Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-13
900 DELEGATES
AREF0RW WILSON
That Is the Claim Now
Made by the Smith Men
Among Democrats.

Especial Correspondence.l


Trenton, Sept. 13:-Although
desperate efforts are being made to
keep the democratic state conven-
| from nominating DR.. Woodrow
Wilson for governor. former Senator
James Smith, Jr., who is managing
the fight in behalf of the college
president, is sure that he will be
able to swing the state convention
into line for his favorite.
Senator Smith during the last few
y has been having conferences
with democratic leaders from nearly
every county in the state and it Is
said that he claims to now have
more than 900 Of the 1876 dele
gates who will meet here next
Thursday tied III to the WILSON
boom.
While Mr.. Smith thinks his side
will have a walk-over in the conven-
ton, the Wilson men are work
Ing harder than ever to prevent
Essex and Hudson counties from
dominating the convention In favor
of DR.. Wilson. Robert Davis, the
Hudson county democratic boss, has
not yet publicly announced where
he stands with reference to the CUB
ernatorial question, but it is COM
monty understood that he will stand
for Wilson. In the event of a coali-
ton between Hudson and Essex in
favor of Wilson it would only re-
quire a few other counties to come
In line to make the latter's nomina-
ton sure.
Mayor Wittpenn, of Jersey City,
and his friends declare that Davis
will not be able to control a major
1ty of the Hudson county delegation
n that In this view the Wilson
boom Is much weaker than it's ad-
herents claim. Wittpenn claims
thai he will capture a majority of
the Hudson county delegates, while
over in Senator Smiths own BALI
wick, Essex county, the Harrigan
faction insist hat they will capture
a large number of delegates who
will certainely not line up in favor
of anything wanted by the Smith
Nugent faction.
The Key to manipulating the con-
vention one way or another-in a
word, to make the convention record
a thing opposed by a majority of the
acknowledgements in the hands Of
the mar who Is chosen as temporary
chairman of the convention. The
temporary chairman may, if he so
wills, direct the organization of the
convention In such a way as to whip
a majority of the delegates into the
position of being in the minority.
Holding this fact in view the meeting
Of the Democratic State Committee
tomorrow night will be of great i'm
portance and significance, for its
mann hnrc will dnoida wI1 nhcNI ~
the temporary officers of the conven-
ton. 1t is practically certain that
Senator Smith. who will himself be
here to direct the fight for DR..
Woodrow Wilson, will see to it that
the State Committee s~eelcts as tenn
porary chairman a man who may be
depended upon to run the opening of
the convention with an iron hand
along lines laid down by Smith.
Democratic conventions have al
ways been noisy, scrappy affairs, and
the one scheduled for Thursday
promises to be as likely as any ever
held in previous years. There are
plenty of men in the Katzenbach,
Wittpenn and Silzer camps who
promise to put up the ~stiffest kind of
a fight In the convention to prevent
the nomination of DR.. Wilson. Sena-
tor Smith realizes the kind of a fight
he will have to face in Trenton on
Thursday, and he knows that there
will be some tense incidents in the
convention. From experience he
knows that the convention will be
full of disorder ad be~ligerency, but
as In other times when he has held
the whip hand in the state commit
tee he plans to have the convention
presided over by a chairman who
will be %unyielding in having things
recorded according to the slate that
will be o. KID in the Wilson head
quarters, ever though 1t is impossi-
BILE to stem the talk that will be in
dulged in.