Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-09
FORMER SENATOR
SMITH TARGET Of
C0WAROLY FLING
Socialist AssaiIs Him in Venom.
GUS Attack Spread
Broadcast.
Who'll ESALE BOYCOTT URGED
AS BEING IDEAL WEAPON
Business interests Are Aimed
at-WiIl Boomerang,
u Say Friends.

The Socialist party is opposed to the
election Of former Senator James Smith,
jr., to succeed job Kean in the upper
Federal house.
Infiammatory circulars addressed to
tho eleven Essex assemblymen-elect
and signed Secretary, Socialist Party,
81 William street, Orange, N. j." are
being widely distributed throughout the
county.
Attack Is q boomerang.
Supporters of the former nat say
that the scurrilous matter only serves
to help his candidacy.
h Socialistic circular Is SO libelous
that 1t reeks with filth. It Is filed with
lies, the first being that Mr.. Smith was
found guilty by a congressional inves-
tigation of specializing In sugar stock,
the price of which turned upon his own
vote on the sugar tariff in the United
States Senate"
The congressional records show that
statement to be an untruth. The So
called sugar investigation showed that
but two Of the United States senators
dealt In sugar stocks, and h a Mr..
Smith was not one of them. The SEN
ate records are ~obtainable, and the
author of the s~candalous circular could
easily ave ascertained the truth If he
so desired.
Text of Circular.
The circular says:
We Socialists opposed him as we al
ways do the nominations of both old
parties by our own Socialist nomina-
tons.
Now. what are you. workingmen Of
New Jersey, going to do? You. who
elected these Democratic State legis-
lators? VIII you use you power to
compel them to respect their own en-
actmentBf
You ought to write these legislators,
telling them to respect the results of
the primaries. You should pass resolu-
lions In your trade unions demanding
this obedience to the popular will. If
they refuse, boycott them. avoid their
presence, do not work for them. do not
servo them with the mean of life and
boycott the store or business that sup
plies them- Do not patronize their
business or where they are employed.
Make them feel their degradation.
Boycott the STAR. Jim Smiths paper,
and all those working on 1t. Take your
union finds o. your own, II o have
any, out of Jim Smiths bank, the Fed
eral Trust Company. and ask your
grocer and butcher to do so also. Boy
colt every man who is engaged in
Smiths assistance. Let them all feel
your just Indignation.
You can organize through your
unions a big labor parade and hold
protest meetings against the election
of the sugar trust CRATER. Then, IL
the worst m and the votes seem
to favor him, organize a general strike
for the day the legislators vote on the
senatorship, to last for that day only,
in order to show your power and your
solidarity.
These things you oan do and should
do for your own Observation-Disclosures as
ters and lack of political acumen
n,.d &c be expiated. But don't forget,
amid all the excitement Of this contest,
thai you'll get caught again by the old
chaff unless you vote straight for your
own interests by voting the Socialist
ballot In the future.
The circular concludes as follows;
We've got to elect Socialist legislators,
tIdges, sheriffs and capturelall he ma
chinery of law enforcement before con-
ditions will be better. So don't be mis-
led In a battle X this. Fight this bat
tie 10 victory, then take up the strug-
gle of our class on the economic field
in the unions, and on the political field
in the Socialist party, n we may soon
gain the things really worth striving
for-the right to work. to control and
operate the things we need to worR
with and the right to our product.