Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-10

Baird, Uncle Dan Voorhees,, Theodore
Strong, Alfred N. Dalrymple and others
watched all legislation and directed
Assemblymen how they should vote,
sometimes operating on the floor of the
House.
81 would frequently nov to clear the
floor of the House. he continued. but
such motions were usually defeated.
'The Assemblymen from Passaic
county. with a few exceptions, and
usually those who have been Progress
sive Republicans, have generally acted
in with the advice of
Vivian NJ. Lewis, the candidate for
Governor. For example, notwithstand-
ing the opinion of the Governor and
his declarations on the platform and
the pledge of the Republican party,
one of the Assemblymen from Passaic
county declared on the floor of the
House that the Sullivan-Martin bill
was unnecessary and improper, and
that there was no pledge of the Re-
publican party to pass any such bill,
It IL for you to consider whether this
Assemblyman would have made such a
declaration without h approval of the
interests which he represented. 1t has
been a notorious fact that for years
most of the Assemblymen from Passaic
county have voted with the Assembly
men from Camden, Middlesex and Nor
ris counties.
"As a candidate for Republican
nomination for Governor ] have
deemed it my duty to inform the
voters of the Republican party of my
position in regard to the live issues
Of the Gay. Mr.. Lewis refuses to state
his views publicly upon these subjects.
! have challenged him to debate these
subjects with ne, but he has declined.
The question is for you to consider
whether you desire the Republican
nominee to pc a man who has been
frequently alive with the bosses Of the
Republican party and who refuses to
tell you where he now stands as the
Republican nominee tor Governor, or
whether you want a man who has stood
for and is pledged to a program Of
progressive legislation,
Lik slavery Conflict.
MIR. Osborne likened the fight in the
Republican party today to the con-
fict preceding the abolition OF slavery.
He said, in part:
We are beginning to realize that the
character Of political parties, like the char
soter OF man, is tested, not IN failure. but
in succekB.
1t is not the party that is OHt of power
and cut of patronage and fighting for sue
cess against heavy odds that issin the
greatest danger OF decay and death; IL is
the party that is in power, arrogan with
SUCCESS and in full possession of patronage
and the perfected machinery for keeping
possession of the government. The ~graIters
and the patronage merchants don't flock
To the party out Oh ~powcr-it's where the
dead horse is that YOU find the crows.
The Republican party mas been In power
So long that IL has vastly more than its
fair share OF Orice brokers and Legislation
vendors and they constitute the most
serious menace that the party has had 10
confront.
asking recently, can the Republican party
he reformed or Is it breaking up?
The Republican party was born in in
Observation-Disclosures against the stand
patter-the reactiondry standpat Wings.
Tie Wligs mad their opportunity TO
solve the great moral problem of their
day. but they hadn t the courage and the
great regelierative effort, and the people
tossed them aside to the scrap heap.
1t was not a political issue they had to
deal whit WAS a great moral issqe.
sentiment that this country cannot con-
tinns to exist part slave and part free"
Again, we have the spectacle OF a great
party confronted with the Treatest moral
issue that has arisen p this country since
the anti-slavery conflict and the Repub-
lican party liz being subjected to the SUI
preme test OF its entire history.
It was the power Of a great special in
terest that the Republican party fought to
! the death in that first struggle, and II Is
the power % special interests which threat
and Is the gravest danger that has con-
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