The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-24

David Baird is a character. Like
Seweil, who held the reins in Sluth Jer-
sey before him, Davy Is an Irishman.
And Davy rules a section of New Jer-
sey not overstocked with Irish n their
descendants. But 1t all goes to show
the genius of the irish for the political
game. As has been often said: The
Irish rule every lane except Ireland
Mr.. Baird has tact, shrewdness. 10y
atty and courage. And If you juggle
with these words YOU win spell out the
secret of his supremacy in South Jer-
sey. Mr.. Baird has, moreover. an Irish
heart n a South Jersey conscience.
His brogue trips you when you attempt
to disentangle his thought combi-
nations.
Baird is a born leader. When others
are shaking in their saddles or biting
the dust Baird sits calm and collected.
His warhorse does not ever neigh. 1t
Is not clothed in the terrors of battle
II just Frances around the State House
and it's august occupant.
Some say it Is a black horse that
Davy Baird rides. Be that as it may,
he rides well. He is the most potent
and most secure Republican leader IN
New Jersey. we Will not waste space
e~numerating the counties he controls.
There are men on high places sitting
up late o. nights figuring out his forces
and how he intends to WELD them. For,
like all great generals. Baird has
wrapped the future in mystery. Per-
haps he will and perhaps he won't.
But when the time .Davy will
deliver the goods and he will deliver
them exactly where he gave his word
that they would go. That is why the
fishing season has opened early!
Davy Makes u speech.
Overcome by the clam cocktails which
he consumed, Davy made a speech. 1t
was eloquent in what he did not say.
IL corporations have no souls. their
henchmen have no tongues. Bismarck
said of Won Moltke that "he knew how
to keep silent IN seven languages"
Dayy Baird knows how to keep silent
in eve newspapers. Which is the
more difficult?
Those who study Shakespeare deeply
pretend to find a cypher which %unravels
the real communication of the great
poet. Those who study Davy Baird's
Runlson speech have settled on one ex-
preston as q cipher suggestion.
Davy, with a twinkle In his shrewd
eyes. said. Il am Irish and McCarter
is red-headed; it Is a hard combination
to beat" The question forces itself:
rs anyone trying to beat 1T? Or just
what do these pregnant words fore
shadow?
But Dayy will smile. Won Moltke and
Shakespeare were great men. The
Rumson is a beautiful spot. No one
should be held too closely for the privl-
words uttered at a hosDitable
board. Cold philosophy and starving
patriotism are to be found only at the
dollar dinners.
And the guests at the Rumson din
ner! There was Dayy Baird; but there
were Others. You might almost ex-
haust the political Who's Who of the
New Jersey Republican party, IL the
were not eonstructively down
South. The list extended all the way
down to the nonentities that represent
Monmouth county in the Legislature--s
queer company for the aristocratic Me-
Carter. the very Confusion of democ-
But even ~nonentities have votes.
Naughts in their proper place some
times make thousands.
And let us recall that 1t is no longer
McCarter. Of Essex. but MeCarter, of
Monmouth. 1t Is we'll for a candidate to
have his own county.
Well, the game ~ on. But il takes a
long arm to bag a United states Sena-
torship from the top of a trolley-poIe.
A SUBMERGED DEMOCRAT,