Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-20
SAYS Gov. WILSON
IS RIDING A FREAK
POLITICAL MOTOR
Congressman Lands, Ex.Gov.
Stokes and E. S. Lott Drub
Jersey Executive.
LIKENED TO CHAUFFEUR TOO
BUSY BLOWING HORN TO SEE
Experiment Constitutes One
Headlight of His Auto, Theory
the Other" Says Indianan.

Governor Wilson and his policies were
the subject of probably the keenest
criticism to which they have yet been
subjected by former Governor STOKES
at a meeting in New Brunswick last
night.
In this city at the Kruger Audito-
rum former Congressman Charles K.
Lands, of Indiana, turned his lightsome
ridicule on the Governors utterances
and performances. Before the Liability
Insurance Association at the Hotel As
tor, New York, yesterday afternoon,
Edison S. Lott, president of the United
States Casualty Company, showed how
chimerical vas the Governors plan tor
State liability insurance.
Both Stokes and Lands drubbed Will
son for his recent gratuitous attack on
President Taft. Lands stirred up gales
of laughter when he likened the fol-
overs of the Governors fortunes TO
riders in an automobile where expert
ment constituted one headlight, theory
the other, where one wheel was initia-
tive, another was the referendum, a
third was the recall and the fourth was
imperial mandate while the man at
the wheel was a chauffeur, who did not
or would not look out for the road he
vas travelling because he was putting
in all his time blowing the horn"
Governor Stokes called attention to
the fact tina Governors Griggs, Murphy
ard Voorhees, had sedulously avoided
taking part in partisan campaigns and
oontrasteG their course with thai of
Governor Wilson. In this manner he
excoriated Wilson for his attack on
Taft:
Governor Wilson condemns the action
of the President of the United States
public addresses. He humorously referred
Whatever may be thought of President
Taft's action in this respect he is doing
& rs the President of the United States,
explaining his policies to all of the people.
lie is not speaking as a politician. He
candidates. He is not uttering one word
Of a partisan character. He is adhering
STRICTLY to non-partisan discussions, and
is irving an account of his stewardship.
Our good Governors. who criticises
him, on the other hand, is travelling the
State in n partisan capacity tn help the
candidates of n particular perty and is
appealing TO one division of his fellow
citizens NIX against the opinions of mn
other division of his feIIoyv-cittgens.
President Taft Is laying his policies be-
fore the nation. Governor Wilson is adj
v~ocating the election Of the Democratic
~ II Aht TIC 1 LilS EN-
to speak as a partisan President Tsft has
a right to express his views in a purely
civic capacity, free from political bias.
b former governor then took up
the governors attempt to pose as a
non-partisan where it might appear to
help him and contrasted il with his
present tour of the State, on the road
almost every day. under the auspices
of the Democratic State Committee.
He criticised his course in interfering
IN a primary contest in Essex county
and his subsequent refusal to speak for
the success of the victorious ticket. He
continued:
IF the non-partisanship which Gov
error 4Yilgon breaches is a good thing,
his Republican friends think he ought
t. be consistent. In having elected a
Democratic governor he ought not to
object if they elect a Republican legis-
|lature. His Republican supporters are
rot called upon, out of their friendship
for him, to SEND another free-trader to
the United States Senate, to the injury
of their interests and their own pros
rerity."
Speaking of the Geran election law,
tn former governor said:
The serious fundamental defect of the
Geran law is that it lacks simplicity;
President Wilson Of Princeton College said
that "Simplifcation is the task that awaits
us in a civic way. that every elaboration
Of process in election machinery that adds
to the burden of the people in their exer.
else of suffrage creates. the necessity OF
a boss to help them perform their compli-
Gated duties"
why, under the present laws two or
three or a half dozen citizens OF this
place cannot lawfully hire a hall and
n band, employ speaker and hold a
meeting to discuss principles and cam
dIdates In a political campaign. Ex-
penditures can only he lawfully made
by the candidate or his committee, and
independent action IL wclI-nigh for
hidden.
Under such conditions we shall have
q dead sea of volunteer political ac-