Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-13
ARONSON ACCUSES
REID OF D0DG|NG
Declares Rival Candidate for
MayoraIty Nomination For-
gets Issues.

Repeating the charge thai he had
been treated in an "assassin-like"
manner, Louis ". Aronson today
branded the first public statement OF
John [. Reid. his rival for the Re-
publican candidacy for mayor, as en-
tirely unsatisfactory.
"He has lodged the main issue in
this contest-the issue of fair play"
Mr.. Aronson asserts. 81 don't think
the general public will be pleased
with his failure to show why a
machine-made candidate, one who
was put over by a triumvirate in
the county committee by methods
which I have characterized as as
sassin like should have the right to
appeal to the people for support"
"I AVE been waiting for a state-
ment from my opponent in the race
for the nomination for mayor Of
Newark on the Republican ticket"
says Mr.. Aronson, in the hope that
he would explain how he can fairly
and honestly place himself before the
people as a candidate, in view of the
methods which have been used to
gain him the nomination. His state
ment has at length come out. | have
read II, and l fail to find In it. any
such explanation.
He has lodged the main issue Ia
this contest-the issue of fair play.
| have not lodged 1t, and l don't in-sa
tend to dodge it in any form in which
1t may come up, and I'll be as willing
to get fair play for the other fellow
as to get it for myself.
II am pleased to note that my op-
ponent has come out with a platform,
and still more pleased that he in
dorses certain planks of the platform
which | myself made public several
weeks ago. But l am not pleased,
and / don't think the general publicg
will be. pleased with his failure to
show why a machine-made candidate,
one who was put over by a trium-
virate in the county committee by
methods which ] have characterized
as 'assassin-like should have the
right to appeal to the people for sup
port against a candidate who stands :
for the square deal.
MY opponent says that he received
the unanimous Endorsement of his
"ohb' " was IT SiN6il " lllIl : py
a trick pulled through and by a GER
tain member of the triumvirate. A
certain other member of the trium-
virate avs he advised me If | was
seeking the nomination to go after
the district leaders In my ward. At
the same time he told me 1t was an
open fight and everybody would have
fair play.
ftar,
Why did | not go after my district
leaders? Because | had been as
sured there was to be fair play, and
| was content to take my chances
with the rest, and, If l lost, to. back =
the man who won honestly, no mat
ter who he might be. | hadn't any
political tricks up my sleeve, and
wouldn't have used any II | had any.
for | believe that an Endorsement, IL
an Endorsement must be made, should
be left to the unbiased Judgment of
the members of the county commits
tee.
what happened? The triumyirate
got out it's steam roller and not only
rolled me down, but rolled down many )
of my friends in the committee. Alb
sentees were voted against me, in
direct violation of a ruling which, l.
am reliably informed, the chairman
of the committee and of the meeting
made at a meeting of the county
committee a few years ago. The best
explanation he could make of the
%tyrannous and unfair ruling he made
against me was to cite the precedent
of some of the old-time snap COM
ventions, which were abolished by
law BECAUSE the people demanded
honest methods in politics.
IF he was sincere in his statement
that he was going to allow fair play,
why didn't he use the same method
he did last fall, when my friends,
Ralph B. Schmidt and Carl V. Bau-
mann were backing each other for
the Endorsement for the nomination
for sheriff? At that time no gag rule
was enforced. Every mar present at
the committee meeting had a vote
and his vote was recorded.
MANY of those who voted for me
were robbed of their votes because OF
unit rule, and the votes of nearly
all of those who stayed away were
cast in a way, just. opposite to the
way they would have cast them IL
they had been there.
"I do not want anything | say to
be construed as implying personal
animosity toward anyone. ! be-
lieve the majority of the members
of the county committee are my
friends, and my opponent in this
contest is my friend. / have no
harsher feeling toward him than
than sorrow that any friend of
mine should be placed In such a.
position that his interests are counter
to the interests of the people and
counter to the interests of the square
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