Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-07
$50 OFFERED MAN
FOR PRIMARY DAY,
Mr. OSBORNE SAYS
Progressive League Head Again
Severely Criticises Methods
of G. 0. P. Machine.
DEMANDS STATEMENT BY
CHAIRMAN DALRYMPLE
Speaker at Irvington Declares
Regulars Are Running SUBJ
terranean Campaign.

Edmund b. Osborne, president of the
Progressive Republicans, at meeting
in Masonic Hall, Irvington, last night
again asked Chairman Alfred M. Dali
rymple, of the Republican County
Committee, to tell the sources of his
campaign funds and the uses to which
they are put
To-day there came to me-" said Mr.
Osborne, from thoroughly depend
able source a straight report that one
man was offered $50 for his work on
primary day. The man has no spe-
cial skill that would entitle him to $40
for that one days labor. His services
are worth probably IS.
"The $50 was offered him to check
up tally list and-well you can supply
the and
why the extra s25? For no other
purpose than to buy that mans vote
and whatever influence he may have,
just as dozens and dozens of poll work.
ers are bought in the same way.
II am not asking the gentlemen at
regular Republican headquarters
where do they get it. to put them
in hole. They are in a hole now.
am slipping them rope on which they
may climb out. These men at regular
headquarters are under suspicion OF
using money from sources they dare
not disclose in amounts they dare not
tell
I'VE want Mr.. Dalrymple to tell
whether the machine is fit to receive
the confidence of all Republicans, so
that we can get together after the pri-
maries. Why doesn't Dalrymple come
out and dispel all those suspicious of
wrongdoing if he can?
Campaign Contributions.
"Our representatives at Trenton have
not been serving the people and we be-
lieve that this question of campaign
contributions from improper sources is
intimately connected with the kind of
service we have been getting in the
Legislature. Find out who supplies
the money and you'll find out who
wanted legislation and why they got
legislation.
you are not going to clean up New
Jersey until you drive corrupt money
out of politics.
TOO much money is spent in primary
and election campaigns. The Progress
sives have to spend too much clean
money to fight dirty money. We have
to fight dirty money in fact and dirty
money known as patronage which is
just as essentially bribery as dirty
money passed over the counter"
Mr.. Osborne said there was vast
gulf between the Progressives and the
Standpatters today The Progressives
were making their fight within the
,..I1 i;
ty chairman, he contended, but by ap-
pealing to the Republican voters who
held in their hands the destinies of
the party If nobody came forth with
new ideas the party would stand for
the same thing all the time. There
would be no progress at all, he main
tanned
"You know where we stand" he con
tinued "where our candidates stand.
The Regulars are running a subterra-
mean campaign. You have heard none
of their candidates coming forth to
say, We represent the railroads, and
we want to go to Trenton to represent
those railroads. Not even that. No
platform at all. No information to the
voters. They don't even show them
selves"
OUDOSPS CanuOuIhms
George H. Austin, candidate for Con-
gress in the eighth district, which in
eludes Irvington, said that he was op-
posed to Cannon and Cannonism and
would not vote for the reelection of
Cannon to the speakership. He favored,
he said, a scientific revision of the
tariff by a commission of experts, con-
servation of the kind advocated by
Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Pin
chot. Mr. Austin again declared that
If he were beaten in the convention his
defeat would be brought about by the
votes of delegates from districts that
could not produce majorities for the
Republican candidate on election day.
He made this remark text for con-
demning the convention and delegate
system of choosing candidates.
Duncan Nj Ferguson, candidate in
the imaginary district that includes
Irvington, had something to say about
Minardism.
Last week 7 asked Mr.. Minard some
questions to which l received no
answer" he said.
NOW I'm going to ask you some
questions Did Minard do anything
for Irvington? Didn't you give him
bill to introduce for a new lighting
plant? Did he introduce it?"
A voice, mo"
Wasn't it his place to introduce it?
He wasn't there to introduce municipal
lighting plant bills. He was there to
see that bills like that were not in
troduced, and if they were he was