Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-09-09
Gaunt Bill Not
The Only Issue
Says Mr.. Mattocks

Former Freebooter Fred w. Mat
tocks, of Closter, has sent to John H.
Ward, of Ridgewood, president of the
Non-partisan Bergen County Local
Option League very interesting let
ter saying:
81 have given very careful consider
alton to your open letter to Cornelius
Doremus, of Ridgwood, Fred w. Mat
tocks, of Closter, and Randolph
Perkins, of Woodcliff Lake, urging
that some of US retire from the race
for the Republican State Senate nom
ination so that all the local option adj
vocates in the Republican primaries
on September 26 might center their
votes on one candidate and make sure
of the defeat of William B. Mackay
who is avowedly against the Gaunt
local option bill to which the other
Republican State Senate aspirants
are publicly pledged
eff the Gaunt local option bill were
the only issues at stake in this cam
paign your suggestion made in all
sincerity might prompt me to retire.
1t is only because no other candidate
for the Republican State Senate NOM
ination stands for the principles that
l espouse and that the Republican
voters Endorsed at last September's
primaries that find it necessary now
to make the fight l feel confident of
victory on September l6 and at the
general election in November
81 seek to represent in this cam
paign the 12,204 voters who last fall
elected Republican .Assemblymen in
Bergen county pledged not only to
the Gaunt local option bill but also
to the following home rule ideas
based
l. Giving to the voters of NUM-
cipality the power to exempt in whole
or in part from taxation, buildings,
machinery, merchandise, household
furniture, farm implements and
animals and farm improvements.
2. Giving to municipalities the
power to operate and own their own
gas, water, electric light or trolley
plants.
These issues were very clearly and
successfully championed at the polls
by the Republican legislative candi-
dates who in Bergen county were
elected last November by 12,2O4
voters.
"The Republican party of Bergen
county having put the stamp of APP
prevail on these principles it would
be base treachery on our part to leave
these principles without an exponent
in the important battle now be-
fore us.
81 stand for keeping the standard
where we planted it last fall. | am
against taking the back track. | OPP
pose retreat.
81 stand for the Geran act and for
for the maintenance of the open pri-
mary system, and Is denounes last
winters attempt by the machine poll
ticians to mutilate that law so as to
restore control to the bosses. What
other State Senate aspirant has taken
this stand? | favor increasing the
franchise tax on water, gas, tele-
phone and electric light companies
from to per cent, thus increasing
the revenues of the State one mil
lion dollars What other State Senate
aspirant has taken this stand?
81 am against any attempt to wipe
out the jitneys in Bergen county and
l favor the regulation of jitneys by
municipalities and not by the legis-
lature. l oppose the control of the
legislature by the Public Service Cor
poration and the brewers as set forth
by George L. Record, the only can
didate for the Governorship who is
pledged to the Gaunt bill. What other
State Senate aspirant has taken this
stand?
May l in absolute good faith sug
gest in closing that you use the in
fluence of your high position toward
uniting behind my candidacy all Re-
publicans who like you are earnestly
DESTROYS of ending the control of the
legislature by the organized liquor
interests and the Public Service Cor
poration."