The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-10
Ne WARK'S Woe.
Governor Roosevelt Is to
Speak in That City
in October.
LENTZ WORKED 1T
Frye and spooner May Also
Talk in This State Cam
paign Quite.

| Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."1
| NEWARK, Aug. 10, 1900-Theodore
| Roosevelt. the Republican candidate for
| Vice-President, is to speak in Newark in
the latter part of October, probably at
| the Kruger Auditorium The assign
ment was secured Wednesday through the
| efforts of Major Carl Lentz chairman of
the Essex County Republican Committee,
and Acting Chairman Stokes, of the State
| Committee.
| Major Lentz felt that Roosevelt was the
man above all others whom Essex County
Republicans were anxious to hear, and
some time ago he communicated with Sem
| ator Stokes, asking for his help in secur-
ing Roosevelt. Mr.. Stokes went to the
| National Committee headquarters in New
York yesterday, by appointment, and met
| Senator Scott, of West Virginia, who
promised to have Governor Roosevelt as
signed to New Jersey for at least one
speech. The Senator then turned over the
date to Major Lentz for Essex County.
| Governor Roosevelt will come here af-
! ter his return from Western trip and
the County Committee will probably be
| able to announce the exact date before
! very long. There will be no parade or
| public reception. according to present
! plans.
| Senator Scott as chairman of the ma
/ tional committee on speakers, is trying
| to arrange his schedule of assignments
| so that New Jersey Republicans will have
| opportunities of hearing a number of
! speakers of national repute Invitations
f. have been extended to a number of ora
T; tors but SO far definite replies have only
/ been received from a comparative few.
! The West Virginia Senator whose du-
| ties are complex and trying, so great is
the demand for oratory, was filling the
! role of a 'snlrtwaist man when a News
reporter called this morning at his offices
| in the Metropolitan Building, New York,
| where the Republican, National Committee
| has its headquarters 1t was as hot as
! a furnace outdoors, but the Senator was
at his desk ard up to his eyes in work,
! meeting visitors, receiving applications
! for speakers and debating letters to his
! stenographer.
1--WE expect to take pretty good care of
j New jersey said the Senator to re-
+ porter, ''but it IS a little early yet to
/; speak definitely about our plans. Gov
ernor Roosevelt will make ene. ard per-
/ haps two speeches in New Jersey during
! the campaign; Senator Frye, of Maine,
! WILL think, make at least two speeches,
/ and Senator Spooner, OF Wisconsin, may
| make several We have written letters to
/ others of equal prominence, asking them
! to speak and we VIII have a large force
of the lesser lights.
/ ut is not an easy matter to get speak
/ ers of national reputation for every sec
ton. They are in demand all over the
! country, and States protest against los.
i ing the services of their respective ora
i tors. New Jersey is somewhat handicap
| ped, too, because neither of her United
| States Senator's can exchange with Sena-
| tors from other States. AS the campaign
warns up, however, we will be in bet
ter position to state just what we will
do for the State"
| Senator Hanna of the National Com
mittee. was not at headquarters this
| morning and Perry S. Heath the sec
retary, left for Chicago yesterday. Sem
| ator Scott, however, expressed the senti-
ments of his colleagues when he de-
| clared that he was confident that New
| Jersey would roll up a large majority for
! the Republican ticket.
| Franklin Murphy, the chairman of the
Republican State Committee is a mem
| Der of the Executive Committee of the
| National Committee, and when he returns
! from the Paris Exposition, at the end
| of this month, or the early part of next
| he can be depended upon to give an i'm
| petus to the campaign in this State 1t
| is expected that Mr.. Murphy and Sena-
| tors Sewell and Kean will endeavor to
secure speakers of national reputation
aside from the assignments to be made
| by the National Committee. One of the
| men whom the Senators might induce to
| speak here is said to be Senator Thurs
| ton, of Nebraska.
Through the National Committee o. F.
| Williams, of Rochester, N ", former
| consul to Manila, has been scheduled for
a speech at the farmers picnic to be held
| in Belvidere, this State, on August %. Mr..
| Williams's address will not be of par
tisan nature, butt he will confine his re-
| marks to the conditions in the Philippines
as he found them during his term of SER
| vice on the far-away island
| Very little work is being done by the
Republican State Committee as commit
tee, but the individual members have been
looking after affairs in their respective
bailiwicks. The committee has not had a
| the routine business has been disposed of
| by Sena tor Stokes or Treasurer William
Riker Augustus S. Barber, Jr. secre-
tary of the committee, is i'll at his home
| in Woodbury.. He has not been at his
desk for three weeks and his condition is
said to be serious.
| Unless there should be a change for the
better soon the committee will select an
assistant secretary to look after the work
temporarily, but if anything unfortunate
should happen, as one member put it, a
| special meeting of the committee will be
| held at once to name a new secretary.
Mr. Stokes and Mr. Riker had a little
conference yesterday and one of the sub
jects discussed was the selection of a
speaker for the State convention on Sep
tember 6. An invitation has been sent to
Elihu Root, Secretary of War, asking him
to be the orator of the occasion, but no
reply has been received. The committee
hopes to secure either Mr.. Root or Con-
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