Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-01
COLGATE WOULD
LIKE To Be BACK
WITH Us" COLBY
Former Senator, Back from
EIba," So Tells Progressive
Republicans.

Former State Senator Everett Colby
opened his back from Elba'' campaign
in the symphony Auditorium last night,
gressive Republicans whose success he
pleaded for in the coming primaries,
Bad weather did not prevent LOCO or
more persons from going to the hall To
hear the newest Napoleon talk. He
was given a rousing welcome by the
audience.
There was some curiosity as to IA
the former senator would say about
the candidacy of Colonel Austen Col
gate for senator on the Regular Re
publican ticket. MIR. Colby n Mr..
| Colgate have been close friends for
years. the latter having extended his
strongest support to the erstwhile Pro
gressive leader When the New Idea
movement was started in Essex county.
This is the way Mr.. Colby handled
that phase of the campaign:
speaks of Colgate
1--WE often hear of the president of
some great railroad system falling out
with HI president of a public service
corporation, but when 1t comes TO OPP
posing Progressive legislation you find
they get together in a hurry. We must
do the same, but / very much regret
that the situation was such that we
could not compromise and keep Colonel
Colgate within our ranks, but unfor-
tunately that was impossible. l be-
lieve every man in This room would be
glad to see Colonel Colgate enter the
door this minute, and ! nave a sneak
ing notion he would like to be with us.
What Is more, we are all his we'll
wishers for everything except this
campaign, but we think he is wrong"
AT the outset Mr.. Colby %congratu-
lated the people of New Jersey, be-
cause so many Progressive Republican
ideas had been written into the stat
ute books of New Jersey recently. At
ter describing some of his observations
abroad. and telling something of the
trend of popular political thought in
other lands, he said:
Offer No "Cure-alI."
Whatever may be the truth no one
can deny hat millions of people in the
world are living in a state OF misery
piib ot9Ait0AiOh' Nh0 g
sives say that his condition is neither
necessary nor normal and that legis-
lation can be devised that will work
gradually toward better pay, shorter
hours of labor, better working and liv-
ing conditions and some provision for
the future to take away the terrible
and deadening burden of fear.
The Progressives in Essex County
- ~, M -, oil . W. IN t,rA aItranof tn
Socialism as the remedy, nor do we
advise the complete unsettling of our
taxing system: but we do proclaim our
absolute confidence in the capacity of
the American people to govern them
selves and our faith in their genius to
work out their owl salvation in JUS
tice and equity to all"
Mr.. Colby sended his address with
some remarks on the initiative, refer
endum and recall, the adoption of
which he favored.
Sommer Talks on Initiative.
The initiative and its twin sisters,
however. were the special subject of
Frank II. Sommer, who gave nearly
all his time to. a discussion of these
issues,
After referring to the fact that the
New Jersey Constitution is committed
to the referendum principle in a linn
itation of the State debt, subject to an
increase of the limit for any purpose
approved by a vote sof the people, the
speaker said:
IF the action of the people with re-
spect to the Constitution of the State
is subject, In the light of present day
experiences, to criticism, 1t Is not upon
the ground that 1t was too radical,
but upon the ground that it was so
conservative as to fail TO provide the
elasticity essential to meet the demand
of changed and changing economic and
Industrial conditions. Why, then, this
distrust? If the people have proven
themselves capable of direct legislation
in the enactment of the fundamental
law what reason have You for sup
posing them to be incapable Of direct
participation in the enactment of sub
sidiary legislation
The meeting was presided over by
Edmund B. Osborne, chairman of the
Progressive Republican League. Mr.. ,
Osborne said, before introducing the
speakers, that the reason there was
dissension in the Republican ranks to-
day was in the failure of the Republi-
party to make a just revision of the
tariff. He said hat when Republican
representatives in Congress had to
choose between the people and the
interests they lined up with the
interests. These representatives, he
said, owed their elections to the po-
litical bosses, who We're in turn DOM
by the interests. Wherever Pro-
gressive principles were in control, he
said, the Republican party was
triumphant.
William Fellowes Morgan, candidate
for senator; Walter r. Simpson, can
for sheriff, n Herman b.
Walker, candidate for Assembly, also