Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-07
TICKET
NEXT YEAR BY
PROGRESSIVE
Judge Lyon In Statement To-
day Declares Party Will
Be Greatly Strengthened.
MADE GREAT SHOWING
To Nominate Candidates for
Every Office In 1873 Flight
Has lust Begun.

Declaring that the great mass OF
Progressive voters doubtless would
have supported the Democratic can
didates and would have made the de-
feat of the Republican party more
crushing than it was, if the Prog
ressive party had not been in the
field, former Judge Adrain Lyon, the
Mlddlesex county leader of the "Bull
Moose element, issued q statement
today to the EVENING NEWS in
which he aver that 1.-The fight has
Just begun Further, Judge Lyon
says: "The machinery Of the Prog
ressive party will be perfected ana
the organization strengthened all
along the line, next year we will
nominate a full set of candidates for
all OFFICES, municipal, county ana
state"
His statement, In full, is as fol-
lows:
"The Progressive Party has made
a good showing. Considering the
new organization which was almost
no organization, and the lack Of
funds with which to carry on a legi-
Innate campaign the results are sur
prising. In fact they clearly show
the sentiment Of the Independent
people. The Newark News in an
editorial last night says 1t Is a thing
unprecedented in our history.
The Progressive Party has come
to stay. The vote in this state and
county gives 1t second place and
-m1faaltea 1t a primary party. The Re-
publican Party will hereafter ne the
third party. The machinery of the
Party will be perfected and the or
gan1zation strengthened all along the
line. Next year we will nominate a
fuI set of candidates for all offices,
municipal, county and state. The
fight has Just begun. We are en-
couraged at the start. Quoting again
from the Newark News: 1t (the Prog
ressive Party comes from the battle
with flags flying, and stands power
full, sincere and clean, ready to do
the nations service and take up the
work for human rights If the Demo-
cratic party slips on the path.
"A charge made so frequently dur.
ing the campaign, and which comes
now with renewed force from the
leaders Of the Republican Party is
that the Progressive Party was the
means of breaking up the Republican
Party and helped bring about a De-
mocratic victory. Let this be an
swered once for all by saying that
the Republican Party DESTROYED it.
self by surrendering to bosses who
have manipulated the machine for
their own and allied interests. 1t
to be the instrument Of the
as a means of government.
No one owed a loyalty to any such
party, and the result was thai the
people who were politically sincere
would not vote with it any longer.
While those who were It's members
grieve that this Party which once
stood for progress and human rights,
has fallen into hands that have been
using 1t for selfish ends, yet since
It Is thus controlled, no sincere pa
grieves at its downfall. 1t is
not a just charge against any one
that he refuses longer to hold an al
lance with a Party from which all
substance has gone and to which
aothing is left but the husks of form
which are being used as the instru-
nents Of currupt practice.
Furthermore, 1t must be noted
had not the Progressive Party
9 in the field the great mass OF
;hese progressive voters who voted
With that party would doubtless have
'oted for the Democratic candidates
Ind the defeat of the Republican
PARTY might have been more crush
ng than 1t was"