The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-18
MARITIME DOWNCAST
LITTLE TINGE OF BITTER
NESS IN HIS TALK.
Replied Scornfully to Essex Man Who
condolingly Told Him He'd Be
"Taken Care Of"

PLAINFIELD, Sept. 1S.-James +. Mar
tine, the defeated candidate for guberna-
torial nomination before the Democratic
convention at Trenton, yesterday, is home,
downeast over the disappointment he suf-
fered at the hands of his supposed friends.
In an interview last night he expressed
his determination to retire from politics
now. ana to remain forever out OF It
hereafter. He said:
II do not think It would be right for me
to lie down now. just because l have
been defeated for the nomination, and 1
will do all in my power to help elect Mr..
Katzenbach. But from this time on l am
through with politics. The only regret l
have is over the ingratitude that has been
shown by those whom I believed to be my
true and loyal friends. l have no fault
TO find with the Democratic party as a
whole. but l think / have been treated
with deception and unfairness by the So
called party leaders of the State.
Il have been In politics and have made
speeches in every campaign for the past
thirty years. l have always paid my own
campaign expenses. and have never been
paid, nor would l accept pay for any
services I have rendered the Democratic
party. I hive accepted nominations In
the past in order to keep the party in
existence. to fight better battles in the
future, but hereafter will leave this duty
in the hands of the men who manipulated
the affairs at Trenton yesterday.
II have never sought office, but when
the nomination has been rendered me, and
on occasions when it has been forced upon
me, I have accepted 1t to keep a ticket In
the field when no other one would stand
for a nomination. MY work for the party
has been wholly gratuitous, and purely
for the sake of the party. My ambition To
win when nominated has been that the old
party in which I was nurtured might again
regain the footing in the grond old State
of New Jersey which it once held, and
which believe II could again hold IL the
will of freemen could be freely expressed.
I should have been proud to have been the
humble means of carrying the old standard
to victory, since it was the wish Of many
that 1 should be that one, but I bow to
the majority and only hope that while 1t Is
not l 1t may be another who will do So"
Some one from Essex, In the delegation
which was supposed to be solid for MIR.
MARITIME. came to him after convention,
and with words of sympathy, said ITS all
right, Jim. You did not win out. but you
will be taken care Of"
With whitening scorn The Farmer orator
turned to the speaker and said "I1i be
taken care of? l don't quite understand
you. If you mean that I sought Office to
be taken care of you are wholly mis-
taken in the one you address. I am able
to raise corn and potatoes enough or my,
farm to make a living, and while I can
do that l hope I shall be above seeking
an office to be taken care Of"
Plalnield's disappointment in the defeat
Of Mr.. MARITIME was so pronounced as to
put a damper on the spirits of his en-
thusiastie supporters last night. So san
guine had they been of his nomination
that plans for a monster jubilee had been
made, and the candidate was to nave been
met at the train, on his arrival from
Trenton, by a crowd to carry him off on
its shoulders, through the city, amid a
blaze of red fire, and bands of music. A
reception and banquet was waiting him,
but in Its place the lights were out and
there was no feeling but of regret over
the result of the convention.
1t is estimated by conservative Repub-
licans NAT the local Republican majority
of LOO would ave been cut down to 300
by Mr.. MARITIME. il he had been the NOM
inee.