Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-27
SENATORIAL IssUE1M PUBLIC STATEMENTS

m HOUSE built upon shifting sands cannot stand. A cause that
E rests upon the unstable grounds of asserNe dogmatism,
bland assumption and personal egotism and manufactured
clanor cannot prevail in the sober Judgment of men. Sober judg-
ment and not the dominant will of the incoming Governor of this
State will settle the question of whether the United States senator
to succeed John Kean was elected last November by a small
minority of the Democratic voters, as declared by DR.. Wilson, or
whether the next Legislature is to be permitted to discharge its con
stitutional duty in the election of a senator. 1t is also to be
decided, for the first time in this State. whether the governor, be
fore or after his Inauguration into office, shall be accorded the priv
lege of overriding the Constitution and naming the United States
senator. In his statement, printed today, replying to the last state
ment made by Dr. Wilson, former Senator Smith takes up and
answers the principal assertions in the Wilson statement. 1t will
be observed that the reply does not deal in vague charges and as
sumptions, that every point in the Wilson statement is met with
directness and frankness, and also with completeness. In brief, to
the unbiased mind the reply leaves nothing in the Wilson state
ment uncontroverted. Logically, DR.. Wilson is left without a leg to
stand upon. There are also grave misstatements by DR.. Wilson that
call for explanation. One is the assertion that deception has been
pracdsed by former Senator Smith in that he had delegated a per-
son, or persons, to assure DR.. Wilson, prior TO the election, that he
would not be a candidate for the senatorship. If this unqualified
statement by DIR. Wilson is true, it can be proven. In order to
enable him to make his word good, Mr.. Smith announces that the
seal OF confidence Is broken and that Dr. wilson ana n alleged
gobetween are al liberty to diyulge the latters name and to state
the circumstances. Taking example from DR.. Wilson in regard TO
private conversations, Mr.. Smith gives the substance ana even te
words, of IA conversation between DR.. Wilson and himself shortly
after the election, in which the former spoke with contempt of the
d dsrnc" ~ " Statet ~ p snnd Marin % - tbe SENATE CouId there
be a more striking contrast for the position since taken by DR.
Wilson and the statements he has put forth, holding that primary
election farce in its absurd outcome as the mandate of the people
and hqning his candidate as sacredly anointed for the senatorship?
But how can DR.. Wilson answer the reproach of utter silence in
his campaign and in his speeches about the senatorial candidacy:
The primary farce had been enacted and, according to the present
logic Of DR.. Wilson, the Democratic senatorial candidate had been
selected, although the Democratic legislative candidates, with great
unanimity, had refused to pledge themselves to any candidate. The
claim of DIR. Wilson's candidate was just as good and valid during
the campaign as it is now. In regard to former Senator Smith.
the Republican leaders made a distinct and aggressive issue, and
it met Dr. Wilson in every town in which he made an address. II
there was deception during and after the campaign, was it not in this
attitude of the candidate for Governor? Why conceal his prefer
ence? Why ignore the socaIed primary choice? Is there any other
reasonable explanation than that his candidate held and repre-
scented views on the tariff that would have impaired DR.. Wilson's
chances for election and probably have defeated him in a State
that would be ruined in it's industries if those views should be EN-
bodied in national legislation? Perhaps DIR. Wilson can furnish
some different explanation to free himself from the imputation OF
duplcity, but he cannot escape that of insinceriW. 1t is charHaby
assumed in the statement today that DR.. Wilson would not of his
own yoItion have resorted to misrepresentation in his incorporate
zeal for the election of a candidate whom he had privately spoken
Of as utterly unfit. Influences have swayed him by adulation and
covert suggestion, and they have directed his judgment through
that "nedidm least refined of ALL self, and led him into acts that
In calm reflection he would even now recall.