Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-28
OSBORNE AGAIN
QUOTES COLBY
Says Reason for Omission Was
Because ''It Seemed Total
Iy Irrelevant"

Edmund B. Osborne, in statement
issued today. declares that Everett
Colby did promise to support him for
the Progressive nomination for gov
ernor. Mr.. Osborne points out that
the Newark News of May 6 confirms
this by the sub-head over a Colby
article which read, Wants Osborne
for Governor" and by the following
sentence: "Mr. Colby says frankly
that he has promised to support Ed
mund B. Osborne for the governor
ship on the Progressive ticket and
that he does not want to be a candi-
date himself" The statement fol-
lows:
Mr.. Colby's effort to extricate
himself from the position he has been
placed in by his two conflicting news
paper statements Is amusing. His
suggestion that l suppressed a por-
ton of his statement of May 6, in
order to distort his meaning, is alb
surd. This is the portion of his state
ment of May to which he refers:
I told him l did not want to be a
candidate. and would not be unless
the leaders were practically unani-
nous in the belief that / should run.
IT did not include this in my state
ment of last Saturday because 1t
seemed totally Irrelevant. It did not
occur to me that Mr.. Colby could
possibly claim that he had become q
candidate because the leaders were
practically unanimous for him, the
only condition under which. according
to this statement, he was willing to
run at all. Mr.. Colby knows per-
fectly well that he did not become u
candidate for any such reason. He
knows that majority of the strong
est Progressive leaders of the State,
the men who have done the greatest
amount of work for the party, are
supporting me. Mr.. Colby Is welcome
to any strength which this clause,
omitted in my quotation, will give
his claims. AS he states in this
clause that he would not be candi-
date unless the leaders were prac-
tically unanimous and as he obvious
ly did not become a candidate for that
reason. perhaps he will tell us the
real reason why he did become a can
didate?
"The editor of the Newark Evening
News evidently got the same meaning
out of Mr.. Colby's statement of May
6 that / did. This is evidenced by the
sub heading to the Colby story of
that date. which reads Wants Os-
borne Governor and by the opening
paragraph which follows:
Everett Colby made q statement
today which is aparanetly intended to
eliminate any possible doubt that
may exist regarding his attitude
toward the Progressive party. Mr.,
Colby says frankly that he has
promised to support Edmund B. Os-
borne for the governorship on the
Progressive ticket and that he does
not want to be al candidate himself
1.-THE conversation quoted, in the
published statement, dealt exclusive
ly with the primary contest-there
was no discussion whatsoever about
the support of candidates after the
primaries. There was no occasion
whatever for Mr.. Colby to say he
would support me after the primaries,
IL / secured the nomination, for no.
body ever suspected that he would
refuse to support the nominee of the
Progressive party.
1T am perfectly satisfied to let the
public judge the facts from Mr..
Colby's published statement"