Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-04
CAPT. JAMES PARKER PLEADS
FOR DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
Letter to the Democratic LEGISLATORS Telling Why h
His Opinion They Should Vote for James T. MARITIME
for United States Senator-Raps Smith.

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publicly announced hat this pledged
the party to "revise 1t downward
(mark that phrase, which will recur
further on) and he called an extra
session of congress to redeem the
pledge.
The pledge was not redeemed,
nevertheless. but a worse tariff than
the one which Mr.. Smith had helped
to fasten on the country was adopted
instead. As a result the bosses
everywhere were rebuked in the
elections by the people, and their
power was taken away
Shall not the Democratic party
heed the warming?
No sooner had Governor Wilson
stepped to the front as the leader he
was elected to be than the old bosses
appeared to oppose him. Mr.. James
Smith, Jr., appeared at the head OF
them. 1t may be asked, how did
these bosses get their power, by
whom were they elected or chosen?
If they have been leaders. let's see
w%hereunto they have led the Demo
cratic party In this State. "By their
fruits We shall know them." ] have
already shown whereto Mr.. Smith
and others like him led the national
Democratic party. For fourteen
years the party In New Jersey has
been in total eclipse. In the Third
Congressional District MIR. Miles
Ross was then the boss of that dis
trict, and he led the party to a de-
feat from which 1t has never recoy-
cred until now. He has gone, u
Ia fsNFtIfH D0oc nucr1vraa tn
boss in his stead.
Governor-e1ect Wilson. | think
with good policy, interviewed the
party bosses to see If they would be
amenable to reason. He notified
them that he had made UP his mind
that good faith and honesty required
that Mr.. Marines nomination by
the 48,449 Democrats who had voted
for him in the primary election
should be confirmed by his election
as United States senator by the DEM
~ocratic majority in the Legislature.
but there was no reason In the boss
es. Their answer was a letter, sign
ed by the majority of the Essex dele
cation, urging Mr.. James Smith, Jr.,
to come out as a candidate for the
senatorship against MARITIME, which
he has since done. Upon reading
his letter one might suppose that
the letter of the Essex men was q
great surprise to Mr.. Smith, but 1t
liz a notorious fact that 1t was gotten
up for their signature by Jim
Nugent, Mr.. Smiths right hand sub
boss, and signed in his office. Mr..
Smiths letter Is full of g%littering
v-o IftfO~ TIn prnrtcar RI ttro-
the tariff downw1rd.e That Is
Ss nE9g n ehe Republican Ma
ktonal platform as Interpreted by Mr..
Taft, having due regard to the con-
servation of all industrial Industries
and the welfare OF our wage earn
ers." This places Mr.. Smith In ac-
cord with the Republican party, and
his own consistency binds him (ff he
means what he says) to do as he did
before, namely, to vote with that
party against any tariff for revenue
only which the Depoeratic House
of Representatives may adopt.
/ He promises sthe early submission
to the decision OF the people of =
proposed amendment to the Federal
constitution providing for the cleo
Htion OF United States senator's by
popular vote" That is ridiculous.
Mr.. Smith ought to know that there
is no way In which any proposed
amendment to the Federal constitu-
ttfon car be made by Submission to
the people" Mr.. Smith promises "a
revival of our Merchant Marine upon
a basis that will be fair and equita-
| BILE" Does he mean that the people
| shall bio further taxed to substitute
shipbuilding and owning, or does he
| surd navigation laws that, for 12o
years, have been slowly but surely
strangling our Merchant Marine TO
| death, and have brought 1t to pass
that the sight of the Stars and
| Stripes on the ocean Except in the
| coasting trade) has become about as
rare rs the vision of an angel?
A few words that are personal to
myself. One newspaper OF Middle
sex county, upon learning that I ON
templated addressing the Democratic
members of the legislature on this
! matter, charged that I do so because
| of my supposed treatment by MIR,
| Smith. In the matter OF my nomina-
| ton to be United States attorney for
| New Jersey, some years ago AS TIC
| this. I have only to say that MIR.
| Smith had absolutely nothing to dc
with that matter. A great injustice
was done to me, not by MIR. Smith
but by Senator Macpherson at the
instance and demand OF Mr., Miles
Ross.
Mr.. Smith is entirely wrong In
this matter OF the s~enatorshfp, and
| Goyernor-eleet Wilson Ia right in In
sisting that justice and good faiti
towards Mr.. JRmas H. MARITIME, and
those 4s.449 Democrats who voted
for him at the primary. require his
election by the Legislature to thai
high Office.
have known Mr.. MARITIME well foi
many years. WIS made Democratic
speeches together, from the sams
platforms, thirty-flve years ago. IL
my opinion he VIII make rs good and
creditable a Democratic senator 81
New Jersey has had since 1875. II
which year the second term Of Hon
/ John r. Stockton expired. He vii
make q better senator. inasrauch al
he will always be true to Dsmocrkti'
principles and plsdsesi and vii
never go over to tho Republican,
whenever they cali hfnz TO their bell
on the tariff that the Democratic
House may adopt. He Is q man o
the people, they want him. and ar