Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-12
S|LzER
AND EDWARDS
Democratic Candidates Re-
new Attacks in Speeches
in Passaic County

PASSAIC, Oct. 12:-Speaking in
Passaic county last night on the is
sues of the campaigni Judge George
8. Silzer, Democratic candidate for
governor, said in part as follows:
There is a fundamental line Of
publican and the Democratic par
ties. The whole tendency of the
Republican party is to increase the
cost of living, to increase taxes and
to increase the difficulties that stand
between the people and good wages
and good profits. On the other
hand, beginning with its emphatic
declaration against the proposal t
issue forty million dollars worth of
road bonds in this state, the aim of
h Democratic party is to conserve
u resources, to develop them pro-
ductively, to keep down taxes, to do
everything that possibly can be done
to make living conditions more
Dearable, employment more readily
obtained and to facilitate and en-
courage all business enterprises.
THE way to get a thing done is
to go. right out and do it. That is
what the Democratic party platform
aims to do with regard to the five
cent fare. We are going right back
to first principles, to the contracts
Or franchises by the terms of which
you gave your streets to the Public
Service companies in exchange for
service at a five cent rate. That is
what we are aiming to do and that
Is what, with your support, we will
What has been another imme-
date result of the Republican poll
cies which our opponents are now
defending and threatening to con-
tinue? Enter any retail store today
n you will meet this statement,
Better buy it now. prices are going
up
In looking over trade publications !
and the daily newspapers this week
we INC these facts stated badly as
they should be in such a publication,
Prices of carpets and rugs for
spring disclose a decided tendency
on all grades" One daily says they
are up 10 per cent.
In woolens additional advances
have been made"
In cotton goods, "the tendency to |
mark up quotations is decided"
In the tire fabric market, 'prices
have stiffened somewhat"
Mills are advancing quotations on
hosiery"
In brief as anyone can learn who
wishes, there is a strong upward
tendency in the prices of everything |
except wages and salaries. They are
always the last thing to go up.
My opponent was, for a short
time, acting governor of New Jer-
sey. In this capacity he wrote a mes
sage to himself, a message addressed
to the state legislature, in the senate
of which, my opponent took his seat
six days later. Governor Runyon
mad recommendations but Senator
JRunyon apparently knew that those
recommendations were only the US
ual things that the Republican party
throws GU for campaign purposes.
State Senator Runyon did absolutely
nothing to carry out the recommen-
dations which he had made as act
ing governor. When a man pays no
attention to his own recommends |
lions and promises, how can he ex-
pect the people to take them seri-
ously.
You all know how I stand with
regard to the Volstead law. 1t is
a violation of the constitution and
even of the eighteenth amendment.
There is nothing in the eighteenth
amendment to the constitution that
prohibits light wines and beer and
the question of alcoholic content is
not even mentioned.
BY recognized and lawful methods,
we a give our people the right to
indulge in beer and light wines.
What I would aim to do is to in
terpret the law in the most liberal
spirit. To put on the statute books
a law that will have the support of
public opinion so hat the present
d%eplorable conditions, that are max
ing us a nation of hard and bad
liquor drinkers, and turning even
our children into law-breakers, shall
be changed, and the education of our
people toward ordered temperance
shall be once more resumed.
Governor Edwards, Democratic
candidate for United States senator,
speaking at the same meeting said
in part:
1--WE are a liberty-loving people.
No nation on earth compares with
us in courage, self-control and pa
triotism. We need no fanatical re-
formers or namby-pamby guardians
to watch out for us.
1.-The big question not only in this
campaign but nationally is prohibit
ton versus personal liberty.
'In this state the first real test is
to be made. Are you going to per-
NIT yourselves to be deprived of
your constitutional rights or not?
Are you going to let the political
hypocrites, the P~uritanical takers
and their paid jackanapes tell you
how to live. what to eat and drink,
not to smoke and in all probability
ia n, d0mn your fhrOatS an ipcraaS s.