Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-15

filled to it's seating capacity. Mr.. Lewis
was the first speaker.
Mr.. Lewis's speech in fun follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Il am very glad to be with you to-
night, and | appreciate heartily the
cordiality of your reception. | am glad
to be at this meeting. presided over by
such a distinguished disciple of Repub-
lican principles and Republican
policies. | am somewhat familiar with
the streets of Trenton. | haze walked
along them for the past seven or eight
years almost daily. | have come to
know your people. l have come TO
know your industries, and | la
among your midst some of the very
best friends that | posse s throughout
the state, and cherish their friendship
more highly than any honors that ever
came to me in my life. There is no
sweeter and more inspiring nectar held
in the goblet of life than friendship,
and hat with many of your citizens |
possess in d high degree, and | con-
graduate myself on that fact. | have
been greatly impressed in going about
the State of New J ~scy with the
greatness and grandeur OF this com
monwealth. / have once again visited
the magnificent seacoast line of the
State extending from Sandy Hook 70
Cape May, which is the home of rest
and recreation for millions of the
people OF the United States through
the summer months. l have been down
in a certain section OF the State and
have seen the oyster industries. with
which many of us are not familiar, but
which contributes millions of dollars to
the value of the output of the State.
l have come up through Trenton and
have seen the smoke pouring out of
the great Industries and other indus
tries here, n again over to my own
city and hear the buzz of the loom
and the spindle, n l have said to
myself what a great government we
live under and what a great state We
live under, and what a great rule must
be the road of h a party which mixes
the conditions possible, and have said
to myself | am proud that | am a Jer-
seynan n a native of the soil of the
st tie of New Jersey.
Parties a Necessity.
Il am a Republican in politics. |
believe hat u party IS a necessity
operating under our system of govern
ment. You cannot have a government
operated by an individual man, or the
views of an individual man, but l am
in favor of party organization. L be-
lieve it is a necessity in your day and
your time, but l am opposed to that
party organization which derives its
strength and its power from the trib-
utes paid to it by corporations or in
dividuals. l am in favor of party lead
prghin and am nnnnSal In nnp-man
power. l am opposed to the boss sys-
TEN in n of our local, county or state
governments. 1 believe what We want
in this State is leaders of parties, lead
ers of organizations, men who can mi
tiate and ~inaugurate ideas and men
who have the skill and the ability 10
carry them into effect. l am in favor
of organizations, as | said, but OF
carnations which stand for principles
aud for the improvement of the peo-
pies condition, for laws, wise laws,
which improve the general betterment
of mankind. 1t vas organization that
made progress possible and the cause
of divinity has spread through the OF
g%anization of man. 1t is the sponsor
for every successful achievement which
marked the epoch or decade. For fifty
years this country of ours has been
under the direct control of the Repub-
lican party or under its momentum.
and 1T has been the gold era of tho
country's progress. Never in the his
tory of any country has such giant
bounds been made in all the lines of
progress. 1t mas given to the world
great leaders of thought great
leaders of mind. Then there are the
great policies Of the party, the policy
of protection to home industries, which
has built more factories, more homes
than any physical policy under the
sun. | was reading the other day a
very interesting report of the COMP
troller of currency. by which 1t appears
that the interest bearing debt of this
country is in round numbers 1894, 900, 900.
The receipts of the year previous $S46, :
00O, 900. 1t takes France Sa years in
come to pay Its interest bearing debt.
The interest on our deb is s24, 900. 900.
The cash in the treasury at the time
Of making this report was 81, 1858, GOO, 600
which would rave paid your interest
bearing debt and leave a large amount
In the treasury.
Demands Proper Administrators.
Now, my friends, we are engaged al
this time in a State campaign, and /
am a candidate for Office, and l want
to make myself clear to you, sincerely
frankly and honestly, Upon some of the
important questions of the day. We
are all of us interested in the same
object. and that is the betterment 81
our condition, the betterment of the
conditions in which we live, and as an
instrument in the betterment of these