Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-11-01
Bugbee's County Chairman
Bolts Edge
Because of His Public Service and Grand Jury Activities

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Atlantic City, N. j., October %, 1916
"Mr. Newton K. Bugbee "Republean State Chairman
Trenton, N j.
"Dear Mr.. Bugbee:-
Il feel must register my protest against the repeated
by you of my Atlantic County Progressive
in favor of Edge for You right giving
out that for Hughes for President and for Frenghuy
for Senator but wrong wrong IN assuming
that am for Edge for Governor At meeting have
attended have protested against Progressive Endorsement
of Edges candidacy and have other county
Progressive leaders Progressive primarily because
believe in independence in politics AS Progressive
when party has direct Progressive Party candidate
Its own reserve the right to for the best any
Ticket the who most nearly meets my ideas of what
Progressive and should be- This belief alone if
nothing else, makes Mr. Edge simply impossible to and
to the hundreds of other prominent Pogressves county,
which also his county Mr. Edges legislative record bars
him in mind He is today standing franchise tax
on utility corporations and trying make the State think
he was always vigorous of such His past
record bellies him.
I'm 1910 he Majority Leader of the Assembly and
with all the power of that position behind him he opposed
vigorously and successfully such part of
the Sullivan act BY his sde while he this oppos
tion at times sat John Burlegh President of the
Public Service The records of that session speak truhuy
At the session he opposed the raereguang feature
OF the public utility law and in front of him. he did
so sat Public Service attorney At the session he
opposed rhe extension Of the direct primary nomna
on OF candidates for Congress At the same
session he opposed the Sullivan bill taxing railroad property
the same as your property mine in the district where it
was located and the you have pay These
are but few Do they indicate Progressive? What
honest he give his change of heart in these
instances do you honestly believe he has experienced
change OF heart? They show his inclination when he had the
power behind him. Give him same power todav and he
will exhibit the same inclnations. ,s-r-e-,~'
Il know him, Mr. Bugbee better than do Won. T baya
known him since boy and know his this city
and this town to have been against progressive decency and
progressive CIVIC virtue He is the actual
papers here which have stood strongly against every move
made for the political bettermnt of nv town Couned
with them has been greater hndrancethe grand jury sys
tenn formerly in Law violations Atlantic were made
possible by control of grand They drawn not to
mdc and they did not ndc except the powers desired
10 insure this the grand jurors drawn year after
year-nen who were of the safe and dependable sort
mr. Edge was one of those perennial grand jurors I
tnat MS ntness for Governor has been challenged by
his repeated selection such grand Juror mean exact1v
py tnat that ne has been drawn over in Atlantic
County for grand jury service time when the safe
ana dependable sort needed If was thus subser
v' 70 tne powers In such small way, how much
supserv1ent would he be in larger way if Governor
After Atlantic County had discarded Mr. EDGE as a
grand juror and had selected grand Jurors drawn bv isos
Nr dse through his newspapers condemned this dsnter
eed and honest grand jury condemned it's work and nt
every possible stumbling block in the way it's progress
never word OF aid from him. Never word of
nent or hep Merely condemnation 1t not do for him
10 say ne was called to Europe during this time His papers
WIN MS name at the masthead went without him. Even
aef indictments were returned for election and grating
frauds MIR Edge and his newspapers rdeued them az mar
zan After convictions had been he and his paner
were more vehement than ever when State Prison
fences were imposed ne apoogzed for crooks insisted
y were honest and being prosecuted and stood for
one Oh them Tor election to city office while under this han
fine type of Progressive that! They were the lowest
OF the low sort of ward politician vet Mr. EDGE
loVed them for their great worth them sacrificed as he
put IT, so perhaps he could this later day hev ddt
get me- no matter if they did get the fellows who made me
possible Later when the town upset by revelations
aoe oy detective William Burns nine out of seven
Teen councmen were netted Mr. Edge and his
uaieo IL was frameup that the not guilty and
ha they would be innocent When the Door fellows
confessed he characterized them as boobs and todav b
ahey ddn get me- have in mind also that the sheriff
OF hs county was set aside to an eso GRAND inr