Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-09-04
DEMOCRATS TO
HAVE HOT FIGHT
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whom the Progressives will center
their efforts in the fight to defeat
former Senator Smith.
Smith Statement.
Following is the statement made
by James Smith, Jr., in filing his petit
ton for the senatorial election:
Il have been all my life a Demo-
crat, ad have always supported the
nominees of my party. Governor
Wilson and Governor Marshall will
have my earnest support. [ have
been an active worker for many years
in the Democratic ranks in New
Jersey.
81 have given the organization of
my party personal and financial sup
port, when there was no reward to be
hoped for, save the consciousness of
duty done for party and for country.
81 appear now as a candidate at
the senatorial primary election,
standing on my long record as a
Democrat and a faithful worker for
my party and my native State.
"The candidates of my party, as
the people may select them, will be
my candidates, and have my earnest
support. If the voters choose to
honor me with their confidence l
shall do my best in the Senate of the
United States to represent the inter-
ests of the United States, never fail
ing to give particular and most ear
nest attention to this State of New
Jersey in which my life-work has
been done.
IT am most earnestly in sympathy
with the progressive principles in
which the Democratic party leads the
nation.
"Ours is the progressive nation
among the nations of the world, and
the Democratic party Is the progress
sive party of the land.
The wishes and ambitions of the
Democratic party have been admir-
ably set forth in the Democratic plat
form adopted at Baltimore. That
platform will have my earenst sup-
port, as it should have the support
of all loyal Democrats. In or out of
office.
81 realize that the object of gov
eminent Is to increase the comfort,
happiness and security of all the peo-
pie. And I know that the trainers Of
our platform worked earnestly with
that end in view. l realize, as do all
Americans, the heavy pressure on
our people of the high cost Of living.
l feel hat a man of business expe-
rience, one who has known how to
solve his own business problems, may
be of use in solving the great prob
lens now before the people. This is a
business nation, as well as a nation
of aspiration-and | do not feel that
business men, understanding Ameri-
can business conditions, are neces-
sarily out of place in national coun-
ellis.
81 realize, as others do, that one of
our great and vital questions is that
of tariff regulation.
ga man who has lived in this State
as | have done, who has spent a life
time building up industries In this
State, as I have done, and who real
ICES as l do that labor and laboring
men constitute the real wealth and
power Of the nation, cannot ignore
the Importance of tariff regulation.
ITO prevent extortion at home
through monopoly fostered by tariff,
to prevent ruinous competition with
cheap labor abroad, and to secure ad-
equate evenu for purposes of the
State-such are the problems involv-
ed in tariff regulation.
Fortunately the Democratic party,
unlike its chief rival, has in it's his
tory a record of tariff sincerity that
needs only to be quoted in order to
convince the people that ours is the
party that will deal with tariff ques-
lions wisely and fearlessly.
Grover Cleveland was not a man
afraid of the tariff or afraid of my
thing else. In an admirable speech
made before his election In 1892 he
expressed sentiments hat many Dem
ocrats, including myself, indorse to
this day, and L believe that many
considering themselves ultra-progres-
sive might make addition progress
by assimilating C~leveland's doctrine,
expressed as follows:
1.-The Democratic party has de-
clared that all taxation shall be
limited by the requirements of
economical government This is
plain and direct. And it distinctly
recognizes the value of labor and it's
right to governmental care when it
further declares that the necessary
reduction in the taxation and limita-
ton thereof to the country's needs
should be effected without d%epriving
American labor of the ability to COM
pete successfully with foreign labor,
and without injuring the interests of
our laboring population"
One aspiring to represent New
Jersey in the Senate should possess
especial and emphatic appreciation
of the part that labor and industry
are destined to play in this country,
and especially in this State.
New Jersey is destined beyond
question to be the greatest industrial
State in the Union.
81 have worked beside men and
have employed men in thousands in
outside world and with other man
facturers in this country-and l
know that no government a govern
we'll, unless it legislates first Of all for
the majority, the workers. The sum
of prosperity in the nation is the
multiplication of the prosperity of
the individual unit. And that unit
is the workingman.
81 am not able to make promises
quite as sweeping as are made by
others more progressive in the
realms Of pure fiction or less
experienced in affairs. cannot
promise to do more than my best
toward improving conditions ration
ally and gradually. We shall always