The Penn's Grove record., 1911-10-13
WILSON DEITY
EvADES A TRAP
Governor Sidetracks Resolution
lndorsing Him for Presidency.
He is AWARE CT OPPOSITION
First Convention Assembled Under
Recent Geran Law Wa Quickest
Ever-onIy 20 Delegates, as
Against 1000 by Old Style.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-A resolution indorsing
Governor Wilson for the Presidency
was laid ON the table at the Demo
cratic convention here, because the
Governor, who had complete control
OF the delegates, asked that such
action be taken. The Governor said
II was contrary to the spirit of the
Geran law for the convention to in
dorse the candidacy # anybody.
BY living the resolution laid on
the table, however, the Governor out
witted the Smith-Nugent delegates,
and saved himself from what would
have been a somewhat embarrassing
situation, for had the original resolu-
ten gone before the delegates it's in
dcrsement would not have been un-
animous, and the Governor would
keve heard his candidacy attacked
by members of his own party in the
convention of his own state.
The Smith-Nugent delegates. who
all came from Essex, were waiting
for the Wilson resolution to come up,
and they made no secret of the fact
that they were going to attack it. 1t
was for this reason that the Governor
and his friends tried to prevent the
Introduction of any such resolution,
and they would have succeeded had
not Representative Kinkead talked
Assemblyman Charles Egan, Of Hud-
son into introducing one.
The Democratic convention, which,
like the Republican gathering, was
the first to be held under the Geran
law, consisted Of seventy odd dele
gates.
No mention is made in the platform
adopted by the Democrats Of the in
itiative, referendum and the recall, al
though Charles O'Conor Hennessy,
one of the Bergen County Assembly
candidates, insisted that they should
be adopted.
The Governor, in his speeches, had
strongly urged these reforms, and it
was thought that he would insist on
their being made a part of the plat
form. His advisers, it is said, thought
differently, holding that the people of
the state had not yet had time to d.
gest all of the progressive legislation
enacted last winter, and that it would
be unwise to promise more.
The platform indorses the admins
tration of Governor Wilson. The first
proposition demands a reform in the
system of selecting grand juries and
petit juries. The second proposition
advocates a change in the system of
taxation in the state with a view to
equalizing taxes, but makes no spe-
cifc recommendation.
Among the other planks in the plat
form were these: Demanding a more
rigid regulation of corporations incor-
porated in New Jersey; favoring a
central board of control of the benev-
client and correctional institutions of
the state; favoring the conservation
Of @the forests and water for the ben
eft of the people; recommending the
simpliication of judicial procedure;
advocating the election of Assembly
men by districts; commencing the
Federal House of Representatives for
it's revision of rules and recommend
ing a revision of the rules of the two
houses of the New Jersey Legislature;
favoring automobile reciprocity and
the elimination of grade crossings
under the direction of the Public Util-
tiles Commission.
Both the Republican and the Demo
cratic conventions were the quietest
this city has ever seen. There vas
not even a brass band to give a little
color to them, and, so far as the peo-
pie of Trenton were concerned, they
a parently didn't know that two such
gatherings were being held, for, out
side of the newspaper men, the only
others in attendance were interested
>4J;{soso~e H.