asked
to support these measures. l challenge
him publicly. to name a single corpora
ton measure that l asked him to stand
for. He couldn't name one, except the
Bloomfield annexation bill, which has
about as little to do with corporations
as the man in the moon, and it was
purely the question of letting the bill
come out of committee for the people
of Bloomfield to vote on. whether or not
they would not be annexed to the city
of Newark. Now, gentlemen, that was
his second year.
why Colby Bolted.
Nov comes his third year. Let me
take you gentlemen to the office of the
pTfSlutnl OIL lIe fTuutIlldl Lie lflSlT-
ance Company. Mr.. John f. Dryden
was then the Senator from the State
of New Jersey, and / say it right now,
here. without any fear of contradiction,
that never has New Jersey had a more
able, honest and better representative
in the United States Senate than John
Who was there? Colby, Senator Dry
den and myself.
Mr.. Colby then demanded that Sen
ator Dryden should scour the State of
New Jersey personally for him for the
purpose of obtaining votes for Mr.
Colby for Speaker of the House of AS
sembly. l told Mr.. Colby that 1t was
no part or parcel of the business of a
United States Senator to interfere with
the organization of the House of the
Legislature of the State of New Jersey.
I told him that so far as / was CON
cerned | would stand by him.. Excuse
me, gentlemen, for yer having made
that promise.
told me that he didn't need my
help, what he wanted was Senator Dry
denis help. Senator Dryden, in a gen
tlemanly and calm way told him, Mr..
Colby, l as United States Senator from
the State of New Jersey cannot inter
fere with the internal arrangement of
the State, and L cannot and will not
solicit votes for you or anyone else for
the ~Speakership of the House of Rep,
~resentatives of the State of New Jer-
sey.,. The words were uttered in that
calm, judicial and gentlemanly way in
which Senator Dryden always speaks.
Mr.. Colby jumped up out of his chair
and said, We'll, I see the leaders. the
bosses. are against me, and I will so
out and fight them
"That, gentlemen, was the birthday
of the New Idea movement, it vas
the birthday of the secession of Colby
and those that We're associated with
him, from the regular Republican or
ganization of Essex County-born in
selfishness, born purely from selfish
disappointment, it has been one course
from beginning to end of selfish pur-
poses and ends. and nothing else.
Martin Attacked.
THE next associate is William p.
Martin; born in N~ebraskaS he comes
here, he is admitted to the bar. He
also came to me; / put him on the
county committee; / gave him a
chance to speak; l did all that / could
for him. When Thomas N. McCarter
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