Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-14
3|OOLE OUT WITH
ACCEPTANCE AS
LABOR CANDIDATE
His Platform in Second Jersey
Congressional District De-
nOunces Trusts.

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 1~4.-Council-
man William Riddle, of this city. a
wealthy LAM owner. will be the open
candidate of organized labor in the
Second New Jersey district against
Congressman John j. Gardner, who is
running for reelection. This decision
was reached last night after labor
leaders, representing the American
Federation, had prevailed on Riddle to
become their candidate despite his OBJ
lection to running as an Independent
with the remainder of the county
ticket filed out with Democratic nomi-
nees.
Riddle, who has been one of the most
determined friends of labor organiza-
tions for years, insisted that he be-
lieved that he should make the fight as
a matter of principle. IF the labor
ing men of the district desire me to
make the fight against Gardner | be-
lieve 1t to be my duty" he said. Fol-
lowing is, in part, the letter of accept
ance which Riddle presented to officials
of the American Federation hof Labor
and the Central Labor Union:
Letter of Acceptance.
Labor is awakening to her power.
Whatever your political affiliations
you will not be blinded to your true
interests If you support those men
whose records are friendly to you. We
should stop voting like automatons n
vote so as to break away from partl-
sanship of the old organizations. You
have gotten accustomed to their meth
DDS and gone in the old rut without
thinking much about it, and that is
really the cause of all our troubles.
"Of the question hat most con-
Germs labor, right-thinking citizens are
In hearty accord; particularly that no
Judge should rave the power to i'm
prison a citizen for contempt without
affording him The right of trial.
ut is we'll to talk of an increase of
wages and then find the cost of the
necessaries Of life SO much advanced
that labor cannot buy them. | was in
Berlin last July and at Brighton and
at %Blackpool. At each place ! visited
the butcher shops and found that all
American meats were for sale at prices
lower than | could buy them at home.
In competition was meat from New
Zealand and Argentine. The same may
be said of the sewing machines, wooden
goods, steel rails; In fact, pretty near
ly everything.
BuncOed by Trusts.
whilst ! believe in protecting Amer
lean labor, | do not believe our Re-
public can last II we permit corpora
lions like the Beef Trust, the Steel and
| Oil Trusts to go on yearly adding to
their o m h%oardings at the ex-
pense of the people.
in this State we nave been buncoed
in our public utilities commission. Cor
porations for exploiting the people are
formed right under our noses; bonded
for two and FIVE times their real value,
and the public expected to pay the
interest on these bonds. 1t seems to me
IL the issues could be brought before
every true American as they really are
that they could afford to step away
from party organization for once and
refuse to vote for those who do not
seem likely or fitted to ignore the
%pleadings of the special interests
Leaders of the local political machine
who fear the effect of the Riddle can
didaey on the Gardner vote are under
stood to have offered a truce in their
fight against Riddle, who became a
political pariah last year when he at
tackled measures introduced by the
bosses. The new labor candidate will
take the stump and will be aided in his
campaign by President Samuel Com
pers and other officials of the American
Federation of Labor.