Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-10-24
CAREY SAYS OIL CASE GOT ACTION,
BUT CANNON IS STILL IN OFFICE.
DONNELLY AND GERAN GIVE POLICIES
Real Issue Confronting Voters
of Middlesex County, Judge
Carey Says at Metuchen
BIG EVENT OF DRIVE
In the Borough-What SiIzer
Said of Cannon, Raised
by the Speaker

METUCHEN, Oct. 24:-Nafionai
issues and county issue we're forcs=
bly, impressed on the minds OF the
local Republicans by former Judge
Robert e. Carey at an enthusiastic
meeting in the gymnasium OF the
Franklin school last night at the big
rally of the local campaign.
Governor Silzer, who was referred
to by Judge Carey as my friend
George" was bitterly assaiied for
using his legal talents at an address
in Tammany hall in which he spoke
OF the wicked" Roosevelt family
and then went directly to New
Brunswick where he told OF the
virtues of Barney last night"
No direct charges were made
against County Clerk Gannen and
his connection with the Perth AM
boy bridge scandal, but the infer
ences given throughout his remarks
were anything but 1plimentary
why. the last time I spoke al
Metuchen Barney was not home
The investigating COMMITTEES were
looking for him"
Now ne Is home again and I see
you have got 100000 to spend hers
in your improvement campaiFta
declared the speaker. Exhibiting
copy OF a newspaper bearing glaI
ing headlines, the Judge read:
Say Cannon got $4,000 to swins
road board"
why is that the type OF mar
you want for a county clerk he
declared. ST have no personal in
terest as to who Is county clerk IN
this county. hut 1 can't help seeing
q h1tv,
get my point of view?" he continued
''The Democrats talk of oil. bu
George (Silzer) ought to be here il
Metuchen telling people that Barney
Cannon ought never to be elected fc
public office again instead of speak
ing to Tammany followers in New
York.
"Yes. they talk of an attorney
general and the oil scandal. but he
is not attorney general there now
But Barney Is still there. Oh. l don't
want 10 talk Dolitics but you know
what I mean" said Judge Carey IN
concluding his remarks that there
was a real issue confronting the vot-
ers of Middlesex county at this time
The third party in the field of ma
tonal politics was pictured by the
speaker as menace which is grow
ing to such an extent that it viii
undermine the very foundations OF
the country. unless the thinking peo-
pie by their votes prevent such
catastrophe He predicted that with
In the next FIVE years the Democrats
party would be a thing of the past
and that the real contest would be
between the Republicans and this
thinking people of the country on
the one side and the reddest OF the
reds. seeking to demolish the gov
ernment. on the other hand.
He declared that the very consti-
tuition which Is the basis of La Fol-
iette and his followers attack, is the
instrument which provides free
speech with which they are attempt-
Ing to shore the supreme court OF
its powers-
Intense. clean economy and
sound business sense is what has
been given you during the last four
years by a Republican adminlstra@
tion.' said the Judge In COMPARING
the economic conditions OF the past
-FOUR years with the previous eight
OF Democratic rule
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