Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-18
JOHN F. DRYDEN
IN The SENATE
Record of the Senator on Which
He Stands in Campaign
for Reelection.

Herman b.. Walker, the Washing
ton representative of the Newark
News, reviews the record of Senator
John f. Dryden, in national congress.
in the following article:
In his campaign for reelection to
the United States Senate, John Il.
Dryden is standing on his record.
What is that record? | don't mean,
and don't believe a great many pee
pie care, how many pension bills he
has introduced, nor what he has done
In trying to get appropriations for
river and harbor improvements and
public buildings. These things are
the routine work of every congress-
man. Every senator and represent
tative looks upon these things as po-
litical fences, calculated to make
votes for himself. Every congress-
man of any experience and influence
succeeds some time during his term
in getting something out of the pork
barrel for his district or his state.
Senator Dryden has probably been as
active and interested in the scramble
for pork as most congressman, even
though the Newark ship canal hasn't
made much progress, the Newark
bay and lower Passaic improvements
don't progress very rapidly, the up
per Passaic channel hasn't been
deepened or widened as yet, and
Representative Van Wrinkle claims
credit for getting an appropriation
for the Jersey City postoffice, the only
public building in North Jersey for
which congress has made provision
since Senator Dryden became a mem
Der of the senate committee on build
ings.
At the present time Mr.. Dryden is
very busy trying to make the tariff
al issue In the primary contest next
republican. There are things of
somewhat broader interest. Dryden
is trying to scare New Jersey manu-
%facturers with the boyle of tariff re-
visionZ4free trade, he calls it. No
standpatter ever uses the term tariff
revision" if he can help it. When
he has to make use of it he always
tells of the dangers of a general re-
vision of the tariff and points to the
Wilson bill as a horrible example.
And yet the president believes that
some parts of the tariff should be
revised, and is likely to urge such
revision in his next message to con-
gress. The only standpatter in the
Roosevelt cabinet is Shaw, who adj
mits that there will have to- be a re-
vision, but wants to put 1t off as long
as possible. Such republicans as
Root, Taft, Cortelyou, Wilson, Lodge,
Cummins and La Toilette believe
that there should be revision of some
of the Dingley schedules-those
which afford cover for trust, extortion
at once. They believe, as does the
President, that these revisions a be
made without danger to any of the
honest industries and interests of the
country, and every MAJ of them is as
good a protectionist and as good a re-
publican as Dryden. Most of them.
too, have without hesitation, on more
than one occasion, fearlessly express S
ed their tariff views. Dryden has {
been in the senate more than four S
years, and there isn't anything on rec {
ord to give any ready and clear indi- I
of what he really does think, a
believe or advocate in reference to c
the tariff. v
AS a Roosevelt republican, Dryden q
is equally, If not more, vulnerable. t
Roosevelt has declared himself in c
favor of restricting vast fortunes, of {
eurbing trusts and monopolies, of /
federal control of corporations. Dry
den is one of a score or more republic /
IAN senators who are usually classed L
.ogether as the railroad crowd" or +
the corporation crowd" In his four S
ears in the senate he has ut
cred a word, in public debate or 9th
putting himself on record as !
icing as all in sympathy with any of /
hese R~ooseveltian views referred to. '
On the contrary, when he has gone a
IN record, it has been as seeking to
Derpetuate and protect the corpora |
ion and monopoly interests by emas-
or making a compromise to |
minimize the effects of proposed d
drastic legislation. So far as really t
Affirmative legislation is con-
Dryden's record is fairly l
clean. So is that-of the whole ralr- I
Dad crowd in the senate. With the {
others who follow the lead of Aid
itch, republican senatorial business l
manager for all the trusts, Dryden Is '
l standpatter on present financial and {
political methods and conditions. 1t {
IS not enough, if the full record Is to /
be had, to consult the affirmative ac- c
ion of a statesman. ANYBODY who c