Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-03
PROPOUNOS MORE
POINTED QUERIES
FOR Mr.. ROWLAND
City Counsel Lord Sends Second
Letter to Progressive Can
didate for Congress.

49,
Orange, replying TO Harold j. How
lands reply to his original letter OF
August 81, acking the Progressive
candidate for Congress in the Seventh
district il he would vote for a Demo
crat, rather than Congressman Cannon,
for speaker Of tt House of Representa-
tives. sends the author of seventeen
Holes" another epistle, to which ne
asks a categorical reply.
The former a~ssemblyman and omnl-
present champion of everything reg
ular'' is at his summer home in Brad
ley Beach, M has not received Mr.
Howland's personal letter to him. AS
a former newspaperman. however, ne
accepts the published report of Mr.
Howland's lette~ as authentic and re-
plies with the following:
Il thank you for YOUR prompt ana
essentially frank and responsive reply
to my Letter, which / have read IN
last nights papers, but which l VIII
not receive until 1 return to my ONCE
on Tuesday.
Am | right in gathering from your
answer to my second question, Whlch
you say cannot fairly be answered
oategorically,' that you would rather
assist in seating a Democrat IN the
speakers chair and in conferring upon
him all the recognized power that goes
with that office than vote for what you
term a 'stand-pat' Republican as
speaker?
A Few. More Questions.
And does 1t not follow. as the night
the day. that you would ratner
see the House of Representatives pre-
sided ever by a Democrat than by a
so-called 'stand-pat' Republican?
And would you not prefer TO see a
\ Democratic House elected than a House
controlled by so-called Regular Repub-
leans?
and woald you not. if defeated for
the Republican nomination in the
Seventh district. vote for the Demo-
cratic nominee in preference to Repre-
sentative Parker, whom l presume you
regard as a 'stand-pat' Republican?
'If. as you regard as likely land so
do u, the Progressive wing of the
republican parry should control the
party caucus, would not the other wing
be bound to abide by the action OF
such caucus in the selection OIL a
speaker?
would YOU consider the latter GOOD
Republicans if they bolted such caucus
'sIf a member is justified in boiling a
caucus once in one hundred times is ne
not justified in boiling it, say, once In
five times, if the action taken by 1t does
not meet his ideas of hat is proper
and for the best interests of his con-
stituents?
"If. as you say, we should have CO.
operation and united action by the
party representatives in Congress anu
party regularity is essential In Con-
eress if any efficient legislation is TO pc
accomplished how can we look FOR
ward to any such, desideratum il we
select as nominees for Congress men
who, like yourself. announce in advance
thai they will, at the very outset ana
before the House is organized, bolt the
Republican caucus IL a certain hepup-
lican or a certain type of Republican
receives a majority vote in the caucus
for speaker?
should Fight from Within.
At am no more of an admirer of what
Won call Cannonism than are you but
I believe it should be fought from With
in the party until a majority of the
marty caucus can be obtained against IT,
II in party affairs the minority Will not
submit to the will of the majority IL
will not be long before there VIII be no
more parties, and this. in my opinion,
would be well-nigh calamitous.
Answers to the questions herein pro-
pounded as categorical as possible will
be appreciated"
Mr.. Rowland had not received the
second communication from Mr.. Lord
up to noon today. That his reply Will
be about the same as his answer to the
first letter was made apparent last
night at the New Auditorium, when
during a brief address he complied with
Congressman Parker's request to with
draw the inference in his letter re-
ouesting a Joint debate that Mr.. Parker
was n tool of the bosses. Mr.. Rowland
said in part:
at do not question Mr.. Parker's sin
ceritv; I do not say that he is a tool
of Sneaker Cannon. But l do assert
that he is closely associated with the
legislative machine, whose head Mr..
Cannon is n whose operation has
come to be branded with the name Of
Cannonism.
MIR. Cannon can rely upon Mr.. Par
ker's cooperation in Congress. because
Mr. Parker, in all sincerity, believes in
the system of legislation which Mr..
Cannon believes in. Mr.. Parker Is the
head of the judiciary committee, which,
7 am glad to be assured by him, is not
used by Mr.. Cannon as his graveyard,
not because he is the tool of Mr.. Can
non. but because he Is In ally of Mr..
Cannon, believing in the same things
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