Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-27
JOKE THAT,
WHICH THE G. D. P.
CANDIDATES CRACK
Lee Says Republicans Are Boss
less, and Minard Talks of
Pledges Performed.

Nothing in the present campaign
stands out SO ridiculously amusing as
the declaration at the various Republi-
can meetings last night that the Re
publican organization In Essex county
is absolutely free from bossism." As
semblyman Lee, whose boss at the last
session Of the Legislature compelled
him to become the sponsor for the Lee
trolley grab bill, had the ~effrontery to
tell he" Joke" 1t certainly made the
knowing ones smoker. There is no
assembly delegation in the State so
thoroughly bossed as the Essex eleven.
Mr.. Lee and other Republican assem-
blymen who are seeking reelection,
cracked another Joke" by declaring
that the Republicans had kept all their
pledges.
Here is the way Mr.. Lee put it:
Says G. o. p. Is Always First.
Whenever new principles are advo-
Gated, looking towards a better admin
istration of public affairs, the Repub-
lican party has always been the first to
adopt such principle and enact 1t into
law. When. a few years ago. the Re-
publican party was brought face to
face with the question of bossism in
the party management, conditions COM
planned of were eliminated, and today
the Republican organization In ESSEX
County is absolutely free from bossism.
The bylaws and constitution of thelRe-
publican County Committee, which
permitted the chairman to exercise
drastic powers, have been amended SO
as to taxi away from the chairman
every vistage of unfair control, and
has placed the management of the
committee exclusively in the hands oil
the elected members thereof. +
when the question of limited fran
chises and the payment by the rail
road corporations of their fair share oil
taxes was agitated in Essex County il
was the Republican party which placed
on the statute book a law limiting the
life of franchises and compelling the
railroad and other corporations to as.
sumo their fair share of the burden:
of taxation. ~
THE same is true Of direct primaries
not only for ward and municipal nom
nations but also for nominations ex
tending throughout an entire county
iiNiohiAAB In E10b0iliDly llC
and other reform measures which hav
placed New Jersey in the forefront o
progressive States, SO hat today 1t l!
truly said that all Republicans ar
progressive and that a person who l.
not progressive does not properly be
long in the Republican party"
Minard Talks of Pledges.
There were eight meetings held il
Essex county last night. The loca
candidates spoke at all of them. Per
sonalities were INDUCED in. Assembly
man Terhiine said Assemblymai
Kenny. of Hudson county, was a 'po
litical nincompoop,' and recklessl.
charged that the Democrats were tell
ing all sorts of political lies. AS
semblyman Minard, leader of the Els
sex, delegation in the lower house, als'
had the temerity to tell his audience
that the Republicans had kept all thei
pledges during the administration nov
coming to a close. Minard attacked TIN
Democratic leaders in every speed
that he made.
Others who spoke at the meeting
were Congressman r.. Wayne Parker
e. E. Gnichtel. candidate for mayor
Augustus f. Eggers, candidate 70
Board of Works. and Assemblymel
Gillen, Nissan. Huegel and Miller, al
OF whom are seeking reelection.