Bridgeton pioneer., 1912-07-18
STOKES OUT
LINES HIS PLAN
Former Governor Would Rout
BosSism.
FIGHTS IN THE PARTY
Cumberland County's Statesman
Does Not Feel That Men Should
be Driven From Party.

In a formally prepared statement,
former Governor Edward CASPER
Stokes went on record today as against
any third party proposition. He takes
thea stand that all good Republicans
owe it to themselves and their party
to stand their ground and fight just as
they did in the recent primaries,
rather than to desert and leave the
party to the control of those who. they
claim are jeopardizing the party's
usefulness.
Tht former Governor believes that
the fight should be made in the party.
He has two suggestions to make con-
slstent with the governmental policies
advocated by the party. The sugges-
tions art:
AT the primary in September legis-
latiVe and congressional candidates
can be nominated, who, in the state
convention, under the Geran act, can
select electors pledged to their Presi-
dental choice; or two sets of electors
composed of the same men can be
nominated, one by the candidates con-
vention and one by petition, with
perhaps one exception in each set
for purposes Of Identification; one set
for Taft and one set for Roosevelt.
every Taft vote and every Roosevelt
vote thus counting for the same cleo
tors, with the understanding that
whoever of these two candidates polled
the larger vote at the election should
receive the electoral vote. If Roose-
velt receives the large vote, the cleo
tors would vote for him; if Taft's vote
is the larger, the electors would vote
for him, provided the Republicans car
ried the state.
The Governors statement in full
follows:
TEXT OF STATEMENT,
The outcome of the Republican
convention in Chicago was disappoint-
ing to many. particularly to the rank
and file of loyal Republicans who
hoped for at least a compromise ticket
and a united party.
"The great majority of voters, while
they have their preference, are not so
interested in individual candidates as
they are in the success of principles,
and they are willing to support any
candidate, provided he is honest and
capable, represents their principles,
and can unite the party TO this end.
The business man, the. working
man, the professional man, the pa
triot, have an interest in parties quite
distinct from the mere politician. They
had right to expect that the national
and the leaders in control
OF the convention would work out a
of the party problem. The
latter are the trustees of the party
and they largely are responsible for
its success or its failure, as the officers
Of bank are responsible for it's Sec
cess or its failure.
The members of the national COM
nittee and the party leaders in control
lad only one duty: that of trying to
mite the different factions and induce
hem to agree upon candidate and
platform. Any other course on their
)art made them recreant to their trust.
The country knows whether these
'o-called leaders did or did not fulfill
his obligation or their trusteeship.
The fact that with the aid of Demo-
'ratic states and non-voting territories
md possessions they used their power
o override the protest of great Re-
publican states necessary to the can
ildate's success disturbs and disap-
POINTS many Republicans.
1T does not, however, afford a rea-
son for those Republicans to leave
heir party. On the other hand, the
)arty needs their support all the
more to save it from blind leadership.
If an intruder invades your home
and disarranges your household you
10 not leave it in his possession, but
you remain in possession yourself to
restore order.
"Unselfish Republicans cannot allow
themselves to be driven out of the
party by forty or fifty so-called lead
ars who have been disappointing and