Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-28
JOHNSON R|D|CULES
APPEAL OF BORAH
California Governor, Speaking
at Palace Ballroom, Says Col
by Is Only Progressive.

Characterizing as the SIRENS song"
Senator william E. Borah's much
advertised appeal urging the Pro-
gressives to amalgamate, Governor
Hiram w. Johnson, of California,
running mate of Theodore Roosevelt
last year, addressed a large audience
at the Palace ballroom, Blocker and
Washington streets, last night on the
issues of the Progressive party. 1t
was his first speech in Newark since
he Jumped across the country for the
present campaign.
Except for Board of Works Candi-
date Frank e. Davenport, Governor
johnson was the last speaker of the
evening. In introducing the Califor-
Man, Edmund B. Osborne, acting as
chairman, referred to the governor
as the feast of the evening"
Everett Colby, the Progressive can
didate for Governor, was the first
speaker of the evening to plead the
cause of Progressivism and his own
cause.
He proposed that three days before
election each candidate publish a
frank statement of the contributions
received by his agents. II feel that
money is the greatest evil In poll
tics" Mr.. Colby said, eliminate it
and you strike at the root of the
evil.'
Remember, that my good wishes
are with Everett Colby was the
message which Mrs. Douglas Robin
brother Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
had given her before he sailed for
Brazil and which he had charged her
to deliver to the people of the State
of New Jersey.
Besides the praise she bestowed on
Mr.. Colby she told of the work of the
women's non-partisan committee,
formed for the purpose, she said, of
electing the best man, Everett Colby.
In his address Mr.. johnson said;
Contrast the way of man like
Colby with that of those gentlemen
who are after but one accomplish
ment. to get the offices in the land
and those alone
He then told the audience that the
Progressive party believed in the doc
trine that the first concern of any
country was the welfare of its men,
women and children. This move
ment of ours" he continued, has
suddenly made every politician in the
land profess that he is progressive"
Besides talking of his work while
in the State Senate, Mr.. Colby gave
his definition of real Progressive,
stating that a real Progressive was a
man who has faith in men and
women. a man who believed in gov
eminent by all of the people, a man
who is ahead of his time. yet within
calling distance, and man who like
Roosevelt believed in fair property
and human rights. The candidate
then urged that a real Progressive
must stand for the social betterment
and the measure which will tend to
bring improved conditions about.
Mentioning the various labor planks
of the Progressive platform Mr.. Colby
said: MY opponents say vote for
the Progressives is a vote for So-and
so; but / say, vote for the Progress
sives is a vote for the child shaving in
the mill; a vote for the Progressives
is vote for sustaining such men as
Governor johnson. and a vote for
Colby is a vote for the next Gov
ernor."
The charges brought against Ed
ward &. Stokes, the Republlcan can
didate for Governor. in connection
with the school funds, were taken up
and discussed in detail by Mr.. Os-
borne who ran against Mr.. Colby in
the primaries. He stated that 1t was
ridiculous that Mr. Stokes posed as
a Progressive and a friend Of the pub
lie schools. He pointed out that in
1911 under the regime of State Treas
urer voorhees,. fellow member with
Stokes of the Republican Board of
Guardians there was a total of ST.
asa, 900 deposited in the Trenton bank
of which Mr.. Stokes is president
twice the amount of the capital and
surplus of that bank-State money on
which the maximum interest under a
Republican law, was per cent
In his address Governor Johnson
called Senator Borahs appeal for the
Progressives and the Republicans to
amalgamate the SIRENS song"
There can be no compromise" Mr..
Johnson continued. 1--WE have to 80
forward with this clean party until
it Is triumphant all over the land.
We are not asking nor giving quar-
ter to any party or any set OF men"