Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-31
RECORD OPENS
NEW ATTACKS
Charges FreIinghuysen is
Making Silly Campaign =
Refuses to Defend Record

RlDGEWOOD, Aug. S1.-Geoige
l.. Record in making a new attack
upon Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuy-
Sci. against whom he is making a
hcl campaign for the Republican
nomination for United States SEN
ator, here last night, accused Free
linghuysen of conducting a silly"
campaign, of chasing about after
heelers in Hudson county and Of be-
ing afraid to face the issues of the
campaign. Record predicted his
W complete victory and said that
the inevitable effect of the Frelins-
nhuysen method has been the "v:r-
ual collapse" of the present sem
.ator's chance of nomination.
Record concluded his speech with
these remarks:
Il have concluded six weeks of
campaigning, and am more than sat
isf1ed with the result. Everywhere
! have forced the fight upon SEN
ator Frelinghuysen's record in the
senate, and his lack of any con-
structive policy for the future. To
my great astonishment he has re-
fused TO defend his record, and To-
body seems willing or able to de-
fend 1t for him. He made n
Feeble attempt to excuse his vote to
seat Newberry, on the ground that
he was compelled to choose between
Ford and Newberry, and that New
berry served in the war. The news
papers of the state Immediately ex-
posed this defense by showing that
the %unseating of Newberry left the
place vacant, and did o operate to
seat Ford, and that services in the
war as a swivel-chair patriot could
not be urged as a defense for v;o-
2lAting the statute and criminal law
BY buying a seat in the United
States senate. This experience seems
to have frightened MI. F~relinghuy-
sen, and he has attempted no fur
Their defense of his record.
II have asked him to explain why
he voted to put four hundred mil
lions of dollars annually in the poe
kets of the great trusts, coal, beef,
United States Steel, Standard Oil,
and others, by voting to repeal the
excess profits tax; why he voted to
reduce the income tax on the
Rockefeller class of m~illionaires
from 60 per cen of all incomes in
excess of one million dollars, down
to 81 per cent, a vote in which by
he-way, even most OF his standpat-
ker fellow members in the senate
We're ashamed to join; why he voted
against a motion to prevent tax
lodging by rich millionaires through
the medium of pretended gifts, why
he voted for the Esch-Cummins bill.
which authorized the fixing of rates
upon eight billions of watered stock,
and which carried an appropria-
ton of five hundred millions of dol
lars to the railroads, although the
railroads were then in debt to the
government three times that
amount: what he proposes to do
away with unemployment, to re-
duce the cost of living, to break up
80 coal and beef trust. and prevent
eAs ownership of natural resources
like cosl lands in the hands of a
few powerful financial groups?
"All these questions he refuses to
discuss. Once in awhile his man
ager or some supporter puts out
some silly or irrelevant publicity,
pointing out for example, how Mr..
Frelinghuysen ran across a plough
ed field to shake hands with a farm
err. and how well he can tell a good
story in a carnival party. or that
his wine cellar, which was supposed
to be we'll stocked for many years to
come. has run dry.
I'm the meantime Mr.. Freling-
huysen goes from county to county
AhCOlALe tAS HidSiiAio ASooCiS dio
keeping carefully away from the
public. He is said to have spent
two nights chasing up a ward leader
in Hudson county, who was formerly
in the liquor business, and who has
since prohibition been engaged in a
controversy with the government
authorities.
1.-THE inevitable effect Of such
methods has been the virtual col
@apse of the senator's campaign.
his is admitted privately by his
supporters, and last week was pub
licly deplored in a speech at Sum-
init by Assemblyman Arthur Pier
son one of the senator's strongest
supporters, who warned the sena-
tor that his campaign has become
confused, uncertain and chaotic, and
that the primary was lost unless a
radical change was made in the
method of conducting the campaign.
The chairman of the Republican
County Committee of Essex county
has been forced to admit that lie
has been trying to get another can
didate to run against Frelinghuysen.
on the ground that the rank and
file of the party voters will not vote
for him if he is nominated.
Il enter the final stage of tho
campaign with full confidence Of an
overwhelming victory at the pr;-