Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-25
COLBY LEAGUE
TO HAVE TICKET
viii Place Full Number of Can.
didates for Assembly
in Field.

Those members OF the Progressive
party who hail Everett Colby as their
chief will soon put their Assembly
ticket in the field. They will bracket
their names, so there will be no pos
sibility of candidates from the Os-
borne wing breaking in.
The organization will not take a
hand in the contest; that Is, not con-
spicuously The fight for the Pro-
gressive Assembly nominations this
year will be a contest between two
definite divisions of the party ,one led
by Everett Colby and the other by
Edmund B. Osborne.
The Osborne wings slate is an
nounced today. No assembly candl-
dates have yet been chosen from the
Colby ranks, but among those prom
inently mentioned are Charles Stelzie.
of Maplewood; DR.. j. C. Love, OF
Montclair; William Fellowes Morgan,
of Milburn; Harry Wright of r.
vington; Howard s. Dodd, of Glen
Ridge; william A. Lord, of Orange;
Edward Jacoby, of Irvington; Theo-
dore ID. Gottleib, DR.. John Hemsath,
gernon T. Sweeney, Frank Fettrfdge
and Nathan Berger, of Newark.
Mr.. Colby was asked today what he
thought the Progressive organization
would do in regard to the two AS
sembly tickets.
'"The organization will not and
should not do anything" he said
"It is quite possible the Colby League
of Essex county will do as Mr.. Os-
borne has done-that is. secure the
consent of twelve men to bracket
their names in order to prevent the
ticket from being so split up as to
11qa ~
two of our candidates in case the
vote should be close--a circumstances,
however. that does not seem likely.
In a letter to the Star today, Mr.
Colby answered Mr.. Osborne's charge
that he was trying to evade answer
ing half q dozen campaign questions
that Mr.. Osborne publicly asked him
several weeks ago Mr.. Osborne gave
out q statement Saturday in which
he said that Mr.. Colby had persis-
tently refused to reply to his ques-
lions on the initiative and referen-
dunn, the power of the courts in deal
ing with strikes and several other
matters. Mr.. Colby's letter follows:
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
| see by the papers that Mr.. os-
borne, my opponent in the Progressive
primaries, persists in making the
statement that l promised to support
him for the nomination for governor
1t is a matter of much regret 10 me
that Mr., Osborne refuses to go
through this campaign without charg-
ing me with dishonesty: but l will
not permit him to accuse me Of inten-
tionally breaking my word without an
earnest protest and denial.
On Friday, May 2. l had confer
ence with Mr.. Osborne in New York,
at which time he told me that he
wanted to be a candidate for gov
ernor. l assured him that IL the Pro-
gressives selected him as their can
didate / should support him as the
party candidate with pleasure, but, az
/ should feel obliged to run II the
party desired me to do so, and |
secured a release from Judge William
p, Martin, to whom l had pledged
my support, 1t was impossible for me
to have made the promise he alleges.
Only after / became convinced that a
very large majority of the Pro-
gressives of the State wished me to
become candidate, and. having re-
ceived a release from Judge Martin,
did / announce my determination to
enter the primary fight. Now, Mr.. Os-
borne. In an attempt to prove a
promise on my part to support him
for the nomination, quotes a state
ment I made on May 6, as follows:
"Only last Friday lunched with Mr..
Osborne, at his request, and had a
long conference about the future
plans of the party. He told me he
wanted to be a candidate for gov
ernor, and / assured him I would sup
port him with the greatest pleasure"
Here Mr., Osborne ends his quotation,
but it was not the end of my state
ment.
This statement appears in full in a
letter from Mr.. Osborne to me of
July 7, from which l quote as follows:
"Only last Friday / lunched with Mr.
Osborne. He told me he wanted to
be a candidate for governor, and
assured him would support him
with the greatest pleasure. I told
him / did not want to be a candidate
and would not be unless the leaders
ere practically unanimous in the be-
lief that I should run"
Why did Mr.. Osborne quote these
lines on the seventh of July and sup
press them in the statement he gave
to the press Saturday? Could it have
been for any other reason than be-
cause the last two lines in the state
ment show clearly that l would run
myself if the party thought / should
do so. and that, therefore, I could not
have given my word to support him
before the primaries? I shall make
no further comment upon this method
of political warfare, because personal
abuse simply detracts from fair and
thorough discussion of the principles
in which we are interested.
EVERETT COLBY.