The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-10-18
WILSON THE INNOCENT
Griggs Laughs at Candidates
Ignorance Of Political Methods.

At an informal reception given to
Vivian NJ. Lewis by the Union league
in Hackensack Wednesday night, oct.
., former Attorney General John w
Griggs made spirited attack upon
the Democratic candidate. He said:
THE man who is running for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket and
who is going about the state speaking
without opposition said the other day
at Trenton that there was no Repub-
lican party, that we are now insur-
gents and standpatters He will find
on election day that there is Repub-
lican party. He speaks of Insurgents
and standpatters. He is theorist and
academician. There are no insur-
gents in the Republican party. All
the differences that existed between
the Republicans were settled at the
state convention at Trenton when a
candidate for governor was selected
and a platform adopted. All loyal Re
publieans are now simply Republicans.
They stand pat on the candidate and
the admirable platform that was
adopted, that began with an indorse-
nient Of the admirable administration
of President Taft, who in the short
period he has been president of the
United States has secured more eff
Gent progressive legislation in the in
terest of the people of the country
than was ever enacted in so short a
time since the emergency measures
following the war of the rebellion.
"Dr. Wilson made some remarks in
Trenton the other night on the fact
that within times past members of the
Republican party have assumed, i'm
properly, according to him, to confer
with members of the legislature as to
what measures were wise and impor-
tant. / should like to have Mr. Will
son state to the public what part or
lot Mr.. Nugent and ex-senator Smith
will have in the management of the
affairs of the state if he is elected
A voice in the corner suggested,
s'They'll run the whole shooting
match" Continuing, the speaker said:
IF Mr.. Wilson cannot find out who
is responsible for his nomination
would have him look over the files of
the Newark Evening News and Pater-
SON Guardian of the last summer
months before he was nominated.
They were telling the people that Jim
Smith and the rest of the old gang
were trying to work Wilson into the
game for their own benefit, and they
would have none of it. OF course they
stand for it now. They always do.
IF Mr. Wilson does not succeed by
that method let him consult with
Colonel Harvey of New York, who
was a protege and business associate
of William @. Whitney and Mr. Ryan
at the time when they were balloon
ing the securities of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company of New York
and at time when they We're dealing
out contributions to the members of
the New York legislature irrespective
of party. And then will Mr.. Wilson
tell us just what part or lot Mr.. Har-
vey is to have in his counsels and leg
islation after he is elected governor?
HE is TOO innocent or too ignorant
of modern political history in New
Jersey to be criticised. He wrote a
very learned, history of the people Of
the United States pIor to 1895. He
has written book of five volumes,
all bearing on our history prior to
1895, but is not very familiar with
modern conditions in our own state.
He appeals to the people of the
state to vote for him without regard
to party, and yet he stated at Trenton
that he never voted a Republican
ticket don't know whether he has
even voted the Democratic ticket. But
all through the Bryan campaign Of '96,
when the very foundation of our finan-
cial system was at crisis, when
many thousand loyal Democrats for
sock their party to support the Re
publicans, Professor Wilson admits
that he didn't vote against Bryan.
"If that commends him to Repub-
licans or any independent man in this
state l am very sorry for that mans
political sagacity. He appeals to in
dependent voters of this class, and yet
b, states he didn't help in this work"