Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-03
ELECT DEMOCRATS
OR PROGRESS|vES,
MURDOCH s ADVICE
Kansas Congressman Tells New
arkers That Is What
They Should Do.
URGES ELIZABETH
MAN, FOR SENATOR
Depicts ~r Cannon as a
Menace to America and
Americanism.

Send Democrats to Congress If you
as the stand -patters prefer to term the
men who are endeavoring to overthrow
the system" wac the advice given a
large and appreciative audience by
Congressman Murdock. of Kansas, at
a Progressive League mass-meeting in
the New Auditorium last night.
The Insurgent leaders visit to this
city was a break in his original plan
of touring the Fifth district in ad-
vocacy of the later's nomination and
reelection Murdock and Fowler have
been close friends for years and the
formers address was devoted wholly to
a plea to keep Fowler in Congress.
Here in Essex the Kansas statesman
urged his auditors to see that Con-
gresham Fowler was elected to the
United States Senate. There is big
game to bag on that side of the
capitol" he said. land men like Fowler
Are needed over there"
The congressman was late in arriv-
ing having been detained longer than
he, anticipated in Plainfield, where he
was finishing the Union county end OF
his tour of the Fifth congressional dis
trict. Last night he remained at the
home of President Ed mund B. Osborne
If the Progressive League, and TO-DAY
he will invade Morris county, where
State Treasurer Daniel S. Voorhees,
says Fowler shall receive few votes
and no delegates.
Before the arrival of Congressman
Murdock brief addresses were made by
William p. Martin, candidate for gov
ernor who received the most rousing
ovation ever accorded him in this
county; Congressional Candidates
Harold ]. Howland and George H.
Austin, Mr. Osborne, who presided, and
Congressman Charles N. Fowler, the
choice of the league for United States
senator.
Talk Was Interesting.
The congressman is about as enter
tanning a political orator as ever ad-
dressed a local audience, and after
talking more than an hour, when he
decided to stop at midnight, his au-
ditors assured him they were willing
to remain all night.
While liberal applause interspersed
his address, it was evoked by his trite
sayings rather than any references to
President Taft, Colonel Roosevelt or
even Speaker Cannon.
The speaker had his audience from
the start, and he was cheered to the
echo when in closing he pictured how
mich better the country would be when
we are all educated up to a realization
of the truism that this great American
people is made up of "just plain folks,
no matter how exalted our temporary
status may be-"
"They say you make everything from
a hairpin to a locomotive in the city
of Newark" he said, as he stepped on
the platform, land I guess you make
some three-ply insurgents down here.
too.
stands for Cause.
"I stand here for a cause and in par
ticular for a man whose heart beats
true to that cause, Charles N. Fowler.
I find since came here that some peo-
ple say that he is not always in WASH
ington when a vGte is taken. l am
here to say to you that he is always
there when his vote is wanted and that
his vote is always right. They say,
also, that he isn't regular Republican.
I am here to say to you that Charles
n. Fowler is a real Republican. I am
going to prove 1t.
1.-THE people of the United States
have recently defined and identified
certain conditions. best known as Can
nonism They are best understood py
understanding the man from which
they derive their name. Cannonism
is not confined to the House of Repre-
sentatives. It belongs likewise to the
United States Senate. Sometimes you
have it in the State Legislatures and
occasionally have known it to appear
in the city couucil. You can recognize
II all the way from the jackpot-method
of electing United States Senator in
Illinois 20 the red-headed siren used
by the Standard Oil.
"What is Cannon? For thirty years
he has obstructed progressive legisla-