Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-07
roMoRRow.s ELECTION

ToMoHHoW's ELECTION
Every voter has probably made up his mind whom he will vote for
tomorrow. The campaign practically ceased, Saturday night. 1t has been
a new kind ola campaign. It has been one of thoughtfumess and education.
While the republican candidate for governor has followed the "whirwind"
style that has been adopted by party managers since the advent of the auto
mobile, the democratic standard bearer has confined himself largely to
great gatherings in the more populous centers.
Seldom has there been a candidate 0 the stump to equal Woodrow
Wilson. His long training as a professor has given him the power of e-
PLANTATION that has had a telling effect upon his audiences. His education
and ability as an orator have enabled him o present the issues n a differ
ent light than the people have been accustomed to. All through the cam
paign he has had something new to tell his hearers. He has not had time
for mud singing and personal abuse, something, it is sad to relate, his
opponents have been indulging in. Mr.. Wilson is above such tactics He
has confined himself to the issues. He has made the keynote of his cam
paign publicity and government by the people "Phless publicity" is a
expression that he coined and n that has travelled to all sections of the
country. Mr.. Wilson's aim is to abolish secrecy and "Dack-stair" methods
in public affairs. He wants the people to rule and he wants to be the in.
strument through which they will rule.
The election of Mr.. Wilson will al Ieasta administer a sever rebuke to
the republican leaders who under what is commonly called the Board of
Guardians have gone to Trenton during every session of the legislature
and dictated to the peoples representatives what bills shall be passed and
measures nave been defeated while the corporations have been able to secure
many favors The Pennsylvania railroad lobby and the representatives of
where legislation a discussed. What reform bills have been passed have
been brought forward reluctantly when the demands of the people could no
'jokers" which left loopholes through whicht tn corporations might escape
All this is familiar tic the people of the state. Governor Fort has condemn
ed it and urged his party o fulfill its promises in every message he has sent
to the legislature, yet here is another campaign and still the promises are
not fulfilled. The fact that the Republicans are again promising them is
proof Of this. We believe the people are tred of Republican misrule under
the present leaders and will place their confidence in Woodrow Wilson. a
man who means something altogether e in politics. This is just what IS
wanted at Trenton.
But there ae three assemblymen to be elected in Middlesex besides
the governor Whom will you choose? These are times when the people
are demanding to know where their candidates stand o the various Issues
The EVENING NEWS sent a list of questions to the different legislative
candidates a week ago in order that the voters might be enlightened as to
where the candidates stand. The Democratic and Republican candidates
have cen fit to ignore these questions entirely. They have practically told
the people that it is non of their business. Yet these candidates have the
audacty to ask the people for their votes. Two of the three Independent
candidates placed in nomination by the Local Option people made replies
md thev stand bO1dlv on tn side of he neOnJa in every Instance HEY
will, if elected, vote for the peoples choice for United States senator. They
also favor the enacting of laws which will further tend to place the govern
ment in the hands of the people direct. These men are the only candidates
for the Assembly that it is safe to vote for In casting your ballot for them
you know whom you are sending to Trenton.
AS far al the Republican candidates for the Assembly are concerned
there is every reason to believe that they arr merely instruments in the
hands of "Dory" Strong who lis anxious to get back in power on the floor of
the House, 1t has been generally accepted as a fact in political circles that
a deal ws made at the beginning of the campaign between the Howell
Carson faction and the Strong faction of the Republican party whereby Mr..
Strong was to withdraw all opposition to the denomination of Mr.. Howell
for congress, and would also not oppose the reappontment of Mr.. Carson
as collector for the port of Perth Amboy in return for which the Howell
Carson faction agreed to allow Strong to name the Assembly ticket with the
understanding that the three Republican assemblymen, if elected, would
vote for John Kean for United States senator. 1t is declared that Mr..
Carson sent a list of names to Mr., Strong suggesting that he pick ne @
acre of them for the Assembly. MI. Strong, it is declared. ignored them all.
He selected his W men and the people have them before them o the
Republican ticket. While there has been little heard of Strong. Carson Or
the faclonal fight in the republican ranks during the campaign, due doubt
less % this agreement whereby the two sides divided the party offices be-
tween them to their mutual satisfaction, yet there is reason to believe the
knives will be out with keen edges tomorrow. At ny rate, the voters have
little to hope for by voting for the Republican Assembly candidates. 1t is
merely restoring "Doryt Strong to power again.
But the Democratic Assembly candidates also ignored the questions
asked by the EVENING NEWS. While the Democrats have shown a more
progressive spirit in the legislature during the past few years than the
Republicans, and are more likely to give the people what they want at this
time, yet there is a we'll founded belief that should the Democrats get con-
troll of the legislature they will elect James Smith Jr. to the United States
senate To be consistent with what they have advocated during the past
few years. the Democrats ought o cast their ballot for James MARITIME, who
received a majority of the Democratic votes at the recent primary. But the
Democratic Assembly candidates in Mddlesex have refused to tell the people
what they will do if elected. The people, therefore, II justified in their
Tears that to vote for the Democratic Assembly candidates is to vote for
James Smith J. for United States senator. AS both the Democrats and
Republicans have refused to take the people into their confidence, the only
safe course is to vote for the Independent candidates for the Assembly.
and would be a credit to the county and state If elected A big vote for
these independent men who have told clearly where they stand o the issues
would serve notice on the candidates of the old parties that the people can
no longer be ignored. s-