New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
LEWIS RIVAL FOR WlS)N
Jersey Republicans May Name
Him for Governor.
CONVENTION TOMORROW
Frelinghuysen Another Candl-
date-Wilson to Speak in All
Counties of State.

TFrora ths Regular Correspondent Of The Irlcul1s
Trenton. y J. sept. IA Republican
candidate for Governor. who. IT Is expected.
will s-rcccssfuIIr oppose Woodrow Wilson,
the Tler71ocratir candidate win he named at
tho Rrrrrb1icau state Convention which viii
be falJ at tire Tsylor Opera House here On
T'r1esda- afternoon. The total number OF
votes in the convention will be 97S. but
more than thousand delegates viii take
r7rt Eo1ue having cnfv fraction of vote.
owing 10 the basis of representation
From present indications Vivian NJ. Lewis,
of Paterson Banking aud Insurance Com
missioner. viii be the candidate ssiseted-
but il is said that his nomination IS py ho
neaus assured. as some important dcFeiop-
merits are expected TO take place al tHs
meeting Of the state committee tomorrow 5
which NAV result in a new name being
placed before the delegates.
DESPITE tIie fact that the machine leaders
are now practically lined I'D for Lewis, the
friends Of Joseph S. FreIinghuysen are go
ing to present his name to the convention
and make 4 fight for his selection. There
has also been considerable talk of present
ing the name of Chancellor Mahion PftneE'
and while tIe latters friends assert that
he is In no sense a candidate, il Is under-
stood that lie is in q receptive mood ana
would accept the nomination If II were
rendered him. The Chancellor Is sH OK
perienced campa aigner, having served as q
member OF Congress and as a member Of
the Nev JERSEY Senate before going on the
bench He is a Princeton alHmnus-
The Progressfves will present the name OF
fnrn,er AggemhIvrnan William P Martin,
not with any hope of having him chosen,
however. as the real fight of the Colby1tes
will be for Progressive platform. They
win insist on pIanks favoring the extension
Of the direct nominations law, a public uttl-
tiles commission with rate making and
physical valuation powers, the MaSsachu-
setts ballot and other reforms for which
ttev have been fighting. While II Is IN
derS+ood that every effort will be made TO
nscif-- the Progressives, they viii not get
all they ask for. which means that they
will fight IT out on the floor Of the conYen-
tiou.
Final ar-range emeuts fpr tho convention
viii be made al the meeting Of the state
committee here Tomorrow afternoon, when
i is expected. Attor1s- General Edmund
". Wilson viii be asked 10 preside.
The meeting of the state committee VIII
be ANYTHING but tame affair. for rum
blings are now heard which portend one of
the storn1iest gatherings in years. The
hone Of contention wiz he the vote for
Tinted States Senator 81 the recent pri-
uaries. and so bitter 9~o the friends o.
David Baird and Senator hesn against
Chairman Murphv for having taken part III
the primaries that an attempt may be
made TO dspose III Is Chairman
Roth Baird and EAean are candidates, but
thev refused 70 alo- cir names 70 ne
printed on the prtmary ballots, and they
devoted all their energies N having their
followers ignore ths Law altogether. In
spite of their efforts, however. more than
one hundred thousand Republicans ex-
pressed q preference for either Murphy,
Stokes or Fowler. the three candidates who
did run at the primaries.
In all more than 50 per cent OF the 194, COO
Republicans who voted for Governor Fort
vent 10 the primaries, and this It is held,
proves conrlusively that majority OF the
Repubiicans of the state approve OF the
law and -raut their representative IN the
: legislature 10 stand BY the result
II fg proba bic that an attempt VII be
made at the state committee meeting 70
bs,-s a resolution adopted calling on the
Republican lawmakers 10 support the can
di5a+a Receiving the highest vote ar the
Of course, Baird and kean viii
7z,+ 4 resolution Of this SORT "a hard as
tf7e,- know how for they still cherish the
F7ors that the next Legislature will choose
= United States Senator in the old way
and thus violate q platform pledge made
when Governor Fort was nominated, three
years ago.
The platform 10 he adopted or TuesdaE
II iz pointed out. will have 10 contain some
EXPRESSION on the election of United States
Senators, and it is going 10 be q hard task
70 draft plank of this kind with the
l.uov1edgc that If Baird and Kean nave
their way IT will he nullifed when th@
I LEGISLATURE meets