Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-28
GUBERNATOR|AL
BEES BUzz|NG At
CAPITAL TO-DAY
Considerable Speculation Heard
at Governors Day Gather
ing at State House.
SEVEN DEMOCRATS AND
FIVE REPUBLICANS in RACE
Mercer County Alone Furnishes
Three Strong Candidates.
Others Are Probable.
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TRENTON. June 2s.-Presumably be-
cause the gathering was in the me-
tropolis OF the county as well as the
capital Of the State. politicians and
Sthers who visited the State House
Inlay heard the names of more favored
saAS Of Mercer than Of any other
county mentioned as the next Governor
Of New Jersey.
Out VI twelve possibilities talked Of
In the cSrridors and other places where
the big Nsnd little leaders assemble,
seven werA Democrats and nve Repub-
liz ans.
Mercer waAS honored by the mention
Of three, HuyA,on. Passaic and Bergen
two each. whEe one from Mlddlesex
and like numker from Somerset and
Camden completed the list
1t was regardA7 as somewhat sig
nifcant that all the Mercer men named
are Democrats. anil someone suggested
this was an indic3 ton that the next
Governor would lite In Mercer with
out requiring the Legislature to make
an appropriation fd. the acquisition of
an executive mansidn.
Two OF the threeI Frank S. Katzen-
bach and Vice-Cha1 csllor Edwin Rob-
ert Walker, have hl,mes of their own
In the capital city The third, and
the one whom somI, of the wiseacres
actually believe will be the successor
to Governor Fort, PRESIDENT Woodrow
Wilson. of Princeton, is In close enough
touch with the capital as to be almost
regarded as a resident OF the city.
1t seemed to be the general impress
sion that the other Democrats prom
inently named would be as much in
favor of urging President Wilson'S
nomination as his host OF friends in
every section of the State, if reason
ably assured that he would accept.
That he viii do so seemed to be the
general impression, as gathered from
the opinions voiced by the independ-
ent press of the State.
Friends of Katzenbach still insist
that he might be prevailed upon to ac-
cept another nomination, and their
view is not changed by his own state
ment Of a few weeks ago and his more
recent silence. ice-Chancellor Walker,
whose name is among the latest men
toned. has many friends, not only In
this city, where he has lived forty-one
years. but in every section of the State.
Until appointed to the bench by
Chancellor Magic three years ago
Mr.. Walker took an active interest in
politics and is regarded as an excel
lent campaigner.
State Senator George 8. Silzer. who
was first to formally announce his can
didacy. is very much in the race and
growing in strength daily. Senator
James F.. Fielder's declaration in his
colleagues favor is regarded as sig
niflcant, coming as 1t does from Hud-
son county. 1t has not in any way.
however dampened the ardor of Mayor
H. Otto Wittpenn and Assemblyman
Edward Kenny. who stand alone as
avowed candidates from. Hudson coun-
ty Mr.. Kenny's candidacy is regarded
as much from Essex as from Hudson
because his interests are more closely
allied with the former than the latter.
South Jersey may have more than
one Democratic aspirant. but only the
name of Clarence s. Cole was heard
mentioned here today The former
Judge is regarded as one of the most
popular men in Atlantic county, and
1t is believed his. nomination would
mean the capture of that erstwhile
Republican stronghold by. big ma.
jority.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Republicans have elected the last five
governors by maJorities ranging from
5000 in the Voorhees, campaign of 1898
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