Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-01-05
TOFINISH PRESENT TERM
Would Consider Il An Honor to
Serve People at Washing
ton But Prefers Trenton.
CoLsy SAYS 1T is IMPORTANT.
Statement Clears the Atmosphere
Around the Senatorial Situa iOn--
Dryden Men Are Encouraged.

NEW Ahk, Jan. o.--l4dluIOp All
derson, president of the Essex County
Tax Board, went to Trenton to con-
suit with Governor Stokes on mat
ters of taxation. When they had
transacted their business they fell to
discussing the United States sena-
torial situation in this state, and in
the course of their conversation the
governor said:
II should feel honored to serve
the people of my state in the United
States senate, but i never have been
am not now nor will I be a candi-
date for the position while | am gov
ernor of New Jersey"
In order that there might be no
mistake as to his meaning, that he
would not be a candidate in the
present contest, the governor also
said:
II was elected governor of New
Jersey, and / intend, If the Lord
spares my life, to finish out my term. "
The governor opened up the sub
ject of the senatorship by asking Mr..
Anderson what the feeling on the
subject was in Essex, and how mat
ters stood there. Mr.. Anderson told
him what he considered the situation
to be, dwelling upon the position OF
the reform element of the republican
party and repeating the well-known
proposition that Senator Colby would
not vote for Mr.. Dryden. Then the
Essex man referred to the talk of the
governors candidacy which was pre-
vailing throughout the state, when
the governor said he was not a can
didate.
do | understand by this that you
are out of the race, governor" Mr..
Anderson asked the executive, and
the latter uttered the words quoted
above.
Mr.. Anderson asked the governor
If he was at liberty to repeat the
statement to his friends and to make
it public and the governor told him
that he was.
Dryden Men Encouraged.
This positive statement by the gov
ernor of his real position on the SEN
atorial question is taken by the sup
porters of Senator John f. Dryden as
substantiati0n of the claim they
not be candidate against Mr.. Dry
den. For some time the governor S
friends have been urging him to state
definitely whether he would take the
senatorship if he should be elected
by the legislature, but he has de-
clined heretofore to commit himself
beyond saying he was mot candi-
date" The result has been that
4. \ - l..
all parts of the state have been per-
sistently working for his election.
Some of them have declared that
they knew that the governor would
take the place If it came to him and
that he did not believe the prohibit
tion in the constitution against the
election of a governor to the United
States senate during the term for
which he was elected was any bar to
his accepting the honor.
Such arguments, however, were
not productive of the result the gov
ernor's friends hoped for, and mem
bers of the legislature who declared
that they were warm admirers of the
governor and would gladly support
him for senator could not conscien-
tiously vote for him this year, in
view of the constitutional prohibi-
tion The governors friends believed
that were he not the occupant of the
executive department he could be
elected
There are those who believe that
the enthusiasm with which the pro-
position to elect Spreme Court JUS
tice Mahlon Pitney TO the senatorship
has been received during the past few
days among the opponents of Mr..
Dryden may have convinced the
friends of the governor that much of
the anti-Dryden strength which ii
was expected to concentrate upon the
governor would go to the jurist from
Morris.
In view of the refusal of the gov
ernor to be considered a candidate
and the opposition that exists to Mr.
Dryden's reelection, 1t is considered
within the possibilities that the legis-
lature might not be able to elect a
United States senator at the session
this year.
The constitution of the United
States provides that where a vacancy
exists in state, the legislature OF
which state is not in session, the gov
ernor may appoint a senator to fill
the place temporarily, but 1t has been
held that this provision affects only
such vacancies as are due To deaths
or designations and not to the natur-
al expiration of term
It is probable, therefore, that il
Dryden cannot win, his supporters
may try to prevent anybody elsd get
ting the prize, preferring to defa# the
award until the legislature Of zD8.
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