Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-07-29
WILSON BOOM
is B0THERING
REPUBLICANS

Trenton, July 29:-As soon as
they read DR.. Woodrow Wilson's an
-nouneemeDt of his willingness to
have his name considered in connec-
ton with the democratic nomination
for the gevernorship of New Jersey,
the republican managers ran a
sponge over the slate they had writ
ten for the coming campaign and
made up their minds that they would
have to begin all over again. They
naturally jumped to the conclusion
that the Princeton chief would not
have gone to the point of making
public avowaI of his consent If he
had not received assurances that
the democratic nomination was at
his command, and they guessed
right away, that, if they would save
the state from capture, they must
find a name as imposing as his to
head their ticket.
Never suspecting that so COM
handing a personality would be
Iplaced at the head of the democratic
forces, they had practically agreed
previously to tet their namination
go to Vivian Lewis, now State Com
missioner of Banking and Insurance.
| Nnt. LS~lo Is COhoVQ uChkiS DCihb
gently pressed aside with assurances
hat if DR.. Wilson should not run
after all, he will be trotted into the
limelight again.
Former Supreme Court Justice
Gilbert Collins was mentioned as a
possibility till some one suggested
that his wide reputation rs a corpor-
alton lawyer might be brought up
against him. State Senator Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen. of Somerset, has
been mentioned for the place.
Chancellor Mahlin Pitney, of Nor
ristown, when asked to run, said
that it took him many years to learn
how to be a judge, and that he is
not disposed to go to school again
to learn how to be a governor.
And now they are saying what a
grand thing 1t would be to make 1t
a school campaign all around" by
matching President Wilson, of
Princeton, with Professor Prince, of
tOolumbia-the state senator who
can talk to his Passaic constituents
in MANY languages. This plan isn't
| taken seriously, though Princeton
being a New Jersey institution, Prof.
Prince would be handicapped from
the start,
The truth of the matter is that
the republicans of New Jersey were
never. more at sea than they are over
DR.. Wilson's candidacy. There are
some disheartened ones among them
men skilled in gauging public sen
timent@yho say hat if President
Wilson is named by the democrats
the republicans may as well put up
Lewis for all the chance there will
be of their eleeting any one. They
see in the Wilson movement the
same kind of a popular ~upheaval
that forced the democratic state
bosses of that day to take Cleveland
as their candidate for the presi-
dency in 1884, ana that gave him
the electoral tote of the state.
Ex-senator johnson Eliminated.
Their first quest for a name was
begun in Bergen county. The repuh-
licans tried to drag ex-senator Will
liam M. Johnson, First Assistant
Postmaster General under Mckinley,
from retirement. The former sem
ator could have been governor in
stead of Fort these last three years,
If he had but said the word, but he
was unable to undergo the fatigues
of a state campaign. He is no better
able to suffer them today than he
was then, and had to decline to
make the run. The party leaders
solicited both Murphy and Stokes to
step into the breach for them. Meth
er is disposed to take the chances.
Stokes might, if Senator Briggs
would consent to it. But Stokes is
President of Briggs bank. and might
lose his job If he were to insist upon
going into the State House again.