Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-07

them tied up with just the same in
terests which have prevented their
keeping their promises in the past. Is
there any one of them whom you have
observed who has detached himself
from the interests which have prevent
ed him from keeping these promises in
the past? Is there anything new In
! the personal makeup of the leader
ship of the Republican party in this
State in this day which gives you hope
in this respect?
ION our side, what can we say to
you? We are at least offering you new
men, men who have not been. and
could not be, entangled in these alli-
ances. We are at least offering you
men who have made 1t their duty to
study these things from an offing, 1t
| is not entangled with the interests
which would warp their judgment, and
/ ask you if 1t is not more reasonable
to expect these men free to keep their
promises than the other men?
IT am not asking you to believe, for
/ do not myself believe. that the DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor Is
more honest man than some of the
eminent men who have led the Repuo-
lican party. That Is not the point. |
merely want to ask you If you do not
believe he is a free man. Now, If you
believe he is free and il you believe
that he has the fighting qualities which
come from his Scotch Irish blood, and
il you believe. moreover, that he is not
afraid of the things that he will be
expected to fight, and so far as his
conscience is concerned he is not.
IF 1 want safe one to live on
would choose the Republican platform
every time because / could do any
thing ] pleased and still walk around
with a very handsome air, as who
should say: I did not promise to do
anything more than this. l promised
to act in a perfectly constitutional
manner Now the constitutional man
ner in which the Republican leaders
have acted has interested me very
much.
you have heard of the Board of
Guardians; that is not the legal desig-
nation of any body, but it is the pri-
vate name, the privately professional
name for the Republican State Com
mittee while the Legislature Is in ses-
sion.
1T have asked members of that COM
mittee what they were guardians of,
and they have never given me any
| specific or Ineligible reply. Their
duty is. as far as l can make it out
to see that nothing is done by the
Legislature which is not approved by
the committee. Who in the State of
New Jersey elected the Republican
State. Committee to supervise the legis-
lation of the State? Who would pre-
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supervise the legislation of this State?
The only persons who ought ever TO
supervise the legislation of a sovereign
Commonwealth are the citizens of that
Commonwealth, and any State COM
mittee that tries to supervise any
thing will act just exactly as a State
committee acts, and is expected to act
during a campaign, The duty of
State committee during campaign IS
to see what is the best strategy.
at believe that my friends on the
Democratic State Committee will bear
me out in saying that they Will not he
able to study that this time. because
they have not been able to control me.
Not that they tried to control me,
they gave that up before they tried,
and they have left me absolutely free
not know what strategy is. In my
amateur way, | have always under
stood that the duties of State com
mittee during a campaign Is to study
the campaign, but is there any cam
paign left after the men are elected?
What strategy of what campaign are
the Board of Guardians studying?
THAT is a matter worth thinking Of.
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is to be gained? Why these private
conferences? Why this anxiety as TO
what the Legislature may do? What
are our legislators elected for, IL not to
do what the people whom they repre-
sent wish done? All of this illustrates
for YOU what 1 am trying to illustrate
from the beginning of this speech to
the end. the necessity of regulating
every community through contact with
public opinion, and one of the chief
things that it is my hearts desire 20
do. If | should be honored by being
elected Governor of the State of Now
Jersey, is to bring legislation into con-
tact with the thought, of the people.
"I have trained myself throughout |
m IL, to explain things to people, and |
l would be very glad If l could get an
inside view of the legislation of this
State, to explain it to the people of
New Jersey, and l should like very
much to contribute to as many au-
diences as / could reach popular /
board of guardians for the supervision |
of the legislation. and 1 believe that |
every member of the Legislature would |
feel that that process had at last rem
dered him what in his manhood he de-
sired to be, a free man and the real |
repre- resentative of his people, for |
would not have you believe, for / do |
not believe that the Legislatures of our |
State are naturally corrupted bodies. |
America has not fallen to that state. I
but If you leave the Legislature leader |
less 1t Is necessary to organize 1t on.
some basis of influence, and men must |
of necessity yield to the processes of |
council which are in fashion.
II have talked to members of the !
Legislature, and l know how they |
smart and how restless they are under I
the fashions which have hitherto oh
tanned in respect of the control of legis- |
lation, and / believe they want an |
emancipation, an immediate emancipa-
tion from these influences and methods |
IT want to say that II would do you |
very little good to elect me Governor
of New Jersey unless you also elected |
a Democratic Legislature"
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