Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-16
A STAND-PAT CONVENTION.

Howell for congress by the republi,
can convention which met here
about the pitcher that went to the
well once too often. Mr.. Howell has
been nominated and elected to con
gress from the third district OF New
Jersey a great many times, but there
is an end to all things and there is
good reason to believe that the end
of the congressional career of Mr..
Howell has been reached. He is
doomed to fall in the great tidal
wave that is going to sweep the
country from the Atlantic to the
Pacific this fall, just as surely as Mr..
Howell received the nomination
yesterday.
1T will not be the democrats who
will defeat Mr., Howell, either. He
will be turned down by the very men
who have been his %staunchest sup
porters during his long career in the
House of Representatives. Admit
ting that Mr.. Howell has served his
constituents we'll, he cannot say that
the people have not stood by him
The party owes him nothing, and for
all his services to>the district he has
been amply repaid.
In the meantime new issues have
arisen affecting the very life of the
nation itself. Our congressmen have
become mere puppets in the hands
of one nan at Washington who is
closely allied with the big interests
of the country. Representative gov
eminent has practically ceased, ex-
cepting for the trusts and corpora
tions. Mr.. Howell has been basking
in6the faYors of the powers-that-were
so long that he has failed to read
the signs of the times. But while
he has been faithfully obeying the
orders of those in control at Wash
ington, his constituents at home
have been reading, watching and
waiting. They have been reading
about the way Cannonism has sold
out the country to the corporations,
passing tariffs to- suit the trusts
while the prices of everything have
been going UP and up. They have
been watching the actions Of Mr..
Howell in connection with all pro-
gressive legislation. They have been
waiting to see him come out against
Cannonism and corporation control.
Now they are waiting for the
election.
Mr.. Howell has been weighed and
found wanting. He has been willing,
for a few fayors for his district, to
sell out the priceless American liber-
ty and real representative govern
men upon which that liberty is
based.
The resolutions adopted at the
convention which nominated Mr..
Howell yesterday show his position.
1t is understood that there was a
movement on foot to even endorse
Cannon. As it is, the convention
stands pat. This was made plain
at the very outset, even before the
resolutions were presented, when
such a man as c. Asa Francis was
made temporary and then perma-
nent chairman. To have him pre-
siding at the convention stamped II
with discredit. Then the resolutions
were passed and finally a stand-pat
speech was made by Attorney Gen.
erai Wilson tearing up the insur.
gents. At the same time all this
stand-pat talk was being handed out
here, President Taft, at Beverly, wa:
authorizing the publication of &
letter in which he announced thai
he would hereafter give full recog.
milton to the insurgents in dealing
out patronage. How foolish for the
New Jersey stand-patters to say that
insurgency is dying.
Had a real progressive, standing
on an anti-C Cannon platform, mad
an active canvass for the nomination
just handed to Mr., Howell the con
vention would have had a decided!
dinerent one than the one held yes.
terday. As ao saeh candidate
appeared, however. tA people hays