Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-10
declares Executives Force Leg
isIators to Act on Meas
ures as They Wish.
BULL MOOSE AND g. O.P.
AMALGAMATION URGED
Eighth Ward Republicans Dine
at Continental Hotel-Os-
borne Is Scored.

The need of more men like Everett
folby. who believes in the amalga-
nation of the Progressive and isegu-
lar Republicans, was the theme of the
rpeakers at the get-together dinner
Of the Eighth Ward Republican ex-
ecutive committee at the Continental
Hotel last night.
The principal speaker was former
= Senator John D. Prince. OF Passaic,
who urged amalgamation and at
Hacked the growing tendency OF ex-
ecutives in going even further than
they are entitled and forcing mem
beers Of the Legislature to vote as
they dictate The former senator told
of once asking an executive If vote
f against a neasu the latter was in
terested in would offend him, and the
reply of the executive was. Il would
consider it a personal affront"
v. r. Brewster, chairman OF the
executive committee, was toastmas-
ter.
Herbert W. Taylor, chairman of the
Republican County Committee. was
the first speaker. He declared that
the enemies of the Republican party
would like to have it believed that
the PARTY was dead, but that should
any of them walk into the Conti-
mental last night they would have an
incontestible refutationf of such
Islander.
Former Senator Prince was next
introduced and before he was allowed
TO talk the guests Joined heartily IN
singing For He's q Jolly Good Eel
low Mr.. Prince said:
"Party Fit to Govern"
ut was the great German philoso-
pher, Leibnitz, who said that every
present is laden with the past and
big with the future, and this saying
was never better exemplified than by
the present conditieH-of the Repub-
1ican party. It has been, as the late
John Hay once said, "a party fit to
govern, but we are not here tonight
10 consider 'has-beens' Let us rather
look at our present position and the
future which may be born from II
IL we handle the situation Alright.
The Republican party for the second
time in its history finds itself in the
opposition. As to whose fault this
Is, will not enter upon now.
ut is imperative that the new Re-
publicanism. which, phoenix like. is
already rising from the ashes of the
recent cenfiagration, shall disassoci-
ate itself at once from all unworthy
leaders and even from those upon
whom rests only the stigma of popu-
lar suspicion.
1.-THE Democratic party-elected by
a minority vote, as It's leader himself
confessed only the other day in this
State--is raising two great national
issues: The issue involving the the
DRY of national taxation looking to
the overthrow of our protective tariff
and the issue regarding the right of
the individual to enjoy his personal
liberty without regulation in every
trivial matter, to develop his re-
sources unmolested, and to enjoy the
rights of property.
Factions Must BE United.
I'VE who are in opposition could
desire no better questions than these
for the solution of which to appeal
TO the people of the United States.
our frat task In undoubtedly to bring
torether the two factions which were
spIit> asunder In 1912. largely owing
to personal causes. This step IL abb
soluteIy essential If we are to offer
any percepfibIe resistance to Demo-
cratic absnrdfties. In fact. the un-
DERIVING principles are becoming
Il >uticaI In the two wings of the
publican party today. At the
present time some of us differ only
superficially as to matters which are
of no immediate moment, and many
of us differ not at all Even il all the
members of the Progressive wing of
the Republicans refuse now to be
called once more by the old name, l
feel that most of them viii be willing
to come to the rescue of the country
when the time arrives.
Rights of the People.
1T is curious to notice that, paral-
lei with the Democratic tendency to
talk about the rights OF the people,
there goes a really Napoleonc desire
to give more and more power to the
personal executive
~ have observed during the past
two years In New Jersey how fae
influence Of the executive has enormous
Iy increased. The tendency on the
part of the very people who talk
most OF popular rights has been 10
look to the Governor not only to IN
ittssc. but even to force Legislation
through Legislature against Its
own better Judgment. IL we study
present conditions at Washington, we
see precisely the same unpleasant and
un-American phenomenon manifest
ing itself In the national govern
ment. The executive II expected to
send for Congressman Senators
and order them to follow a certain
line OF Legislative conduct. What has
become of the old idea that the ex-
ecutive. the Legislative and the Judi
cial are to form three separate and
distinct departments of the state,
each checking and balancing the
other without encroachments surely
neither wing of the Republican party