Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-28
GILLEN COUP IS
\ BIG PLAY" BY
PROGRESS|VES
Militant Democrat Is Suggest
ed" by Local Bull Moosers for
Board of Works.
ALSO HIGHLY PRAISED
FOR HIS INDEPENDENCE
Republicans, Anti-DaIs and No
Boss Leaguers Get Places
on the Ticket.

Declaring that they are working
only for the benefit of the whole
people and not for the upbuilding of a
political machine" the Progressive
County Committee last night indorsed
8 slate of Suggestions" for the pri-
maries, which includes the names of
Charles P. Gillen, Democrat, and of
several anti-Dal and No-Boss League
candidates. There was some scat
tered objection to placing full ticket
before the voters and some more to
giving places on the ticket to names
of men not members of the Progress
sve party. One of the suggestions
is John Contrel for register, which
the anti-Dals have declared they
will have nothing to do with.
Objections were quickly answered,
however, and the action of the COM
mittee was made unanimous The
committee complied with the request
of the State committee in placing a
full ticket in the field. Objections to
the non-partisan ticket were silenced
with the reminder that the party had
declared itself against the upbuilding
Of a political machine.
Former State Senator Everett Colby
struck the keynote of the meeting
when he said: There is no sugges-
ton that anybody in the room wants
TO go back to the Republican party"
The meeting was a large one and all
of the speakers saw a great future
for the party, including at least par
tial victory in the coming erection.
"If the Nugent forces are victorious
in the primaries, and the Raymond
faction Of the Republican party is
defeated" Mr. Colby continued, there
will be a flocking of independent
voters to the Progressive standard
such as has never been seen before. :
The nominating committee which
drew up the slate of suggestions"
comprised Howard s. Dodd, Edgar II.
Bostock and Edward j. Stevens. Mr..
Colby and Irving K. Taylor, chair
man of the committee, emphasized
strongly that the names on the slate
were only suggestions" and that the
slate was not officially indorsed by
the county committee.
The nominating committee, they de-
olared, was appointed to make SuS-
gestions only, and it's action did
not in any way preclude the fling
of further petitions by candidates for
the Progressive nominations The
machinery of the Progressive County
Committee, they said, could not be
used to further the candidacy of
anyone, as that would be contrary to
principles the party had outlined.
Nominations Merely Requested.
Accordingly, the members merely
requested that the persons named
on the slate file petitions to run In
the Progressive primaries. Mr.. Colby
objected on these grounds to a mo-
ton by Colonel James w. Howard
that "the committee take the neces-
sary steps to put in nomination at
the coming primaries the names pres
sented by the nominating committee
for all of the several offices for which
candidates are to be nominated, thus
putting in nomination a full county
ticket"
Colonel Howard, who is a Mayor
Raymond booster Immediately
consented to an amending of the reso-
luton, and the committee members
adopted one framed by Mr.. Colby:
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