Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-14
WILSON FLAYS
CORRUPT RING
Attacks the Republican Gang
that 10 In Control of
Atlantic City.
MEN ARE RESPONSIBLE

w bNO
lican leaders In Atlantic county who
are responsible for the corruption in
politics existing here, In his speech
In Atlantic City last night. He
spared none Of them, and hit out
straight from the shoulder. The
more than 1000 who heard him
agreed with his views, for they APP
plauded him vociferously when he
laid bare conditions. Mr.. Wilson
said:
Il find myself now upon the po-
litioal platform in these recent days
In a somewhat peculiar position.
When / started out upon this cam
paign we we're discussing the issues
which seemed to be raised by the
differences between the platform
adoptd by the democratic party and
the platform adopted by the repub-
lican party for the state campaign.
I'm recent days the candidate of
the republican party, a gentleman
for whom l have a great respect, has
promulgated a platform that Is
which differs very radically from
the platform the party promulgated
In convention, and as he adds item
after item in that platform. l find
that It greatly resembles my own.
So l experience a sense of relief,
therefore, in. finding that there is no
Issue between Mr.. Lewis and my
self.
This eliminates personal consid-
erations. l have nothing in any
circumstances except what is COM
plimentary to say about Mr.. Lewis,
and personal consideration would,
so far as l am concerned, never en-
ter in any case, but l mean that
there appears to be no personal is
and me in respect of the sort of
legislation We would desire to see
adopted in New Jersey.
THE question you are called up
On to consider, therefore, Is wheth-
er the republican leaders, standing
alongside Mr.. Lewis, will assist and
permit him to carry out his ideas
with regard to that government. l
do not see how to escape that state
ment of the question. You have row
to determine, in view of what he re.
Gently said, whether you think hat
he or l Is most likely to do the thing
which he intends.
why has that promise not been
fulfilled, and is it any more likely
that 1t will be fulfilled under the
present candidate than it was then
under the candidate Of three years
ago? That Is a very practical Ques-
ton for you to answer, and you had
better ask that question of some
gentleman very near at home, who
was the leader of the assembly dur
ing these three years. 1t may be
that that leader was himself in ia
vor Il don't know of redeeming
that pledge, but the leader of the
assembly is generally the %represen-
tative of the party organization. He
does not act as an individual. He
acts as the representative and the
spokesman Of certain party deter-
limitations.
Very well, acting whether or not
upon his own opinion and impulse,
that leader, assisted and led in the
effort that killed that bill. That is
not an understanding, that Is a fact.
And you don't need to be told. You
know it already. II you want to
know whether it is likely that the
same organization will back Mr..
Lewis in doing what 1t has not
backed your present governor In do
ing, ask Mr.. Edge. He can give you
the most satisfactory inside infor-
nation. 1t may reveal nothing that
is crooked. l am not intimating
that, for that Is neither here nor
there, but he will be obliged to tell
you that the organization now as
then.
Moreover, the present candidate
for governor, without involving
himself in any disrepute of any
kind, has been a member of the or
ganization for the past three years,
and longer, SO he is not an outside
party. He Is an inside party in the
organization. You will have to
reckon the probabilities then.
There is another matter, a very
practical matter that we ought to
take into consideration. What has
happened to all the attempts in the
assembly OF New Jersey to pass a
corrupt practises act. Every meas
ure OF that kind has been smothered
or defeated, and why do corrupt
practises prevail? Why are regis
tration lists padded? Why is it i'm
possible to detect and expose the
padding of lists? Why, because in
every direction where you turn for
relief you find an organization man,
not the republican party, resisting
you, for l happen to know that there
are hundreds, aye thousands OF
thoughtful republicans in this state
who are just as anxious as any dem
ocrat can possibly be to correct
these very ugly things.
But they find no ean of cor
rectinE them. There are no instru-
mentalities through which to do the
things. Nobody can be brought to
act who is In authority. 1t Is I'M
possible to discover why"
Continuing Mr.. Wilson said:
'The people of New Jersey are just
awakening to the fact that they
have been baked in this power of
theirs, this self-government under
which they live, and somehow 1t is
tied up in the hands of somebody
and that they themselves are out
siders in their own business house.
Anybody who touches the use OF
the franchise in this country to de-
bauch it or to peryert is a public
enemy. II he calls himself a repub-
lican he is hiding, like a coward, be-
hind a handsome name. II he calls
himself a democrat, he Is Of the
same cult and cut. The great curse
OF this country Is that mel in poll
tics who, no matter by what name
they are called, are In it for the sake
O the game and for the sake OF