Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-24
BRANDS
ECORO As SELF
ADMITTED BR|BER
Demands That His Congression-
al Opponent Retract Alleged
False Statements.

Congressman Eugene F.. Kinkead,
candidate for reelection, takes to task
his opponent. George l.. Record, he
Progressive Republican candidate, in
a letter addressed to the EVENING
STAR. Mr.. Record is charged by the
congressman with uttering f~alsehoods
about the latter's business affairs ana
regarding the political creed of Mr..
Record, the writer says, h was once
a Democrat, then a Republican, later
a New Idea devotee and now half n
Regular and half a Progressive The
letter in full follows:
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
MIR. Record, in framing his series Of
questions TO DIR. Woodrow Wilson,
Democratic candidate for governor of
the State of New Jersey. included In
it's a statement relative to my business
connections.
He said that my partner and myself
secured a contract for the advertising
privileges in certain lines In North
Jersey for political reasons. Now, Mr..
Record opened his campaign for Con-
gress by a false statement relative to
my vote on the Cannon rules during
the Sixty-lrst Congress. | believe st
the time that my opponent did not will
fully misrepresent me and accepted
the somewhat dilatory apology made
by him, but in this present instance I
charge him with maliciously classifying
my business connections
Passes the Lie OBJECT.
In the second Pagan campaign Mr..
Record made a similar charge, and |
at that time corrected him, so that he
knew that his present statement In
this matter is a lie.
The New Jersey Car Advertising
Company secured the advertising con
tract in open competition and paid alb
solutely the highest figure hat was
offered for the contract, n we so
conducted our business that we have
since added all lines in the State OF
New Jersey, with one exception, and
surely ever Mr.. Record cannot charge
that we obtained the advertising con-
tract with the Bridgeton and Millville
Traction Company. or the Camden and
Trenton Railway Company, or with the
Atlantic City Railroad Company, or
any of the other seventeen contracts
that we now hold with lines operated
some hundred miles from Jersey City,
for political favors.
1t is hard for a man of Mr.. Records
character to understand that a bust
ness man can deal honestly and up
rightly with business men, and this
fact Is testified. to by the statement
made by his opponent for the Republi-
can nomination, the Hon. George Vick-
ers, who said: II cannot support Mr..
D11ord Il, thfe ooaanaiam. ary;..- 30 bta
lack of personal integrity" and II. c..
Griflths. a leading Republican law
yer. of Jersey City. in disavowing his
candidacy, declares that MI. Record
has been traitorous TO his friends.
The present issued against
him to appear in the Belden water case,
wherein Mr.. Record received $4,000
while serving as corporation counsel
of Jersey City, gives people of
New Jersey an accurate estimate of
my opponents political character.
Proof for MT. Kinkead.
The only time in which the Public
Service Corporation was interested in
n legislation in which l had a vote
was when the Mutual Benefit Light
ing Company asked the Board of Aid
ermen for a franchise, and /, as presi-
dent of the board. voted to give this
company a franchise, thereby proving
clearly that Mr.. Records argument is
false.
Now, with regard to the Colby mat
ter, my opponent knows that the re-
quest for space vas made during a
primary contest. and we have always
made 1t our policy to refuse to carry
n political cards during a primary
fight, and l stated to Alden Freeman,
MT. Colby's representative, that IL any
cards were carried for the other fac
ton that 1 would unquestionably ac-
cept his order as we'll. Now that Mr..
Record has lied about this matter, I
wifi expect him to again apologize for