Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-13
FREL|NGHUYsEN
WOULD DEBATE
Challenges Edwards to Dis
cussion on important Cam
paign Questions

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 13-Three
years of ~barrenness in the executil e
Offices constitute the platform upon
which Governor Edwards now seeks
election as United States senator,
charged Senator Frelinghuysen
speaking at the Bergen Lyceum last
night. William N. Runyon, candi-
date for governor, spoke at the
same meeting.
After three years of barrenness
in the eecutive offices" Mr.. Freling-
huysen said. the Republican party
has come forward with relief for the
state in the person of L candidate
of character and of independence
for governor.
II have been trying to get on
some basis where we could debate
the issues before the people, but 1
have not been able to ouse the gov
ernor into telling where he stands
on the League of Nations, the bonus.
the merchant marine or anything
else except personal liberty and
that Is a promise he knows he can
not fulfill.
II am happy with his attack on
the tariff" The senator then dis
cussed the tariff at length being
frequently interrupted by applause.
He showed a piece of paper to the
audience, which he explained was
loo, 900 Russian rubles that would
buy 217 hours of labor in Russia.
Its equivalent is ten cents" he in
formed the gathering, as an illus
tration of what cheap foreign labor
mean to American industry.
They won't NEEDLE much with US
on the tariff" he commented with a
smile. Governor Edwards knows
he connct restore beer and wine
without being a nullificationist and
untrue to rs oath IF Office. The
only way 1t can be done is by in
ducing enough states 20 change
their present attitude so that the
eighteenth amendment can be
changed and l do not believe h
governor claims to have sufficient
persuasive powers to accomplish
that. If the governor is agains:
the saloons as he says, why are all
the saloonkeepers in New Jersey
supporting Edwards You
heard of a beer and wine bootlegger
This whole thing is the thin edge OF
the wedge to return to the old con-
ditions to bring back the brewers
aid distiIlers with their intolerance
and the intolerableness of the con-
ditions they created.
The issues in this campaign are
the issues Of honesty and sincerity
He told of the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars New Jersey had lost
In Federall aid money for its roads
through its State Highway Commits
sion's secret policies. The senator
addressed a Columbus Day meeting
later In Bayonne.
1,eyiying and making all-power-
fun the old five-cent rate franchise
between municipalities and trac-
tion companies would open the way
toward establishing each municipal
ity as a fare m
Such was the point raised by tor-
mer Senator Runyon In an attack
upon the sincerity of the n
cratic platforms utility plank.
The Republican Platforms declar-
alton for %subjecting the Public Ser
vice Corporation to the same in
duiry and regulation as are the op-
companies, was seen By MI.
Runyon as the whole head and
heart" of the utility issue.
"All the public asks" the speak
err claimed, "is to be convinced of
the good faith of the utility COM
panies." Letting the light shine in
upon the holding companies, and
that nothing OF specu-
lative value shall be included m
valuations, would tend
removing the present at
of doubt and suspicion
would lead toward lower rates
for all utilities, he claimed.
year upon year of uncertainty,
would result from any attempt 20
by constitutional amendment
the Democratic platform
seeks" he said. What about a
fare permitted in each mu-
nicipality under the old franchises,
which are dead but which the Dem
oorats say they would try to revive.
How about a five cent fare beng
charged In each municipality
through which a traction line ex-
You would come then into
a succession of FIVE cent fares IN
districts in which only one fare is
charged now. So a five cent fare
to replace the present scale is out
% the question through this me-
dunn"
Mr.. Runyon declared he believed
the people wanted to hear issues
discussed, and after pledging his
lasting interest in the Republican
rlarks, he took up many of the lat
ter. we believe" he said, the
state Is in the grip of the paving
trust. Do you know a road has just
been constructed in the home coun-
ty of the Democratic gubernatorial
at a cost of $4,000 a
Do you know that in the
same county 100000 was paid for
approaches appraised at 500