Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-05

free in my thoughts than in my
body; ! would a great deal. rather
lie bed-ridden with a free mind thar
to go where l please in bondage tc
other mems opinions. We must con
serve all these things; We are con.
serving the spirits and fortunes OIL
our fellow men when we take the
proper view of public affairs; thai
is what a progressive community
means.
Perth Amboy Progressive.
Nov 1 dare say Perth Amboy Is
progressive in many of these ways
but she is not as progressive as she
might be, not as thoughtful in de.
tail as she may become, but never,
theless progressive; progressive I'M
der a mayor whom she loves; who
as l have just seen, is greeted on
the streets like a beloved comrade
You cannot be progressive unless
you hang together, and you cannot
hang together unless you believe In
the men whom you follow. That is
the fundamental prescription for
political and social success and CO.
operation. Very well, being pro-
gressive, Perth Amboy is interested
in having a progressive state to live
in and share fortunes with.
SIS New Jersey Progressive?
Nov, is the state of New Jersey
progressive? There are all sorts of
definitions Of progressiveness, and
have not found a man who did not
want himself called a progressive,
but We will have to let somebody
else do the defining. / have heard
I of progressive republicans and pro-
gressive democrats, and progressive
this and progressive that, but l can-
not tell them apart by looking at
them. / car tell them apart only by
what they do. 1 cannot tell them
apart by what they profess to be-
lieve in; / can only tell them apart
by what they do in correspondence
with their professions.
NOW, the present republican or
g%anization of this state might call
itself progressive until it was out
of breath, and l could not believe it
because 1t has never progressed. II
you wish me to regard you as move
able, l must trouble you to move.
Unle IS I have ocular demonstration
of proof that you are movable, / can
not believe It.
Attacks Republican Machine.
NOW, every three years the re-
publican machine says that it Is pro-
gressive, but 1t has not budged an
inch. 1t may be getting up steam;
it may have sent for gasoline; us
sparker may be out or order. l do.
not know what is the matter with it,
but / know 1t has not moved, and,
therefore, l begin to have my sus-
picion whether it is movable, except
by dynamite. On the eighth of No
vember We are going to try dyna-
mite. It may then move in separate
and scattered parts, but 1t will move,
and the dynamite is going to be
your own convictions, your w con-
illusions, as to what sort of men you
want and what you want them to
do; for it is not half as interesting
to choose the men as it is to get the
things done.
Watch the Men You Choose.
"The interesting part of this whole
business is going to come in watching
the men you choose; l say that with
uncomfortable anticipation. 1 expect to
be watched, because L expect to be
elected. The interesting part of it may
be now for you, but it will be then for
me. All [ nave had to do in this cam
paign has been. to go about n make
speeches to cordial and i~ndulgent aud
fences. That is easy enough to have
men sit and look at me as you look at
me with cordiality and sympathy. I'm
der such circumstances 7 can talk all
night, but when you are looking at me
critically after the election, and when
what [ say counts for very little, but
4 what 1 do counts for a great deal. Then
there may be times when | will get
nervous, but [ am going to control my
nerves and see if something can be ac-
eomplished, always with your as
sistance.
"Do not deceive yourselves into sup
posing that if you put up a talkative
gentleman for governor, things will nee
essarily happen. You have got to put
up a legislature that will have to help,
not a legislature that will sit still, but
gentlemen who will feel as if there was
electricity in the seats of their chairs,
the kind of electricity that comes OF
an electrified opinion that throbs and
thrills everywhere in the whole air of
the commonwealth and makes it impos,
sible for any man to be comfortable
who is not doing what he said he would
do, If you keep behind this opinion
your momentum will be irresistible, and
if you do not there may be some of us
who will go to sleep and do nothing
and forget-merely forget-in the dig
nifty of elevation of office.
Defines Position of Lewis.
CHOW are you going to tell whether
New Jersey is progressive or not?
have given you one test, which show
that New Jersey has not progressed un
der the recent republican administra
tion. There has been singular unanimit,
of opinion as to what ought to be don,
and singular u~nanimity in not doinG
it. That is a curious contradiction. l
has come to such a pass in this cam
paign that l have not anything left t,
discuss, because step by step the re
publican candidate has logged m,
words and has taken first this position
and that, and has then added another
and still another, until he has aequies
ced in the whole of the programme Sc
forth in thesplatform of the democratic
party, and has left his own platform s
far behind, that he is not within mailing
distance of it now; so that there is no
anything for me to discuss-at an.
rate, with Mr.. Lewis.
'tIt is unanimous. Very well. HOY
are we going to tell what is going t
happens If Mr.. Lewis is elected, o
course, he viii be in a very awkwar,
situation, because he will be all by him
self, he is doing this thing alone, he i