The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-10-21

ing with dignity. In well chosen
words he introduced the speakers OF
the evening. Charles A. Rathbun,
former prosecutor, and candidate for
state senator, spoke first. Mr.. Rath-
bun spoke of the great number of
laws now on the books and asserted
many of them to be unnecessary II
not absolutely vicious. He stands, he
said, for less laws but better laws.
He told how his opponent on the
democratic ticket is claiming to have
introduced so many measures and TO
have secured the passage of SO many
but Mr.. Rathbun declared that it
was no honor, If every member of
the assembly had introduced and Sc
cured the passage of as many the
state would be swamped with law
He promised to stand for the people
regardless of name or station.
During his speech a man on he
main floor arose and made some In
coherent remarks about Judge Mills
having sent a boy to the reform
school. The disturber was escorted
to the outer air by Police Sergeant
Morrison.
Mayor Downs addressed the meet
| ing, speaking of the duties and OBJ
legations of citizenship.
When Governor Stokes was intro
duced he was greeted with cheering
and ehe applause was prolonged. Mr.
Stokes prefaced his address with q
few congratulatory remarks about
| Morris county's new chairman.
| Good government is always the
real issue in campaign" said Mr..
| Stokes. "All other phases of the
contest can be classified under that
broad head. The voters of the state
are interested in party SO long as
parties give them good government
In this campaign the so-called progres
sive party cannot possibly win. They
can destroy but they cannot win.
| They are therefore not in a position
to accomplish reforms. From them
the voters can hope for nothing. ~
''The republican party has been the
progressive and constructive party of
this state. 1t has put practically all
the progressive Legislation on the
statute books of New Jersey. That
there have been error in its man
agement is not denied. l have been
fighting to correct those errors in
the past ten years whenever they oc-
Cured, and l see gratifying evidences
of great change in the party con-
troll
There are two elements in the
democratic party:-Wilson and real
democracy. They have little use for
each other except for campaign pur-
poses. Governor Wilson was elected
governor of this state undoubtedly
by republican votes. He appealed to
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non-partisan government and
large number of independent republi-
cans cast their ballots for him in
good faith. The governor, in fact,
never trusted the democratic party
of this state. He had to drive Jim
Nugent, the democratic state chair
an from legislative halls. He had to
go on the stump and attack former
Senator Smith, to whom he owed his
nomination. He had to leave his Of
flee and go and take part in the
democratic primaries and denounce
some of the democratic candidates as
unworthy of public confidence. He
has been compelled to take demo-
cratic candidates out of the contest
lest the democratic voters choose the
wrong man, so distrustful was he of
that party. He had been compelled
to call extra sessions of the legis-
lature or suggest to his successor to
call them, to compel the democratic
party to keep its broken pledges.
"Not once during his term of office
has he been compelled to fight the
republican party, so far as policies
were concerned. He had no diff
Guilty with the republicans in the
Legislature. When Governor Wilson
took office he found a number of
measures upon the statute books the
legacy of his republican predecessors.
The co-called policies which We're
woven into a crown of glory for the
democratic administration-the en-
ployers' liability act, the corrupt
practices act, the Geran law, the pub