The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-01
TOWNSEND AFTER
NOMINATION, GR|LLs
R. WAYNE PARKER
Candidate for Congress in Sew
entfl District Also Calls Cam
non "Czar."

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non "Czar."
Democrats of the Seventh Congress
sional district last night opened the
campaign in Essex county at an enthu-
%siastic convention in Central Hall,
Bloomfield.
edward Waterman Townsend, of
Montclair, who was nominated for Con-
gress, declared in a speech bristling
with sarcasm that the car of the
United States was Joseph G. Cannon,
Republican boss of the House; that the
capital was no longer Washington, but
Danvllle, ILL.,, and that a chosen lieuten-
ant OF Gear Cannon was r. Wayne
Parker, the present Republican repre-
sentative from the Seventh district.
Harry v. Osborne, Democratic candi-
date for State senator, disillusioned
those of his friends who thought he
would handle his opponent, Senator
Colby, with kid gloves. They may have
been of kid, but they were f%our-ounce
s%crapping gloves, and stuffed with
scraps of iron. Mr.. Osborne declared
he admired in a personal way the good
qualities in the New Idea man, but
politically, declared Mr.. Osborne, Mr..
Colby was deceptive and evasive. His
action in voting for the excise law. and
his subsequent career of inactivity
when his platform contained a home
rule plank, Mr.. Osborne declared. war
ranted the BELIEF that he could not be
trusted to carry out his promises.
Il am afraid we cannot trust Mi.
Colby said Mr.. Osborne. II am afraid
that he will somehow come to regard a
promise mace as IN Individual candi-
date no more binding than the pledge in
the platform into which he drove the
nail. l I'm very much afraid that ii he
should ever get through a home-rule
bill for us it would not be anything like
the lind of home rule that we want"
People Able to Decide.
After conceding the possibility OF Mr..
Colby being DESTROYS of Interpreting
the public will, Mr.. Osborne declared
that "he appears to be incapacltated.
either from recent association or carry
environment, from judging accurately
the wishes of his people"
The people of Essex county. Mr.. Os-
borne said, We're as capable of deciding
what they needed as ANY legislator
from the pine barrens of Ocean or the
sands of Cape May" The people under
stood the. situation, he said, in their
! cities and towns as well as some
gentleman lifted into the State house
from a farm in Cumberland He con-
tinued:
I'VE resent the imputation thai we
are SO lacking in morals and so hostile
to order that we would not be able
to solve this question in such a way
as not to offend decency or encourage
the lawless."
Mr.. Osborne closed with a declaration
of his stand upon the excise question,
a stand which Mr.. Colby, he said, had
found it irksome to discuss. He doubted
not, Mr.. Osborne said, that the present
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