Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-10-22
THE TRENTON
LETTER
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE PRESS

Trenton, October lS.-Governor Wood
row Wilson or Governor Vivian Nj. Lewis
as the case may be, will have the largest
amount Of patronage to hand out during
the three-year term of Office that it has
ever been Governors pleasure, or other
wise, i'll the history of the State of New
Jersey. In the years of 1911, 1912 and
1913 the Governor of the State will have
the distribution of more than 500 official
positions, with salaries ranging from
$4,000. The aggregate of salaries to be
paid to appointees of the next Governor
will 20 well over the million dollar mark.
One of the peculiarities about the
next administration, if it is a Democratic
one, will be that Governor Wilson will
have Republican Attorney General, rs
the term of the incumbent, Edmund
Wilson, vii leXtend over the full term of
the next Governor and will expire on
January %, 1914, few days after the
expiration of the chief executives term
of Office The office of the Attorney
General of the State is, perhaps, more
closely connected than that of any other
to the duties of the Governor. In the
case of the election of Mr.. Lewis, At
torney General Wilson would, no doubt,
be perfectly agreeable, as they are very
close friends at the present time.
With the gubernatorial campaign ut
the halfway point the State Republican
managers have become convinced i'll their
own minds that one OF the most vulner
able points i'll the candidacy of Woodrow
Wilson is the charge that if elected he
will be under obligations to the old Dem
ocratic bosses and out OF whose environ
ment he will not be able to elevate him
self as chief executive. This conclusion
is so strong with Senator Briggs, Chair
man of the Republican State Committee,
and his political advisers, that from now
until November Sth an intense and con
tinued effort will be made to convince
the voters of New Jersey that if they
elect DIR. Wilson Governor they will be
strengthening the political hold of such
men as former Senator James Smith, Jr.,
James r. Nugent, Robert Davis and their
allies. The word has gone forward from
the.Republican State Committee head
quarters for stump speakers engaged in
advancing the candidacy of Vivian NJ.
Ic"lo " pay W prominently IL theiA
discussions the prominence of Smith, Nj
gent, Davis, ct ais. The Republican
point of view at the present time is that
if the voters can be convinced that DR..
Wilson's candidacy is but a shield to
putting the old Democratic leaders back
iii control OF the State administration
neither the character nor the personality
of the Democratic standard bearer, nor
anything that he may declare from the
stump, vii lavailrto prevent the election
of Mr.. Lewis and republican majority
in the Legislature.
50 far as Mr.. Lewis himself is con
cerned, it is not considered eXpedient or
wise that he should drift away from
the line of discussion that he has al
ready confined himself to, which does not
include any reference to the political in
lluences that brought about the nominal
tion of his opponent. Mr.. Lewis will
continue to frame his speeches without
any aspersions upon the origin of the
Wilson boom or how the Princeton man
was nominated The fact that Chair
man Nugent has been constantly at the
elbow of DR.. Wilson during his cam
paigning, and is apparently the chief ad-
wiser of the latter ill the heat of the
gubernatorial canvass, will be the prime
ple keynote of the attacks decided upon
by the Republican leaders.
Although he is not willing to indulge
in figures, Chairman Briggs saws that
the campaign has progressed far enough
to make it sure in his mind that Mr.
Lewis will be elected. Mr.. Briggs says
that in the lineup of counties, Mercer
and Monmouth which three years ago
were carried for Katzenbach, will this
year be found in the Republican column.
He says that Atlantic and Passaic coun-
ties will roll up at least 20O0 votes each
more for Lewis than they did for Fort.
Fort carried the State by S000," ex-
planned Mr.. Briggs. If we start with
that and then add 5000 gain, We are
sure to make in the counties l have men
toned. it will take bigger loss than
even the pessimists say we will meet in
Essex and other North Jersey counties
to wipe out our long lead"
Although he has several times broadly
intimated that he would stand for
Unp election Vi lOlineI bONSlHOl "
Stokes to the United States Senate as
successor to John Kean, State Senator
Harry d. Leavitt, of Mercer, who is 4
candidate for reelection, came out open
ly over his own signature yesterday and
stated that it was his purpose if re-
elected to vote for Mr. Stokes. He is the
only Republican Senator who has thus
far committed himself to abide by the
result of the direct primary voting. Sen
ator Leavitt says that during the prim-
airy campaign he promised to be bound
in the United States Senatorship contest
by the way the Mercer county Repub-
licans voted on the proposition.
Senator Briggs is being besieged with
requests from all parts of the state to
assign former Governor John W. Griggs
as a speaker for the Republican mass
meetings that are being arranged to ad-
vance the candidacy of Vivian NJ. Lewis
for Governor The idea seems to prevail
among many of the county Republican
leaders that Mr.. Griggs is the big orator
ical gun whose services are greatly need
ed in the G. 0. P. camp, and the one
man who is especially fitted to effectively
answer the arguments made upon the
stump by Woodrow Wilson.