Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-31
WILSON TO C|NCH
PROGRESSIVE HOLD
IS RECORD D|CTUM
Governor Is Unable to Attend
Dollar Dinner in Jersey
City.

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 31~.-Cn,vernor
Woodrow Wilson was prevented bv ex.
ecutive and legislative business from
attending the meeting last night Of
the Hudson County Progr ,ssive Re
p~ublicans. 1t is not known whether
the governor sent his resrers or not.
The governors political adviser,
George Il. Record, explained that the
governor would force through the
Legislature election laws that would
in effect put the Progressives in con-
troll of the party machinery.
he occasion was the nnual dollar
di,rer of the Progressive Re-
publicans. Record acted as toast
master n as such introduced
re speakers, including United States
Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota;
CLIFFORD Pinchot, former forester: Will
iun p. Martin and Edward Osborne,
OF Essex County, and James G. BlaQ-
welt, of Passaic. \
Letter from Roosevelt.
The following letter from Theodore
Roosevelt was read by Mr.. Record;
My dear Mr., Record:
II am sorry not to be able to accept
your invitation to speak to the Progress
sive Republican League of Hudson
County at your dinner next Monday
night. AS I have said elsewhere, I am
q Progressive; l could not be anything
else for the Progressives are those
who really believe in the people, who
stand for the fundamentals of popular
rule. We must work and we must fight
| for the restoration of popular rule,
| striving to secure the adpotion of such
instruments of popular rule as the d.
rect primary, strict election laws and
scorruptIpractises acts, the popular cleo
ton oftUnited States Senators, the d.
rect nomination of delegates to Presi-
Dental conventions and, with careful
limitations and safeguards, the refer
endum and initiative. where these are
shown TO be needed. We must not for
get that these things are, after all,
merely means and not ends in them
selves. These means are good. only if,
when they are adopted, we use them so
as to secure the true. object of govern
ment by the people, which is the well
fare of the people. The true end is the
development Of the right kind of pri-
vate citizen and the right kind OF pub
lie servant. Yours faithfully,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Mr.. Records address In part was as
follows:
''We celebrate this evening the fifth
anniversary of Our organization. These
i've years have been full of strenuous
effort. varied n unexpected results.
md Of substantial achievement.
From that day to this, in victory
and defeat, we have remained on the
Job. We have stood by u guns. We
have stubbornly contested every inch
If ground. We have ~reorgat1ized after
every defeat and have forced the fight
ing on every possible occasion. And
now, after five years of unceasing ef-
1ort. we begin to see the definite I'M
tangible result of our labors. We find
The body of ideas for which we have
fought so long-the popular election or
Limited States Senators, the choice OF
all party candidates for office, primary
and election law reform, including the
distribution of ballots at public ex-
pense, and the prohibition of expenses
on election day by candidates or party
committees, and personal registry law
With stringent provisions to proven:
repeating and the control of public
utility corporations by the State-all
admitted to be sound by our opponents
within and without our own party.
1.-THE corporate interests which have
so long controlled it's leaders will be
driven from its councils. and under
new leadership the party will address
itself to the solution of the great in
dustrial mi social problems which now
press for settlement"