Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-07

Is $4,000 for garbage collection.
Do you realize that this amount
would pay for four teams and two
men S8.17 per day for each team
working every n of the 365 days In
the Year,
That Is some Of our local reasons
for being called a Bull Moose.
We had a National Primary Elec-
ton. We all voted to suit ourselves
and when the votes were counted the
different delegates were sent to their
respective conventions to vote as
their constituents wished them to do,
but were they allowed? / guess not,
SO we had either to take what they
gave US or to take a back seat and
get steam rollered and then rode
rough shod over the people and their
wishes when they forced the nomina-
ton of Mr.. Taft on the country. The
bosses are the wreckers OF the Re-
publican party and not Roosevelt.
Then why should the Progressive
party go back to the Republicans af-
ter giving them a good beating.
Lasting and permanent victory
was won by Progressives in the cry
stallization of a great public senti-
ment founded upon q moral conCep-
ton.
THAT immediate success did not
come to candidates is of no conse-
quence. The big thing has been ac-
complished. There's a new party in
the nation that has come to stay, n
new spirit in Americanism that
mean ultimately real progress; a
new life In politics that marks a bet
ter national existence.
"Progressives in every state have
had their baptism of fire. They are
unafraid still and will preserve their
organization everywhere.
"a mere battle has been fought; a
great war has begun. The battle
has been In reality a substantial vic
tory. Those who then participated
find have added strength and cour-
age for the continuance Of the con-
f1ict. In m with all Americans
we wish Mr.. Wilson a successful and
prosperous administration.
1.-THE Progressive party now has
become one of the great national par
ties, with definite. fixed policies. in
the fulfllment of which 1t welcomes
all; but 1t is going forward with a
determination to achieve Its
PURPOSES.
Thousands upon thousands of men
who last election cast their ballots
for one of two old parties will be
with US In the coming elections, and
in ever increasing numbers.
Most OF those who voted for the
Republican ticket did SO as a matter
of party regularity. Most of those
who voted the Democratic ticket did
so for the same reason; others did so
because they wanted to rebuke the
decadence of the Republican party
and felt that they could do this best
by voting for Mr.. Wilson; still others
did SO because, hoping against hope,
they felt that the Democratic party
should be given one more chance.
On the other hand, every Progress
sive ballot stood for conviction. Ev-
cry Progressive vote was the result
of thought SO clear and opinion so
strong that it cut party ties, broke
the spell Of party names, cast off the
yoke of party organizations. So the
notable Progressive vote is a vital
vote. The Progressive party has the
strength of a living faith. 1t is a
united, coherent political force. The
Democratic party and what Is left of
the Republican party are made up
Of groups of men with different be-
liefs, different purposes, different
hopes. Both these old parties are
political patch works Each Is a
house divided against itself.