The Pleasantville press., 1913-07-23
Republican Hopes
Centered On Stokes
Reports From All Over State Show
That Party Could Win With
Him AS Standard

That the demand for Former Gov
ernor Edward Casper Stokes as the
Republican candidate for governor of
New Jersey in the election to be de-
cided in November is state wide was
demonstrated beyond all doubt at the
meeting of the Republican County
Chairman's Association in Trenton
last Thursday. Reports from all
parts OF the state showed that the
hopes of the Republican party were
centered in Former Governor Stokes
and that the general opinion prevailed
that with him as the standard bearer
victory could be won.
There seems to be no possibility of
fusion between the two factions of
the Republican party in the state,
therefore the county chairmen are
fully convinced that the method to
pursue is for the party to nominate
good, clean, honest men-men the
people want, and then to let the peo-
pie do the fusing themselves.
The conference of the county chair
men was concluded with the adoption
of a set of resolutions setting forth
the position of the party in the state.
The statement follows:
We, the chairmen of the several
Republican county committees of the
state, representing the Republican
party, by the authority of our selec-
tion through a direct primary, sum-
mon the Republican party of the
state to immediate activity.
In an address to the people of the
state issued last spring, we made an
ov,noa1 10 oil yLo
ly affiliated with the Republican party
to unite this fall as in previous cam
paigns and cooperate for good gov
ernment and majority rule. We renew
that appeal with sincerity and ear
nestness, believing that the failure of
the Democratic administration both
IN state and nation, imposes patriotic
duty upon those who are opposed to
Democratic policies, to unite for the
common good.
The record of the Republican party
for the past half century is the his
tory of this-the greatest nation of
the world. 1t has made this a re-
public of more privileges and oppor-
tunities for the lowly, of more free
dom, of greater progress, of more hu-
manity than any government on
earth. 1t has been the party of pro-
gress as opposed to the party of OBJ
struction. 1t has been the progressive
party in the development of the ma
tion toward higher ideals. 1t is still
the progressive party and the only
progressive party that will ever legis-
late advanced ideas into practical en-
actment. 1t is not party of pro-
gressive talk; it is party of progress
sive action. Great as has been its
work in the past it's mission is not
vet ended. It must solve the prob
lens of the day or demagogues will
offer nostrums to the nations undoing
1t has duty to perform and to this
end it will maintain its own indepen-
dence and its own integrity and fight
the campaign this fall with the same
unfailing courage that it showed in
the early campaigns after the Demo-
cratic victories of 1892. Then it was
called upon to save the nation from
the disasters of a Democratic admin
istration.
Today it faces a similar situation.
A Democratic failure in state and ma
ton has again demonstrated the ver-
dict of history that the Democratic
party cannot successfully administer
this government. The work of the
Democratic legislature and the Demo
cratic Congress will be revealed in
detail as the campaign progresses.
Already the shadow of the new ad-
ministration is darkening the fields of
prosperity. Under its baneful influ-
ences Governor Foss, of Massachus-
etts, one of the Democratic candidates
for president, is compelled to move
his manufacturing plant to Canada
For the first time in the history OF
this country American citizens are
compelled to migrate in order to sue
cessfully turn the wheels of industry
The investments of the people of this
country have shrunk over $3,000,000,
900, industry is proceeding with eau
tion and with fear, enterprise is halt
ing because of the uncertain future
Secrecy and King Caucus dominate
the government machinery. Foreign
importers are accorded hearings with
courtesy, while threatened American
industries are denounced as lobbyists
if, under the constitutional right o1
petition, they present their pleas tt
Democratic congress. When al
American citizen, no matter how hum
BILE or how great, is denied the righ
to participate in his government ant
is treated as a malefactor if he at
tempts to exercise that right b.
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