Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-09-24
MAYOR GIVES
REASONS FOR
''DAL" BREAK
Also Repeats Charges of Coun-
ty Patronage, but Doesn't
Reply to Malta.
GATHERING OF ABOUT 100
HEARS MONTCLAlR TALK
Says When Running for Mayor
He Announced He Had
No Boss.

Setting forth the reasons for his
break" with County Counsel Alfred
N. Dalrymple and declaring that he
had announced in the presence of
Mr.. Dalrymple. while running for
mayor last year, that if elected he
would have no boss above him.
Mayor Thomas L. Raymond carried
his campaign against the alleged
reign of Dalrymple in the Republican
County Committee, and his opposi-
ton to the regular Republican as
semblymen, into Montclair last night
He spoke to an audience of about 100
in the Montolair Club, and repeated
much of his previous charges against
Mr.. Dalrymple, which included the
assertion that the latter mad a sys-
tenn of patronage running throughout
the county administration. He didn't
make any reply, though. to the
charge Of Freeholder Richard +.
Malta, asking him If the report was
true that he held the blank resigna-
lions of his various appointees in the
city government. The mayor was
also very careful to have his audi
ence believe that he was still a Re-
publican, with no idea of being a re-
former.
"A rebel against the rule OF Alfred
N. Dalrymple, as supreme head of
the Essex county Republican party,
hghting against political execution" !"
Is how the mayor styled himself.
Because Mayor Raymond would
f1tIN IN l1n
ark to the machine Of Alfred N. Dali
rymple," said the mayor, 'Mayor
Raymond was to be taught a lesson.
Also that if he wanted to get any
where, as mayor, IL he wanted to
stay In the Republican party, he
must bend the knee to Alfred N. Dal-
rymple, or he could not get a thing.
Last summer / entered the primary
campaign in Newark and l defeated
the 'boss.' l was nominated for mayor
and the organization then supported
me. All the people OF Newark desir-
ing q change in government there
came to the rescue, Democrats who
objected to Nugent, Independents and
Republicans, all supported me-
During the campaign, in the pres
ence of Mr.. Dalrymple, I said :. III
am elected mayor of Newark j
~,
there will be no boss above me-
Everybody had full notice of that
and / wal elected. My experience
with the boss from the time of my
election until January l, when / was
sworn in, was such that he and his
friends remained away from the in
augural ceremonies. ] broke with
him; ladies and gentlement, before
took office.
Says "Dals" Blocked Legislation.
II promised certain legislation for
Newark, and I wanted the help of the
Legislature. There we noted the sub
tie influence of the invisible govern
ment at work. Mr.. Fraser and went
down to Trenton with q bill to create
a purchasing department We knew
by experience that every large busi-
ness has a purchasing department; !;
that the supplies are bought through
one department in large quantities.
But that bill never came out of COM
mittee / charged Alfred N. Dali
rymple with having done his utmost
to prevent needed legislation for New
ark
Mayor Raymond continued to
sketch his idea of how Mr. Dalrymple
works the thing. There are two alb
solutely different and varying ideas of
bdIly OTBdDlNdllollt he ubtidIeu
am an old fashioned Republican, l am
no reformer no new idea man, no pro-
gressive; l am Republican.
II believe the party is necessary In
existing conditions for good govern
ment. / believe a party organization
consists first of all of the Republican
voters in the county. They elect a
board of directors-the county COM
mittee-the county committee meets
and elects a chairman, and there is
your organization. The county com
mittee must carry out what the mem
bers of the party have registered as
their will and wish.
"Mr. DaIrymple's idea of organiza-
ton means Mr.. Dalrymple and the
recipients of his patronage. Mr.. Dali
rymples idea of organization has
been carried out by his having con-
stituted nearly every employe in the
county, in the penitentiary, in the
county jail, In the county courthouse,
in the tuberculosis home, on the roads
and bridges, every employe in all
these places, part Of the Dalrymple
organization.
"When election comes this forms a
cancerous nucleus and unless you
wake up and claim your rights and
insist upon them he can carry the
election. When he carries your cleo
tion he gives you just what Boss
Nugent gives you-invisible govern
ment."
Wants Say on Freehoiders, Too.
Declaring that Dalrymple starts
early in the season to campaign for
his system, the mayor told his hear
ers that it is important to block him.
81 am deeply interested in who goes
to the Legislature this winter said
the mayor. Il am deeply interested
in who goes on the, Board OF Chosen
Freeholders, and l do not want to see
six slaves on that board increased
to nine, because that is the source of
his power. The patronage of the
Board of Freeholders is dispensed by
Mr.. Dalrymple, and the Board of
F'reeholders surrenders to Mr.. Dali
rymple it's rights in this respect. With
this patronage he carries the elections
against you unless you wake up in
time"
Mr.. Raymond accused the county
counsel of forcing ten Essex assem-
blymen to violate their pledges at the
last session and vote down Dill TO
divide the county into Assembly dis
tr-icts. He further accused him OF
swinging the support of a Republican
member of the Common Council over
to the Center Market project.
"Why Is it," asked the mayor, that
those ten assemblymen have been
chosen to run again for the Assembly,
Why is 1t that that one Republican
alderman has been nominated by Mr..
Darlyvnple In executive session to run
for Board of Works? Why was 1t
that he was picked out for this honor?
Were Mr.. Nugent and Mr.. Dalrymple