Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-29
BIG ATTRACTION
At STATE FAIR
IS DR. WILSON
Gov. Fort and All the Living
Ex.GOvernOrs and SEN
at0rs There.
GOVERNORS DAY." BUT
GOVERNOR ELECT" WINS
Princeton's President Lionized
by the Thousands at Tren-
toms Big Show.
[rrom a STAR corre-pondent.

fFrom STAFF Correspondent
INTERSTATE FAIR GROUNDS,
TRENTON, Sept 29.-With all that the
time-honored term implies. this was an
ideal Governors Day" in every sense
of the word. Governor John Franklin
Fort was here, so were his immediate
predecessors. Edward c. Stokes,
Franklin Murphy, Foster M, Voorhees,
and John w. Griggs. all of the living
ex-governors of New Jersey and sew
eral senators, who. by virtue of their
office during the last fifteen years. as
president Of the Senate, had been act ng
governors of the State, during the tenn
porary absence of the governor, as well
as one former speaker of the House of
Assembly, David o. Watkins
The stellar attraction of the day,
however, was the man who will be gov
ernor of the State of New Jersey on and
after January II, 1911.
That man was here and opinions diff
fered as to who he was, but the pre-
ponderance of expressed sentiment in
dicated the choice of the people to be
Woodrow Wilson. the Democratic can
didate for the highest office within the
the gift Of the New Jersey electorate,
Candidate Wilson was an early ar
rival, as was Vivian NJ, Lewis, the
choice of the Republican party for the
Office to which a very decided majority
of those here today seemed ready to
admit DR. Wilson will be elected by the
largest plurality ever given a Demo-
cratic candidate for governor in this
State.
Republicans DoSsRcast.
AS might be expect ed, the candidate
of the now dominant party, Vivian NJ.
Lewis. who is regarded, so far as his
individuality is concerned. as the
strongest champion of the Republican
cause that might be selected, met with
no end of encouragement and was
greeted Oh all sides as the next Gov
ernor' But throughout the day there
was a little something which made 1t
appear that the Republican leaders who
were here In force, as they have been
for several years back, had lost their
old-time confidence, and were today
claiming only q position of safety.
where on similar occasions. since 1895
they have been wont to talk only q.
"a walk over" What appears to be
their actual necessity of a reorganizar
ton of the state committee on the eve
OF an important election was accepted
as a confession OF weakness. But later
an attemyt to minimize that event was
made by the announcement that the re-
organized State Republican Committee
would meet in Newark tomorrow and
before adjournment arrange an itin-
erary covering the State campaign oi
Candidate Lewis that would equal thai
of Candidate Wilson.
Dr. Wilson and James r. Nugent
chairman of the State Committee, ar
rived art Trenton at 1925 O'clock. and
were met by f. S. Katzenbach, who
grounds.
Vivian NJ Lewis. with Edward Moore
Of Passaic United States Senator Frank
o. Briggs and former Governor Stokes
followed few minutes later.
Democrats Big Lead
1t was admitted however, that the
G. o. p. is somewhat handicapped in
the start made by the Democrats and
the fact that they intend to rely in
part on the impression made by
speakers from outside the State, while
the Democrats are prepared to wage
their contest to a finish on the per-
sonality of their candidates and an un-
vanished discussion of the conditions
existing at the present time.
1t was not only the governors, y
past, present and future, who appeared
that made today one of the greatest OF
politicians days in the history of the
Interstate Fair, but the United States
senators, congressman, State lesis-
lators and local officials from every
county in the State, who gathered here
in force.
Senator John Kean and Frank O
Briggs, as well as their immediate pred
ecessors, and John F. Dryden were
conspicuous figures, as well as the three
Republicans and two Democrats who
sought primary Endorsement of their
rights to succeed Senator John Kean
So was David Baird, who is after the
place in the good old-fashioned way
and there were many who opined he
would get it if the next legislature is
Republican.
To enumerate even a small fraction ol
the more prominent members OF botl
political parties found here among whai
Colonel Mahlon r. Margerum and other
fair officials say is the largest attend
ance ever witnessed, would mean a ros.
ter of everybody included in list that
might be designated who's who and
would like to be who" in New Jersey
politics.