Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-03
RUNYON HURLS
IF 1rrs
BOOZE Def
Challenges Silzer to Tell Law
full means to Restore Beer
and Wines


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HAcKENsACK, Nov. S-William
N Runvon told the Union League
cluh tonight that Judge Sll1er
would write himself down as a taNHr
who wo lid deliberately ana Know
;nrlv deceive the people, IL ne does
not responG to the question as 70
what lawful means the governor
could employ to restore beer anu
vines end If he did not treat the
nublic utility issue with greater
sincerity. The Republican guberna-
toriaI candidate said that Jersey
Citv. a few years ago. Lde n
Guidance OF John Milton and May
or Hague, repealed the
agreement with the Traction COM
many. In view of this, Mr.. hunyoh
asserted that Judge Silzer's poiltlcdi
mentors evidently did not regard
highly the franchises that Sllzer
would put into operation as a
means of correcting the utility SIT
uation, With these re-
peaIed IN Jersey City, Mr.. Runyon
inquired what rate of fare Jersey
City trolley riders would be aclled
upon to pay. Mr.. Runyon claimed
IuILaGI that MI otA61l 0o h0'S -
must know that in the Ceilings
wood water case the franchises had
last their efficacy.
Mr. Runyon renewed his stand
for squeezing water out of the
utility companies, and he contrast
ed his own record in the legislature,
where he had no vote of which he
was ashamed, with the action of
Mr.. Silzer N voting to continue Sem
ator ~Fftzherbert in his sea-, despite
the latter's conviction in a bribery
case. He insisted hat it vas UP to
Mr.. Silzer to take a definite stand
on these various issues If he was
to make good his pose of never in
dulging in sham battles. Mr.. Run
yon scorned Judge SilZer's Plea that
he was, through his years on the
bench, in ignorance of the true con-
dition Of State Highway Commits
sion. wen in his own couny of Mid
dlesex.
Mr.. Runyon said:
My attention has been called TO
a statement in the public press,
whereby Mr.. Silzer, my opponent,
would make 1t appear that I have
refrained from answering certain
questions he has put to me. 1 say
most emphatically that 1 stand by
every vote on every measure which
I have cast during my eight years
experience as a member of the New
Jersey legislature. If Mr.. Silzer were
try to make me appear responsi-
BILE in the public eye for the fail
ure of this or that measure to be
passed, then I will say that Mr..
Silver viii not deceive the public,
which appreciates that there are
twenty-one members in the senate,
and that one mar does not constI
stftute a majority. 1t is interesting
to note that no criticism of my leg
islative course has been forthcoming
from my colleagues in the senate,
either Republican or Democratic. If
Mr.. Silzer can make any real ex-
PLANTATION of his vote to keep in Of
flee Senator Fftzherbert, of Morris
county, a man whom he, himself,
admits to have been mentally in
competent and who vas dominated
by his alleged accomplice, then he
will be in a better position to criti-
CHE me and to say that I am not
competent to fill the Office to which
I have been nominated by the Re-
publican party.
"Mr. Silzer asserts that he has
been fighting real political
battles, and would indicate that /
am a sham fighter. To show the
and the sham of his pre-
.entions, L raise W questions, both
to the issues of the cam
He stands for giving the peo-
pie light wines and beers by what
ae calls recognized and lawful
methods. Will he state, c~oherently
Or otherwise, the method by which
plans to do this? When ques-
toned on the highway situation,
Judge SilZer says that he has been
on the bench for many years and is
not in touch with the details Of the
although most of it arose
in his WI county. But while or the
bench he had undoubtedly time TO
study the law, and perhaps he will
tell us at this late date in the CAM
paign what the lawful and recog-
nized methods are by which he
seeks to bring light wines and beers
to the people. Is it the same meth
cd which Governor Edwards en-
ployed, which has brought nothing {?
Unless he can come forward. and
show wherein he will be more pow
SiLui IMAM 6oNeflOr GuWdruS III lLIS
respect, he must be willing TO write
himself down a fakir-one who
would deliberately and knowingly
deceive the people of the state.
Moreover, he announces himself
as pledging the people a five cent
trolley fare by restoring the NUM-
cipa1 franchises with the trolley
companies. Nobody knows better
than the Judge, who undoubtedly
has read the Jllingswood case in
the court Of errors and appeals,
that these franchises were not con-
tracts, and that eve a constitutional
amendment would not restore them.