Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-03
EDWARDS HITS
c. O.P.T TARIFF
Calls it Bordering on Bolshe-
vism in Speech Before
Democratic Convention

Declaring the Tariff. Prostituting
Public Office and Prohibition. the
three great national issues in this
campaign. Governor Edward /. Ed
wards, Democratic candidate for
United States senator, today in
sceaking at the Democratic state
convention in session at Trenton, in
formed the delegates and the pub
lie a. large where he stands on these
tissues.
Governor Edwards denounced the
tariff as a high-binding extortion
which would make Captain Kidd
and his crew blush with shame as
reritable amateurs of pillage.
Governor Edwards address fol-
lows:
II have been the governor of this
great state. In spite of the venom
Gus. malicious and lying statements
OF irresponsible Republican party
politicians whose public records Of
betrayal and hypocrisy are known
to you all and whose shameless ma
chinations will be proved to the
complete satisfaction of every man,
woman and child in New Jersey be-
fore the close of the present cam
paign, I stand before you today un-
SCARED. unafraid and ready to do
battle again with the enemy in the
interest of the people who elected
me to the high executive Office OF
governor of the state and who have
NOW rendered me the nomination
for the United States senate. and TO
whom I have alone been and always
will be responsible as a conscien-
tious public servant.
Before touching on the impor-
tant national issues which confront
us in the present senatorial cam
paign. / wish to state generally what
TO my mind are the issues in prin-
ciple commanding our attention as
true red-blooded Americans and
clear-thinking New Jersey citizens.
II hereby reaffirm my answering
faith in the intelligence of the cleo
torate of this state. / know you are
with me. unfailing in devotion. un-
erring in judgment.
II have kept every pledge I made
vixen I ran for the go~vernorship and
whatever pledge l made in my cam
paign for senator will be carried out
to the letter.
THE Democratic party is the party
OF the people. We believe in the in
aIienabIe right of every free born
or ~naturalized American citizen TO
the lawful exercise Of personal hp-
erty.
II denounce the Republican party
as the DO Nothing party of in
sincerity and evasion. / denounce
the unspeakable, shameless hypoc-
risy of its leading candidates whose
every declaration of principle is con-
trariwise to their established record
0f legislative action.
Tariff
1.-THE tariff question is vital to pub
lie interest. 1t affects the pocket of
every citizen in the land. An addi-
tional tax of three to four billions of
dollars which the Republican admin
istration is impossible on a helpless
public is the sum and substance of
the so-called protective tariff. 1t is
high-binding extortion which would
make Captain Kidd and his crew
blush with shame as veritable anna
tours of pillage. 1t will foster Boil
shevism in this country. enhance the
present uncertainty in business and
viii extort the hard savings of the
poor people to the enrichment of the
powerful corporations and in the in
terest of special privilege.
II denounce this tariff as the dis
honest concept of corporation-con-
tlclled Republican politicians more
vicious than the 1908 tariff which
swept the Republican party into
what our Incompatible Grover
Cleveland has so aptly termed IN
Locuous desuetude."
THE present inimical tariff sched-
ules subserve no other purpose than
to build a wall around American in
tsustry. 1t will either entirely shut
of our export trade and overstock
our warehouses, or else it will result
in 9 lowering of prices in our foreign
markets of American goods, manu-
Featured by American labor and sold
to us at very much higher prices.
The American housewife will be
penaIized that the European or for
eigr buyer may be satisfied.
When I am elected United "tates
senator T shall expose this betrayal
OF public trust on the part of the
present Republican majority in con-
gress and exercise my entire infiu-
ence and invoke every agency at my
command to the end that the present.
dishonest Republican tariff law shall
be repealed and that a scientific re-
vision thereof be substituted which
will not disregard public interest but
will rehabilitate our industrial life
and bring back business prosperity to
US all.
Prosfituting Public Office
"Neyer before in the history of
politics has there been a holder at
tempt t O prostitute high federal
office than was evidenced by the
seating of United States Senator
Newberry of Michigan in the face
OF proved corruption. Here is a
man who expended the s~tupendous
sum of a quarter of a million dol
lars to buy a seat in the senate. and
got away with 1t. And his good
friend, my honorable opponent.
helped him to do it. What pater-
nalistio devotion to the altar of
wealth. Are you good American
citizens going to stand for such de-
basing practices? Are you willing
to be placed In the position of also
condoning such political debauch-
cry?
II pledge you, my good friends,
that / will never cause you to suffer
the terrible humiliation, gratuitous-