Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-01
SAYS OPPONENTS
FAIL TO EXPLAIN
Aronson Accuses Rival Candi-
date of Playing a PoIit-
ical Bunco.

Asserting that "the explanations o.
his opponents do not explain" Louis
v. Aronson, mayoralty candidate, OF
his campaign tour OF the city las
night, continued his attack on tbs
present administration, speaking OF
conditions Of vice and the tax deficit
The candidate addressed crowds al
a dozen meetings in various parts Of
the city, where he was followed by
Congressman r. Wayne Parker, AS
semblyman Fred G. Stickel, jr., Hen
ry F. Holloway. Board of Works
Commissioner William Mungle and
aldermanic candidates.
Mr.. Aronson said, in part:
Zone thing which 1t is worth while
to note in this campaign is the large
amount of explaining my opponents
are finding it necessary to do, but
with all their explaining their ex-
plantations fail to explain.
"They fail to explain. for instance,
why it was necessary for the Gov
ernor of the State and the chief JUS
tice Of the State to call attention in
forcible terms to the existing condi-
tons of vice in this city, and to di-
rect that be taken by
which these conditions might be in
vestigated and corrected. They don't
like to quarrel with the Governor
and chief Justice, so they ask, with a
seriousness which is in itself ridicu-
lous, the childish question as to why
I myself didn't tell the Mayor how
bad things yer
d they for a moment suppose I
was so foolish as to think that any
protest I might make, as a citizen
or official, would have any effect
upon that stand-pat Democratic adj
m~inistration? I assure you, my fell
low citizens, that I have known for
a much longer time than this cam
paign has lasted the conditions of
vice which exist in this city, and if
there had been any chance that any
protest of mine would have been
effective that protest would have been
made. I am not a hypocrite when 1
come before you as an advocate of
wholesome conditions in our city
government, for as a public official I
have put forth every effort to obtain
such conditions.
What sort of an answer do you
suppose I would have got if 1 had
put up to the Mayor the real condi-
lions existing in Newark and asked
him to act? What sort of an answer
did he give the Governor, who did
put it up to him?
do we want a stand-pat admin
istration? is the question you will
answer nex Tuesday. 1t isn't neces-
sary for US to have a stand-pat city
government in order to have a liberal
city government. You all know I be-
in ~fiberality, the wholesome sort
of liberality. and you all know I also
believe in progression.
"One thing which has kept our OPP
ponents explaining very hard during
the last few days is that deficit of
more than q million dollars in our
city tax revenue. Their explanations
have been lengthy, If not edifying, but
hofO oOA6Co NAO lul POAAAbe
More correctly speaking. they have
tried to befog the issue and conceal
main point that there is a deficit
"Why is it there? The fact is that
the city was allowed to carry for
these last two yers a fictitious mil
lion or more in the tax revenue,
only to be awakened rudely to the
realization that it is more than a
dollars in the hole. The tax
payers had the right to know what
the actual assets were in the way
tax receipts, and the attempt to
fool them and keep down the tax
rate by including this million or
more in the list of revenue was a
game Of political bunco pure and
No business man would toll
crate such a thing in his own bust
ness, and it ought not to be toler-
ated in the city's business"