New-York tribune., 1911-01-15
aaENEWS FIGHT ON smith
Goyernor-EIeCt Wilson invades
Camp of ''the Enemy"
NEARLY A RIOT AT NEWARK
Former Senator's Followers Are
Outnumbered When Attempt
Is Made to Riot.

Governor-elect Woodrow Wilson invaded
Essex County the home Of James smith IT,
last night. and told fifteen hundred OF the
y. Senator's neighborS, all that coulu
crowd into the new Auditorium in Newark
why he opposed Mr.. Smiths selection as
the next United states Senator from New
Jersey. lie asserted in no uncertain man
rer that James T. MARITIME would be Sena-
tor Kean's successor.
When MIR. Wilson finished his speech
some Of Smiths supporters from the LIST
ward OF Newark nearly brought on riot
by hooting and Kissing the Governor-elect.
Il had been their intention, II is said, 10
break I'D the meeting. but they found the
Wilson followers so strong that their at
tempt failed
Mr.. Wilson also referred indirectly TO the
mart that Governor-elect Dix Of New York
was taking. or not taking, IN the contest IN
his state.
"The gentlemen who are opposed 10 car
rving out the will of the people, as ex-
pressed at the primaries" he said, have
been as much opposed TO that as they we're
opposed 10 the Governor expressing any
opInion about il whatever. ! received a
very interesting editorial just before leav-
ing my home to-day. This interesting edi-
torial compared ne very unfavorably in
deed with the newly elected Governor OF
New York, saying OF him: This rs man
who knows how 10 mind his own business.
That same paper sent to me an editorial
this morning which said that II would not
do for Governor Dix not 10 say whom he
thought ought 10 oe elected for Senator in
New York They have come around 10 the
usurpation theory. They have come around
10 the theory that Governor ought not TO
mind his own business. II | had been In
tended 10 mind my own business l would
have been left 10 my own business and
would not have been asked 10 attend to the
business Of the people. They say that it is
unconstitutional for the Governor-elect TO
40 what ! have been attempting to do
namely. to act merely as the spokesman
and representative of the people who elect
cd me. Certain gentlemen have grown par
ticularly scrupulous about the constitution.
Ex-senator Smith personally did nor
come in for much censure from the Cover
nor-elect. Mr.. Wilson confined himself
10 telling Of the opportunity which con-
fronted the ex-senator. but which he did
his opponents were mad; hence they were
calling him liar. II they should happen
10 tell the truth. he said, II will tell some
thing which will shake the whole state"
Mr.. Wilson said Mr.. Smith did not repre-
sent statewide organization. II do not
know how 10 guess how many persons
he represents. Let us say. at a liberal es-
innate, that he represents one thousand
persons. As against the one thousand he
may represent stand two hundred and
more thousand Democrats of this state
not represented by anything that he has
proposed He has declined TO represent
the wishes and purposes Of the two hum
dred thousand, and has made up his mind
still 10 represent that little manageable
group which heretofore have tried to run
politics in the State Of New Jersey.
II was wnat L least expected of Senator
Smith: it was A colossal blunder in politi-
cal judgment. ! thought that he was at
least an astute politician, but an aStute
politician would at least know that it was
the year 1910 in which the campaign oc-
CURED and that in 1914 the thing would
not work.
AIr Wilson declared that certain legis-
lators had 10 vote for Mr.. MARITIME or move
out Of their county. He reiterated his re-
fusal to accept compromise candidate.
Wen fight TO the last ditch against any
compromise" he. asserted. THE men
fghting for Mr.. MARITIME are not fighting
FOR personal power, but against personal
power, and a compromise would mean that
We. instead of individuals. were choosing
a Senator" And then he said defiantly:
MI MARITIME will no the next United
States Senator from New Jersey"