Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-09-08
INVASION FAILS
To HURT COLGATE
Statement Issued From His
Headquarters.
EDGE CLAIMS RIDICULOUS.

clare Their Appeal For Him as
Strongest Candidate Is Having Wide
and Powerful Effect.
Newark, Aug. 31.-A statement put
out today from the campaign h%eadquar-
tiers of Colonel Austen Colgate, Re
publican candidate for governor, takes
issue with the claim of the Edge man.
ayers that their c~andidGNe made III
roads into the Colgate strength in Els
sex by his appearance before the icoun,I
ty committee there last Friday night
and declares that the argument that
the Republicans should nominate Col
gate because he is the candidate whq
is the surest to win has had a power
full influence on those who are anxious
to elect a Republican governor. 1t Is
further declared hat 1.-THE frantic and
utterly Intellectual efforts of the oppo.
sition to combat this argument proves
that they fully realize the force and
effectiveness Of its appeal" The state
ment follows;
Notable Colgate Demonstration.
1.-THE meeting of the Essex County
Republican committee last Friday night
was the most notable Colgate demon
stration of the campaign, and every
attempt to make it otherwise is to
misrepresent Ihe spirit of the Essex
organization. Senator Colgate's rival
for the nomination was treated with
the utmost courtesy and received the
warm welcome which Essex always
accords to her stranger guests, but In
the crowd which thronged the hall or
stood outside, unable to obtain admit.
lance, there were only a scattering few
who did not wear Colgate buttons.
'"The membership of the county COM
mittee, advisory and elective, totals
nearly 1000, and out of this number a
mere handful is with the opposition,
which is headed by two or three men
with some petty grievance or other.
The extravagant claims they are send
ing out for the consumption of resi-
dents of other counties are too ridieu
lous to need contradiction. All that is
necessary to prove their fallacy is first
hand information as to actual condi-
tons here.
Essex and Hudson For Colgate.
Essex will roll up a tremendous
plurality for Colgate on primary day.
He will easily carry Hudson, where he
is more popular thar any other Repub-
lican, and the results In many of the
other counties will be distinct surprises.
THE Importance of the campaign of
1916 requires that the Republican par
ty should select its strongest candi-
date for governor. In behalf of party
success it has been insistently set forth
that this candidate is Colonel Colgate.
This argument in his favor has met
with a general response among voters
who are anxious to elect a Republican
governor and to aid in the election of
the national ticket by nominating the
strongest candidate for the governor
ship. The frantic and Intellectual eff
forts of the opposition to combat this
argument proves that they fully realize
the force and effectiveness of its appeal.
1.-THE mere fact that Colonel Colgate
lives in Essex and has his headquar-
tiers in Hudson is not the chief reason
for his great popularity in these two
most populous counties of the state,
although it is true that a man of good
character is best liked where he is
best known. His clean record in pub
lie life, his high standing as a bust
ness man, his faithful and construc-
tive work during his eight years as q
legislator and his independence and
fearlessness as a champion of the
rights of the people appeal to every
voter and give him especial strength
in the counties where the large indie
pendent vote Is to be found.
Against S~ectionalism Issue.
There has been no desire on the
part Of any friend of Colonel Colgate
to stir the issue of sectionalism. He
is no better and no worse because he
happens to come from north Jersey
The simple fact is that because of the
reasons stated and because he repre-
sents the states two great centers of
population he would have a distinct
advantage when 1t comes to the final
battle at the polls in November.
ut is becoming increasingly evident
that the Democrats don't want Colgate
nominated, because they want their
candidate to start out with a great
home plurality in Hudson county, the
stronghold of the Democracy, and they
know Colgate would cut down that
plurality by thousands of votes.
"The friends of Colonel Colgate de-
sire to make this argument perfectly
clear and to let it stand upon It's merits.
Naturally, they do not want 1t to be
garbled and misrepresented by the cry