Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-21
FOWLER HAS
PRAISE FOR
INSURGENCY

eSNAooht July IL a SblOuk du-
dress, predicting victory for the pro-
Roosevelt leadership, Representative
Charles N. Fowler, candidate for renom-
i~nation and aspirant for the seat of
United States Senator John Kean, de-
clared last night that every forward
movement in the last 1900 years has re-
suited from a protest against wrong
and an insurgent movement for the
right.
Mr.. Fowfsri is being fought desperate
ly by the Kean machine. Victory in his
fight for denomination will make Fowler
a force to be reckoned with when the
time comes to name a successor to the
senior senator from New Jersey. Last
nights address was one of q series
in which Fowler is defying the bosses,
barring ring-rule methods in congress
and pledging himself to keep on bat
Ting for the enactment into law of
the progressive pledges of the republi-
can party's platform.
Mr.. Fowler said in part:
1--WE have heard a good deal, in these
latter days about insurgents. Have you
ever thought, it out and fixed it clear
ly in your minds what an insurgent
ANoiy 10, WhdS paw lhoui sChNy q
played in the history Of Anglo-Saxon
civilizations
Every protest against established
wrong during the past twelve hundred
years has been the voice Of insurgency.
Every protestant against wrong is an
insurgent for the right.
Insurgency 1900 Years Old.
From the establishment of the Eng
Itch GIOVANNI ont in fha ninth oanfuru
in the reign of Alfred the Great, every
forward and upward movement has
come from a protest against existing
wrong and an insurgent movement for
the right. Privilege never yields any
thing voluntarily.
"The GENERALIZATION and abuse of
power by King John led up to the Mag
ma Charta wrested from him by the
barons on the field of Runnymede. The
barons were protesting against the
wrongs of the king, and were insur-
gents for their rights even unto the
death.
"But by 1910 privilege had united To-
gether the barons and the kings in a
common cause against the people.
Hampden and Py@ protested against
the existing wrongs, and the bill of
tlRuIS ndS thC ISbulJ VI IhOIt 1h6tA
gency, now an essential part of our con-
stitution. Charles I was as blind and
unyielding as the Bourbon leaders of
today and he lost his head. The people
came into their own under Cromwell
and the commonwealth.
"But privilege never ceases to strug-
gle for mastery. Now it is the mastery
of power, now Of wealth, now of the
-ov, bod,ao. ond .an1o re man A RAMA
tlonary movement followed the restora-
ton Of Charles II. Again privilege pre-
vailed. Again the people protested
gained a new and broader charter of lib.
critics under William and Mary.
Insurgents crossed the Atlantic and
planted a new nation on these shores.
GEORGE Washington, Samuel Adams and
Thomas Jefferson protested against
British privilege and insurgency gave
us the declaration Of independence.
William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phil
lips and Abraham Lincoln protested
against the privilege of property in
The slave power waged and won the
sivil war.
Roosevelt the Leader.
VI rStuILCuT WOdibu bliOdkti Al iOth'D
of la began to encroach upon the
rights, Of the people, its greed ever
growing with its holder and holder ag-
gressions. Theodore Roosevelt, protes-
ted against these legalized wrongs, and
as an insurgent demanded q square deal,
that is, equal opportunities for all the
people under just laws. Under the lead
ership Of this great Notwithstanding
ln.,.~an4 +bnra 20 n nprYoada O uaipQt
privilege which is nationwide.
"What, then, is the issue of todayf
Coneretely expressed, it is this: 1t is
a struggle for what Abraham Lincoln
called the government of, by and for
government of, by and for special privi-
lege.
- LIVERY true republican will keep
this end steadily in view. 1t will keep
him always regularly true, though he
may not some times be regularly regu-
lar. Such a type Of republicanism is
the great governor of New York, Char
les E. Hughes, whose sincerity, intellf-
gence, courage and patriotism have won
for him the applause of the American
people.
HHe protested against race-traek
gambling, became an insurgent against
this established evil; and the repub-
J. MS of New York sustained him. He
protested against corporate monopoly,
became an insurgent against this estab-
lished evil, and the republicans of New
York sustained him. He protested
against boss rule, became al i%nsurgent
against this established evil. Was he
right in demanding this primary reform,
supported as he was by Theodore Roose-
welt and ffty-three assembly votes, or
was Timothy L. Woodruff right, when,
with forty republican votes at his back
he united with Tammany Hall to defeat
Itf Which is the truer and better re-
publican, Charles e. Hughes or Timothy
l.. Woodruff.
Dollars Against Equity.
1.-The irrepressible conflict of to-
day is for a change from a delegated
to truly representative form of
government. 1t is perfect harmony
with the evolution of Angle-Saxon
1iberty during the last 1900 years.
1t is the natural sequence of our sys-
tenn of universal education and the
fndiyidualism of American citizen
ship. 1t is the old, old story of the
liberation of man; and it is just al
true today as it was yesterday that
vigilance Is the price of that liberty
1t is still monarchy against lem
ocracy. 1t Is still the empire against
the republic. 1t is still greed, power
aHse privilege against equal oppor-
tunity.
aConeretely expressed, it is dol
lars and cents against equity, Justice