Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-09-24
PROUD
or HIS RECORD
Tells Passaic Audience He
Is a Democrat.

EdSSalC ldSJ UlSUL, JAMES DIllLu 5Ji's
explained his position IN the tariff
and declared he was proud of his
senate record. He said in part:
THE one question that will come
before every Democratic voter in
New Jersey tomorrow is, Who will
be the next United States Senator
from New Jersey?'
This is the one issue that is State
wide. L am here before you tonight
to say something about the United
State Senatorship. This question of
the Senatorship involve most inti-
mately our business interests, our
homes, our prosperity, the cost of
living.
81 am q candidate for your suff-
rage at tomorrow's primary for this
great office, and Ishave come here
tonight to meet my old friends and
to make the acquaintance of others
of you whom l have not previously
known, in order that we may discuss
this question and to ask that you
cast your votes tomorrow for me, be-
lieving that in SO doing vol will be
voting for the interests of your home
and your business.
II am a Democrat.
For over thirty years l have la
bored in the ranks Of the party
years when the party was struggling
for its very life because of the strong
feeling that developed after the war.
l have never participated in f%actional
differences. l have supported, with
out exception, the nominees Of the
Democracy Of my city, county, State
and nation-and I have voted for the
standard bearers of the Democracy
at every election since I attained my
majority.
These are my credentials as a
Democrat. l present them to you to-
night and ask that you scrutinize
them closely.
By inuendo, by indirection, by
hints, the opposition to my candidacy
festered possibly by business rivalry,
has attacked my record in the United
States Senate. | want you to give
moment.
Il was amused the other day to
read that Senator Smith had been
against the Wilson BILL Yes, that's
true in the strictest sense; true so
far as the bill which Professor Will
son, of West Virginia, first presented
to the National Legislature. So was
President Cleveland against it. So
was every man who had the best in
terest of the country 1T heart.
Il am proud of my record in the
Senate and the position I took on the
tariff question is an open book.
THE experience of the country
during the last ten or fifteen years
has taught us much. We have had
a Mckinley bill, a Dingley bill, and
now we are living under the Payne
Aldrich law.
l am utterly opposed to the tariff
schedule which has been served up
to us under the shiboleth of protec-
ton. Protection, as our political OPP
ponents define it, means protection
for the man who owns the stock in
the mill at the expense of the men
and women who work in those mills.
Like many other doctrines that are
apparently sound, it has come to be
little less than extortion, with the
bread winner and the housewife as
the victims.
"The country elected the Republi-
can candidates in 1903 on a solemn
pledge of revision of the tariff down
ward. The revision has not been
made. The pledge has not been
kept.
Il have never been a believer in
the man who promises miraculous
results. I am M man. | will be a
unit among many in the Senate If
my State sends me to Washington,
but l pledge you nov that my efforts
will be devoted untiringly to your in
terests and the interest of this State.
l will bring to the study of the leg
islative problems the knowledge
gained through forty years and more
as a manufacturer, business mar and
banker in this my native State.
Its an old doctrine that he who
seeks to handle your interests for
you should first prove that he is ca
pable of handling his own affairs
successfully. I have for that reason
had something to say about my bust
ness experience.
IT wonder how many of you gen.
tlemen In the sound of my voice to-
night remember the business depres-
sion that was brought about by ex-
cited manufacturers in the tariff agi-
tation Of the early nineties?
How well | remember a visit I
paid to Paterson and Passaic during |
those days. A committee of men |
who were out of employment came
to Washington and waited on me. At
the same time the men who owned
the factories and mills that were |
closed were seeking recognition in
the tariff legislation that was pend
ing.
81 came up from WASHINGTON and
went to Paterson, to Passaic, to
Newark, to Trenton and other man
ufacturing cities and towns and
said to the mill owners, the factory
owners and the pottery owners;
open your factories; put these
men and women to work. The agi-
tation of the tariff question is no
reason for closing up your factories.
l will not discuss the tariff question
and its relation to your business I'M
til your plant is running. A closed
factory has no interest in II legis-
lation. Show me that you are inter
ested by opening your doors and
starting your machinery and will
do everything in my power to settle
the tariff question equitably.'
ut is with peculiar pleasure,
therefore, that I am here to talk to
you in this great manufacturing
centre tonight. l feel that we un-
derstand each other, that the work
did here has not beao foroot+o,