Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-22
SEYMOUR HITS
At OPPONENTS
FOR CONGRESS
Democratic Candidate Criticises
Records of R. Wayne Parker
and Gregory.


More than a thousand persons, in
Guiding representatives from every
ward, attended the reception to the
Democratic candidates given by
fhe Gottfried Kruger Association at
rs club house, on Belmont avenue,
last night. The event, which was
one of the largest ever given under
the same auspices, was held at the
Kruger Club, in Belmont avenue.
Mayor Haussling was lauded in
high terms by the speaker of the
evening, Arthur B. Seymour, the
candidate for Congress from the
Ninth district. Other speakers in
cluded Mr.. Haussling, DIR. Charles f.
Kraemer. and John +. Reilly. Board
of Works aspirants; candidate for
Sheriff John J. Bracken, Harry F..
BaclSus. in the race for supervisor;
Richard Stockton, candidate Tor
State senator; City Counsel James
r. Nugent, Angelo r. Bianchi, one
of the Board of Freebooter candi-
dates Their speeches were reviews
of the work accomplished under
Democratic administration and q
Democratic administration as COM
pared to the work accomplished
while the Republicans were in
charge.
Challenges Statement.
Julian A. Gregory, independent
candidate for Congress, and r.
Wayne Parker, the Republican choice
for the same office were criticised
by Mr.. Seymour in a lengthy adj
dress. The speaker challenged the
statement made by MIR. Gregory that
he, Mr.. Seymour. and his colleagues
were the only opponents voting
against making the choice of Gov
ernor Wilson unanimous at the Ball
timore convention. This Mr.. Sey-
mour denied, and said that those
who spread the report Tied"
I'VE did not vote against making
the choice unanimous, and the min
utes of that convention will bear me
out in what have stated" said Mr..
Seymour.
Mr.. Seymour, in speaking of Mr..
Parker the Republican nominee. said
that Mr.. Parker was one of the re-
dictionary nominees who in the past
had helped to build up a party for
the rich, and that If sent back to
Congress the same affairs would be
carried out.
Mr.. Seymour stated that Mayor
flaussling was the best mayor that
Newark ever had. There have been
more big things accomplished under
the Haussling administration than In
any two other administrations" said
Candidate Seymour.
Kraemer Gives Figures.
DR.. Charles F. Kraemer also made
a lengthy speech in which he at
tackled statements by local anti
Democratic newspaper. He also an
swered two questions asked by the
Socialist party. The first was, How
this DIR. Kraemer replied that the city
would have one as soon as the Tren-
ton legislators saw fit and that the
Board of Works has site picked out
near the meadows.
The speaker then told his listeners
why the Board of Works entered into
a three-yeaf contract with the Public
Service to supply lighting current for
the city. The president of the Board
of Works showed by figures that dur
ing the past year there was twenty
five per cent. more lights and the
bill was considerably less than in
previous years. 1--WE struck bar
gain and we accepted it, said the
speaker.
RiddIed g. o. p. Record.
Mr.. Seymour at some length re-
viewed the birth and early history
of the Republican and Democratic
parties He maintained that the Re-
publican party of today bears no re-
lations to the party of 1860 and is di-
anetrically opposed to the principles
that Lincoln espoused, but has always
tried to make this a government of
the rich for the rich and by the rich.
starting with President Johnson,
the successor of Abraham Lincoln,
Mr.. Seymour told of the events
which in 1884, led to the election of
Grover Cleveland and in 1896 when
the question of changing the none
tary standard had come up to the
election of Republican successor.
For sixteen long years after" the
speaker continued, 1.-The Republican
party held control of our national
governments Hanna and Plat and
Depew dominated the party and with
Tom Reed as Speaker of the House,
the 'plunderbund' got right to work.
They enacted laws which turned over
to them control of nearly all the vast
natural resources of our land; gold
and silver mines, thousands upon
thousands of acres of timber lands;
coal lands fertile plains. water pow
ers, and anything and everything that
was lying around loose in the nation
and that belonged to the people"
Mr. Seymour went on to show how
trusts were the order of the day, and
combinations in restraint of trade
flourished, how Taft was elected on
a platform that promised new trust
law and q revision of the tariff, and
how the tariff was revised, but up
wards.
Mr.. Seymour continued:
ar. Wayne Parker--well, his record
speaks for itself. He voted for every
trust bill in Congress, he voted
against every labor measure. He al
ways voted for capital and special
privilege, and always against the
people. The prince of 'standpatters.'
he stands pat today and wants to
go back to Congress to undo every
piece of progressive Democratic legis-
iation that our party has written in
the statute books of the nation since
we have been in power.
'sRetribution came swiftly after
privilege had triumphed in 1909. In
March. 1910. the House Democrats,
under the leadership of Champ Clark,
co-operated with the Progressive Re-
publicans and Cannon went down to
defeat. In November, 1910, the coun-
try placed the odium where 1t be-
longed-upon the Republican party
The House became overwhelmingly
Democratic. During the last half of
the last four years of Republican rule