Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-27
LEWIS AGAIN RAP5
POLITICAL BOSSES
IN WILDWOOD TALK
Republican Candidate Ascribes
Country's Prosperity to Bene-
fetal Effects of Tariff.
[From a STAFF Correspondent

WILDWOOD, Oct. Pin the con-
Guiding meeting of his tour of Cape
May county Vivian M. Lewis, Repub-
lican candidate for Governor, addressed
500 people, renewing his attack on po-
litical bossism, which, he declared,
must be wiped out. For himself he
would say that he was unalterably OPP
posed to it and would do all in his
power, whether elected Governor or
retired to private life, to send 1t to the
real
Mr.. Lewis spoke of the great i'm
provement of this part of the country
until 1t now showed one of the most
healthy growths in good citizenship in
the State. He promised, II elected, to
aid in every way consistent with the
executive office the great inland water
way now In progress. He also promised
to stand by the fishermen of the coun-
ty who made up a part of the Indus
trious population of Cape May.
Mr.. Lewis said he anne from q city
of toilers and he had always endeav-
ored to be friendly to their interests, no
matter in what part of New Jersey
they lived.
Tariff muse of Prosperity.
The country had never in its history,
he said, been as prosperous as 1t had
been under the rule of the Republican
party. For this prosperity the country
was indebted to the protective tariff,
and although hat was yet imperfect in
some respects II had been the means,
as a Republican policy. of building more
homes than any policy over adopted
and enforced by any political party. 1t
had been the practical and helpful pol
Icy which had contributed largely to
make the American people the most
healthful, comfortable people in the
world. !
Mr.. Lewis then took up State affairs.
He cited statistics to show that
although the credit of the great ad-
vancement Of the State did not wholly
belong to the Republicans. yet the pol
icies of the Republican party had made
possible h great activities now -four
ishing in the State and the prosperity
which attended them. New Jersey, he
said, under Republican rule. had been
economically governed when the great
advancement it had made in the case
Of State penal and reformatory and
educational institutions was considered.
Such advancement had been made
in the public school system of the
State, he said. that it now stood in
the front rank of all the States in that
respect, and yet no scandal as to the
expenditure Of public money had arisen,
for not one dollar had been misappro-
priated. There was no State tax upon
the people, and there was a balance of
one million dollars in a treasury, which
the Democratic leaders. when they were
dismissed from power, had left empty.
Corruption Ia
Mr.. Lewis again declared for a strin-
gent criminal practise law and de-
nounced corruption In elections as a
crime, which not only polluted the fair
fame of any State that permitted 1t,
but which should be punished by the
eficacious remedy of Imprisonment.
If elected he would, he said, surren-
der the office without any mark of dis
credit or disgrace upon 1t.
Assistant Prosecutor James w. Nc
Carthy, of Hudson County, eulogized
the character and ability of Vivian M.
Lewis in private and public life. There
was no political BOSS in the State OF
New Jersey who was big enough TO
control or influence him to diverge
from tbs path of patriotic loyalty to the
principles of economical government
honestly administered, he said.
Congressman Gardner closed the
meeting with a brief speech endorsing
President Taft and pleading for the
reelection OF q Republican Congress.
Vivian M. Lewis began his campaign
in Cape May county. at Cape May city.
and completed 1t in this busy little bor-
ough.
Cape May Court House.
At the Cape May Court House Mr..
Lewis addressed 100 people. He was
introduced by e. Clinton Hewitt, judge
of Cape May County Court. Mr.. Lewis
spoke first on agriculture and the in
terest of the State in it, as shown by
providing free scholarships in the Agri-
cultural College, seventy of which had
been taken last year. He then dis
cussed national issues n pointed to
the great strides in a progressive way
the country made under Republican
rule. Following this he said he favored
a rate-making clause In the public
utility law, the extension of the pri-
mary law to Governor and Congress-