Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-17

var so externinate privilege better
prepared than M Record to meet
the bowls and jeers. and the prose-
entlons and the insults. which have
always been the arms OF privilege.
The Blauvelt statement reeites the
services of Record in procuring the
great increase in railroad taxation
and SAYS these services in other
lines OF public endeavor are marked
by the same fidelity. the same impress
sive patience. energy. foresight and
ability. It continues: mo man in
the state did more thau he to es-
tablish an arm or department Of the
State TO regulate public utilities with
power to value the properties AMI IA
rates. The public again indorsed his
views. as they have eventually IN
dorsed every measure he has adv0-
Gated.
"N. J. Is Freest state Politically"
IN the struggle . destroy the boss
system Mr.. Record was the first to
raise his voice in Kew Jersey. and t.
was largely due to him that New Jer-
sey is today the freest State political
IL in the Bast. Mr.. Record drafted
the first act drawn in America to give
the state control of the primaries
That was a quarter of a century ago,
but 1t was the beginning Of the END
This state took control Of the pri-
rnaries. Then came the task of aboi-
isaing the boss controlled conventions
and securing the direct primaries. an
honest registration. a modern and
fair ballot and honest election
methods.
tHe drew the Geran election law
and the Prince corrupt practise act
and made the great argument for
them before the Senate committee
which resulted in their passage. Mr..
Records arguments for workmen's
compensation law, upon the public
platform. in legislative hearings and
in his published articles, were not
surpa ssed by anyone in our State.
"T know it will be urged that Mr..
Record has too many enemies. L not
only DENY it, but assert that the very
opposite is true. His enemies are. in
fact. very few: but they are powerful.
He made them serving the public.
fighting the peoples battles. They
are the peoples enemies and oppose
him because he takes the side of the
people.
Wrssted Control from Hudson G. o. p.
1T viii be urged against selecting
Mr.. Record that the people don't
stand by a faithful public servant,
and. to bear this out. they point TO
what they call his defeats in cam
paigns in Hudson County. Mr.. Rec
ord had no more chance Of carrying
the elections there than Colonel
Roosevelt had OF carrying Mississippi,
but 1t was necessary, in order to beat
the bosses, that the Progressives have
candidates at the primaries, and MI.
Record made the contests and Won
repeatedly, wrestling control from the
Republican bosses in Hudson County.
I'VE are going to win this war. The
neople are Just as quick to reward
public faithful servant as any prl~
yate corporation or business man is
when they know about the service,
and the men who assert that the peo-
pie are ungrateful are the ones who
want the people to be ungrateful.
Here is a man in the prime of life,
teeming with energy, full Of courage,
who has devoted the better part of
his life to this cause, and by force
of unimpeachable character. unsur-
passed service and ability has won
the leadership in New Jersey and a
high place in the national councils OF
the Progressive party.
Colonel Roosevelt said in the pres
ence of myself and a number of other
Jerseynen during our trip to the last
conference that as long as he remem-
bered anyone who had partaken to
the full in the hard work of the two
Chicago conventions of last summer
he would remember George L. Pee
ord, of New Jersey. whose judgment
was always sound, who never lost his
temper and always kept his head.
Here is the tried leader the people
can follow with trust and confidence,
with the conviction justified by eX-
perience that if victorious they viii
secure the measures they have won,
and if we lose this battle our army
will continue in the field until we win
the war