Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-07-28
STOKES FINDS
COLBY SOUND
Declares His Stand lis Good
Republican Doctrine
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| Trenton, JULY 2S-As former Gov
ernor Edward G. Stokes views the
statement OF principles recently made
| by |ormer Senator Everett Colby, 1t
| is strong argument for the union
of the Progressives and Republicans.
Mr.. Colby made his declaration in q
| speech in Newark In his campaign for
| the Progressive nomination for Gov
ernor. Ex-Governor Stokes claims
that with one exception, Candidate
Colby's enunciation involves no new
policy.
Mr.. Stokes declares that the Col
by platform in nowise justifles third
party movement. He points out that
Edmund B. Osborne, the candidate of
the other Progressive wing for the
Governorship, and former Senator
Colby are much wider apart than
are Colby and the Republicans.
Former Governor Stokes says he re-
grets Colby's course, because 1t can
only result in the defeat of the prin-
ciples he advocates and in impair
| ment of the chances of Republican
success.
In response to an inquiry as to
what he though of the Colby plat
form, Ex-Governor Stokes said:
II have read Senator Colby's state
ment of principles with great inter
est. They are extremely conserva-
tive, and Senator Colby's conserva-
tive trend Of mind is shown In his
statement that the people must guard
against attempting to force govern
| ment to do more than governments
| composed of average human beings
can possibly accomplish. Senator
Colby very properly recognizes the
tendency of the day to expect the
state to do for the individual what
the individual should do for himself
with one exception, Senator Col
by's enunciation Of principles invol-
YES no new policy, and this fact is
no detraction from their merit"
Home rule for cities waj advocated
I'm my message to the Legislatures of
1907 and 1908. Senator Colby was a
member of the legislature during that
period, and while he was a member
of the Legislature joint resolution
was introduced upon the subject of
municipal government with a view to
framing a home rule municipal char
ter.
The short ballot Is a needed re-
form to which no man will take ex-
ception. and which has been advoca-
ted by public men o fall parties for
some years.
In reference to the referendum
ember statement: THE referendum
is already an established principle in
the function of law-making. In New
Jersey 1t has constitutional sanction
and Is exercised In the adoption Of
municipal charters, bond Issues and
in the regulation of certain municipal
salaries. The home of the referen-
dunn is not in Switzerland, but in
New England. There are in this
country 852 we'll authenticated refer
endums upon state issues, and, per-
haps 1900, If municipal and local
questions be included. The initiative
Is, in principle, the constitutional
right Of petition which John Quincy
Adams said belonged even to
slave"
Senator Colby's advocacy of in
dustrial peace in connection with
strikes and lockouts is along the
lines Of the Candian Industrial Dis
putes Act, which 1 recommended in a
statement last December, and which
is part of Congressman Fowler's plat
form.
The senator's treatment of .monop-
oily is extremely interesting from
Republican point of view. 1t is a
recognition of regulation, as the true
method of corporate reform instead
of dissolution of big enterprises into
smaller units, and the recognition of
the necessity of one controlling fed
eral authority, to avoid the confu-
sion incident to regulation by forty
eight different states This is dis
tinctly Republican doctrine 1t is
Hamiltonian government, as opposed
to Jeffersonian government, and un-
til the line of demarkation Is clear
ly defined between federal and state
authority, we shall have disturbance
and uncertainty in our business en-?
terprises, and most of our great
problems will remain unsettled. The
japanese question in California is
only one of the many cases that
arises from the conflict between state
and federal authority.
Senator Colby's suggestion in re-
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