Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-17
STOKES ATTACKS
/. TWO OPPONENTS
Fielder and Colby in Mutual Ad-
miration Society, He
Says.
PRODUCES RECORD TO
S SHOW HE is NOT "R. R." MAN
Republican Gubernatorial Can
didate Talks in Glen Ridge
and Caldwell.

Before large audiences in Glen
]. Ridge and Caldwell last night Ed
$ ward c. Stokes, Republican candi-
) date for governor. whaeked his DEM
ocratic and Progressive opponents.
I. who, he said, had formed a mutual
Z admiration society. He charged the
Democratic party and Acting Gov
> ernor Fielder with having started
: the wedge which will eventually
2 sound the death-knell to civil serv-
s ice.
8 Mr.. Stokes also took up the charge
: of his opponents that he is a rail-
road man, and referred to the rail-
: road taxation bill which he signed
and from which the State is deriving,
he said, a tremendous revenue. He
: went on to explain that he saw to
1t that every penny of this money
!. was used for the benefit of tbs pub
!. lie schools.
At Glen Ridge the meeting was to
3 have been held in the school audi
forum, but owing to diphtheria hav-
: Ing broken out among the pupils
the school was closed and the meet
ing place had to be changed at the
last minute to Glen Ridge Club. This
handicap did, however, not interfere
the late corners were obliged to re-
main outside and be satisfied with a
few f1eeting words from the candidate
when he arrived and when he left.
In the course of his speech, the can
8 didate referred to the fact that he
I, mad been disparagingly spoken Of as
81 the same old Stokes" IF that IS
: the worst they hold against me- said
:. Mr.. Stokes, "I'll gladly be the same
Il ;f 60, Ofh raQ than
that this same old Stokes when he
iran for governor received u majority
of 1000 in this state"
h AT the Glen Ridge meeting former
Assemblyman William Beard pre-
sided, who evoked stormy applause
when he said there was Repub-
elican tidal wave noticeable which
spelled victory for the party at the
coming election and which also
augured the next Republican candi-
date for President would be Edward
c. Stokes.
In Glen Ridge Mr.. Stokes was the
guest at a reception held at the coun-
try club of that town. When the
candidate and his party arrived at
the hall the Bloomfield Guards fired
salute from a gun that had been
cast in 1888. AT the meeting in Cald-
e we'll, held at the Caldwell Borough
Il
Stokes was introduced by Mayor John
Espy, who acted as chairman.
Former Governor Stokes said, IN
part:
Fought for Roosevelt.
= The issues of this campaign would be
aundoubted were 1t not for the third or
so-called Progressive party. Every vote
lit, but his fellow citizens as well It Is
an exercise of trusteeship and should be
exercised in the broadcast and, most con;
Roosevelt Roosevelt II M the Republican primaries
the f r if - not the he second man in the
date, at time when the outlook was so
dark that selfish motives were impos-
slble l did not agree, however In
making the fight for Colonel Roosevelt
awithdrew from the party. 1t seemed to
eme that If the Republican voters OF New
Jersey had trusted some of us to the
extent of sending a solid progressive del
Ito stay in the party and take the leader
ship in party affairs. I could not follow
the logic Of that reasoning which left
the battlefield In the possession of the
defeated after the battle was won. |
could not follow the logic which urged
the majority to leave the party in the
Of this State were undoubtedly in the
majority Why, then, leave the party
they could so evidently controlf
The Republican party had divided at
the Presidential primaries for progress
sive policies, so that no man had to leave
the party In order to be Progressive.
Practically all of the reforms for which
the Progressives had contended, the cor
rupt practise act. direct primaries, en-
ployers' liability act, civil service reform,
public utilities. conservation of our for
aof these had been put upon the statute
books by the Republican party, so 1t was
mot necessary to leave the party to Sc
cure the enactment of these measures.
q There was every reason. therefore, why
the Progressives of this State should re-
main In the Republican party. Had the
Chicago convention nominated Roosevelt
there never would have been third
party born. Taft and Roosevelt today
are not issues. Roosevelt has gone as far
away from the fight this year as he can
get He is not. therefore, materially in
iterested in the Progressive cause, else he
would be on the battle-ground. Instead