Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-04
ANSWERS
Def OF NNKEAD
Progressive Candidate for Con-
gress Declares Democratic
Opponent Is Inconsistent.

Harold Bouton, Progressive candi-
date for Congress in the Eighth dis
trict, has written an open letter in
answer to Congressman Eugene F.
Kinkead. charging him with being
inconsistent and contradictory.
The letter follows in part:
1.-The matters you choose from your
record which you invite me %particu-
larry to criticise l presume are those
which got believe do you the most
credit.
'"rhe Democratic party stands for
free trade and says protection is lille
gal. l had assumed that you were
against the protective tariff and find
in the edition of the Hudson Observer
of this evening, November l, a news
item which states that you were abb
solutely opposed to Roosevelt's pro-
tective tariff theories.
"The Eighth district workers and
employers are then to choose between
you, opposed to the protective tariff,
and myself, who stands on the princi-
pie of a protective tariff established
in the interest of the wage-earner and
and immediate reduction OF
unjust tariff schedules.
I'm your speech of July Fl, 1912, at
page 6, recently sent to the voters
of the Eighth district, you say;
".Now, we can conceive that this
magnificent business formed by the
biggest men that the packing in
dustry has ever produced might be
honestly conducted, and / dare say
there is not a man in this body
who would not take the word of
Gustavus Swift, of Ogden Armour,
or of young Edward Morris, on any
proposition hat they might state. |
know 1 would. When the Armour
Company needed a bondsman in New
Jersey for the faithful performance
of a contract they had with our
county | was very happy to serve
as their bondsman.'
page Is. I have no desire to make
political capital out of any inquiry
that might take place. I believe that
these men are guilty. I believe that
every man of them is a thief, and I
believe that If l were given the oppor-
tunity I could prove to the satisfac-
ton of this nation that, starting with
Armour, midway with Morris and
concluding with Swift, every man of
the three is guilty, not only of fraud.
not only of lies, but of deliberate rob-
berry of the American people,
IT submit that such contradictory
statements, to say the least, are not
Ii1y1I-. 20 111,a n hin xnaol Ia raa1nlA
progress, and 1 am willing to leave 1t
to the people of our Eighth district
to judge whether they should support
you, who find it possible to maintain
two such inconsistent attitudes.
This is in answer to letters of
Congressman Eugene f. Kinkear de-
claring he has given Mr.. Bouton
every chance to debate on his four
year congressional record during the
present campaign and outlining his
action in Congress.
MI. Kinkead states that he voted
for the eight-hour bill, and has all
ways been the friend of the govern
ment employee. He declares he OPP
posed the instructions of the Demo-
cratic caucus in voting for a bill
authorizing the building of two new
battleships. which action MI. Bouton
had declared was merely routine. He
says he is in favor of the election of
United States senators by popular
vote. He denies that the Democratic
party stands for free trade. He winds
up his letter as follows:
eff I had it in my power to change
any vote which was cast by me dur
ing the four years that 1 have been
in Congress would not alter a single
one of them"