The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1919, Page 23

ZONE FARES MADE CHIEF ISSUE IN SOUTH JERSEY AS CANA Edwards Will Meet “Dry” Farmers’ Vote With That of Trolley Riders. SAYS BUGB Pledges Ousting of Utilities Commission if Elected— Bugbee Replies. “TIED! Democratic and Republican State leaders in New Jersey are devoting their energies in the closing days of the Gubernatorial campaign to a round up of the vote in the South Jersey counties. South Jersey comprises for the most Part the rural strongholds of the ‘drys." Newton A. K. Bugbee, Re- Publican candidate for Governor, has been spending the last few days of hig campaign addressing the farmers ih the southern part of the State, Wfting his hands in holy horror as he rehearses for the benefit of scan- dalized agriculturists the anti-Prohi- bition polloy of his Democratic ad- versary, State Senator Ddward I. Ed-| Stokes and Baird and Edge. wards. Sections of South Jersey have suf- fered much because of the zone fare|his pledge than he hag in saying it system installed on the cars of the Public Service Railway Company, with the ald of Mr, Bugbee's bosses, Republican State Chairman Edward C, Stokes, United States Senator Wal- ter Edge and “Davey” Baird of Cam- den, “The Republicans are doing what they can to relieve the people of that iniquitous system,” Mr, Bugbee told audiences in the vicinity of Catnden, whose fealty to the G. O. P. has been severely strained by virtue of the im- position of the zone fare system. When asked to be specific by Sena- tor Edwards and to tell his audience what he, personally, has done to rid the State of the zone system, Mr. Lugbee pointed to a plank in the Re- publican State platform “recommend- ing” that ‘no time be lost in the abandonment of the zone fare system and the re-establishment of a flat trolley fare.” PLANK IN PLATFORM, BUT NO RELIEF. “That plank was incorporated near- ly four weeks ago in the Republican platform,” Senator Edward replied, “to make it look as if neither Mr. Bugbee nor any of the Republican leaders. was responsible for the zone faro system, ‘ “Gov. Edge, United States Senator from New Jer- sey was financed by the Public vice Corporation of New Jersey, gav to the Public Service Corporatio through the Republican members o the Public Utility Commission, first a T-cent fare and later the zone sys- tem.” Senator Edwards then asked of Mr. Bugbee: “Can you tell the people of this State how you attempt t6 free them from the yoke of the Public Service Ggrporation which is financing your cMnpaign for Governor? | “You were Chairman of the Rupub- Mean State Committee and managed the campaign of Walter EB. appointments on tho Public Commission, performance with promise before you are elected, what reason have the peo- ple of the State to believe that you Uulity will bo able to de so after you are elected? “I challenge you to explain satistac- torily to the people why you have not performed your platform pledge and abrogated the zone far¢ system, in- augurated with the consent of the Stokes-Baird-Edge machine Here is Mr. Bughee's reply to that challenge; delivered to the tem sufferers of South J: “Whenever my De: has been able to spare a minutes from his favorite diversion of telling the people that if he is elected Governor he will make Ne’ the Atlantic Ocean, that time to an attempt to make the public believe that I am responsible for the zone fare system and am re- sponsible for its continuance. had no more to do with the zone sys- tem than he will have to do witb mak- ing New Jersey ‘wet.’ MUST WAIT TILL LEGISLATURE | MEETS, SAYS BUGBEE. “In a recent open letter Senator Edwards asked me to explain why I had not abolished the zone system in view of the fact that the Republican State platform declared for its abolition, “The Republican platform cannot be made subject to action by session of the Legislatur and whatever promises I 1 campaign cannot be the next nvenes, ke in this ned until after I am elected Governor and take “the oath of office. | "I (was under the impression that | avery voter, at least in New Jersey,| rhe first? dose eases your cold! ‘new that a party could not make its h _ eenes. vi pledges effective until after it was|Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing sworn into office, but inasmuch as my opponent appears to have been mis- yond on this point I am glad to| ours until three doses are taken correct him. “I did not appoint the members of | ends all grippe misery, whose campaign for 4 t Edge | the defeat of a bill introduced by the when he ran first for Governor, and | Democrats to provide a bonus of $100 you must have had some influence : with Gov. Edge with respect to his If you cannot square ‘as wet as he has devoted I have GN NEARS END ‘ppointed by Republican Goy. Walt | ter EB, Edge, one of Mr. Bugbee’s) bosses in this campaign. | “Mr. Bugbee says @orrectly that he} has no power over the Republican | Utility Commission. He has no | trol over the Utility Commission be- cause the Republican bosses in New) |Jersey, responsible for the members | of this commission, are controlled by} |the Public Service Corporation, “There we have it in a nutshell. | The Republican bosses appoint the; members of the-Utility Commission. The bosses are dominated by dhe} Public Service Corporation, which is | financing the Bugbee ‘campaign. Would Stokes or Baird or Edge dare to take issue with Mr, MoCarter? Certainly Mr. Bugbee*would not rush in where—shall we say—angels fear to tread? SAYS BUGBEE’S HANDS WOULD BE TIED. “Mr, Bugbeo is right when he says he has nothing to say about the Pub- lic Utility Commission. He did have once upon a time when he was Re- publican State Chairman and con- ducted the campaigns of Walter E. Edge for Governor and United States Senator. But now he is only the Re- publican candidate for Governor by the grace of Stokes and Baird and Edge. And if he were electod Gov- ernor he knows he would have just as much to say then as he has now about the Public Utility Commissjon and the zone fare system or any other system foisted on the people by “If you elect him Governor he will have no more qualms in telling you, after election, that he cannot keep before he is elected, “This campaign interests every man and woman in New Jersey. It is a fight between the street car corpora- tion and the people who ride in the corporation's cars. The people of New Jersey object, and rightly so, to being either governed or robbed by street car corporations. “I am pledged, if elected Governor, to oust the members of that commis- sion. “Mr, Bugbee says he is not respon- sible for the zone fare system. The Republican Public Utility Commis. gion ordered the system put into ef- fect. Therefore the controlled com- mission is clearly to blame. What says Mr. Bugbee about ousting the mambers of that commission, whose function js to_stand between the peo- ple and conporate greed? Has Mr. Bugbee once in this campaign said he would oust the commission if he were elected? | “Does the public, through the Utility Commission, which should rep. resent them; have @n opportunity to say a word in regulating the charge for public utilities? Well, hardly. “If I am elected I will oust the present Utility Commission and sub- jstitute an elective commission re- sponsible to the people and not to any corporation.” While Senator Edwards and Mr. Bugbee ha been locking horns in South Jersey, the Prohibition candi- date, Charles E. Lane of Camden, has been battling on alone, serene in the hope he will poll probably the largest vote ever accorded a candi- ate of his party in the State of New Je will receive the largest vote ever for a Prohibition candidate In st vote polled by a Pro- y Gubernatorial candi- late is the vote cast for the tate Gen, Clinton Fisk of Monmouth in 1886, He received 19,808 votes, The vote was such a shock to the old par- ties that the Republican Legislature in 1888 lost no time in passing a local | option bill, the first of its kind ever le New Jersey.” ech in Bridgeton last night accused Senator Edwards “duplicity and dishonesty” in charging that Mr. Bugbee assisted In for all New Jersey service men. Senator Edwards charges the Re- publicans with defeating the bill and in its place passing a measure be- stowing a 19-cent medal on each of the New Jersey soldiers, ———— Davis Sworn as Sheriff. Joseph FE, Davis was sworn in yes- terday as Sheriff of Nassau County by Cheshire, County Clerk, r filing a $15,000 bond, which A. ‘arr of Brooklyn furnished. He not assume his duties until’ Nov. jassau County Association, has ten days to vacate, following the oath of office of his successor, Eases Colds At once! Relief with “Pape’s Cold Compound"’ dose of “Pape's and snuffling! A | Compound” taken every two Cold usually breaks up a severe cold and the Utility Commission, I had and| Relief awaits you! Open your have no more power over them than |clogged-up nostrils and the air pas- | my opponent. I am no more respon-| sages of your head; stop nose run- sible for their actions than he is, He | ning; relieve the headache, dullness, knows this and always has known it." | feverishness, sneezing, soreness * and To which, Senator Edwards, one! stiffiess, ? jump ahead of bia Republican rival “Pape's Cold Compound” is the| poy ek |quickest, surest relief known and “Mr. Bugbee says he has no more| Costs only a few cents at drug stores, power over the Public Utility Com-|Jt acts without assistance, Tastes cpission than I have, I have no power | nice, Contains no quinine, Insist on Deer them. They are Republicans, | Pape's!—Advt, * ) Your Hair Needs Danderine Save your hair and double its beauty. You can have lots.of long, thick, strong, lustrous hair. thin, scraggly or fading. Bring back its color, vigor and vitality. 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It | is admitted to be an open question, how- closed that the famous diamond known | over, whether thig, atone was private or as the “Grand Duke of Tuscany" and | sts Don't let it stay lifeless, Hurry, Girts? H uRSDAY, OCTOBER 380, 1919. RS The Brewers to the Public , The members of the Brewers Board of Trade have been advised by counsel that the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill, known as the National Prohibition Act, is unconstitutional, in so far as it provides for the continuance of War Prohibition. They know, as most’ American citizens know, that it is discriminatory and unjust. Wevertheless, the brewers will observe its terms until the courts shall pass upon it. A suit will be brought to test the constitutionality of these provisions, and every effort will be made to have a prompt hearing. The original war prohibition measure was enacted ten days after the war had ended as declared by President Wilson himself. The present act imposes its unexampled and op- pressive provisions upon the American people almost a full year after the last shot was fired in the great conflict, and when the millions of men who were summoned to sustain our cause upon the. high seas and upon the battlefield have re- turned to the pursuits of peace. Yet in its immediate effect and application it is founded upon a pretense of actual and existing war necessity. The annals of legislation disclose few instances of more shameful abuse of legislative power. To describe how frequently and how flagrantly this measure/ 7 violates long-established American principle and lohpocherisle sn It is sper. American tradition would require much space. sufficient to indicate the ease with which persons accused under ' , its provisions can be deprived of their right of trial by jury. i v How summary proceedings before and ‘punishment by judges | ; can be substituted for the customary processes of law. f f How indirect or passive infringements of the statute can be | Bs “ penalized. How the property of one who is unable to prove his ignorance of the illegal use of his holdings by another can be taken away and sold. : How the guilt of a person having possession of liquor of any kind is presumed, instead of his innocence. And how the po burden of proof is upon him rather than upon his accuser. 3 f How the person living in one sort of an establishment can escape aaa : search and seizure while his neighbor, living in another sort mt # of dwelling, is subject to invasion. i ? How an army of Federal agents at a cost of millions of dollars i is created for enforcement purposes. i How onerous regulations govern the prescribing of liquor by a physicians, and how the quantities that may be prescribed | are arbitrarily ‘limited. The law describes as intoxicating liquor any beverage contain- f ing as much as half of one per cent. of alcohol by volume., This “ / is contrary to the fact, for drinks containing seven times that amount of alcohol are known to be non-intoxicating. a The Eighteenth Amendment contains a clause deferring its operation until a year after the date of its ratification. This was agreed upon in order to allow manufacturers and dealers a reasonablestime in which to liquidate their business and wind up their affairs. The Volstead Act, in continuing war prohibition at this time, clearly violates the pledge held out by the amendment. Hence, to its many other iniquities must be added a deliberate and calculated breach of faith. It is thus that prohibition is introduced to the American people. Brewers Board of Trade.