The Penn's Grove record., 1917-10-05
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 5. 1917
STAND BY THE president
Moral Support Needed In His
Fight For World Democracy

LIE HOiilltiCN0 " VIZ
met in their State convention in Tren-
ton last Tuesday and formulated their
platforms. The Republican conven-
ton was presided over by Governor
Walter E. Edge, who made a speech
reviewing their past performance and
how it had kept its promises.
Senator Edwin Florance, of Middle
sex county, was made chairman of the
Democratic convention after State
chairman Edward E. Grosscup called
it to order.
Both conventions left the question
of local option to the candidates who
would be free to act according to
their belief and promises to the
people.
In regards to the present political
conditions the Democrats resolved as
follows:
STAND BY PRESIDENT WILSON
We unreservedly commend the war
aims of that great Democrat, Woodrow
Wilson, who as President of the United
States has pursued a course destined
to uphold the best traditions and the
~soundest bulwarks of our democracy
and of our independence as a nation
among the nations of the world. Not
only has the nation served notice upon
the world that our democracy and our
complete independence must remain
fnviolate, but the matchless statesman
ship of our President has held up this
democracy as an insurance for the rest
of the world against future slaughter
at the behest of autocratic rulers.
In commencing without reserve the
entrance of thisc country into the world
war we are not unmlndful that one
year ago this convention urged the re-
election of President Wilson on the
ground that he had maintained peace
under terrible difficulties" Never
were words more fifty applied than
those. and just as truly would they
have applied today as a year ago had
not the autocratic menance actually
created a state of war by a c~urtail-
ment of the benefits and privileges of
democracy and independence which
none but a defenseless nation could
have accepted. That this nation is
virile, even in greater measure than
ever before, has been proven by the
manner in which the nation has arisen
from its pursuits of peace to the prose-
cutIon of relentless war.
In this prosecution of relentless war,
and in the achievement of the high
minded war aims of our President, the
Democratic party in New Jersey
pledges its fullest measure of moral
support at a time when moral support
was never more worth while, realizing
that those policies which have been so
clearly defined as between autocracy
and democracy must be Overwhelming
ly vitalized right here in the country
where democracy has received it's
greatest impetus for redeeming the
world from oppression and its ever
recurring slaughters.
The platform also condemns the
Edge good roads program. While
pledging aid for such highways, de-
mands the adjustment of useless COM
missions and boards: condemns the re-
peal of the Full Crew law, and advo-
Gates the election of members of the
State Public Utility Commission, and
favors financial aid for interstate
bridges or tunnels.
The President and administration
needs the moral support of the peo-
pie in the present perilous condition
of the nation at A vote for the
Democratic legislature candidates will
be counted On the side of that moral
support,
David A. English, the well-known
citizen OF PennS Grove, who was as
SCISSOR last year, a native of Manning
ton township received II votes as the
Democratic candidate for Senator has
accepted the nomination,
James Newell, one of the old Dem
ocratic val horses of Warrington who
resides in Salem, received 13 votes
for the Assembly and has accepted
the nomination.
These two men are old-time Demo-
Gratis with principles, able, straight
and clean, and worthy of the support
of all Democrats and all others who
believe the administration is right in
advancing, not only Democracy at
home, but fighting for it to prevail
all over the world.