The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-12
New Jerseys Governor Was Most Interesting of
 Tuesdays Victims
DESPITE DEFEAT HE
 IS STILL DOOMED
Permanent Wilson Headquarters Are Opened at Trenton With Nation al Committeeman Working
 Without Dismay
pv EDWARD MARSHALL

New York, November 11.-(Special)
 Wilson's eve Is really not black-that
 is it is not so very black. It IS ap-
 parent though that it is quite as rlsky
 business for scholastic stars to mingie
 in the scrimmage of politics as Tor
 them to mingle in the scrhnmage or
 football New Jerseys governor was
 quite the most interesting of last
 Tuesdays victims, though His enemies
 sigh sadly with their hands upon their lips to hide a smile and looking at him, remark softly: What "a handsome
 corpse" But his friends are probably more numerous than ever and they opine that there are many things Tn these United States some dearer than New Jerseys scholarly executive Ne" Jerseys delegation will be for nm when the great day comes. It would be a sad sign in the democracy or the suburban state if they were not very busy The bureau down at Wash- ington is at work with really effective literature correcting any wrong impress
 sion which may possibly have crept
 abroad about the great Princetonian. Still Boomed
 l his astonishing defeat in New Jerseys
 state elections the talks show here that among his open boomers that he | Is the democracy's one man to battie against Taft. Is not less busy than IL has been. Permanent Wilson head quarters have been opened also down in Trenton and it is significant also that eX-Senator Hudspvtn, the nationai committeeman. Is actively at work wita no dismay which is apparent to the naked Journalistic eye at making these 1 headquarters really accomplish things. I can't make out just what to think of Wisconsin boomers. There are those who l believe that Senator LaFolette's name literally translated from the French-t l you don't know French, guess at IL, yoa can come near enough to hitting n-s | really expressive of the nature of ms
 \ boom: there are others in great plenty
 | who consider MT. Taft as strong as ever.
 l Senator Cummins has not lost whit or
 l his enthusiasm for the celebrated Wis-
 | consin statesman and there are no better l fighters In the ranks of either party 1 than that same astute and energetic Cummins. very earnest effort IS now under way. from LaFollette's headquar- | ters, to bring about general presidential l preference primaries for the selection or | the delegates to the national convention l in states where such primaries are not al- ready called for by the law. All that Commins believes is that his man Is so 1 strong among the people that such prf- | maries will help him very greatly. That | Cummins is, himself. widedly mentioned | as a possible compromise candidate, IS. he declares a cause of most acute dis | tress to him.
 Clark Shows Strength
 | Tn tho. meantime Champ Clark shoHa | strength here and there where least eN- | pected. One of the most important Ia bof men in Massachusetts came out for ! him, unoualifiedly, recently and 1t seems 1 likely that the speaker may loom much | larger in the political sky than has been l recently admitted by the boomers of tho l other democratic possibilities. l Kentucky wise men are all hontng for 1 him, regardless of the bangs which must ! fill them with agony because he left hjs l birth state to make Missouri glorious. l A notable access of Clark talk may be 1 indeed considered that feature of the po- | l;tical week next in importance to dis 1 cussion of the Wilson catac1ysm in New | Jersey. l There are these who think. however, | that the Wilson disaster in New Jersey | makes Judge Harmon's nomination cer- | tain, and this despite the fact that the l democratic county chairmen in Iowa 1 have declared for Wilson. S5 to 8 and that l the coming week will see his boom of 1 ficlally sent down the ways to sail the | sea of politics at the Atlanta meeting. ] The claim will he made there, and not without some reasonable argument. 1 that the recent Jersey episode is less sig | nificant than it appears 10 be, because the | state through changes in population is now really become, by nature, a repub | lican domain. His anti-hoss propensities will heip him3 in New York. state ir he l gets the nomination. for the cry of boss | ism" and statewide peril, due to Mr. | Charles F. Murphy and his Tammany braves. will undoubtedly be loudly raised | by Empire state republican campaigners. ] His struggle with James smith will doubtless bo much emphasized in New York state, if he gets the nomination,
 and so makes an appeal to New York vot- CTS.
 l The outs are always far more interest l ing to the student of political events than | ns can be. There is ever greater chance
 for speculation and for prophecy among