Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-30
ORIGINAL WILSON
man IN MERCER
NOW AGAINST HIM
Action of State Committeeman
Charles Gallagher Is Re-
garded as Significant.
GOVERNOR-ELECT is
SPEEDING HOMEWARD
Tells st. Louis Princeton Club
State Took Sporting
Chance on Him.

New York and Philadelphia news
papers, under a Trenton date line of
December 20, today print the following:
State Committeeman Charles H. CAL
lagher, of Trenton, the original Wilson
man in Mercer county, and for a long
time the only local advocate of the
governor elect, has Just taken a posi-
ton in opposition to the latter's
espousal of the senatorial boom of
James e. MARITIME, which, II is said,
will materially lessen the chances Of
the Plainfield man for election as suc-
cessor to United States Senator Kean.
Gallagher has prevented the Mercer
County Democratic League, the lead
ing Democratic organization of the
governor- elects home district, from in
I dorsing the Wilson MARITIME combina-
ton, and the outcome of the governor
elects failure to win support at home
may be to encourage members of the
Legislature to take the matter In their
own hands and elect genator of their
own choosing. In fact, this is what
Mr.. Gallagher declares they should do,
adding that the question is one which
the solons should settle without any
outside interference or meddling.
Action Is sumcien.. .
Gallagher's action is significant, In
/ view of his past loyalty to former
Senator Smith, Marines leading op-
ponent for the senatorship. He sup
ported Wilson for the governorship
only Because the latter was the choice
of Smith for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton, and 1t Is certain that he (Gal-
lagher) will not do anything that will
to prevent the Mercer county league
from indorsing Wilson shows that the
committeeman still holds the whip
hand, and that he will be able to lend
Smith much aid should 1t come to a
showdown in the Legislature. Gala
gher's victory in this connection was
achieved last Monday evening, although
not a word had been breathed about 1t
outside of the leagues rooms until to-
day.
The meeting was about closing when
Lawyer John R. Phillips, jr., made a
motion that the governor r-elect be as
sured of the organizations hearty sup
port In his fight.
Gallagher denounced the proposition.
He said it was presumptuous for the
league to take action where the party
Organization was In question. The out
come of the wrangle was that the reso-
luton was killed and Wilson failed of
i Endorsement.
The New York Evening Journal to-
day says:
QUITS WILSON TO AID SMITHS
FIGHT.
TRENTON, Dec. 30.-Despite the fact
that he was the original supporter in
Mercer county of DIR. Woodrow Wilson
for governor, Charles H. Gallagher, of
this city, a member of the Democratic
State Committee, Is today taking the
credit for blocking an attempt of the
Mercer County League to indorse the
governor-elect's fight to have James E.
MARITIME named for the United States
Senate.
Mr.. Gallagher also has put himself
openly in the ranks of ex-senator
Smiths supporters. 1t is believed his
action will prove helpful to Mr.. Smith s
cause, as Mercer is Wilson'S home
county.
Wilson Coming Home.
Telegraphic advices from St. Louis
today are to the effect that Governor
elect Wilson left on the 4:3o O'Clock
3 train yesterday for Princeton. Speak
irE Of his transfer from college life to
the political game before the Princeton
Club, DIR. Wilson said:
'I said openly that II I were elected
: governor I would be the leader of the
Democratic party in New Jersey. I did
not say I would be good leader, be-
cause / did not know. But the conven-
ton took a sporting chance on me. A
4 convention has to take that sort of a
chance with any candidate"