Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-28
WILSON ASKED
To Be EXCUSED
Governor Elect Believed to
Favor MARITIME for Senator.
(snecial Correspondence.l

SPSSAN
Trenton, Nov. 28:-Just. before M
left Trenton last night in the company
of Governor Fort to attend the Confer
n Of Governors at Louisville tins
week, DIR. Woodrow Wilson asked to be
excused from talking for publication
about the United States Senatorial sit
uation as it has developed by the eff
forts of former Senator James Smith
Jr., to prevent the Legislature from az.
ouiescing in the popular choice Of
James E. MARITIME as the successor to
John Kean.
Governor-Elect Wilson spent a quiet
day at his home in Princeton yesterday
following his return from Jersey City
and New York where he actually as
sumed the reins of leadership of the
New Jersey Democracy by telling Rob
ert Davis that he (Wilson) was opposed
to the Senatorial candidacy of Mr..
Smith and later in interviews with the
Bergen and Monmouth county legis1a-
tors, urging that the honorable and ex-
pedient thing for the Democrats in the
Legislature to do would be to swing in
line unanimously in support of the di-
rect primary returns. 1t IS an open
secret that DR.. Wilson has taken the
Senatorial bull by the horns and from
now on will be unyielding in his insis-
tence that the Democratic Legislature
regard the vote for Mr.. MARITIME equal
ly as binding, morally upon them as the
other pledges in connection with the
'law-making program. .z..,.~ sD
DR.. Wilson has been strongly inclin-
ed in this direction ever since election,
and all doubt as to the question of
whether it was the proper course to
pursue has been dispelled as he had
come to appreciate the tremendous
forces of public opinion that have been
asserted on the proposition. How in
tensely he has come - feel on this sub
iect is shown in the well founded I'M
d~erstanding that in his talk with Mr..
Davis be made it very plain to the lat
ter that he would regard those who
opposed the election of the candidate
who received the popular vote as enc
mics of the party, to be treated in the
distribution of patronage the same as
out and out republicans. @
1t is known now that DIR. Wilson fore
saw the difficulties that he w0ald en-
as a prospective governor If
Mr.. Smith figured in the situation as an
aspirant for the Senatorship. In the
part of last July, when DR.. VIII
met Richard V. Lindabury and
James R. Nugent, representing Mr..
and Congressman Eugene Kin
kead and Robert s. Hudspath, repre-
senting Mr.. Davis, in New York, and
discussed with them the possibility of
his becoming a candidate for Governor
he asked very bluntly if Mr.. Smith
would be a candidate for the Senator
ship. He was assured u~nqualiiedly that
the Essex man would not seek another
term in the Senate. This assurance was
given by Messrs. Lindabury and Nu-
gent, both giving the impression that
they spoke advisedly and with author
ity.
Parenthetically, it may be stated that
Governor-eleet Wilson entertains no
thought of parcelling out the patronage
he will control in political diekering,
and yet, on the other hand, he is not
so unsophisticated as not to realize the
legitimate uses of the prerogatives of
office to compel adherence to- the
program of public policy to which he
is committed. A democrat who has
talked seriously with Dr.. Wilson about
the political situation, said today that
he was inclined to the view that the
Governor-elect would look upon his ap-
pointments in the light of not distribute
ing one of the offices for tribute to a
boss but using all of the offices if neees-
sary, in defense of the people. against
the bosses.
The MARITIME men feel sure that on his
return from Louisville, DR.. Wilson will
come out in a public declaration in ia
vor of the legislature abiding by the
popular choice and eleeting Mr.. Mar
tine as a successor to Mr.. Kean. Not
wjthstanding these favorable~ceuditions
those who are fighting for the yitalizs-
ton of the principle of direct election
OF Senators are determined to keep Ut
the agitation that is focusing public
opinion in a relentless manner upon tbs
Vaccinations of Senator Smith and his
lieutenants.
Offers have come from prominent
men in several sections of the State tC
hold mass meetings in the view of mar.
shalling public sentiment to influence
members of the legislature who are hes.
itating as to how they will vote on the
Senatorship. 1t is likely that at least
or two meetings of this character
wall be arranged to take place before
the Legislature meets, and it is probable
that a series of meetings will be held
in several of the counties that went
Democratic on election day.
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