Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-13
C. 0. P. BANGSAT
ERR|NG DEMOCRATS
its Publicity Bureau Finds
Fault With Much of the
Legislatures Actions
Especial to tile Newark star.I


TRENTON. Feb. 13-Taking add
the recently passed jury validating
law. the publicity bureau of the Re
publican State Committee is sending
out a circular to the newspapers ~
the State today to discredit the Dom
ocratic legislation of the present and
past sessions.
The publicity bureau also takes, 0c-a
casion to criticise the way the State
finances have been handled under the
Democratic administration It says
this:
THE Democratic leaders are wor-
ried over the deplorable condition Of
State finances. How to escape State
tax is the problem they are sitting
up at nights trying to solve Tho
change from a large free balance In
the State treasury under the recent
Republican administration to
threatened heavy deficit under the
present Democratic administration is
attracting Statewide attention. Yet
the Legislature is flooded with bills
from Democratic sources to increase
State expenditures, many OF them
creating new offices or increasing the
salaries of Democratic office-holdera."
score Democrats for Sunday Bills.
A fling is also taken at the i'm
pending legislation TO legaliZe Sunday
baseball and other amusements, but
the circular brings out prominently
that it is the Democratic interests
which are behind the move to make
Sunday liquor selling legal.
THE churches are protesting, but
unless there Is such an uprising 10
a viii
messed when a Democratic Leeisls-
ture passed the race track bills they
may soon find the continental Sun
day officially recognized in this
State the circular warns.
New Jersey is one of the great
manufacturing States of the Union,
it continues. Whether or not its in
terests have suffered from the enact
ment of Democratic low tariff law u
a question in which the people are
deeply concerned. The Republicans
claim that injury has resulted from
the operation of the Underwood tariff,
that manufacturing has fallen off and
the number of the unemployed has
largely increased. They are confident
that an impartial investigation will
sustain this contention. They have
invoked the test in the shape of
resolution, offered in the House by
Mr.. Godfrey, OF Atlantic iproVld1nR
for a bipartisan legislative COM
mission to make an investigation,
take testimony and report on business
conditions in the State. 1t is test
which the Democrats hardly dare re-
fuse
Beel8man, TOO, is Criticised.
Azariah Nj. Beekman, speaker of the
House, also comes in for a share OF
the criticism The circular points out
that he denies the Republican assem-
blymen the freedom of debate and
that his arbitrary rulings have in
fringed upon the rights of free speech,
In this connection the circular
concludes, the Republican members
say that failure to assert their indi-
vidual rights and their collective
rights as minority would be be-
trayal of the interests OF the many
thousands of voters by whose choice
they have seats in the House. They
point to the fact that the majority
party in the Legislature does not rep
resent the majority of the voters OF
New Jersey which is all the more rea-
son for vigilance ON their part and for
a sturdy resistance toattempted denial
or suppression of any of their rights