Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-22
PROGRESSIVE
men ROUTED
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standard bearer of the republican par
ty. On behalf of Essex county we offer
you William P. Martin, Of Essex, as
nominee for governor"
The ll5 delegates pledged to support
Martin eheered like men frenzied, but
the vocal effort was lost in the medley
of shouts, Kisses, stamping of feet and
cries of the rest of the delegates, who
were peeved to the marrow at the state
ments of Osborne.
Throughout the session there had
been a strange apathy and lack of en-
thusiasm, far different from any state
convention held by the dominant party
in decades. What little cheering there
was came, not as the whole-sOuled out
burst of a united party, but was con-
fined almost entirely to an expression
of fractional defiance.
So wide became the breach that the
progressives shouted a defiant "No'
when the chairman put the question to
make the nomination Of Mr.. Lewis
unanimous, and though the chairman,
Attorney General Edmund Wilson, of
Red Bank, paid no iced to the indig-
nant chorus and announced a unani-
nous vote, even the regular" leaders
seemed nonplussed by the occurrence.
At no point in the entire convention
proceedings did the old guard attempt
to pour balm on the party's wounds,
True, d ~rate-making clause was inserted
in the platform, but not until after the
chairman, In his speech, had asserted
that the supreme court Of the United
States had held that states had no right
to. interfere in any way with corpora
tions engaged in interstate commerce.
Beginning with speech OF the attor-
ney general, in which insurgents were
.likened to sailors sinking their own
ship, the progressive forces found no
comfort at the convention. 4.
George L. Record, of Hudson, the
other spokesman for the "fnew idea"
wing, Jared fully as bad as did Mr..
Osborne. Besides facing the disdainful
comments of the whole Irregular host,
he was compelled also to 60 through a
fusillade of jeers and taunts from the
Hudson county delegates arrayed
against him.
The progressives, at a conference
with the platform committee on the
night before the convention, urged for
hours without avail for the adoption of
such planks as would attract the indie
pendent vote and "save the party
Later, in the state committee, Frank
Fl. Sommer, of Newark, fought hard to
have the progressive planks inserted in
the platform, but his motions were all
lost and the committee devoted two
hours to the consideration Of automo-
bile legislation instead.
And finally George L. Record, who
had won a place on the resolutions COM
mittae by a compromise to settle a Hud-
son county row, made a further plea
and succeeded in getting the a max
ing clause and getting an expression
of belief in the principle that can in
dustry ought to bear the cost of person
al injuries sustained in the business
Even the speech of former Governor
John W. Griggs, nominating Mr.. Lewis,
which evidently had been prepared as a
tooSsin to rally together under the Lewis
standard all the opposing factions, was
twisted by the regular" delegations
into another shaft with which to pierce
the progressive hide. By their defiant
shouts and cheers at points in the
speech where unity was asked they
made the speech rather a war cry
against the insurgents than an appeal
for harmony.