The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-20
PRINCE AND
M RTIN TO
BOSS HOUSE
And Parker Will Probably
Be Clerk Threat Against
Morgan.
fFrom a stan correspondent.l

nave considerable to say about things
that concern the government of the
State through his own executive office
and in connection with the Legislature,
Is h opinion of those who yesterday
watched the slate-making and slate
breaking which late in the day event
uated in the tentative selection of John
ID. Prince, Of Passaic, as speaker, and
Assemblyman-elect William P. Martin,
OF Essex. as majority leader.
During the forenoon 1t seemed to
be anybody's race, and affairs were be
coming even more complicated than
last week. The Essex delegation was
fresh from the conference of Monday
night seeking to have Mr.. Mar
tin selected as leader, blu 1t was not
very long before the boom fell fiat out
side the Essex contingent. The plan
of making Assemblyman Frank B.
Jess, of Camden, leader, then tool root.
Booms were then sprung for Mr.. Prince
as speaker. and later for Assemblyman
John d. Moxon, of Union. The Moxon
boom had mysterious strength. Then
came a change that had Mr.. Jess
speaker and Mr.. Martin leader. Thus
the changes were rung until there came
the understanding that Uncle Dan
voorhees,, Colonel Samuel d. Dickinson
and "Davy" Baird had agreed that
the Prince-Jess combination was sat
isfactory to them, with Captain James
Parker as clerk of the House.
The Essex men got busy at once, and
1t was not long before Governor-elect
Fort vas missed suddenly from the
conference room in the Court of Errors
and Appeals. He had gone to Supreme
Court Clerk William Riker's office with
United States Senator Frank O. Briggs.
Pretty soon Mr.. Riker left the office
and went to the corridors, where
County Chairman Alfred N. Dalrymple
was working hard for MIR. Martin for
the leadership. A few words and Mr..
Dalrymple went to the Supreme Court
clerks office and was closeted with the
Governor-elect and Senator Briggs for
a time.
This conference was not generally
known of, but those who were ON
took 1t to mean that Mr.. Dalrymple
was being called off in his work for
Mr.. Martin, so the Prince and Jess ar
rangement went higher and higher.
None of the conferees would tell what
had occurred at the conference. Gov
ernor-elect Fort maintained that no or
ganization matters were discussed. and
that Mr.. Dalrymple "just happened in"
No one took exception to this explana-
ton, but after luncheon the nature of
that conference was learned. 1t is I'M
that instead of wanting Mr..
Dalrymple to cease his efforts in behalf
of Mr.. Martin, both Senator Briggs and
the mex Governor urged him to go on.
Az amy rofo Mr. Do1rvoaDIo onf
busier than ever after the talk. The
Governor-elect went out to luncheon
with his former associates on SUI
preme Court bench, with whom he had
been in consultation during the fore
noon. He returned about 2:30 o'clock, inn
mediately going to the Office of Gov
ernor Stokes.
Prosecutor William H. Spear, of Hud-
son, who has his boom out for a judge
ship, made the most of the few minutes
conversation, but neither would tell the
nature of their talk.
In the meantime the Voorhees-Dick
inson-Baird conference was going on in
the State T~reasurer's Office, with Mr..
Dalrymple as the principal pleader for
Mr.. Martin. 1t is said that Mr.. Dali
rymple told the leaders that the advo-
cacy of Mr.. Martin was no fake" and
that really and truly the Essex delega-
ton desired to see Mr.. Martin leader.
1t is said that the Essex County chair
man told them what influence was be-
hind the Essex man, mentioning the
conference Of noon, and hat the pur-
pose was to make enduring the har-
mony in Essex County, so as to insure
success next year.
AT first 1t is said that the triuInvi-
rate did not want to break the slate
they said they could elect. but the Es-
sex contingent remained latest of all
the legislators about the Governors Of
fee to get frequent reports from their
leader, Mr.. Dalrymple, who was rum
ming In and out of the office.
It finally came out that the State lead
ers were bending toward Mr.. Martin, and
all seemed well.
1t was said that the Essex people
threatened that il Mr.. Martin was not
made leader they would throw their IN
fiuence against the reappolntment OF ).
Willard Morgan as State Comptroller, for
which he is said to be slated. If South
Jersey would not give the leadership, a
North Jersey man would be made state
Comptroller.
Clerk In Chancery Vivian M. Lewis
who is engineering the Prince boom, was
called in or went into the office. 1t is
said that a proposition was made to MIN
to drop Mr.. Prince for the speakersnlp
and to take the clerkship Of the House for
James Parker, who is from Passaic.
Whether the Passaic leader refused abso-
lutuely or not is not known, but IT - I'M
derstood that the Passaic support Is lot
Mr.. Prince in preference to Mr.. Parker.
As soon as the Prince-Jess boom was an
nounced about noon Captain Parker pc
| gan to work with a vim against MI
Prince. thinking that If the s~peakersnlp
went to Passaic the clerkship could not.
When it was announced that the Prince
Martin slate had been agreed upon a man
high mp III the councils of his party SAID
that it looked rs IL Upton Jeferys, OF
Camden, might be named for the clerk
ship.
The scene Of the conference shifted, ano
upstairs on the second floor in the sn-
preme Court clerks office Sheriff Frank
II Sommer, Lathrop Anderson and senator
Briggs, who were engineering the Martin
boom, were running in and out.
The heads Of the slate were decided
upon, but there was still some discussion
as to the clerkship. 1t was said that Pas
sale was opposed to Mr.. Parker for sew,
eral reasons, and it was even said tna'
Essex Jill not want him, but nothihe
definite could be obtained.
When the last of the New Idea CON
ferees left Trenton on the S;4t o-cloeh
L 80 - Ia n a m a