Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-11
ENDORSEMENT
OF FOWLER IS
NOT LIKELY
u to the EVENING NEWS.

Spec4ut 10 me NE VS..
Trenton, Aug. 11:-"You can say
for me that / am very much graft
fed at the stand taken by Mr.. Muir
ply in his relation to the question Of
who shall be selected to represent
New Jersey in the United States
senate at the. expiration of John
Kean's term" said former Governor
Edward c. Stokes yesterday after
noon when the NEWS correspondent
asked him for an expression of opin-
ion about the formers challenge to
Mr.. Kean and David Baird to submit
their senatorial candidates. to a
vote of the people at the direct pri-
maries on September 10, next.
From the very outset l have be-
lieved that the voters of the state
ought to be permitted to settle the
question of who will be their next
United States senator" continued
Mr.. Stokes, land SO far as / am con-
cerned l have, Of course, never en-
tertained any notion about getting
into the senatorial fight on a basis
other than submitting my name as a
candidate to a direct vote of the
people, having faith that the legis-
lature would respect the wishes of
the people. Now that Mr.. Murphy
proposes doing the same thing, l am
greatly pleased. His attitude, as ex-
pressed in his letter to Messrs. Kean
and Baird, will doubtless make it
seem polite for the latter two gen.
tlemen to also avail themselves of
the direct primary plan. Such a re-
suit will be very pleasing to me-, as
all h republican aspirants for the
senatorial office will then be on the
same political footing and we will be
able to have a fair and thorough
contest before the republican voters
of the state"
While Mr.. Stokes was talking to
the correspondent about the Murphy
challenge ne fingered a number OF
sheets of paper which contained a
tentative statement that he is pre-
pairing to submit to the voters of the
state coincident with the filing of
his petitions with the secretary of
state under the provisions of the
direct primary law. According to
present plans, he will formally an
nounce his candidacy for the senate
not later than the first of next week
n simultaneously petitions con-
tanning several thousand names will
be filed to conform to the primary
law.
The petitions requesting that Mr..
Stokes name be submitted to- the
people under the primary law, which
were circulated in Cumberland, his
home county, have been completed
and ready for filing with the secre-
tary of state for several weeks. Yes
terday petitions were distributed
among friends of the former COVER
nor for circulation in Mercer and
bergen counties. Other counties In
which Stokes petitions are being
circulated at present are Warren,
Essex, Salem, Gloucester, Monmouth,
| Middlesex, Burlington, Sussex, Cape
May, Ocean, Hunterdon and Passaic.
] Up to the present no petitions have
been circulated in Hudson, Union,
Atlantic and Camden counties.
Under the primary law, all petit
tions requesting the printing of
names of candidates for the United
States senate on the official ballots
to be used on September 10. must
be filed with the secretary of state
twenty days before primary day.
This fixes Saturday, August "a. as
the last day on which senatorial petit
lions may be filed. One thousand
signatures of qualified voters are re-
CURED to compel the printing of a
senatorial candidates name on the
official primary ballots.
There is small likelihood of Rem
resentative Charles N. Fowler get
ting a formal endorsement from the
republican progressives as a candi-
date for the United States senate.
Mr.. Fowler has been setting his DO
litical sails SO as to catch an en-
dorsement, but the progressives are
wary of running into serious shoals
by boarding the formers craft and
he will be left to work himself into
a safe port.
The P~rogressives plan to let the
voters decide the question of the
senatorshfp so far as they are con-
cerned. At least, this is the position
to be taken by the Essex county
progressive aspirants for member
ship in the House of Assembly next
winter. These candidates will get
together in Newark tonight and If
is planned that they will then take
a pledge to vote for the senatorial
aspirant who receives the greatest
number of votes at the Forthcoming
primaries. In doing this they will
not stand as the special friends OF
n of the men who want to succeed
John Kean in the upper house of
congress.
Several Of the Progressive candi-
dates for the legislature are men ex-
perienced in the state law-makine
body, among them being William
Fellowes Morgan, Eliot e Ford
Henry G.. Hines and Philip Walsh,
Jr. These men have served hereto
fore as members Of the House of
Assembly, having been elected as
new idea" devotees. There is a de-
mand for Colonel Austin Colgate To
again make a fight for a Legislative
office, but 1t is hardly likely that he
will do SO because he has given his
consent to run as the republican can.
didate for mayor of Orange. There
is also some talk about irving to
induce Colonel Colgate to run as an
anti-Cannon candidate for congress
In the Seventh district. 1t is said
George H. Austin, of East Orange,
will be the "insurgent'' a~spirant for
the republican congressional berth
in the Eighth district.