Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-25
UNDERWOOD WILL
Be IN BACKGROUND
Continued from First Pare.)


of his colleagues. Mr.. Townsend
smiles at the discontinue of some of
his friends and blandly remarks, I
am where l was two years ago.
see no reason to worry because others
have come around to my way Oh
j thinking"
At the same time he says that all of
his constituents do not agree with
him and some are sending protests
| against the repeal of the law. But
| just as many are writing me TO hold
my ground and backing me up in the
stand ! have maintained from the be-
| ginning of this dispute" concluded
the congressman from the tenth dis
trict.
Mccoy Fayors the Repeal.
Representative Mccoy asserts that
most of his home correspondence
shows disposition to favor the at
titude of the administration. Il find
! that where the question has been SER
| iously studied by my correspondents
| they are in favor of standing by the
terms of the treaty. Many look upon
! the question with strong bias and
| with local and national prejudice.
The question is big one. 1t Is
greater than the superficial compre-
hend There are ramifications TO IL
which must be followed and studied
| lust as the tariff and currency ques-
tons were studied before proper
solution can be arrived at.
Representative Eugene f. Kinkead
is not worried over the effect his vote
will have on him in the coming cleo
ton because he Is not going TO De
candidate for reelection next Novem-
| Der. Under these dulcet cond' lions
he can smile at the worries of his
confreres over the Panama tolls vote.
/ Kinkead win stick to the administra-
1 ton and its policies to the last often,
even thou'h the entire ditch is
handed over to England free gratis.
MARITIME Holds His Ground.
Senator MARITIME is the lone excep-
ton among the New Jersey congress
sionaI delega tons who has the pluck
! TO stand up and be counted against
the side of Woodrow Wilson when the
yo+a for free tolls Is taken. Inc
senior senator frankly admits that ne
I 10 sorry that he has to take anothef
road on this occasion, but ne asserts
that two years and the happenings III
/ that time have shown him no reason
Why he should change his vote. he
was among those who voted for Tree
tolls during the Taft regime. ohe oi
the House members summed up INC
situat ton today when he SAID: MAJ, :,
| fine is certainly one lucky man.
There was a deep green tone of envy
in the voice that said it, and 1t Is one
If the voices that is going to vote LOT
the repeal of the tolls law.
The attitude of Speaker CHAMP
] Clark is giving occasion to consider
able speculation The speaker is not
saving anything officially about ms
attitude on the tolls question, out ne
has been heard bantering some or the
administration men because OF their
change of front He has been mercl-
less in his "joshlnS,' and thls Iact
having gone abroad has given rise 10
the report that the speaker Will al
lilo, himself against the admiinstra-
ton when the crucial moment arrives.
Revond his bantering he has refused
Flo commit himself for the repeal OF
the law, as the President so earnestly
! suggested when he read his message
| two weeks ago.
When Senator Hamilton Lewis
blew into the White House offices
Yesterday morning and had talked
to all who would listen TO him about
| the Panama tolls, he finally pounced
upon Secretary Tumulty. The l"tter
| had been exceedingly busy and couia
not find time TO give to the visiting
| senator. but the latter had time to
| spare and he stuck around until
Secretary Tumulty could no nothing
but listen, unless he jumped out Oh
the window.
Burning his pink whiskers on
| Joseph's shoulders, the senator from
| Chicago told how the Republicans
! were trying so hard to make pollti-
cal capital out of the toll question.
"Thev have been searching In vain
for a year to find something to make
an issue Of" said the hirsutic Ham
now they have decided to combine
the Panama tolls and the Mexican
situation" He spoke a great deal
more along the same lines and hav-
ing relieved his chest of that burden
tool his departure.