Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-01
PARKER WILL NOT
ACCEPT HOWL AND
DEBATE INVITATION

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of free trade. Let us have no quarrel
among Republicans first to weaken our
lines.
I'VE are both progressive as to the
regulation of interstate commerce. My
record appears in the work OF Congress
for the past fifteen years, and in the
progress that has been made in that
regulation, complicated and important,
and in some respects dangerous, as
that regulation has proved. Both of
tional resources-I quote your words
to the end that the great natural
wealth still belonging to all the people
shall be preserved and developed for
the benefit of all the people and not
for the benefit of few favored In
terests.' We can only say amen to
each other in this regard.
Party Must Get Together to Win.
"You refer to employers liability
The committee of which I have the
honor to be chairman has not only
reported and carried the statutes es-
tablishing such liability, but also has
passed an act establishing a commits
sion to consider the subject of work
mems compensation and insurance,
without regard to the question of neg
ligence or liability on either side.
1.-THE Republican party must get to-
gether If 1t Is to win this campaign.
| believe that Republicans have IN
dulged in too much denunciation OF
other Republicans. Men have a right
to their own independent thought ana
action. Honest and independent Pro-
gressives have been wrongly denounced
by Regulars. Honest and independent
Regulars have been wrongfully de-
nounced by Progressives. The friction
that has occurred and the enmities
that have been Sngendered will make
1t hard In any event to get together
and work together They Will make II
especially hard to elect speaker whose
selection shall unite the party and en-
able us to carry on Republican ad-
ministration. In December 1911, If l
am elected and Republican majority
is elected, shall go into a Republican
caucus for that purpose. l understand
that you will decline SO to do. shall
vote in that caucus for such honest
and good men, whether called Regular
or Progressive as | shall then deem
best fitted to unite the party and to
lead them. l do not know who that
man will be. 1t is quite possible that
the next speaker will be someone not
now named or thought of, but | shall
not now denounce any man as unfit for
that position. | shall not pledge my
self for or against any Republican. l
shall not join in the cry against any
Republican. Who should be chosen a
wear hence Is q question that / cannot
determine now But l will not back
bite any man to gain votes.
Says Conscience Has Guided Him.
"Since drafting the above l am as
tonished to see in the papers part of a
speech by you delivered Immediately
after your courteous letter, in which
YOU are reported to have used language
implying that / am a tool of the
bosses and of the speaker, and domi-
mated by special interests against pub
lie interests. Such language needs an
answer when adopted by you. Any
such statement is utterly untrue,
have done my duty according to my
conscience, for the good of the whole
country. As for being anyone else 8
man, the slightest investigation OF my
record would show that l have stood
by my views against all the leaders,
sometimes in a small minority. The
suggestion that my action has been
dictated by anything but my own
conscience is one that | cannot believe
you intended to make and which l call
on you to withdraw. It Is not argu-
ment, or fact, but unsupported insult.
81 shall have something more to say
in the campaign of the work of the
committee that you call graveyard.
The Judiciary committee In the last
session considered and perfected legis-
lation continuously in three sections
with many careful hearings. 1t made
sixty-seven reports, in over half OF
which it's recommendations passed the
House 1t has held nothing back on
the speakers request or suggestion.
Its members, Republican and Demo-
cratic, have done their duty as men,
bers and lawyers according to the Con-
stitution. Innuendoes like those of
your speech are sometimes disregarded
by a wise man, but I answer them by
absolute denial when made by can
didate for the great office In which for
so many years / have tried to do my
whole duty. 1t is no question for de-
bate.
st shall hereafter leave all personal
questions to the electorate and give my
energies to the victory of the Republi-
can party and the support of the poll
icies once of Mckinley, Roosevelt and
now of our great President. William
H. Taft"