Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-05-28
IS SURE
OF CARRYING STATE
Great Crowds Through North Jersey
Hailed Him Yesterday as the Next
Presidont--|s Home Today.
DENIES BREAKING UP PARTY

sey have aroused the state 10 a politi-
cal enthusiasm scarcely ever known
before. Three Republican candidates
for the presidency have traversed the
state by automobile and train for four
days until there Is scarcely hamlet
where the voice OF one of the asprants
has not been heard.
Denies Breaking UP Party
At Lambertvllle the colonel denied
that he was breaking up the Repub-
liCan party. He said:
"Our opponents have said that we
are breaking up the Republican party.
That Is the direct reverse Of the truth.
We are building up the Republican
party. The only chance for the Repub-
lCan party lies In our success. The
success of our opponents would mean
the absolute ruin of the party. And
they know it. They are willing 70 ruin
the party If they can keep their hands
upon the machinery. They are fighting
to keep control for themselves at the
expense OF any disaster to the party.
The party is controlled by Its rank and
file, and my fight is to give the party
back to the rank and file.
My fight Is to make the party what
1t was in the days Of Lincoln, what 1t
was when men went to the war be-
cause Lincoln called them; to make It
the party Of the plain people. owned
by the plain people. l ask you to com
pare In this the attitudes of myself and
of Mr.. Taft In your own state. Just
the other day, here In New Jersey, he
said he expected to win because the
national committee Is with him. | have
told you that / expect to win because
the people are with me. [Applause.l
THE national committee WAS chosen
by the politicians four years ago. and
those forty or fifty men, representing
the choice of the politicians in 1908,
are to be used, forsooth, to overthrow
the wishes Of the Republican party In
! 1912. / am loyal to the Republican
party when say that we represent the
rank and file Of today and not the poll
| ticians of four years ago. Remember,
friends, that many of those national
committeeman of whom Mr. Taft
speaks as the friends of constitutional
| government [laughterl as the men
who are to save the party, are to save
| 1t from who? From you. 1t is to save
! the party II you vote for us. Laugh
| teri 1t Is to save the party from the
| Republicans Of Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania, who repudiated Lorimer and
! Penrose.
Says Hos Loyal to Party.
'That is the proposal of Mr.. Taft on
behalf of the national committee. I
am loyal to the party. I am loyal to
its great traditions when 1 stand for
the principle that the machinery of
the party Is to be put at the disposal
of the voters of the party. when
stand for the principle that the leaders
of the party are to lead the people and
not drive them that the leaders of the
party are to endeavor to show the peo-
pie what the right principles are, but
! Loyalty to abide by the decision of the
people when It has once been made.
Understand me clearly, whatever the
J decision of the people Is that ! win
stand by; whatever the decision of the
people Is. II you are against me. am
sorry, but 1t is all right. lLaugDterI'
| won't have word to say.
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