The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-05-17
FEELS FOWLER
CAN'T WIN OUT
Morris Leader, Voorhees,, Says
McGraw VIII Be Con
gress Candidate.
SITUATION AS HE VIEWS IT

In a special dispatch to the New
ark Evening News" on May 71hs we
learn that Charles N. Fowler, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the Fifth
New Jersey District, and the only Re-
publican insurgent from this state, is
not going to have a smooth road in his
candidacy for an eighth term, which
he has just announced, as evidenced
by the declaration made last week by
State Treasurer Daniel S. voorhees,,
acknowledged Republican leader Of
Morris county, that he is against the
continuance OF Mr.. Fowler in Con
gress.
When asked if Mr.. Fowler would OBJ
tain the support of Morris county Re
publicans in the Fifth District con-
vention, Mr.. Voorhees, promptly an
swered that be would not. Mr. Voor-
hees added that Morris county would
have candidate of its own in the per-
son Of James H. McGraw, of Madison,
who has been frequently mentioned as
a successor in Congress TO Mr.. Fowler.
6 win Morris county be able to con-
troll the situation 2" MI. VOORHEES,
was asked.
II think it will, answered the
state treasurer. " While it is true
that Union county, with ll8 delegates
in the Fifth District convention, can
outyote Morris and Warren counties
in making Republican nomination
for Congress, it must be remembered,
in considering Mr. Fowler, that he
cannot control all the votes in his own
county of Union. / do not think that
Mr.. Fowler can count surely for him
self more than twenty Of the delegates
to be elected in Union county These
will come from PlainfeId and West
field. Morris and Warren counties,
acting in harmony, as they undoubt-
edly will in the Fifth District conyen-
tion, will easily control the nomina-
tion by securing the support of some
of the delegates froms Union county.
g Mr.. Fowler has never had Union
county sentiment solidly for him"
continued Mr.. Voorhees,. Two years
ago he was renominated only because
Morris county refused to join in a
movement originating In Union coun-
ty at that time to keep him out OF
Congress. Mr.. Fowler said at that
time that he would retire from Con-
gress at the end of his present term"
is Senator Kean against Fowler ? =
asked the reporter.
'sSenator Kean is busy on his own
job-he wants to be reelected to the
Senate, 2 answered Mr.. VOORHEES,.
"Then you believe that Mr.. Fowler
will not be able to secure renomina-
tion?" was suggested.
!. Yes, sir, replied Mr.. Voorhees,.
Mr.. Voorhees, does not entertain any
doubt about the willingness of Mr..
McGraw to become a candidate against
Representative Fowler. Mr.. McGraw
has been prominent in Morris county
Republican politics for several years,
although never seeker for office. Two
years ago he was delegate from the
Fifth District to the National Repub-
lican convention at Chicago. When
Governor ForU was looking about for
man to name as a successor to Judge
William Vredenburgh on the Court of
Errors and Appeals he offered the
place to Mr.. McGraw, but the latter
declined it, AT that time he told
Governor Fort that his business af-
fairs would not permit him to attend
to the duties Of the judgeship. He is
engaged in the publishing business in
New York. and is the owner of the
" Electrical World and the Street
Railway Journal" /" besides a number
Of other publications. He was for
merly the proprietor of " Success Mag
azine. .