Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-09
REPUBLICANS NOW
SURE OF NAMING
VIVIAN N. Lewis
II
AT Sea Week Ago, Leaders Are
Emphatic Regarding Guber-
material Candidate. !.
OPPONENTS ACTIVITY
MAY BE TIE INCENTIVE
! Also Intimated That David Baird
\ Will Succeed John Kean
in Senate.
lEsE CANDIDATES NDORsED Z
BY REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION

For some reason, possibly the con-
Ffidence and spirit of aggressiveness dis
played by the Democratic leaders In
choosing an earlier date for their
state conv.4don than the one Sc
lected by their opponen--. the sepub-
lican leaders, who less t.lan week ago
were ali at sea as TO their gubsrnatorial
candidate, now declare with decided
emphasis that Vivian M. Lewis, OF
Passaic. Is the man.
some of the same leaders are willing
to admit--always provided, OF course,
that Republican victory is certain.
and they won't admit anything else
that David Baird, of Camden, will be
the successor of Sen tor John Kean IN
the upper house of Congress. even
though Edward C. Stokes should be
unanimously indorsed for the office
: by the Republican voters of the State
at the primary election September 1S.
When or how the G. o. P. leaders got
together is the only question in doubt
now With the possible exception of
Senators Edmund w. Wakelee and
JOSEPH s. Frelinghuysen, practically
every Regular Republican of note
seems positive now that WV" Lewis
will be named on the first formal ballot
cast in the convention at Taylor Opera
House. Trenton. on Wednesday. Sep
tember 81.
Inaction Favored Progressives.
on the Progressive side the leaders.
while predicting the success of William
P. Martin, their accepted choice for
Governor. are forced to admit that the
prospect of the popular young states
man from Passaic is materially en-
hanced through his being acknowledged
even at this late day as the accepted
choice III the -aSte organization for the
nomination.
The fact that the organization had
no candidate, or rather, was expressing
no preference, and of the leaders de-
claring the man would not be known
until the delegates assembled in con-
vention, was the main issue on which
the Progressives were receiving assur-
ance of support for their gubernatorial
candidate.
This was particularly true in South
Jersey. where Candidate Martin with
George L. Record. Lathrop Anderson
and William Fellowes Morgan made a
personal canvass for delegates and re-
ceived numerous assurances of sup
port because Mr.. Martin was able to
convince those he met that he was the
only Republican candidate recognized
by either faction or wing of the party.
The veteran ."Davy'' Baird was the
first to realize that such an argument
might bear fruit.
You cannot beat somebody with no
body" declared the oracl@. of South
Jersey tersely at quiet little gather
ing he arrange ) since the State COM
mittee meeting last Wednesday, and
his auditors all agreed with him.
Eject of Blunder in Essex.
"They tried ths up in Essex county
five, years ago. continued "UncIe
Davy," and the, effect or the organiza-
TIA blunder is in evidence in the state
Senate yet. Now so far as l am con-
.cerned I am with whoever South Jer-
sey wants. and while Wakelee seems
no have friends there the majority is
flor Lewis, and I am always with the
kmajority.'
II Asked If his reference to what he
Eermed the blunder of the Essex or
kanzation five years ago, in going into
Che primaries that year without being
united or agreed on any candidate To
oppose Everett Colby for the noDaina-
tion, meant that the action referred to
might have a bearing on the election
@ Senator Kean's successor. Mr.. Baird
promptly replied that 1t might. N
"Former Senator Dryden might have
been reelected had Essex been repre-