Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-10-15
Edwards Answers Hays
on State Campaign Issues
tContinued from page u

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1.-THE men you elect to the assem-
bly, and the senate and the man you
choose for your mex governor will
deal directly with prohibition and
with your trolley fares and your
electric light and YOU power bills
and your gas bills.
NO man for whom you will cast
a vote on November 4 will have any
influence with or duties to perform
affecting the national issues now be-
fore congress or the peace commits
sion.
Not only is this not a campaign
of national or international concern,
but it is not even a partisan CAM
paign-eXcept in so far as there may
be a partisan responsibility on ac-
count of the Republican party's ira
ditional record as a dry party and
the Democrats traditional record as
a wet party.
I'm so far as L am concerned, this
is an election of J~erseymen and by
Jerseymen and for Jerseymen.
IF 1 am successful at the election
my every energy will be devoted sole
ly and exclusively to the interests of
Jerseymen, to freeing Jerseymen
from the hypocritical tyranny of
James X. Shields and Samuel L.. Will
son, and the financial tyranny of the
Public Service Corporation represent
ed by Wakelee, Baird and Edges Po-
litical Utility Commission, and l make
the liberty loving and toiling masses
the solemn pledge to drive the Pro
hibition lobbyists and the Public Ser
vice lobbyists out of the state house
at Trenton where they have become
a menace to the public interests.
IT shall resist with all of the legal
power / can command the Anti-Saloon
League program of letting Alabama
and Mississippi and Texas tell New
Jersey, New Yor and Pennsylvania
how our people may live, what they
may drink and what they may eat,
and what their customs and habits OF
life may be.
IF 1 am elected Governor, L will
use all the power and the influence
of that great office to make the per-
sons and the homes of New Jersey
citizens inviolate by professional fan
atics and hypocrites.
And l want to make the citizens
of New Jersey the solemn promise
that if 1 am elected Governor. James
K. Shields and Samuel l.. Wilson will
play no part in public politics. in the
enforcement of laws.
The great outstanding issue in this
election is whether the Public Service
Corporation shall continue to dom
mate.
1.-THE Public Service Corporation is
not content with q monopoly in the
most vital industrial and home neces-
stiles in New Jersey. but insists upon
writing all legislation affecting it's
subsidiaries, gas, electricity and troll
leys, n in debating appointments of
all officials who may have to do with
the enforcement of the laws against
this corporate monopoly.
II believe hat the citizens of New
Jersey are entitled to as good service
and as low a charge for gas and cleo
tricity and trolley transportation as
our south and New York to our
north.
Through the Public Service Cor
poration Hobbies in Trenton and its
partnership in politics through David
Baird and Stokes and Wakelee, New
Jersey is taxed from 80 to so per cent.
more for gas n electricity and troll
ley fares than are the citizens Of
Philadelphia and New York.
"If you want a continuation of the
domination of the government and
the industries of this state by the Pub
lie Service Corporation and Baird,
Wakelee, and Stokes n Shields and
Samuel L. Wilson and want to per-
petuate the Political Utility Commits
sion that bows to Boss Wakelee,-if
you want a 10 cent fiat trolley fare
or the zone scheme resurrected after
the election, cast your vote for their
man Friday. Mr.. Bugbee.
"If you want to be rid of Public
Service Corporation domination in
the Legislation Of this state; If you
want trolley fares as low as your
n%eighbors in New York and Phila-
delphia and if you want a gas rate
and an electric light and power rate
as low as your neighbors in New York
and Philadelphia pay, If you want to
utterly destroy the pernicious and
meddlesome activities of James K.
Shields n Samuel l.. Wilson make
me your next governor"