Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-24
INCORRECT BUT
NOT FALSE SAYS
LEADER OSBORNE
So Characterizes Assertions
Made in Statement of
Austen Colgate.
PROGRESSIVE LEADER
ISSUES WARM REPLY
Does Not Want a Controversy,
but Facts Truthfully
Stated.

out a statement in reply to the one al
dressed to him by Colonel Austen Col
zate last week. In the statement the
Progressive leader again takes issue
with Colgate and also takes a few
aings at the Regular Republican ma
nhine, Of which he says Colgate Is now
the standard bearer.
He also says that several of the
statements made by Colgate are in
correct and misleading Mr.. Os-
borne's statement In full follows;
IT was in the West last week when
Colonel Colgate's statement was issued,
and did not read it until l returned.
What the colonel says demands a re-
ply, but 1 haven't hurried, because l
don't want to make the mistake OF
speaking hastily and becoming un-
parliamentary as the colonel does
when he characterizes one OF my state
ments as absolutely false
HE makes several assertions that
are wholly Incorrect; but / would not
cali them false for that would imply
intent to deceive on the colonefs part,
and think he is altogether incapable
of deliberate deception.
He gives an impression contrary to
the facts when he says: The Progress
sives came to me and said If / would
sign their platform they would indorse
me. and urged me to do so TWO
weli-known Progressives, whose We
racity the colonel would not question,
went to see him. They had no au-
thority from the ~league-they could
not promise the leagues Endorsement,
and they say they did not promise 1t
directly or indirectly.
THE colonel is wholly incorrect,
when. in referring TO what he calls his
change of 'front.' he says; This came
when Mr.. Osborne became the leader
and insisted that [ should run for
chairman of the county committee 1t
il we'll known that 1 was not the cad
er at that time. 1 had been in the
movement only two or three months,
and was not elected president of the
league until our or Ave months later.
THE colonel was angry and spoke IN
ma ste when he said: What Osborne
says about waiting to hear from Dal-
rymple is also absolutely false.
81 told them Dalrymple was coming
10 see me. etc, etc 1t Is altogetnef
dmmaterial whether Colgate was wait
ing or whether he went to see Dali
rymple, or whether Dalrymple went to
see him; but the fact that does signify
Is that, regardless of his exact Ian
Guage, he gave these two ProgressiVes
to understand that he must talk with
Dalrymple before he would sign the
Progressive platform, and afterwards
told one of them that he had talked
with Dalrymple and Dalrymple advised
him not to sign any platform. But If,
as Colonel Colgate says of his indorse-
uent by the machine, he Is proud of
it, why should he wax so wrathy over
my statement that he consulted Mr..
Dalrymple about signing a platform?
Isn't 1t perfectly natural that he should
consult his leader?
THE purpose OF my statement was
not. as Colonel Colgate says, to draw
him Into a controversy / have the
highest personal regard for Colonel
Colgate; l desire no controversy With
him, and don't intend to have any. /
a two objects In making my state
m~ent-flrst, TO correct the impression
conveyed by newspaper reports that
the league offered to make him Its can
didate for senator; second, to make 1t
clear that, regardless of Colonel Col
gates former association with the
Progressives, he has left the ranks he
formerly fought in, gone over to the
county machine he was fighting
against and become their color-bearer.
"The machine has not changed since
Colgate fought against 1t under Colby.
1t is still ruled by the same boss who
ruled It them; 1t is still controlled by
the same special interests; it opposed
the direct primary and all real reforms
then; it opposed the Geran law last
winter, and opposes all reforms now.
Was Colgate wrong when he fought
with the Progressives against the boss
and the machine? Or is he wrong now
when he fights with the same boss and
the same machine against the Pro-
gressives?
Colonel Colgate accuses the Progress
sives of being on the outside. seeking
the overthrow of the Republican party
etc, etc. This is what the machine
men always say whenever the rule Of
the party by the boss system is ehal-
lenged. If anybody disputes their right
to control nominations. he is guilty of
high treason, he is '%disrupting the
party The Progressive Republicans
insist that they are and have been loyal
Republicans; that they are working
within the Republican party and work
ing sincerely for its best interests.
I'VE shall issue a statement, early in
this campaign, that will set at rest any
honest doubts about whether the Pro-
gressives are Republicans. The Pro-
gressive candidates will tell the voters
frankly, where they tan on all issues,
and we shall demand that Colonel Col
gate and the other candidates selected
by the Republican county machine tell
the voters where they stand on the
same issues.
This campaign is not to be a per-
sonal contest between William Fellowes
Morgan ant, Colonel Colgate, or be-
tween the other Progressive candidates
and the other machine candidates--it lie
a contest between two systems: The
boss controlled, special interests serv-
ing, minority rule of the machine, ano
the genuine Embossed rule of the ma
jority. which the Progressives are fight
ing for"