Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-18
FIELDER NOT 4
TRUE DEMOCRAT"
Stokes, in Warren Speech,
Holds Opponent Up as an
Autocrat.

PHILLIPSBJRG. Oct. 1s-In a
speech delivered here last night for
mer Governor Edward Casper Stokes,
Republican candidate for Governor.
attacked the Democratic platform. as
sorting that Democrats are correcting
former statements regarding the
public utilities plank. He also criti-
cised Governor FEEDERS policy as
autoeratic. and promised that he. if
elected. will give the people of New
Jersey government by the people
In the course of his speech former
Governor Stokes said:
Misrepresentation and personalities
in campaign are the weapons of
despair. They show the desperation
OF my opponents. The latter have
been compelled 10 shift their position
in more than one respect, and par
ticularly in connection with the public
utilities plank in our platform. They
at first took the ground, by absolute
perversion of language, that railroad
officials were to be recognized in con-
nection with that important work.
Now they confess that their for
mer statements in this connection
were false and that the declaratio
in the platform is for the recogni-
ton of railway employees, conduct
ors, trainmen, engineers, firemen,
toWermen, whose Representatives asked
that such a provision be inserted in
the Republican platform. None the
less our Democratic opponents, in
GLIDING Governor Fielder himself
take exception to the appointment of
these men as inspectors and super
visers in connection with the work
of the Public Utility Commission
They are still opposed to this policy
notwithstanding the fact that they
now acknowledged its real purpose
No Special Interest.
Governor Fielder contends that the
10000 railway employees in this State
should not be recognized in this
branch of the State work, because he
says II is a recognition of a special
interest. His attitude reveals the
spirit of the Democratic campaign
1t is based upon the false assumption
that men who are employed in an
occupation have no right to have a
voice in the government regulation
of that occupation.
Governor Fielder's policy is auto
cratic, not democratic. Who should
rule this State except the people
| themselves? The practical knowledge
of railroad employees in connection
with railway disasters and railroad
regulations is better than academic
knowledge. / advocate ii as a matter
of public policy. 1t will bring the
State and the people closer together .
THE $4,000 railway employees are
part of the people of New Jersey
Their cooperation with the State in
the enforcement of the law is sound
| public poIfcy Nothinp oot,1d he hat
ter than to have the rank and file OF
the people interested, and actually
helpful. in directing and upholdine
the laws of the State.
II have said, and I repeat it, that
IL elected Governor, I want to make
/ the State government, not something
apart from the people, but one with
the people. There should be no dis
tinction, and the recognition of rail
way employees Is a step in the direc.
ton of a policy which will make oul
State government. in reality, a gov.
eminent by the people.
THE Democratic theory is tanta
mount to saying that the government
is something apart from the peopl
themselves, in which the people cal
have no voice. / repudiate that doc
trine most emphatically."
Adhering to his original plan Il
conserve his energies by cutting on
the day tours, which produce no larg'
! results, former Governor Stokes ha:
announced a program of night meet
| ings in many counties covering ths
next fortnight, as follows.
New Itinerary.
October 1s-Reception at East Or
ange at the clubhouse. including