Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-26
Record Is Pushing
His Fight In Bergen

0coI &c II. AsCCOIu, IuS lOCdl opCloii
and home rule candidate candidate
for the Republican nomination for
governor got a rousing greeting last
Friday night in Odd Fellows Hall in
Hackensack, where he addressed men
and women who had focked there
under the auspices of the Republican
Local Option League of Bergen coun-
ty. Assemblyman H. M. Bailey pre-
sided. The speakers besides Mr.. Rec
ord were John G. Degenhardt, of
River Edge; Roy M. Robinson, of
Englewood, and Philip L. Schuyler,
of Ridgewood, who aspire to Republi-
can Assembly nominations on the
home rule and local option platforms,
Fred w. Mattocks, og Closter, who
seeks the State Senate nomination
and former Assemblyman James De
Vine, of Mahwah, who is candidate
for the Shrievalty nomination.
The Republican Local Option
League, of Bergen, has thus far for
mally Endorsed only Hughes and
Fairbanks and George L. Record, the
understanding being that indorse-
ments for county nominations will be
made before long.
lulS COlIilllS OdIOIOdy LlSAC 1eCSolo
will speak in Elks Hall in Rutherford
at mass meeting arranged by the
Rutherford Republican Club.
In his speech in Hackensack last
Friday night Record said in part,
after declaring for the Gaunt local
option bill:
"The reforms l advocate l would
try to accomplish in conservative
manner in accordance with the ira
ditional principles of our great Re-
publican party.
II propose that we do it by sys-
tenn Of home rule: / propose that we
give to each community the follow
ing powers to be exercised only when
the people of locality, after cam
paign, shall be majority vote, at an
election so determine.
/. The right to prohibit or license
saloons.
2. The right to change the munich
pal charter.
8. The right. to exempt buildings
and improvements from taxation in
whole or in part.
a. The right to establish and
operate any public utility such as
trolley, gas, electric light, telephone
or water service.
"Whatever any Republican may
think of the wisdom of any commun-
ity pursuing any of these policies no
Republican who believes in the es-
sence of Republicanism, to wit, the
right of the people to rule, can object
to giving each community the right
to exercise these powers; leaving to
the good sense Of the people of the
community to determine whether or
not to exercise the powers thus con-
ferred.
'sThis policy is in it's true sense the
policy of a government for the people
and by the people advocated by Abra-
ham Lincoln.
"Our candidate for President, Chas.
E. Hughes as governor of New York,
made speech at the Republican Club
banquet in which he declared that
the Republican party had no claim to
the support of the people unless it
could show that it had a better plan
for carrying on the government and
rendering public service than the
Democratic party. He said no party
could live on it's past achievements,
but must meet the changing condi-
tions of the years with program
that promises more for the public
benefit than that advanced by any
other party.
81 believe thoroughly in that polit-
ical principle. We must see to it
that our party is dedicated in reality
to the public good and that it is
ready to work for the advancement of
the public good and the welfare of
mankind"