Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-27
PROGRESSNES 0. K
v. 7. MARTIN AS
G. 0. P CANDIDATE
After Mysterious Talk With
I. R. E~x-Assemblyman Gets
Leagues Endorsement.

Brimful of confidence as to the OUT
come of his gubernatorial candidacy
and wearing the self satisfied smile
which adorned his countenance after
a half hours confidential talk with
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt earlier in
the day, William Parmenter Martin
last night addressed an enthusiastic
meeting of the Bergen County Progress
sive League at it's headquarters in
Hackensack.
Just what t~ranspired at the interview
with the former President in the Out-
look building for the present is known
only to Colonel Roosevelt, Mr.. Martin
and William Fellowes Morgan. who ae-
companied him.
The standard-bearer of the Progress
sives, who expects not only to secure
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor, but to be elected as we'll. made
no effor. to conceal the fact that he
was pleased with the result of the in
terview.
"Perhaps the Colonel VIII Say"
SIT was a confidential talk said Mr..
Martin, and If 1t is to be discussed at
all it will be by Colonel Roosevelt owe
his w signature, perhaps. and not by
me-"
Not another word would Mr.. Martin
utter in connection with the interview,
not even to Lathrop Anderson, vice.
president of the Progressive League.
who accompanied him to the Haeken-
sack meeting.
The latter was a big affair with
every section of the county represent
81 n~l ~a ,N- ell r1-An
showed that the Progressives are very
much in evidence in Bergen county
and propose to give the Regulars the
fight of their lives. They are all. or
nearly all, commuters. and propose to
have in the mex legislature a senator
and two assemblymen that may De re-
lied upon to protect the people rather
than the railroads.
Martin Landed by league.
Lauding the former Essex assembly
man as the apostle of rate regulating
legislation hat will regulate, the
league went on record as unanimously
indorsing the candidacy of Mr.. Mar
tin and the platform on which he
and and which they hope to COM
pei the State Republican convention
to adopt.
= Candidate Martin assured his audi
tors that he a no doubt of the out
come. and somewhat significantly |
though semi-jocularly, remarked that
the Regulars might be ready to make
overtures to the Progressives before
the convention day rolls around.
That sentiment was echoed by all
present, with the reservation made by
the B~ergenite that mo overtures"
would be entertained prior to the Sep
primaries.
We will send a Progressive delega- +,
ton to the State convention said for
mer Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas |
S. Mackay, nominate David L.
Zabriskie for State senator with two
Progressives for assembly and Their
listen to any overtures that may be
made by the opposition"
Influence of Prosressives.
Up in Bergen the Progressives claim
be the simon-pure Regulars and
deny the right of the organization men
to m~onopolize the vote of regularity.
Their influence has been felt by the
Regulars, as vas the case in 1907, when
Edmund w. Wakelee refused to
vote for the reelection of Senator John
E. Dryden, because the Progressives or
New Idea faction. as it was then
known. had won out al the preceding
primaries.
Wakelee's action on that occasion is
lost sight of now. because of his spon-
of the spineless public utilities
Jaw of this year. The Progressives pin
their faith on Martin, and refuse to
indorse John R.. Ramsey, who
seems to be the choice of the Regulars
State senator.
They have more confidence in Zabris-
xfe because they now his record as an
assemblyman in 1894 and '95, and as
judge, a position he filled after
as a legislator up to April l,
908. At another meeting of the Bergen
League, to be held tonight, the list of
Progressive candidates will be COM
oleted.