Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-05
TOMORROW WILL DECIDE
ISSUES IN 20 CAMPAIGN
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system was used in keeping the
books, nothing startling was dis
| closed from this probe.
While Chairman Hayes and the
freebooter candidates were lombard
ing the freebooter candidates on the
| Republican ticket, Governor Silzer
and the Democratic assemblymen
| candidates were aiming their guns
at the c.. o. p. a%spirants for the
lower house of the legislature. The
voters were told by the Democratic
speakers of the insult to woman
| hood resulting from the Republic
cans passing the divorce bill over
the governors veto, but the Demo-
cratic candidates and spell-binders
failed to tell the voters that both AS
| semblymen Hoffman and Hanson,
the Republicans seeking reelection,
| upheld the governor in his veto. On
the other hand, Senator Alex Stmp-
| son, of Hudson, the governors own
floor leader, voted to pass the di-
vorce bill over the governors veto.
/ The Republicans point out that IL
, this is an example of the kind of
support the governor can expect
from Democratic legislators he might
better have conscientious Republi-
cans who will vote according to their
own beliefs of what will best serve
and satisfy the majority of residents.
Senator Pierson and Assemblyman
Pascoe. of Union, both issued state
ments to the press today defending
the records made by Assemblymen
Hanson and Hoffman this year in the
legislature. Senator Pierson charges
the governors attack on the two
Middlesex men as being unfair ana
partisan." The Union county sena-
for points out that both HOFFMAN
and Hanson supported the COVER
nor's veto of the ten road grade bills
whereas Senator Simpson, the Demo-
cratic floor leader, failed to vote
with the governor on a number OIL
these bills. In closing his statement,
Senator Pierson says h governor
cannot expect a man to ndorse MIN
and his policy when he refuses 10
publicly state what his policies are
1.-THE Republican party never ASKS
its representatives to follow men but
to pledge support to principles ana
| nolicies." the statement concludes.
Assemblyman Pascoe declared in a
statement that Governor Silzer IS
making a Every bitter and unwar-
r.nted attack of Misrepresentation
on Assemblymen Hanson and Hof-
man. Both of these men, he said,
proved themselves decidedly indie
pendent, working theoretically to
| promote legislation of particular IN
| terest to MiddleseS county. Inc
| Union county assemblyman points
| out that the i~ntracoastal ship canal
| bill, lone of the most. progressive
| pieces of legislation ever enacted by
a New Jersey legislature" was spon-
| sored by Mr.. Hoffman.
"Both of these men, Mr.. Pascoe
| says, attended every session of the
legislature and voted on every meas
ure. without any quibbling, lodging
or si%destepping whatsoever as con-
| trasted with the record of Mr.. De-
Voc who was absent sixteen roll
| calls"
Assemblyman Hanson, speaking
| before the Metuchen Republican
| Club Saturday night, declared that
the attack made by Governor Silzer
| against the records of the two Mid
| dIesex county Republican assembly
men, who are seeking reelection,
was unwarranted and unjustited,
and was just a part of the smoke
screen being thrown out to befog
the issue in the mud Singing cam
| Dalgn OF the DenlOcrdlSs
The assemblyman said that at the
Democratic rally held in New Bruns-
| wick last Thursday night he and his
| colleague, Harold Hoffman, had been
| charged by the governor with bow
| ing to the invisible government that
held sway in Trenton early in the
year" though at the rally in Perth
| Amboy, where both of the Republic
| can assembly candidates are better
known, the charge was soft peddled.
Mr.. Hoffman and myself were not
| members of the ripper crowd at
| Trenton which opposed the three
man highway commission advocated
by the governor, and the so-ealled
bosses of the invisible government
were known to us by name only anu
| at no time were we asked, urged or
threatened to support or oppose any
| measure" declared Mr.. Hanson.
A denial was vigorously made by
| Mr.. Hanson that he had charged the
| governor with an "act of tngrati-
tude' in coming into the county ana
opposing the Republican assembly,
mans reelection, but he was Just as
positive in his statement that the at
lacks being made on his record were
not based on facts.
The names of Assemblyman De
Voc. Hanson and Hoffman of Mid
dlesex county appear upon the
'honor rolf issued by the Fedora
ton of German-American
Societies of New Jersey Tor their
opposition to the Blackwell easy
Divorce" bill enacted in h state
legislature this year.
A Democratic majority in the
House and a reduced Republican
senate majority looked hopeful to-
dav to FREDERICK NJ. p. Pearse,
private secretary to Governor Silzer
h discussed the situation in a
statement based upon his tour of the
state in the campaign for control OF
the legislature. The legislature dis
graced New Jersey with an easy d.
GORGE law" said Mr.. Pearse. 1T is
not true that this was made possible
by only Democratic votes in the sen
ate. The bill was passed over the
governors veto with the aid OF thir--
teen Republican votes and 1t ook
only eleven to do it."
Pearse reviewed the record or the
last House controlled, Q pointed
out by forty-four Republicans, as
against sixteen Democrats and the
senate made up of seventeen he
publicans and four Democrats. THE
Republican assemblymen said they
were not ruled by an invisible gov
ernment," continued the secretary.
"Hershfeld, a Republican. SAID
there was one and he ought to
know for he has been in the assem-
bly, longer than any other man" Inc
governor is for the interests OF the
people first last and all the time,