New-York tribune., 1903-07-10
JACKSON NAY NOT GET 1T.
Opposition to AssembIyman Who
Wants To Be State Senator.

Perth Amboy July (SpeciaD.-Until within
day it had pretty generally under
stood that William H. c. Jackson, the present
Republican member of the Assembly, would be
the party's nominee for State Senator this year
Except in the mind Of here and there Repub-
lican who thinks he is wants to be a boss. this
understanding still quite generally prevails But
least OF this class of Republicans is quoted
as saying to a Monmouth County former Assem-
bIyman that by the time the county convention
comes around there will be many ca ldidates
for the Senatorial nomination in the field that the
tide will drift away from Mr. Jackson and some
other candidate will be nominated.
The Republican to whom this remark IS at
tributed-and there is no doubt that he made it
has been for some time and is now an oficeholder.
and is willing. even eager TO be an onlcehoioer
again as every Republican in MddleseN County
knows Doubtless in his summing up of the po-
litcaI situation in so far as it relates 10 Mr.
Jackson the expression supplements TIE desire
but how in what way the rejection OF MT JACK
son by the Republican convention would promote
his prospects for another term In tat once uoeS
not accompany the statement.
Although the motive Of the antagonism just men
toned is not clear, there Republicans in MID
dlesex who think they have found the key 10 IL
These Republicans do not hesitate to say openly
and aboveboard that candidate for the senate
or the House of Assembly in this county can nope
for success in the convention unless he has pre-
viously pledged himself to vote in the legislative
toint meeting next year for the reelection OF
United States Senator John kean. The Republicans
who make this statement go further and declare
that oven If Mr.. Jackson or any other Repuolcah
should be nominated for State Senator, his eIectoh
would not follow unless he pledged TO support
Senator Kean. They go even further than thdt
and assert that the failure of at least one attempt
to get Mr.. Jackson to pledge himself to vote lot
Mr.. Kean for United States Senator is the cause
Of the recent cropping up in an underhanded way
of the antagonism to Mr.. Jackson when mas Just
been related It Is said that Mr.. Jackson refused
to pledge his vote to anybody for United states
Senator. If this statement shall develop into
fact some Of the Republicans of Middlesex County
say that they will stand by Mr. Jackson as the
Republican candidate for State Senator. and that
they will oppose the ambition of the individual VINO
is antagonlzing him for another term In his present
lucrative ofice In fact. they have fully deter
mined to do that. anyway.
What makes auery many Of the friends Of Nj.
Jackson according to Middesex Republican who
is not strange it may seem, an oficeholder nor
an officeseeker. but who will have to be reckoned
with in the coming campaign, is the fact that those
Republicans who wish to but who cannot control
Mr.. Jackson are the very individuals who are &C
cused of having connived at the defeat OF the late
and who Intellectually attempted to control Senator
+i bod ot ba a ada U ont NJ the Question by the
acceptance of State appointment, they would
a pledge to vote for Mr.. Kean, or threatened MS
This is the sort OF politics which one runs up
against constantly In Mddlesex. It has peen so @ LOT
growing weary of it. The control of the party by
few Republicans, whose number can pe counttt
the fingers of one hand, is daily asserted ana
the declaration is made that this situation Jeopar-
dies the success of the party candidates IN the
next election, The truth is, and it is on every
hand asserted that what the Republican party in
NIiddeSeX County needs is complete reorganlza-
ton and an entirely set Of leaders. 1t Is de-
clared that if the present leaders had not expected
to dominate Mr.. Strong in the legislature, they
never would have consented to his nomination 4or
State Senator. and that. failing to defeat MN IN
the convention, they would have worked even
more earnestly, and possibly more ehectlVely, 10
defeat him at the polls.
1t is known here that Mr.. Jackson has received
! the assurance of the support of some OF the
strongest and most reputable Republicans or the
State behalf of his candidacy for State senator
It is not generally believed. the other hand that
if Senator Kean understood the situation as It IS
he would countenance policy which would
be almost certain to make Repubhcan success
probema teal in MiddleseX County next November.
One of the, best known and most influential Demo
Gratis in the State said only a few days ago, that
unless the Republicans got closer together, the
next State Senator from Middlesex would be a
Democrat and he spoke with the confidence whlcn
is born of information which no republican conld,
If he would. conceal. EX-Unted States Senator
Smith. who it is declared by his intimate friends,
is ambitious returned to his former high post
of honor is not a politician to be trihed with in
his estimate of political situations or their control
AS corroborative evidence of this fact II IS as
serted that although Senator Ferrell was defeated
In his aspirations for the nomination for Governor,
contrary TO the Judgment of Mr.. Smith, James NJ.
Seymour not elected as Governor of the state
Mr. Smith is a Democratic power In MiddleseX
County but 1t viii be the fault of the Republicans
If he is permitted to outgenerdI thern IN the ap-
preaching campaign