The Penn's Grove record., 1920-04-16

9th, there will be a contest in the Re
publican vote for delegates to the Ma
tional Convention to be held in Chi
cago, June 9Th, to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President. It
is usual to send the two q. S. Senators
representing the party in Congress.
They are Joseph S. Frelinghuysen and
Walter E. Edge who were elected by
unprecedented ~ilajorities. Within the
past year their prestige in the Repub-
lican party has fallen faster than any
representatives ever did in the history
of the STATE.
John w. Griggs, a former Senator
from Passaic county, was Governor
from 1868, when he resigned to be-
come Acknowledgement in President
William McKinley's cabinet.
Edward C. Stokes, Who was Senator
from Cumberland County, for six
years, was Governor in 19q-7. He
is the present chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee.
William N. Runyon, is now Senator
from Union County and by virtue of
being President of the Senate he be-
came Governor when Walter E. Edge
resigned to enter the U. S. Senate.
Thomas L. Raymond was formerly
Mayor of Newark.
These men have been the most
creditable representatives their party
ever had in the Legislature and as
Governors, and are deserving of the
support of the Republican vote in the
primaries April 9th.
FreIinghuysen's Pro-German Record
Senator Jos. S. Frelinghuysen at
first gave enthusiastic support to the
World War. January 23rd, 1918, be-
for the State Senate, in Trenton, he
said: eve have no time now to talk
partisan politics. 1t is now time for
every citizen to get into the fray and
back the government in this war into
which we were plunged while unpre-
pared. 1t is true there have been diff
ferences of opinion as to handling of
the war program. We were UMPIRE
pared because of a repugnance on the
part of the American people to any
thing savoring of militarism. For a
nation u~nprepared to be obliged to do
what we have done, it is only natural
that mistakes would be made"
But there. came a time when Senator
Frelinghuysen became a vituperatlve,
vindictive enemy of the Administra-
ton to finishing the war program. 1t
was when Congress voted to confiscate
all properties in the United States be-
longing to German alien enemies.
When the bill to destroy the German
commercial and economic penetration
of America and to strike a blow at the
enemy from which Germany would be
slow to recover reached a vote, of all
the 526 members of the American Con-
gress only one recorded his vote
against it, and that was Senator Jos.
S. Frelinghuysep, of New Jersey.
Congressional RECORD, 65th Congress,
Page 4311). /.
A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian OF
Alien Enemy Property, about $780,
600, 900 co~nfiscated, told a Congress
sional investigating Committee, Aug
ust 3Oth, 1918: 'but Senator Freling-
huysen did not tell the committee he
was interested in four insurance COM
panies whose relations with German
companies would be. adroitly affected
lby the legislation. The only Amer
lean insurance company that stood IN
the way of the final liquidation of Ger
man insurance companies in the
United States was the Stuyvesant In
~surance Company of which Senator
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-
sey, is President" !,
Senator Frelinghuysen has ranted
and raved in the Senate against Presi,
ldont Wilson since then. If he had