Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-10
TERMS GREGORY'S
IDEAS BUNCOMbE
"Pestiferous SoIicitude" for the
Dear "Peepul" Seen by
Correspondent.
To tho Editor of the Evening star:

To the Editor of the Evening Star;
Dear Sir-It is with no little inn
patience that the ordinary everyday
sort of a Democrat glances over the
statement of his honor, Mayor Julian
A. Gregory, to the electorate of Es-
sew county as it appears in last
nights Evening News. The hack
neyed "buncombe" with which our
ears were assailed all last spring
must needs be revamped to serve the
present purpose of our friend from
East Orange.
With that pestiferous solicitude
which is the badge of his tribe" fol-
the dear "peepul,' he first descants
on the beautiful attributes of the
Geran law.
That statutory love-child, like the
seven sisters of redolent memory
should have died" a-borning
Blessed, perhaps, with good inten-
tions, it is damned in practise. Ex-
pert Gillen could tell us where the
former are used for pavement, how
ever, and the public knows only toe
statute itself when given the acid
test of practise. His honor next
proceeds to proclaim himself as a
candidate for Democratic State COM
mittee, and then names his only
opponent" and proceeds to denounce
him.
Of course, like a willy lawyer with
q bad case, he shows how Woefully
| weak is his cause by singing mud
at that opponent. Far be it from
| the writer 10 descend to any such
| tactics; though it makes still more
salient few solid thoughts and en-
during facts which stick right out
yes, and even compel expression. just
few of them in passing:
Who, after all, is the "Deusex ma
/ china" who is the sacrosanct, the
omniscient, the soidisant leader" tc
whom all the Gregorys and all theii
| ilk bow the knee? Ask United
| States Senator Cummins, of Iowa
who denounced him only yesterday
as 1.-THE man whose will is Ian
| to more men in Congress than evel
! lived before" Hard words indeed
| for Democratic ears. But, obi tbs
pity Of it, they are only too true.
The Senator might have gone fur
/ Their had he been a Jerseyman an6
an Essex county man, and cited tn,
obliteration of a Wittpenn, drowned
-
Matthews, expunged and eliminates
incidentally for the benefit of Julian
A. Gregory himself after basking 4
the bright sunshine of presidential
favor and bathed in the deep sea o
political hope.
And what the price? Perhaps a.
assistant prosecutorship, for 1.-The,
crook the pregnant hinges of tn
knee where thrift may follow fawn
4 ing"
Now, all of this pawn-moving i
done that the dear ''peepul," Q
course, shall directly name their can
didates. God save the mark! Wha
shallow pretense, what out-and-ou
humbug, these present-day reformer
deal out to their constituents l
the name of common horse sens,
what boss could do more, what bos
could do worse?
Thou shalt have no strange Go
before me-" says the "holier-th than
thou leader, the author of THE Me-
Freedom" The super boss" fC
that's what he is in truth, take
snuff in the White House and tn
4 Gregorys and the Matthewses and a
their camp-followers sneeze their pc
litical heads off in Essex count,
Hay fever, say you? Not so, m
friend Merely the pollen of fawnin
servility to the same super boss"
The saving grace of it all is the on
solid fact that the Democrats of Es
sex are not gudgeons to be so BAN
boozled. They are properly sick {
such secondhand driyel; and its rep
tition by the mayor of East Orang
at this late day is simply nauseat
ing Such a beiated rehash in an en-
deavor to further cajole us, is boun
to meet a deserved repulse, as sur
, as the night follows day, when TIL
issue is decided by the electorate 8
the polls.
! The writer speaks only for decenc.