The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-24
ANSWERS TOWNSEND

of the House, such as the Judiciary,
Speaker. Any member would resent
any endeavor so to control. [ have
never been asked by any of the Speak
ers, Reed, Henderson or Cannon, to
vote one way or the other on any bill
in committee or in the House. 1 will
say more. It is stated do not give
the language exactly-that 1 expect to
be made chairman of the Judiciary
Committee through the favor of Mr..
Cannon. 1t is not true, and any man
who has been a newspaper cor
respondent in Washington ought to
know that the Speaker only appoints
the tail-end of the committees as va
cancies occur. and that by the custom
of the House, which has become prac-
tically a law, the men move up. Mr..
Jenkins, myself, MIR. Alexander and
Mr.. Littlefeld were appointed On that
great committee in the Fifty-fifth Coil
gress in 1897 by Mr.. Speaker Reed, and
we have held our places ever since.
and as those above us dropped out we
have come to the top of the COMMITTEES,
and, whatever Speaker is named by the
caucus of the Republican party |
would naturally, as the senior nan
take the place of chairman Of that COM
mittee If I desired to take it.
A newspaper correspondent in Wash
ington knows this; he knows the GUS
tom of the House. Now they ask me
whether 1 will vote for Mr.. Cannon.
l have never pledged myself for or
against any man or measure, never.
l shall consider, when we get together,
who is the best man. He must be a.
strong man. He must be one who will
unite the whole party in the o |
have said that the Speaker Is only the
| servant of the majority. If he n the
rules committee do not bring Onward
a. particular bill, or If there is doubt
what the shape of the bill should be,
sixty members out of our two hundred
can call upon the Speaker and force
him to call a conference Of the mem
bers, called a caucus, In which we all
get together and decide what is to be
done, or that 1t is impossible to do any
thing because of difference of opinion.
| have known many sue conferences,
and whenever there was a decided
opinion of the majority of the House
of the Republicans-in favor of a GER
tain definite course and a chance OF
carrying that course into effect. the
Speaker always does the will of the
majority.
But there are other reasons why I
give no pledge. Is 1t actually asked OF
IA Republican that when a. lifelong Re-
publican in Danville, Ill, is working for
his political life for In election against
influences that you ave heard of In
different directions which are against
him-iniuences which are, some of
them, against me here-is it expected
that a Republican shall try to defeat
him by pledging himself against him?
1 should deem myself no better than
a cur, remembering hat that great
leader has helped me often when I
needed help, for bills for my constituents
and the country, Inc has never asked
me for anything should think myself
no better than a cur If l should back
bite him for the sake of votes. Cap
plause.)
1 am a free man. I expect to be a
free man. l do not expect to go down
in this election. I expect the votes OF
my people to answer these statements
of my opponent. / shall say nothing
against him except that he does not
understand the temper of the people
Of this district, or of the people OF thi.
county.
I am sorry for him If he is elected
He is pound hand and foot. | ask him
no questions. I know that he is bound
hand and cot to vote against the work
and wages of the people of Newark and
against the l~aborers, who are (to quote
his platform) the 'bene1ciaries of a
high protective tariff" He is bound
hand and foot to reduce duties to q
revenue basis and to destroy duties
instantly whenever the manufacture is
really a success, although that success
has been obtained by good methods. ]
am sorry for him, because, no matter
how true his views upon finance, he is
bound hand and DOT to break up al
good banking by forcing all good banks
to share the losses of the bad. l am
sorry for him because he is bound
hand and foot as to the judiciary. ]
read from his book on the Constitu-
tion-a good book, which 1 would like
every one to read-he quotes from
Washington, who says, considering
the judicial system as the chief pillar
upon which our national government
must rest" Yet he is bound and and
foot by a platform which attacks the
power of that judicial system to en-
force it's own DEGREES. l cave the
gentleman hereafter to avoid personals
ties, discuss the platform upon which
he stands and the platform n policy
of the Republican party.
1 see one other thing, a little differ
ent in tone. He says that. 1 am 9
"standpatter," and that he believes
"the day is not far distant when tbs
'standpatter' will be a stencil in the
n~ostrils of the people, My friends,
have had the glory and honor, durins
the Republican administration of four
teen years, and especially during the
last four years, to take part in more
, changes, and more reforms, than has
been accomplished during the previous
history of his government, and my
record there speaks for me.
j Paid for by r. w. Parker.