The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-10

LEADERS
FOR FORT
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explain the situation and took occasion
to inform the chairmen that the nomi-
nation for Governor would have to
come to Essex County IL substantial
party assistance were to be hoped for
here. His explanation of the reason
for this demand was that some of the
patronage in the county would have to
be preserved to the leaders If the party
was to be saved from going to pieces
in the near future.
To hold the party vote together, he
said, all the attractions possible must
be presented to the voters, and if the
candidate for Governor were an Essex
man the party voters would be more
apt to get out on election day and vote
for the entire ticket than If the candi-
date were from another county.
The Essex man chosen, said Mr..
Dalrymple, would have to be a har-
nonizer. or at least a man against
whom strong objection could not be
raised by any element of the party.
The man most likely to fill the bill in
this particular, Mr.. Dalrymple told the
county leaders. was Justice J. Frank
In Fort, of the Supreme Court, es-
0(AaAf 10 IO was Willie ~ LIG0l6l
the bench and get out and hustle for
election, and would not stand on his
dignity during a campaign, as did JUS
tice Jonathan Dixon when nominated
by the Republicans, and Chancellor
Alexander T. McGill when named by
the Democrats.
That Mr.. Dalrymple knew what he
was talking about in this regard was
proved by vents last Thursday night
in the second ward of East Orange
when the position of the Judge, as an
nounced in a letter to a friend, was
stated. The declaration conceded with
the statement made by the Essex
chairman.
A candidate who will be strong in
Essex is needed, said Mr.. Dalrymple,
because strength will be needed to help
the local candidates. Help for the local
candidates is needed, and especially
to aid the candidate for Board of
Works, because with the county
government and the Common Council
In the hands of the Democrats there
will be left no patronage to the Repub-
leans II the party's Board of Works
candidate is defeated, nj without
patronage the future of the party
would be dismal.
Mr.. Dalrymple is reported to have
told the chairmen that there are more
than four hundred Republicans at the
present time holding jobs under the
board, and that among this number
are more than forty district leaders,
some of whom had to be taken care of
by the Board of Works after being
ousted by the Democratic Common
Council and Board of Freeholders.
If these forty men. especially, are
displaced, there is apt to be some laxity
of interest in the future in regard to
party matters, inasmuch as the district
leaders will not have the same incen-
tive to work that they have when in
office and when they know that they
will have to get out the vote to hold
their jobs.
Supreme interest. therefore, attaches
to the election of the candidate for
Street and Water Commissioner to sue
coed Augustus F. Eggers. the Republi-
can member whose term expires this
year. The Democrats have two repre-
sentatives now, and if a third be
elected they will have a majority n
with 1t control of the board n the
power to GUST all the present Republi-
can placeholders. The majority, more
over, would be held for two years at
least, and the Democrats would have
every incentive to work to remain in
power.
This explanation was listened to with
great interest, according to the ac-
counts of the meeting that were heard
on the inside, and they evidently
proved pretty reasonable to the other
chairmen, who said they realized hat
without a big majority from Essex
County there would be little hope of
capturing the State for Governor.
They were, therefore, inclined to agree
that Essex should nave the man, espe-
cially as Judge Fort is acceptable to
the big Regular leaders.
When Mr.. Dalrymple was asked what
opposition there would be to Judge
Fort. he said that whatever there was
would be easily overcome at the pri-
maries, as Judge Fort was popular.
He had no doubt that the great pre-
po%nderance of Essex delegates to the
State convention would be fighters for
Fort.
Inquiries were made as to how the
New Idea element would take to the
Judge and what were the fighting pos
sibilities of the men behind Sheriff
Frank H. Sommer, Chandler w. Riker
and Justice Mahlon Pitney, all of
whom seemed to nave supporters in
Essex County.
Mr.. Dalrymple is reported to have
stated that Judge Fort would be ac-
cepted as a compromise by them. es-
pecially as the New idea people are
divided among themselves regarding
the choice of a candidate. Judge Fort, he
said, is already acceptable to many
New Idea supporters.
When the. chairmen separated it was
with the sentimen that the nomination
should be given to Essex County and
that the candidate should be Judge
Fort, and it is to that end that senti-
ment is now being created throughout
the State in the party for the Essex
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