Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-10-15
THETRENTON
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Hoboken when Vivian NJ. Lewis, candi-
date for Governor, came out squarely for
advanced Progressive issues. With force
fulness he placed himself unequivocally
i'll favor OF rate making clause, OF eN-
tension OF the direct primaries to Cover
nor and congressman, OF distribution o1
primary ana election ballots at public
expense, and of ii stringent corrupt prac
llces act. In that portion OF his address
wllere he dealt with State issues he was
particularly strong, which was also true
OF his closing when he declared: Il will
say to you, If you entrust the govern
ment to my hands, | will deliver 1t back
10 you i'll three years unsullied by any
act of mine
Il spent the first week of my cam
paign," said DR.. Wilson, trying to set
forth what | considered the principles
upon which the Democratic party was
trying to act. | noticed that my Repub-
lcan critics have said that | spent that
week in glittering generalities. | do not
wonder at that-they have not looked
principle in the face SO long they do
not know one when they see it. A man
that despises principles as glittering gen
eralities has absolutely no compass by
which to steer. He is steering by the
points of expediency If they cannot
meet us upon this field of high ideals
then they will be overthrown in the con
test The people Of this state and OF
America are turning to the ideals by
which this government was built up
Chief of al lthis is the ideal which says
that government ought to thrive in every
pulse in sympathy for the common peo-
pie; that it ought not hesitate at any
moment to sacrifice any special privilege
in order that there might be common
opportunity. This is what America was
founded to accomplish"
Mr. Lewis itinerary has been revised
by the State Committee as follows:
Monday, IL, Newark; Tuesday, Is, Perth
Amboy; Wednesday, 10, Englewood;
Thursday, 20; Gloucester; Friday, u,
Warren instead of Somerset; Saturday
p, Hunterdon County; Monday, a,
Salem instead of Mercer; Tuesday, %,
Cumberland; Wednesday, 26, Cape May;
Thursday, p, Paterson; Friday, Is.
Camden instead of Salem; Saturday, %
Salem instead of Camden; Monday, 81,
Hudson County; Tuesday, l, the
Oranges; Wednesday, ,, New Brunswick;
Thursday, 3, Passaic County; Friday, 4,
Morristown and Morris County; Satur-
day, ), Atlantic County; Monday, I,
Somerset instead of Essex County.
Those who are determined to force the
members OF the next Legislature to re-
spect the popular vote on-the United
States Senatorial question have been
looking up the record by which the
present primary law, providing the meth
cd by which the Senatorial aspirants
submitted their candidates to the people
was passed They find that ten of the
present holdover members of the State
Senate voted i'll favor of the enactment
of this law. Seven of them are Repub-
licans-Ackerman, Bradley, Brown, Frel-
inghuysen, Hand, Plummer and Lewis
The last named was then ID member OF
the House OF Assembly from Burlington
County, and helped to make up the
thirty three votes by which the direct
primary law was put through the lower
House The Democratic holdover Sena
tors who voted for the primary law arc
Silzer, Gebhardt and Price,
James L. MARITIME takes view of the
direct primary results similar to that
held by former Governor Edward e.
Stokes, the high man on the Republican,
side. This is that the political effect or
the voting in the direct primaries is TO
make him regular nominee of the
Democratic party for United States
Senator
As | look at it, | am just as much
the candidate of the Democratic party for
Senator. as Dr. Wilson is the candidate
for Governor" said Mr. MARITIME. In
fact, if one were able to divide off the
vote that was cast i'll the primaries |
presume it would be found that more
Democrats voted for me for Senator than
cast their ballots to elect delegates favor
able to the nomination of DIR. Wilson. !
say this not in any disparagement OF DR..
Wilson nor in eulogy of myself but sim
ply to illustrate the point that | am a
regularly nominated candidate of my
party. Of course. the logic of such a
condition is that Democratic legislators
must vote for me or be open to the
charge that they are bolting the nominee
of their party" Il was never more earn
est in my life as candidate for office,
and | have been running unsuccessfully
in campaigns for nigh on to forty years,
than | am with reference to the United
States Senatorship. | want to be elected
to succeed John Kean and propose to do
everything that is honorable and fair to
bring about such a result"
Representative Charles n Fowler, the
only Republican insurgent Congressman
in the New Jersey delegation, and the
only insurgent in the whole country who
failed to secure denomination this fall
spent several hours in Trenton and about
the State House on political errands. Mr.
Fowler told some friends during the day
that aside from whatever he will dc
with reference to the gubernatorial cam
paign he would shortly issue statement
setting forth his position on the ques-
tion of the effect of the vote cast in the
United States Senatorship contest in
the direct primaries, where he received
1888 votes as against 39,7Sl for Cover
nor Stokes as successor to John Kean
| 1t is understood that Mr. Fowler will
make it clear that he abides by the re-
suits of the primary voting and that he
considers it the duty of every Repub
| lican member of the Legislature who viii
sit in the joint session next winter t
| cast his vote for Mr.. Stokes, the higf
| man.
A delegation of Camden Democrats