Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-19
Connolly FLAYS
GOVERNOR WILSON
FOR TREACHERY
Says Executive Turned Against
Men Who Helped Him
to Office.
DECLARES HE is 'TURNCOAT'
SINCE LEAVING COLLEGE
Asserts Adv0catiOn of Walsh
Law Is Deathbl0w to
Civil Service.

City Clerk James r. Connolly took {
fling at commission government, al
provided by the Walsh act, and critl'
clsed Governor Woodrow Wilson fol-
"treacherous work. at a meeting Of
the John r. MonahaD Association al
Market and Union streets last night
Mr.. Connolly is not a member of the
club. but the Fifth is his old ward
and he dropped In there last night
while the members were holding q
business meeting. There were $50 mer
present.
When Mr.. Connolly was called on tc
speak he referred to the fact that
Governor Wilson was in the city trying
to advance the commission form OF
government wherever possible. He said
that commission government under
the provisions of the Walsh act
would nullify the provisions of the
civil service law. After some introduc-
tory remarks MIR. Connolly said;
Il am not in politics, have not
made any political speeches for the last
fourteen years when my name ap-
peared on the ticket for the Assembly
in favor of my friend, James Smith
IT., whom I considered the mas now
one OF the ablest leaders your party
has had, and who, through good and
evil report, has been faithful to the
principles of the Democratic party.
81 regret sincerely that when the
time came when he might have been
/ returned to the United States Senate
he was turned down, principally by the
man whom he had nominated for gov
ernor. That man whose tr~eacherous
work caused the defeat of the gentle
MAJ whose picture is upon your wall
is making one of his characteristic
speeches in favor of commission gov
eminent. which, wherever it Is success
full, strikes a fatal blow at what, to my
mind, is even more important than ad-
vanced municipal government; that is,
the civil service.
Further, / want to say that this Is
the same man who for many years
taught the students under his care the
reverse of What he is now preaching.
But, perhaps, the fads of today are the
stepping stones to the presidential
chair.
Before leaving | desire to pay my
respects to Alderman Donnelly, a men,
Der of your club, whom / have known
as boy and man, n whose record as
alderman and acting mayor of our
city leads me to express the hope that
the old prejudices will fast die away
and that / may live to see the time
when he and young men OF his calibre
will be called to hold the highest po-
sitions in our city and State
Mr.. Connolly said today that he had
high precedent for expressing himself
in strong language, and referred to the
fact that Governor Wilson has fire.
quently referred to men criticised in
his public utterances as scoundrels.
This term had been frequently applied,
Mr.. Connolly continued, to offieeholders
in political subdivisions of the State.
Il did not go to the rooms of the
Monahan Association" he continued,
with any purpose of making a speech
on a political or any other subject. /
was invited to visit the club in my
old ward and made up of men with
whom I have been and am associated
in everyday life. While there | was
pressed to speak a few words to the
club. which was holding a private
meeting, as ! understood