Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1912-10-31
BIG MAN With
REAL MESSAGE
Edmund B. Osborne Pre-
sents Address.
FOR THE PROGRtSSIvfS
Mass Meeting Last Night Was By
Far the Most Enthusias .ic
of the Campaign.

A big man is Edmund B. Osborne, of
Montclair, chairman of the New Jersey
State Executive Committee of the
Progressive Party and as big.
strong, earnest, convincing man, he
impressed himself and his arguments
upon the large audience of men and
women who filled the Hippodrome
building.
The Progressive mass meeting, the
third here of the present campaign,
was by all odds the most enthusiastic
of all of the political mass meetings
held here this fall. In the two meet
ings preceding this the argumentative
speakers were listened to with rapt
attention by thoughtful men, but there
was no manifestation of enthusiasm.
Men listened carefully asd dwelled
| thoughtfully upon the speeches they
heard. Last night the audience list
ened, grasped every point made by the
speaker and indicated approval of
| what he said by earnest applause, and
there was a magnificent demonstration
when Mr.. Osborne paid high tribute
to Theodore Roosevelt, the speaker de-
claring him to be, with Lincoln, the
most conspicuous figure of the nation
al life of these United States.
Edmond B. Osborne is fair misded,
big thinking business man, and but
few moments had elapsed before he
had the entire confidence Of his audi
ence. In his remarkably plain ad
dress, paying his respects to both the
Republican and Democratic parties, he
invited interruption and kicking upon
the party of anyone, but there was none
who seemed desirous of measuring
words or argument with him.
He proclaimed this to be a great
first and last year. A great first year
for a new party, born of an insistent
national demand for living reforms,
and the last year in which the Repub
lican party would participate seriously
in a national campaign, a party with
it history of magnificent achievement
now controlled by bossism represent
ing special privilege, party con-
trolled by the Penroses, the Cdanes,
the Lorimers and the Guggenheims.
He pictured the convention held in
Chicago in May when these represen-
tatives of special privileges stole
nomination, a theft which he boldly
declared was a theft of dollars, a
thewt involving the resources of the
country in the interests of those who
made up the great invisible govern
ment and controlled the affairs of the
Nation through the pernicious boss
system of American politics.
He made comparisons showing the
great movement of today to be much
like that of 1856 when the Republican
party was born to meet the reform
which was uppermost in the minds of
the people, the overthrow of slavery.
Today the boss system must be up
rooted if the country is to be reforIned.
There was no hope from the Republi-
can party controlled by it's present
bosses. The Democratic party offered
little hope as suggested by the speak
er, because of its Murphys, it's Sulli-
vans and it's Taggarts. Mr. Osborne
paid high compliment to Woodrow
Wilson as chairman of ideals, but he
pointed out he could not succeed with
out the help of the bosses, and his
election as Pdesident would strengthen
the power of Tammany Hall and kin
dred organizations in other states
This fact being shown, the speaker
urged that there was no hope of over
throwing the boss system through the
success of the Democratic party.
Md. Osborne spoke of the Progress
sive movement, what it stood for, who
were behind it, and the leadership of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who for
thirty years had been identified with
the affairs of government, and all his
life had been in touch with the work.
a-day people of the nation, knew them
and realized their demands.
Mr.. Osborne spoke at length of the
great program of the Progressive par
-ty and urged it was the only party
free to work out the reforms demand