Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-12
WILSON READY TO TAKE
FIGHT To THE PEOPLE
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senatorship, said today that there
, was no doubt of the formers will
ingness to appear personally at pub
lie meetings that may be arranged
and discuss in the most frank and
positive language all the phases of
the subjects that are pertinent to
~resolute and honorable action to
bring about the triumph of the prin-
ciple laid down in Democratic doc
trines formulated during the last
campaign in this state.
Up to the present time public senti-
ment has been asserting itself in a
spontaneous way concerning the Sena-
torship, but now that DIR. Wilson has
taken up the reins of actual leadership,
he will be given the assistance Of or
ganized effort In several sections of the
State, especially in the counties where
Democratic members of the Legislature
are in doubt as to how they will vote
on the question of q successor to SEN
ator Kean.
MIR. Smiths Boast.
The boast of Mr.. Smith and his po-
litical lieutenants that he now has
more than a majority of the Democratic
legislators who will vote in joint session
pledged to his candidacy, or at least
to the idea of electing someone other
than Mr.. MARITIME, does not seriously
concern either Governor-elect Wilson or
friends of Mr.. MARITIME who have been
watching things closely and who are
familiar with man things that do not
appear on the surface. The governor
elect himself has not been celebrating
over the senatorial subject in an alb
stract form. He has talked with a
good many of the legislators and is very
much better informed as to the present
attitude of the Democratic majority
than he is given credit for being by
those who are opposing him.
1t is practically certain now that even
the eleven members of the Essex coun-
ty delegation cannot be held together
as a unit for Smith, notwithstanding
that two weeks ago all of them signed
a letter addressed to thelatter request
ing him to become a candidate for SEN
ator and pledging their support IN the
event of his doing so. 1t required more
than three hours OF most emphatic talk
by James r. Nugent, chairman of the
democratic state committee, to persuade
the Essex county delegation to sign the
letter which had been prepared for
them, This letter was no sooner pub
lished than several of them regretted
their step, for they encountered the
most bitter and violent criticisms of
their friends and neighbors on account
of it. Four of these Assemblymen-
Mylod, Brown, Boettner and Ballantine
are counted sure of breaking away
from the compact into which they were
inveigled in the midnight conference. 1t
is anticipated that the quartette of
legislators will take sides with the
Governer-eleet very soon.
Legislators for MARITIME.
The legislators who are counted at
the present time for MARITIME are Sen
ator johnson and Assemblymen Alyea
and Hinners, of Bergen; Senator Os-
borne, of Essex; Assemblymen Lafferty
of Gloucester; Senator Fielder and AS
semblyssn Eagen, Griffin, Simpson,
Kenny, Davidson, Donnelly, Agnew and
( Christie, of Hudson; Senator Gebhardt,
of Hunterdon; A~ssemblyman Walsh, of
Mercer; Assemblyman Newman, of
Ocean; Assemblyman LaMonte, of Som
erset; Assemblymen Brodhead and Nc
Loughlin, of Union. These total % and
with the -Four Essex men who will re-
woke their pledge to Smith brings 27 to
the side as advocated by DR.. Wilson.
Outside of Essex county, Smiths
claims of support are based entirely
on the declarations of his political lieu
tenants, as none of the Democratic
members in other COMMITTEES have deelar-
ed for him. However, it is calculated
that under ordinary conditions he
would be able to control Assenlblyman
Matthews, of Hunterdon, Assemblyman
Booraem, Ramsay and Streitwolf, of
Middlesex; Assemblyman Taylor, of
Monmouth; Assemblymen Burke and
Bum, of Morris; Senator Price and AS
semblyman Meyer, of Sussex; Senator
Cornish and Assemblyman Cole, of War
rem. The four members from Hudson
county who are inclined to stand by
Robert Davis promise to aid Mr.. Smith
and Senator Silzer, are put in the
doubtful column. (
On every hand it is recognized that
the conditions developed out of the
Senatorial situation are extraordinary,
especially with reference to the expires
sion of public opinion. Never before in
the history of the state have the bosses
of either party been up against such a
treIneHuOuS puDitc NlSPhdy VI dHldSOu-
ism. Recognizing this condition of af-
fairs, both DIR. Wilson and MARITIME, IS
friends are confident that in the final
analysis there will scarcely be q mem
Der of the Legislature who will hare
to refuse to acquiesce in the overwhelm-
ing demand from the public that the
popular choice be approved of in a con-
stitutional way by their vote in the
lepisiature