Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-31
STATEWIDE WAR
FOR SOCIALISM
J. M Reilly, Gubernatorial Can
didate, Proposes to Begin
Campaign at Once.

cialist party's candidate for Governor
at the State convention in this city
Yesterday, plans to begin his cam
paisn at once He will marshall his
corps of lieutenants during the COM
ing week, II was announced today
so that a Statewide canvass can be
made during the summer months
with the idea of getting rid Of the
heavy work before the fall.
Mr.. Reilly is from West Hobolen,
in Hudson. He received 100 of the
votes cast by the 264 delegates from
1he twenty-one counties and was
chosen candidate on the third ballot
There were three other candidates,
W. B. Killingbeck, of Orange; George
w. Goebei, of this city. and William
Walker, of Asbury Park. On the
first ballot Walker being lowest, was
dropped, and on the second Goebei
went out.
The Party Platform.
The convention was held at the
Labor Lyoeum South Fourteenth
street and Springfield avenue. Be
sides choosing a gubernatorial candi-
date the convention adopted plat
form. the chief planks of which
pledge proportional representation,
election Of judges by popular vote,
home rule, the enfranchisement Of
women. the prohibition of child la
Dor and Improvement in the public
schools. DR.. Maude Thompson, Of
Orange. made the report on the plat
form as chairman of the platform
COMMITTEES. With a few minor
changes it was adopted as follows:
s"rhe Socialist party of the State OF
E New Jersey in convention assembled
reaff7rms its allegiance to the prin-
ciples of international socialism and
indorses the national platform of the
Socialist party.
SOCIALISM is the modern express
sion of the desire for freedom and
we'll being. Every age has its new
peril to meet at the hands of the ex-
plotting class. anew its battle for
freedom to fight.
I'm the evolution of our industrial
system we have unconsciously come
into bondage to a new power, blind
insensate thing that neither loves,
hates nor pities 1t distributes death
and suffering TO its victims and
profits to its owners with mechanical
efficiency 1t is Indifferent to pop
ular wrath, to legal enactment or to
the well-meant efforts to temporizing
reformists.
Left as it is making profit for a
few private owners, it will engulf
our civilization. The mass of man
kind will degenerate. Ignorance,
vice, brutality. will, nay-is increas-
ing. Oppression and tyranny will
as in all similar periods of earth's
history, provoke class hatred and
class struggle
Socialist Propaganda.
THE Socialist party's educational
propaganda has been the main factoy
IN the democratic revival that is
sweeping over all the earth. Ever
quick TO seize upon the passing tenn
perament of the people to further its
end, the capitalistic class is project
ing schemes of apparent reform, each
one OF which is cunningly devised to
decrease the political power of the
working class voters.
Jury reform does not mean giving
the people power over the official
who draws the jury through the re-
call and referendum, but puts the
power in the hands of officials twice
removed from the people. An APP
pointed judge appoints the jury COM
unissioners who select the jury.
1.-THE same undemocratic tendency
In shown in the small educational
board, in the shaping of government
by commission system, in the smaller
county governing body and, above all,
in the primary election laws which
keen out the Socialist nominees at
the regular election.
Their Planks.
I'VE favor:
..Firat-The acknowledgment of the
women in the state of New Jersey.
s'Second-The Immediate adoption
of the initiative, referendum and re-
call proportional representation and
the election of judges by popular vote.
"Third-Freedom of speech, of press
and of assemblage.
"Fourth-The prohibition of the
employment of children under is years
and of street trading by children un-
der the same age.
',Fifth-A legal working day of not
over eight hours and prohibition Of
night work for women.
"Sixth-The enactment of more
-
life and limb of workers on the rail-
roads and in the industries of the
9 State.
"Seventh-The establishment by the
state of a compulsory system of in
surance for the protection of wage
workers in case of accident or vo-
eational disease. The cost to be borne
3 by the employer
"Eighth-The Improvement of our
public schools by changes in the
course of study to meet the demands
of modern industrial life, participa-
ton of teachers in the school gov
eminent, increase of pay for teachers
and a wider use of the school plant
as social centres.
.'Ninth--Legisiativ action giving
~ municipalities home rule in local
ssffairs and the right to issue bonds
whenever necessary to carry out all
proposed municipal enterprises"
HUNGER STRIKE FACES