Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-01
MAKES PLEA
FOR MARITIME
Assemblyman TumuIty Fayors
the Peoples Choice.

Jersey City, Dec. 1;1Assemblyman
Joseph P. Tumulty, who is working in
Hudson county to secure the election
of James L. MARITIME to the United
States Senate yesterday made the first
statement, regarding the situation
which has come from him since he and
Mr.. Wilson visited Democratic Leader
Robert Davis.
Mr.. Tumulty entertained Mr.. Mar
tine last night before the latter went
to the Emory M. Z. church where he
talked at a banquet.
Discussing the Senatorial fight Mr..
Tumulty says:
/ have refrained hitherto from max
ing any statement relative to the i'm
pending Senatorial situation for the
reason that L believe that the result of
the primary eliminated decisively all
possible questions as to whom the vic
torious candidates for the Legislature
must support. However, since election,
it is apparent that certain interests,
DESTROYS of defeating and frustrating
the will of the people, have, by vain
and specious argument, sought to sub
~stitute for the popular choice the names
of candidates, some of whom neither
desire nor deserve the coveted honor.
| congratulate those Assemblymen-elect
in this county, who, by their prompt
ness in Fastening to the support of the
primary nominee, have given a guaran-
tee to the public of their future con-
duct in recognizing the obligations, not
only of a party platform, but also the
imperative requirement of an enlight-
ened public opinion.
To those legislators who, for reasons
of their own, have not stated their at
titude on the Senatorial proposition, I
would counsel an immediate and de-
cisive answer to this most momentous
question. This issue is sharply drawn, |
and no special pleading, no sophistry
can obscure the vital principle of rep
resentative government involved in this
discussion.
The Democratic party for years in
its party platform has enunciated this
principle. The Democratic House of
1907, of which 1 was a member, was
most energetic In its demand for the
enactment of a law giving the voters
Of the State the power of expressing
their views as to candidates for the
United States senate, and these two
are merely indicative of a
national feeling for this most benef-
reform, which no evasion can
allay nor equivocation stife.
The personality of the victorious pri-
mary nominee has been rendered unim-
portant by the voice Of the people at
the polls. His fitness and a1ainments
have been passed upon by the inexor-
able decree of an omnipotent tribunal
from whose decision there can be
ru,.L e or,oa 49, ov,a, IL
were the capabilities of Mr.. MARITIME
a subject for discussion, he would have
arduous task who would attempt to
find one whose ancestry, culture and in
tegrity were worthy of greater respect
and admiration.
After all, shall we continue our for
mer policy, and either have mediocre,
subsidized representatives in the Ma
tional Congress, posing either as corpor-
alton lawyers or acknowledged lobby
lists, or shall we have a really plain
man of the people, whose head is clear
and whose heart is right. 1t seems to
me that there can be but one answer,
and that is that we need men whose
~sympathies are in accord with reason
able popular demands.
Upon tn solution of this Senatorial
question the future of the Democratic
party greatly depends. If it shall
~squarely meet the issue involved, that
recognition will mean a brighter and
better day, a long and uninterrupted
period of Democratic activity. If it
be recreant to the trust reposed in it's
Legislators and attempt to nulify the
popular mandate by substituting some
other candidate other than the popular |
choice, then / fear that all honest cit
liens viii have sufficient cause to with
draw their support from it, and the
Democratic party will disintegrate and
decay and the broken faith viii result
in a wen merited expulsion from public
office. !