Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-05

strong to take possession of their owr
government again. Then there will b.
a day Of reckoning for these gentlemen
as they will wish they had never been
born-not because Of punishment, but
because of discovery. These men dc
not mind doing those things as long
as they are not discovered, but when
thew are discovered as they have beer
| discovered, their infamy is certain and
nermanent. L do not envy them or then
Purity of the Ballot.
uI have seen many plays and l have
heen thrilled by many parts in plays
tbat I have seen but I have never en-
We'd the man playing the william. l
would like to play any part that l
might be engaged in well and success
fully, but / would hate to go out of
the wings with Kisses following me. No,
the Kissing that these gentlemen will
hear presently, will not exist in the ae-
tual air, but it will hiss in their on
sciences for many a long day. What
have they been doingf They have
been attacking the very heart of all
liberty, the very citadel of self-govern-
ment-the purity and integrity of the
ballot. They are not going to succeed
and therefore I am only sorry for them.
But I have illustrated for you two of
the things that are standing between
you and self government-private I'M
.derstandings and deliberate frauds at
the polls. How long are you going to
stand its. What are you going to do
about itf Do you want big business
benefits to take care Of you, or do you
want to take care of yourselvess Are
you wards or are you menf Do you
want courts to appoint guardians for
you, or are you old enough to take care
of yourselves7 If you know how to
speak for yourselves you will speak at
the polls next Tuesday. / have not the
slightest doubt Of the result. Not be-
cause of any excellence that there may
be in, at any rate, the head Of the
Democratic ticket; not because of any
virtue, any special virtue, that there
may be in the democratic party; but
because the man is blind who does not
see the signs of the times.
Signs of the Times.
"What are the signs of the finest
Why, that men are absolutely ignoring
party labels in 1910 as they never did
before in any other year anywhere, and
that they are going to vote for the
men they prefer without regard to par
ty altogether; and inasmuch as the
American people Is a fundamentally
sporting people and want to take the
most interesting chance, / think they
are going to bet on the new horse. |
cannot be mistaken in this, because l
have gone from n end of this state to
"a ofhar and T bpAm xuhof r hoxya rao Il
and L know what / read in the audiences
] have met. I have not read interest
in me-that is not the point; I have
not read interest in the democratic plat
form because there have been scores OF
democratic platforms before that you
have not been interested in. The pres
ent democratic platform is more inter
however because it is more ex-
plicit. But the point is that you are
s~crutinizing men and the platforms, and
together as you have tonight,
to hear things discussed, In order to
help you make up your minds as to
what you are going to do with your
ballot when it comes to the day of
But when men gather for a
purposes; when, as in this campaign, in
a degree never before witnesses, ladies
are drawn to political meetings then
you know that something is happening,
besides what happens on street corners.
Ordinary politics is supposed to be the,
gossip of the street corners. Now they
are matters of conviction at home, and
when that gets to be the case, look
out for the signs of the times.
The Fashionable Story.
Il heard a gentleman say the other
night, something that interested me very
much. He has been a leading demo
cratic figure in a community that has
been from a democratic standpoint at
any rate, hopelessly republican for
many years, and he said: Il do not
know what to make of things now, the
democratic party is In danger of becom-
ing fashionable and if it does become 50
[ will not know how to behave; [ will
have to move, but I will have to move
on to something else, because I am ae-
customed to be in the minority
"He had been living in perpetual mi
nority; he had never been able to eon-
troll anything in his community. Now
these are signs of the times. Not in
the narrow sense fashionable, but in the
sense that men are hocking to the DEM
cratic platform for the very best of
reasons, that they think there is some
thing.
Something Will Happen.
GAS I was saying the other night to
a little group of persons, Suppose some
BODY handed you a republican and q