The sun., 1910-11-01
LEWIS IN HUDSON COUNTY
WILSON'S OPPONENT sPEakS TO
BfG AUDIENCES.

No Chartes~ to Cerpseaiisas Except on
tnyessig aaisa- MaAe DtFect Primaries
rake In Governor and Csaxressmen
A Iaber Man Answers fer Him.
1T was the biggest kinder Holiere'sn
for this here town. as one youthful
resident Of Bayonne 'emarksd with hou
plastered lips last night. Two candi-
dates Zoe Governor were speaking not
fivo blocks from each other. and six or
eleven bands and all sorts Of fireworks
were working Residents in tall hats
and frock coats wers whacksd with stock
ings Of -four. and there was a suspicion
Of white about the coattails of Vivian NJ.
Lewis. the Republican candidate for
Governor. a. he ran mp the steps OF the
Bayonne Republican Club. while the band
blew Itself rubicund trying 20 drown
she music of Democracy down the street.
Dir lewis had had the hardest sort
OF day shaking hands with large
section OF Hudson county. and he allowed
It lissls when hs took ths platform At
the club last night. He jollied along tho
women In tho front row and told them
that hs would only be too glad TO declare
himself On tho suffrage question, only hs
didn't think that there was sufficient
police protection in the hall. They liked
what hs said about the hand that rocks
shs cradle and they beat their gloves
soesehsr a. hs quoted complimentary
things about women that various poets
have sung. And then Mr.. Lewis Is
very good looking man
Mr.. Lewis speaks easily. prefers plain
English words and very rarely prepares
his speeches in advance. When he said
that he believed in party leaders but
NOT bosses. his dience took Il to heart
and checred-
1T In about flftecn years ago that the
govern ment OF Now Jeray came into
the charge Of the Republicans. not be-
ca,ise the Democratic party was in itself
dishonest in its attitude toward the people.
but because its leaders were corrupt,
said Mr.. Lewis. He then went on to
give his view OF what the Republicans
have done to mako New Je rsey happy
and grow 90 thaf Mr.. Lewis thinks that
In short time the state will have q popu-
lation packed toge,her like the thickly
settled parts of Asia.
If I am elected. said he. shall
recommend to the Legislature that no
charter he granted to corporation un-
ses the obi bjtcts md purposes OF suoh
corporation be made very clear TO efiici.nt
men who will investigate them d
The back row took its cigars out and
barked Bully for you. Viv!- and Nr.
Lewis went on to say that fC.u ermore.
he was IN favor OF q raie making propo-
sition. lodged very properly in a public
utilities commission. and that he would
have something tn say to the Legislature
about this too IL he got IN.
Il am IN favor vi direct primaries,
said he. and their extension 10 the offices
of Governor AMI Congressmen. But IN
~, going to coerce the Legislature by
Isruuiss OF appointment or threat of re-
f1lsai Of patronage
Then Mr.. Lewis went NV av in his anto-
mobile go the People Palace in Jersey
Cifv. where there wa "A good sized crowd
awaiting him. On the way blasphemous
Young savage whacAed. jumping out
from the sidewalk. the possible guberna-
iorial hat with n four sack. and a whop-
ping fiFecraCker nearly deafened the can
Lislate outside the hall.
In ths morning Mr.. Lewis spoke 20 n
lSt' of old soasiers at ths kearny Home
in Kearny and then whiried over TO the
Hoboken waterfront. where longshore-
men with hooks sticking from back
pockets acclaimed him Some one shouted
Say, boss. how can We union men vote
for "A Republican candidats'
Then up stepped Thomas Dodd who
said that he was some big person in the
Bridge and Structural lronworker~ Union
and would answer thar question himself
You can all vote for this here man
he shouted with a bag voice. I've looked
up his record and its good as FAR a. labor
goes; take II rom me
Al tlaremont the candidate dropped
of TO shake hands with some odd thou
sand workers IN the Eagle Oil Works and
then caught a lot Of employees fling out
of tho STANDARD Oil Works in Bayonns
at dinner time and made them n littla
speech EX-(iov stokes OF New Jersey
spoke there for MIR Lewis. a. did,A ssista ant
Prosecutor Of Hudson County James "
NcCAT-hey who said that Mr. Wilson had
know about that
Mr. Lewis thought that perhaps Mr.
Wilson would speak from the Same plat
form ~ hs in Bayonne. but the former
Princeton president kept TO himself.
Tomorrow Essex county and the
Oranges will hear from Mr. Lewis.