Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-31
NEIGHBORlNG TOWNS
MOOSE GATHER
AT METUCHEN
Big Progressive Rally To-
night in ''Brainy Borough"

Metuchen, Oct. 31:-What is in
tended to be the biggest event in
political circles during the present
campaign is a regular Bull Moose"
jubilee, torch-light parade and mass
meeting to be held at Metuchen, to-
night. County chairman William
Dinwiddie, the Raritan Roosevelt
Club, all of the County Candidates
and Bull Moose" Clubs from Old
Bridge, South Amboy, Sayreville
South River, New Brunswick, Perth
Amboy, Roosevelt, Railway and Red
Bank are working to make the af-
fair a success. One thousand torches
and two thousand portion of red fire
have been ordered, a brass band has
been engaged and every Roosevelt
Club In the county is expected to
send along a delegation armed with
the proper noise making instruments.
The Metuchen Club will provide a
band of it's own and the chances are
that one or two of the visiting clubs
will either provide a band or a fife
and drum corps. A prize will be
awarded the club that makes the
best appearance and the biggest
noise. Those participating in the
BSs "a az itO
Roosevelt Club rooms in the Bank
building on Main street, Metuchen
at 7 o'clock sharp. Automobiles will
be provided for the ladies and for the
candidates and there will be a num-
Der of leading suifragettes from the
county in line. If the Moosettes de-
eide to parade the line of march on
| foot will not be made too long or
firnsnp,n Affnp oil Of thn Il payrnrE @
have been exploded and the parade
finished, the mass meeting will open
at the High school auditorium. This
will be addressed by all of the county
candidates, including Judge Lyon
and candidate for congress B. f. s.
Brown.
Mark o. Prentiss erstwhile con-
gressional candidate, and his many
friends say they are going to lemon
strate clearly how much good feeling
there is in Metuchen toward CahGi-
date Brown.
Judge Lyon is expected to depart
from his set speeches which have
mostly been descriptive of what oc-
Cured at Chicago during the two
conventions. 1t is understood that
the Judge feels that people generally
hlOW Wudl tOOh pldtt tJ CIiCdSO bul
MiddleseX county voters are more in
terested in what the Judge proposes
to do should he be sent to the State
Senate.
DR.. Mason the Prohibition candi-
date having pledged himself to work
for the passage and Introduction of
several rather interesting bills, the
Bull Moosers want Lyon to be more
explicit.
1t is understood that the voters
want Judge Lyon to give a line on
what he is going to do.
One thing that may be taken up
for discussion is the Ramsay Drink
ing Cup" bill. The Bull Moosers"
| claim that this bill did more good
did for the health of the travelling
public.
Many of the Metuchen women are
much pleased with the chief woman
speaker of the evening who will be
Mrs. William Grant Brown, Pres1-
dent of the New York City Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs. Mrs. Brown
seconded the nomination Of Oscar
Straus for governor of New York
state.
AlOIut lGltl tStllS SDcdNtl III
the evening will be C. p. Connolly.
Mr.. Connolly was the first writer to
call attention in any periodical OF
national circulation to the conditions
in California which brought about
the reforms under Hiram w. john
son. He is thoroughly familiar with
the History of California and with
Mr.. Johnson's career and is person
J n11u onn,,otrt,J uiyh him IIa pynya
the "Story of Montana" which I Id
the story of the Amalgamated Cop
per Co. and it's fight with F. Angus
tus Heinze. 1t was the compliment
of the story of "Frenzied Financ.
| by Mr.. Lawson. 1t appeared in Nc
Clures Magazine and ran for a year,
1906-1907. He had charge OF the
campaign against Secretary r. A..
| wrote big Business and the Bench"
| which appeared last winter for six
issues In "Everybody's Magazine"
He has written most of the articles
in Golfers Weekly on Undesirable
Senators'-Ankeny of Washington.
Fulton OF Oregon, Warren of Wyom-
ing and others.
Mr.. Connolly also wrote the first
al LlCleS III SOlliCl . Wc0hly Ou
"Loop-Holes in the Law" which
started a campaign against the tech
| nicalities which turn criminals loose.
He has conducted a campaign on
various big national issues In Col
lier's Weekly. He wrote the article
which preceded the reorganization of
the Navy under Secretary Of the
Navy Won Meyer. He also repre-
sented Golfers Weekly at the trials
of Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone at
Boise and the Mcnamara Brothers at
Los Angeles. His articles on Senator
Warren Of Wyoming recently has
been commented on by every large
newspaper in the country. The New
York Evening Post referred to 1t as
ian article rarely equalled for It's
severe criticism of a public official"
Mr.. Connolly has been on the Chau-
tauque and lecture platform all
through the country. He Is a native
of Newark, New Jersey.
They multiplied like mushrooms