Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-07
GOyernOr-eleCt'S Story Of
Senatorial Conference
Is Riddled.
FALSE, SAY MEN NAMED
IN JERSEY CITY SPEECH
Kuehnle, Former Senator Smith
and Baird Are Emphatic !,
in Denial.

Governor woodrow Wilson u
keeping silent today. 1t was expected
that he would Issue an apology, in the
nature of a public retraction OF his
false statements made in his Jersey
City speech, in which he declared that
former United States Senator James
Smith, jr., held conferences in New
York and Philadelphia with Louis
Kuehnle, of Atlantic City. and David
Baird, of Camden. but none was forth
coming. DR.. Wilson is moving today
from Prospect" which has been his
Princeton home since he was chosen
president of the university, to the
Princeton Inn, where the Wilson family
will reside for the winter.
Conference story Denied.
The triple denial of the alleged con-
ferences" has given the doctors ad-
mirers an awful jolt. They do not be-
lieve he maliciously misstated things.
but they blame him for so willingly ac-
cepting information from those whose
motives are to defame personal char
acter in helping an illogical and in
defensible course. Their confidence in
the sagacity OF their self-acclaimed
leader is on the wane and it Is under
stood that the Governor ELECT has been
advised by his friends to avoid further
misstatements that SAVIOR 80 strongly Of
falsifying, as the headwriters Of the
metropolitan newspapers put 1t.
Baird Elects Wilson to Ananfss Club.
No sooner did David Baird, of Camden.
give nr. Wilson q membership certifi-
cate to the Anantas Club, as told In the
Evening STAR yesterday than there
; came a telegraph denial from Louis
Kuehnle, of Atlantic City, and finally
. the statement from former Senator
Smith, the full text OF which 10 SEQ
. forth in adjoining columns
Commodore Replies. =
Commodore Kuehnle said:
ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. 7.-"r havs
not seen ex-senator Smith for mt least
ten years. Any statements from Cow
ernor-eIect Wilson, or from amy other
quarter, to the contrary are absolutely
false and without the slightest foundR-
tion whatsoever. L am a Republican,
and have no desire 10 be connected
with Democratic troubles of any char
acfer. LOUIS KUEHNLE.v
The inaccugate utterance by DR.. Will
son was laid by Mr.. Smith to the zeal
of some misinformed adherent, whose
tale the Governor-elect grasped to ba
treated as truth.
Mr.. Smith in that part OF his state
ment denying the alleged conferences
says:
Tn his long talk there IL but
point which calls for reply. His charge
of an alliance with special interests
have already denied. The charge n
as true ms is his statement that 1 have
recently been in conference in Phila-
delphia and New York with Mr..
KuehnIe and MIR. Baird. both are
false.
ain this Instance L will not charge
him with maIiciously misstating the
facts. / believe he was informed
by some sealOus adherent and he
grasped at 1t aid In his rig hteoua
(D war. The doctor should have q
care. Falsehoods of this character
following one upon another, have q
tendency to undermine even a self-
acclaimed leaders reputation for
veracity."
Again Mr.. Smith calls attention to
the fact that DR.. Wilson has failed to
take up his recent challenge to mama
the man who, he had said, informed
him last summer that the former Sem
ator would not be candidate for tho
seat in the national upper house to be
made vacant by the retirement of John
Kean. 1t is now ten days since Dr.
Wilson was asked to be specific on this
charge, the truth of which he had con-
fidently asserted in a formal statement
given to the newspapers. There was
general expectation that he would take
this matter up in his Jersey CITY
speech, but he failed to do so. DR.. VIII
son Significantly avoided any reference
to Mr. Smiths reply to the Governors
elects previous attack.
Reflections on Members Integrity.
Mr.. Smith calls DIR. Wilson to task
for his reflection on the integrity Of tha
Legislature contained in his assertion
that the members of both houses were
open to temptation because their sal-
ary for their lawmaking services was
but $500 a year
Ciovernor-eleet Wilson's course In
New Jersey is contrasted with that OF
other Democratic Governors-elect IN
other States
"In Massachusetts," says Mr. Smith,
"a Democratic Executive is opposing Q
Republican aspirant, but his course is
free from the Wilson motive. In New
York an example is given of how calm
Judgment, dignifed bearing and
! proper conception of duty may earn
public esteem. In Ohio. in heated
contest, with six aspirants In the field,
an Executive upon whom the eyes OF
the nation are fixed puts aside biased
clamor: he recognizes that his duty 10
executive, not legislative. He has been
long in the public service; he would
scorn the use Of patronage to lure
promises, he appreciates that his iegis@