Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-21

objects you are to demand of all of
your candidates? You are to ask them,
What are you after: Are you after
promoting the interests you belong to
or are you after settling public ques-
tions? The nan who Is not after set
Ting public questions is not worth lis
tening to, and a mar who is genuinely
DESTROYS of coming at a just settlement
of such questions is worth listening to,
whether he is right or wrong, because
all force comes from the moral vigor
that is in the man; all dignity, all self
respect ome from his honesty, his
real desire to see the truth, and a man
who has hat desire and is wrong a
be convinced and set right.
80 | say of you you must demand
of your candidates that they specify
that their object is to settle public
questions in the way they will be just
and right and bring about justice in
the relation of men to each other IN
the settlement of their affairs. Pub
lie questions are complicated things;
they cannot be settled in a single cam
paign, in a single Legislature; they
must be thoroughly worked out by
long, tedious processes of discussion,
and, therefore, o must not expect a
man can hurry opinions.
You must not expect that he a
work some miracle of legislation, but
you must demand of him what you
want him to do is to settle public ques-
tions. In a sense in this campaign we
are ~divorcing ourselves from parties
altogether.
Tribute to Democracy.
II have all my life been attached,
and l dare say almost all of you have
been attached to the great party called
the Democratic party. 1t Is the only
party now active In American affairs
whose history runs back to the actual
beginnings of the republic, and ever
since this beginning those years ave
been made illustrious by many a great
name, and many a great life, and that
would be a singular man who did not
feel a certain pride in being enrolled
in a party that a such a history,
so long a service of the republic that
in so many days, dark and bright, 1t
tried to serve public questions in the
interest of public right and public hap
piness, but when we come to the de-
cision of public questions n the Sc
lection of men to carry them out we
must in a certain sense lift ourselves
above party, and If we love our party
and deem 1t wrong we will sometimes
vote against II.
You do not want to separate your
selves from the rank and file; you
do not want to separate yourselves
from the neighbors IN whom you be-
lieve; but you do want to separate
Yourselves from the leaders in whom
YOU do not believe; therefore, your test
must be of men, your test must De
of the way they go to work; your
test must be of the things they want
to accomplish.
you cannot settle things right e
you are excited; when you are preJu-
diced, when your hatreds, when your
cupidity is excited you are not In a
frame of mind and spirit to settle
anything justly and rightly, no., there
fore. 1t seems to me that we ought to
face the great complicated public ques-
tions that we are facing not in a spirit
of hostility to anybody, but with a de-
sire to reach an adjustment.
IT have heard a great deal of cheap
and easy denunciation of corporations
It is perfectly easy to grow eloquent In
d~enunciation of these great business
organizations which we call by that
name. And 1t is perfectly easy by the
same token to be absolutely unjust.
Not Jealous of Just Corporations.
What we are jealous of is not legiti-
mate business, not the right use OF the
power of the corporations, because they
are a great convenience in the conduc
of our complicated modern business
but what we are jealous of is the wrong
the criminal, the unjust use of the cor
poration. And so all We ask, in seek
ing to regulate corporations-public
serving corporations for example and
other corporations-is not to break them
up, but to adjust them to our interest.
IF you put men into our Legislature
who are going to run amuck In modern
business. they are not going to do you
any service, but If o put in men who
intend, no matter who suffers, no mat
ter who is interfered with, that justice
is going to be done, nobody need fear
what those men may do, at least, no
tbody who is not in fear of the peni-
tertiary.
IT share, and share very heartily,
your jealousy of the secret power oil
the political machine, and l am just as
anxious as you are to break up the
power--the secret power-of the politi-
cal machine. But l am not here to
break up parties. 1 don't think parties
ought to be broken up. And l am not
here to break up the machine for the
fun of breaking it up, / have never
been of hat excitable temper that ]
found satisfaction In breaking things
up.
"I have the satisfaction of never re-
membering having unnecessarily broken
up a piece o. furniture. Now, political
machines, in their legitimate sphere,
are useful pieces of furniture and there
is no use of losing your temper and
smashing them up just because you
have lost your temper and don't know
what else to do.
1T beg, lad iesand gentlemen, that in
the contest to come-for 1t Is a con-
test--the day of voting, the day for
the formation of judgments, in the con-