The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-19
Reformcrs Ask That Incom
ing Executive Be Named
for Second Place.

JERSEY CITY, Dec. 1s.-With the
formal Endorsement of Gov%ernor-elect
John Franklin Fort for the Re-
publican nomination for Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States by the Fagar
| wing Of the G. O. P. in Hudson coun-
ty last night. New Jersey has stepped
into the present day arena of national
politics. The Hudson Republican Gen.
trail Committee at a meeting in its
headquarters in Jersey City, amid
tumultuous cheering, adopted resolu-
lions offered by Mayor Mark M. Pagan
fixing upon Mr.. Fort as its unanimous
choice for the second place on the
ticket to be put in the field at the Chi
cago convention next June.
1t was former Judge Fort who nom-
mated the late Carrot A. HOBART, of
this State, for Vice-President when
the martyred William Mckinley was
made the party's standard-bearer at
a convention in Chicago in the gloomy
days of 1895. The attitude of the men
who have placed themselves behind the
boom for Fort is that New Jersey Is
entitled to recognition in the makeup
of the next national ticket, and that In
the Governor-elect they have the man
for the place.
The Pagan men held hat in all prob
ability the nominee for the Presidency
would be chosen from the men of the
middle or far West and that the East
should furnish the Vice-Presidential
candidate. Mayor Pagan, in present.
ing the resolution to his fellow par
a. .a1~-tuzH TA- - n n ~
spotless record as a Supreme Court
justice and one of ability to fill the
highest Office in the gift of the people.
He designated him as a representative
Republican whose ideals are high and
whose thought and actions are pro-
gressive and In keeping with the times.
Immediately after the election Of
last month. when Fort was chosen
Governor by a plurality Of 5000 after
one of the bitterest campaigns In
years, the suggestion was made in this
county that he should be put forward
for the Vice-Presidency. No
agement was given to the idea by Mr..
Fort himself. and his friends who were
inclined to look with favor on the
proposition were loath to advocate 1t
openly.
The Governor-elect's name is the
first to be placed prominently before
the Republican voters as a V~ice-Presi-
Dental possibility. 1t is probable that
unless he declines to permit 1t there
will be further Endorsements by organ
izations throughout the State and that
the boom will gain formidable strength
before the delegates, in the
Windy City seven months hence.
Fort is known in national politics.
Before he vas appointed to the bench
ten years ago he had figured in a num-
Der of national Republican conventions,
and had been mentioned for high APP
pointive offices in the gift of the Presi-
dent. He was chairman of the commit
tee that in the Mckinley Chicago con-
vention presented the report reading ].
Edward Addicks out of the party. He
has travelled a good deal and has taken
the political stump in State and ma
tional campaigns.
He nominated Carrot A. Hobart fer
ice-President at st. Louis in 1896.
The resolution adopted by the Jersey
City Pagan committee is as follows:
Whereas, 1t is probable that at the next
national Republican convention the candi-
date selected for President and the plat
form adopted will make available for the
nomination for Vice-President some man
from this section of the country; and
whereas, The State OF New Jersey has
among its public men a statesman eminent
ly qualified for such nomination and whose
nomination would greatly strengthen tho
party In this State,
Resolved, That it Is the intention OF this
committee that the delegates elected to the
ensuing national convention should endeavor
by all available means to secure the nom
nation of Governor-elect j. Franklin Fort
as the candidate of the Republican party
for the office Of Vice-President of the
United States.''