Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-16

party In New Jersey that there wal
no possibility of such a result. He
said that In opposing Mr.. Smith he Il
not opposing any organization except
that which has been built up around
Mr.. Smiths own personality In Els
sex county, which ia purely local and
is identified only with Mr.. Smiths
Interests.
In the course Of his speech DIR,
Wilson said that the issue was be-
tween two systems OF government
one under which party managers
privately arrange elections to office
and the course OF legislation and one
under which everything Is done IN
public through the action Of the peo-
pie themselves. DIR. Wilson contin-
Iued:
In this particular case we must
ask ourselves whum Mr.. Smith rep
resents. No one Will claim in view
of the manifestation of public opin-
ion in recent weeks that he repre-
sents the people of New Jersey. He
does not ever represent d
state machine. He represents
only q local machine, which
has conferred for many years
in his own vigorous and capable
management. He represents 7 do
not know how many persons, let us
say 1000 at 4 liberal guess, and over
against these are sst the eco, GOO and
more Democrats WIG voted at the
polls and who insist upon genuine
representations4n the conduct OF the
government.
"The present controversy with re-
gard to the senatorship began as a
controversy with regard to the signi-
|icance and binding authority Of the
vote Of preference cast at the Sep
TENDER primaries.
1T has gone now much beyond
that and Is a VASTLY larger question.
IA great deal has happened since
those primaries. At them 10000
Democrats spoke their preferences:
Since then = whole state has been
aroused, and cAn any ono for a mo-
Hment sincerely question the result?
Does not every day make 1T more
manifest than before that the Opin-
Ion OF the whoIs state Is aroused and
that the verdict is overwhelmingly to
the effect that the peoples candidate
must be put into the Senate and Mr..
Smith once and for all rejected? The
effect is conclusive and absolutely
Irresistible and constitutes and new
verdict confirming the Judgment OF
the primaries in unnistakable fash
ion.
Senator Smiths friends and indi-
|viduals in many quarters have raised
in connection with this and similar
controversies elsewhere the question
of the constitutionality Of the gov
ernor's so-ealled interference in a
case OF this sort. They are allowing
themselves to become confused in
their thinking. IT Is not the Consti-
of the state they are thinking
OF, but the constitution Of politics as
1t has existed In recent decades.
Under the present constitution OF
politics 1t III constitutional for q
small group of men to choose a sem
ator and force him upon the nominal
representatives of the people with an
absolute control which they permit
one to question or resist. Any
me who acts unconstftutionally Sun-
dsr that system o. politics deH0fvex
the support OF all lovers OF free gov
It should be his avowed
to smash that constitution ut
terly.
II am not presenting to suggest aI
man. for senator + am supporting
the popular choice and the popular
choice has fallen upon d genuine man
Of the peoples man who car be
to spsak-tnetr mind ratl1sr
than the minds OF masters who die
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