Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-14
$4,000 COST OF
PROGRESSIVE FIGHT
Campaign Cost Told at Meet
ing of County Committee.
Plan New Battle.

The cost of the Progressive guber-
Material campaign during the past
contest was $4,000, according to Irv-
ing K. Taylor, county chairman OF
the party. The Essex county cam
paign of the Progressiyes cost ST. $50
and every bill has been paid. These
announcements were made last night
at a meeting of the Progressive coun-
ty Committee held in the Progressive
headquarters, 211 Halsey street. The
statements of the chairman were
greeted with applause.
The major part of the meeting was
taken up with the discussion of get
ting financial support, of diffusing
Progressive principles and of enlarg-
ing the organization.
In regard to the finances 1t was
finally resolved to walt without any
definite plan, until the actual monthly
expenses of the county organization,
including the maintenance of the
county headquarters, at 211 Halsey
street, were brought into budget form.
There was great enthusiasm dis
played when Secretary Walter F.
Simpson read a letter from County
Committee Member John e. Givens,
handing in his resignation. The let
ter, dated November 6, stated that
Mr.. GiVens, who halls from the First
District of the Fifteenth Ward,
wished to resign, because, as he
stated, 81 am done for all time with
politics"
Givens was one of the men who a
year ago ran for Board of Works on
the Progressive ticket. although he
was repuudlated by the Progressives
themselves, and this year at the pri-
maries he beat his Progressive oppo-
nent for County Committee member
ship.
On the question of finances opinion
was divided. Edmund B. Osborne
stated that the party should be sat
isfied to gather the running expenses
and that the time to get the mass
contributions was when things were
in shape for the campaign and when
the issues of the same were more
clearly defined.
Others were more of the opinion
that there was no time like the pres
ent, and Antonio Petrone and Will
lam Fl. Seely urged that the question
Of funds for the next campaign
should not be left to the last minute.
To a measure interlocked with the
scheme of ra sing a revenue and dis
pense Progressive principles was
am, who proposed that paper be
publ shed in the county, the selling
of which would combine both aims.
Nathan Berger, II. K Stanley.
Samuel Levine, j. A. G. Bauderman
and Edgar H. Bostock discussed the
question of simultaneously interest
ing the people at large, especially the
young, and charging the organiza-
ton
Mr.. Berger spoke in the feasibility
of establishing social clubs all
through the city, and announced that
in the Third Ward such a club was
started by him few days ago, and
that the coming Sunday, when this
club would meet, it's charter men,
bers expected to enroll about fifty
young men.
At the suggestion of Mr. Stanley a
debating society of young men will
be started to teach the art of oratory
and general civics, as well as pro-
gressive measures, but not party af.
! fairs 1t is the purpose to admit any
man, young or old, irrespective of hi:
party utilization, and the instruction:
| will be absolutely free.
! The various plans proposed will b'
! taken up at the meeting Of the ex
ecutive committee on Wednesda.
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