Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-31
A SURPRISING DEMONSTRATION.


1t has remained for the Progressive party,
the one organization that boasts that it's mis-
sion is to uplift and better conditions every
where; the party that insists that it is run
along different and cleaner lines than either
of the old parties; the party that lays claim to
being above personalities and mud-slinging,
and declares its campaign is run on princi-
pies of the highest ideals-it has remained for
this party to bring the first case of "dirty"
politics into Perth Amboy this year. The fact
that the followers of the Progressive cause lis
tened and applauded while a socialistic agi-
tator waved the "bloody shirt" as it were,
and otherwise stopped to the loves methods
Of campaigning, such as neither of the old par
ties have been guilty of this year doubtless has
caused SURPRISE and disgust among the great
mass of independent voters who have been in
clined to sympathize, if not aid the Progress
i've movement.
At that one meeting in Goodwill Hall Tues
day night when William Levine, of Newark,
even went SO far as to accuse Governor VIII
son Of being as guilty of shooting the men
killed during the labor riots here last summer
as if he had pulled the trigger himself, the
Progressive candidates undid much of the
good that has been accomplished during the
past six or eight weeks.
The nation is supposed to have progressed
in it's method Of campaigning and two of the
ugly and disagreeable features that were sup
posed to have been discarded were PERSONAL
ties and mud-slinging. Voters these days
want to hear good, solid argument. They want
to know what a candidate or a party stands
for. They believe in giving all a fair hearing.
1t was supposed that the new Progressive
party was built up along these lines. 1t has
been looked upon as the party of a "square
DEAL" of clean politics and the elimination Of
the bad features of the old parties. 1t is not
surprising, therefore, that Perth Amboy
turns in disgust from such a villifying har-
angue as was served up to the voters at the
Progressive meeting Tuesday night.
1t is not necessary for a socialistic agitator
from Newark to come here and tell us about
the strike of last summer. Every resident of
Perth Amboy is fully informed about it and
has SeItleu every pOlnt luVOiVeu 10 the SdtlS-
faction of his own mind. Adjutant General
Sadler doubtless sized up this Newarker right
when, according to the Newarker's own state
ment, the general refused to give him any in
formation or have any intercourse with him
when he was a reporter covering the strike
for a Newark newspaper. 1t is just such SIRE
porters" as this one that served up such out
rageous falsehoods about the strike to the out
side newspapers. His facts and figures as set
forth in his h%arangue Tuesday night is a sam
pie of how accurate he gets things.
The most surprising feature about the Tues
day nights meeting is that the local Progress
ives tolerated such a line of talk and ever. ap-
plauded the sentiment. If the public had been
given to understand that the speaker ex-
pressed only his own views and that the Pro
gressiye party would not stand for such meth
DDS, there might be a chance for the party to
maintain its standing among the great mass
of Independent voters. By accepting this