Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-01

there assembled were the Progressive
party and that 1t was their voice that
should determine the platform. The
second feeling was that there should
be no appeal for votes.
When speaking to a certain meas
ure one of the members said: If that
plank goes in we lose 500, 900 votes.
his answer came back: we are here
TO establish standards, not to get
votes. 1t will be far better that our
party lose than that it lower its
Standards
The party has an existence sep
arate from that of Mr.. Roosevelt.
he Is the greatest man, the greatest
ieader In the country, but we are go
ing TO win, not because of one man,
but because of the party"
Calls Attention to Four Planks.
Miss Carpenter then called atten-
ton to the four planks which were
MADE with the aid of women and
which include women in their beue-
nts-the health, immigration, labor
laws and woman suffrage. She said
oy these planks the party was en-
~deavoring to give the people some
thing for which to live and hope.
"A few days ago President Taft
bitterly denounced the platform" she
continued. Governor Wilson ia too
wise for that. He recognizes it's
greatness. There are many of us
who think that had Governor Wilson
been defeated at Baltimore he would
now have been or the National Pro-
gressive ticket.
"The Democrats should be defeated
on their States rights plank, if on
nothing else. Contrast with 1t the at
titude of the Progressive party, whose
aim is nationality, the oneness of the
North. the South, the East and the
Vest
In speaking of the Democratic NOM
inee, Miss Carpenter said:
Has Doubts About Wilson.
Governor Wilson is only three
years old in politics. He doesn't
know the game. He won New Jersey
on account of the people in back of
him, but ii is a matter of grave doubt
whether he could meet the exigencies
that confront the nations executive.
His life as a professor did not bring
him into contact with the people, did
| not teach him their needs, did not
give him the ability to solve their
problems. On the contrary Mr.. Roose-
velt's ability to understand the peo-
pie is one of his great assets and it
is the quality that has made him be-
loved and trusted by the people,"
Miss Juliette Arden. a national
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Progressive party, pointed out con-
ditions that exist under the present
rule when a few men or a group of
men are in control of the people and
when, with the wealth and power be-
hind them, they can crush any in
terest that is antagonistic to their
corporations.
The Progressive party is the in
telligent stand of men and women to
avert war;" she concluded.
Mrs. Abraham Van Wrinkle, pres
ident of the Woman's Political
Union, explained that in speaking on
the subject of the meeting she must
not be thought to pledge her suf-
frage society to any party. She told,
from personal experience in collect
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conditions existing in the police de-
partment before Colonel R~oosevelt's
term as commissioner. She said that
prior to his administration a posi-
ton on the force cost from $1,000 up,
and often the policemen were ten
and fifteen years paying this sum
and the accumulated interest, but
during his term this graft was
stopped by his personal, untiring
surveillance of the department.
at have great faith in a man like
| that she concluded. He cannot be
| compared with one who is paid by
us. but who is going after another
job with all his might
The women members of the Pro-
gressive committee of Essex county
are Mrs. Everett Colby. of West Or
ange; Mrs. Abraham Van Wrinkle. OF
Newark; Mrs. Irving X. Taylor. of
Orange; Mrs. Borden d. Whiting, of
East Orange; Mrs. William Parmen-
ter Martin, of Newark; Mrs. John
Hammond Bradshaw, of Orange;
Mrs. Edmund B Osborne, of Mont
clair; Mrs. ]. C. Corlies, Mrs. Alexan-
der Harris and Mrs. Philip Schotland
of Newark. The State committee
members are Mrs. ]. Franklin Fort. OF
East Orange; Mrs. Everett Colby, of
West Orange; Mrs. Frank A. Patti
son, of Colonia; Mrs. Edward Il.
Felchert, of Dunellen: Mrs. Joseph
H. Marvel, of Atlantic City, and Miss
Marion c. Couthout Smith, of East
Orange