Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
STOKES RESENTS
COLDY'S SPEECH
Former Governor Flags Pro-
gressiye Candidate for Pub
lie Utterances.
ACCUSES SENATOR
OF PERSONAL AMBITION
Admits Right of Candidate to
Criticise Public but Not
Private Acts.

fully f1ays the Progressive candidate
for United States senator for an at
tack made by Mr.. Colby on the ex-
governor at Millville. @
Mr.. Stokes lays stress on the fact
that he is not a candidate for office,
and should, therefore, not be liable
to criticism by a political speaker. He
calls Mr.. Colby's action discourteous
and unjustiied and him of
placing personal ambitions before the
common good.
The letter is as follows:
AZ have read the reports of your
criticism of me in your speech at Mill
vile. Were I a candidate for public
Office, as you are, your opinion of me
might be of some public interest. Your
attack upon me-a private citizen
however. in my home town during my
absence was not courteous, and, if
you are correctly reported, entirely
unjustified.
my attitude in this campaign has
been stated over and over again.. and
is well understood by those who want
to understand it.
"You and l both entered the presi-
Dental primaries as Republicans. 1
have not changed. I believe in work
ing out reformsswithin the party. 1t
is not necessary to burn down a house
in order to clean it.
Scores Colby for DesertiOn.
81 called upon you at your office
after the national convention and
urged you to continue the fight within
the party. / said to you then hat I
thought you and those who fought
with you were under obligation to take
this course. The Republican voters at
the primaries had entrusted to you
and your colleagues their interests.
and I did not think you had q right
to desert them and leave them under
the control of the same management
they had voted to discharge. Such a
course was, in my opinion, a desertion
of a sacred trust. You did not see it
that way, as was your right, but you
are so personally familiar with my
opinions that you have no excuse to
misinterpret them in public speech.
There are thousands of voters in
this land as patriotic as you who will
vote for Colonel Roosevelt, and still
remain in the Republican party.
Cummings, of Iowa; McGovern, of
Wisconsin,; Hadley, of Missouri;
Bourne. of Washington; Borah, of
Idaho, and others whose progressive
ness is as genuine as yours, are still
Republicans. Even Governor Johnson
is practically the leader of the Repub-
lican organization in California to-
day, so that apparently one end of
the National Progressive ticket is still
in the Republican party.
ut cannot be that o are so much
right and those other gentlemen so
much wrong that you are justified in
imputing the indecision to those who
do not see as you see.
"Your criticism of me reveals the
mental characteristics of men of a
certain type. They unconsciously and
honestly think in terms of the per-
sonal ego, instead of in terms of hui
mainly. Their own attitude in a pub
lie situation looms up larger than the
welfare of their fellow men.
Course Requires No Courage.
ut is easy for you to strike an at
titude and say, 'Hee 1 stand, even
though / go down to defeat Such a
course requires no courage on your
part, because it entails no sacrifice.
1.-THE outcome of the campaign IAN
not injure you or yours, personally.
You are happily a man of means, and
no matter how much distress or mis-
cry may be entailed as the result of
this election, it will not bring want or
discomfort to you, and if all business
stopped you could go to Europe and
wait in quiet and enjoyment until
prosperity returned.
mot so with your thousands of
fellow men. The result of this cleo
ton may deprive the laborer of his
wage. 1t may take from young men
and young women the means for ed
ucation. 1t may bring perjury and
want to thousands of homes. Your
vote and your attitude will influence
the result, and you cannot escape it's
consequences to your fellow men by
saying that you personally are will
ing to go down to defeat.
81 am for the men, women and chill
dren of this country, their uplift and
happiness and welfare, and l regard
it as my duty to so act as to bring
victory to their cause. 1t isn't heroic
or statesmanlike to lead them to de-
feat and suffering.
THAT is my stand in this cam
paign, and l do not think that either
you or / have a right to divide the
forces of progress and prosperity and
| enable Democracy-the common foe
to win a victory they could not 9TH
| erwise possibly win; inaugurate poll
cies in which neither you 0 l be-
lieve, and bring industrial suffering
upon thousands of helpless and inno-
zen citizens of this land.
1.-THE right of any man to be a
| Third Party man, nationally, and to
vote for Colonel Roosevelt as such,
or as a Republican, is not ques-
toned.
Conditions Caused by Bad Management
unfortunate management on both
sides brought about a condition OF
| affairs in our party where differences
on the presidential situation are for
the present i~rreconcilable, although
believe my plan for a duplicate elec-
toral ticket would have relieved the
situation and would have been a
timely recognition of the progressive
principle of the rule of the peo-
pie. This does not apply to the
state and local situation. The Pro-
gressives could nave consistently