Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-12
CANDIDATE STOKES
ADM|RES CANNON;
NOT CANN0N|SM
Replying to Record Question
Explains LOudenslager Let
ter and Own Politics.

TRENTON, Sept. 12.-Former Gov
ernor Edward Casper Stokes, candidate
for the seat in the United States Sem
ate which Is now being held down by
John Kean, today made public a letter
which he has mailed to George l..
Record. Of Jersey City. answering the
questions p~ropounded by the latter
gentleman. The answer is a charac-
t~eristic Stokes document. In answer
ing the question as to whether he
favored Cannon, he denies that he is
a Cannon followers" he admits, how
ever, that he did write a letter to Con-
gresham L~oudenslager commencing
, him for his action in voting to support
Cannon's rules. He did this, he says,
because he believes in majority rule.
In dealing with the railroad question
he does not attempt to give his views
upon the question of Matchmaking
powers. There is one question that he
comes out against in a very frank
manner and that is that he is opposed
to the Vreeland-A ldrich scheme of a
central bank. He ducks" upon pass
ing upon the Roosevelt scheme for an
employers liability law, on the ground
that al have not had opportunity to
read Colonel Roosevelt's employers
liability proposition as recommended in
his Western speech"
The former governors letter to Mr..
Record is in part is follows:
so far as l know, l am the only
senatorial candidate who has issued
any statement Of principles. I am the
only candidate who has been before the
people on the platform in public dis
cussion of current questions, with the
exception of Congressman Fowler, who
is making a fight, as I understand it,
for the House of Representatives. and
not for the Senate.
People Have Rights.
"I recommended and a passed the
act providing for the submission of the
senatorial contest to the people at the
primaries, and l was the first to an
nounce my determination to submit my
candidacy to the people under that act.
l believe in the right of the people to
determine by their votes who their can
didate for senator shall be.
IT am not in favor of the so-called
Vreeland-Aldrich central bank. I do
not believe in ~centralizing the money
power in the great cities. I believe in
our system of local banks. These have
enabled many a man without capital,
but with good character, to get a start
in life among the people he knew who
would have no credit in a distant city.
"If elected to the United States SEN
ate, / would follow no mans lead, but
would vote according to my own con-
scientious Judgment pon all questions,
at all times consulting the wishes of
my constituents. If any of the
tors you name should vote on my side
of a proposition l should welcome them
to the cause.
81 am not a follower of Speaker Cam
non. AS the Cannon congressman in
my end of the State have persistently
opposed me for years and are opposing
me now. they do not regard me as one
of their followers. 1 admire Cannon as
a good fighter and as a man who never
quits, just as I admire those qualities
in you; but this does not make me a
follower of either.
Reform within Party.
81 am a Republican. I believe that
reform should be worked out within
the Republican party. 1 do not believe
in coalition with the Democrats, and
If / should have written a letter dis
approving of a coalition between Demo-
Gratis and Republicans in Congress and
commencing the attitude of Speaker
Cannon when he said he stood for the
rule of the majority, and, therefore, he
was ready at all times to put a motion
declaring the speakership vacant, as a
question of the highest constitutional
privilege, it would not have made me
an advocate of C%annon's policies any
more than the fact hat the insurgents
voted for Cannon for speaker and
subsequently voted to retain him in the
chair last winter made them advocates
of the Cannon policies. A man can be
fair even to his political opponents,
and he can criticise the actions of his
friends when he differs therefrom,
without changing his beliefs or his
politics.
"If a friend OF Speaker Cannon
should receive a letter of courteous
tone with the thought that the speaker
was so odious and unpopular that such
a letter would make a good campaign
document against the author, he would
be guilty of disqualification utterly