Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-09
MONEY, CANNON,
TANMANY, ISSUES
OF PROGRES5|VES
League Orators Pay Particular
Attention to Regular Assem-
blyman from Essex.
RULES COMMITTEE GAME
is WORKED AT TRENTON
William P. Martin, Candidate for
Governor, Says System"
Has Hold in Jersey.

Declaring that the machine" as
they termed the Republican County
Committee. depended on the use of dol
lars contributed by corporations for it's
success on election day. Progressive
Republican speakers at two meetings
last nfght-one at the league headquar-
ters in this city. the other in the Town
Hall, Nutley-made another attack on
the System" and its exponents-Con-
gressmen Parker and Wiley and the
Regular Republican assemblymen, who
are seeking denomination.
William P. Martin, Progressive can
didate for governor, handled the money
end of the argument in his Nutley ad-
dress. President Edmund B. Osborne,
Of the league, and Harold ]. Rowland,
who is seeking the congressional nomi-
nation in the Seventh district devoted
most of their argument to an attack on
Cannon and Cannonism and declared
that Parker and Wiley had always sup
ported the Tammany Hall Cannon COM
bination in Congress.
The burden of Mr.. Howland's talk
was two questions he put to Congress
man Parker, which were:
First, when Fitzgerald, the Tam
many Congressman, introduced reso-
luton in the House of Representatives
to save the face of Cannon after the
insurgents had stripped him of part
of his power and when Dalzell, the
right-hand man of the speaker, stood
up and shouted to the confused rank
10 Of tho n lor 70 10
aye" did you vote aye.
Second, do you know what was the
consideration, If any given to Tam
many Hall in return for the saving Of
Cannon by means of the Fitzgerald
resolution?
Answers Own Question.
Mr.. Howlanc answered the first
question to the effect that Parker did
vote aye. and then reiterated that he
would do all in his power to smash
Cannonism and defeat Cannon. He
would be against him in caucus and
out of caucus. if necessary,
The speaker contrasted at length the
methods of the ProgreSsives and the
standpatters in Essex County, one side
with a platform. the other with none;
one side with candidates appearing
nightly before the people, the other
side conducting a gumshoe campaign
with no statements whatever as to
where they stand.
Mr.. Osborne said in part:
"R. Wayne Parker and William H.
Wiley, Essex Countys Congressman,
voted In the Sixty-first Congress:
with Tammany Hall and Speaker
Cannon to perpetuate the old rules CIV
ing the speaker absolute power.
Against free lumber In the tariff
session and consistently for the Aid
rich Cannon program.
"For the Payne-Dalzell rule which
forced the House to accept or reject the
whole Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as 1t
came from committee, refusing lnem-
bers their constitutional right to con-
slider and vote separately on such items
as they wished, case Of take the AID
rich bill or nothing.
I'm the fight 10 reform the obnoxious
rules committee both voted to sustain
Speaker Cannon when he ruled that
Congressman Norris was out Of order
in offering a resolution to let the House
name that committee.
"In the debate on railroad legisla-
ton both voted in committee of the
whole against physical valuation of
the ra11fOaQS anu dSdliiSt dii ONiiSi pio'
gressive amendments
Attacks congressman.
"As member and now chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee, Mr..
Parker has for years aided in throttling
the Appalachian Forest bill, conser-
walton measure, and has signed at least
one report offering excuses for doing
so.
"The judiciary committee has con-
sistently throttled progressive legisla-
ton, with Mr.. Parker's help. killing,
among other bifls, under direction of
Speaker Cannon, every measure intro
duced to permit States to enforce their
own laws, in so far as they apply to
railroad and express companies.
"a vote for any candidate for Con-
gressional district delegate in Essex
county who is not irrevocably COM
mitted to the candidacy of George H.
4ustin, of East Orange, in the Eighth
District, and of Harold J. Howland, of
Montclair, in the Seventh District, Is a
vote to perpetuate the Tammany Hall
Cannon combination which Messrs.
Parker and Wiley have consistently
supported"
William P. Martin attacked the
system at Trenton before the Nutley
audience He recounted the recent ex-
posures in New York State, when Sen
ator Aids was convicted of taking a
81 900 bribe for holding bill in COM
mittee, and mentioned Allds's defense
that the bill was smothered at the
order of Senator Platt
'I tell you," he continued. that the
system existing at Albany and at Pitts,
b,,re exists also at Trenton, and
sneak to you from three years. expert
ence as an Assemblyman. When the
nublic utility bill was proven to be a
failure I asked a standpat Assembly
man why he didn't vote for the rate
making bill in the interests of the
party.
ooh he said. we didn't think that
we would be caught SO soon with the
Goods The vocabulary of the poll
tician is sometimes the vocabulary of
The crook. Another Assemblyman who
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