Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-14
Col. Edwin Hine, Of the
Fifth Regiment Has
Suspicion
TO BE ELECTED GENERAL OF
FIRST BRIGADE TOMORROW
Enjoys Confidence of President.
Says He Suspects First
and Fifth Will Go.

For four or five days past the
troopers of the First Brigade of the
New Jersey National Guard have been
hoping, waking and sleeping. that the
semi official rumors from Washin ton
were true and that orders would come
to send them to the .ont at San An
tonic. where 10000 United States regu-
lars are on the international line to
keep Mexico straight. should the occa-
sion arise.
These rumors took more shape to-
day in a rather sensational manner,
particularly when Colonel Edwin Hine,
of the Fifth Regiment, admitted to an
Evening STAR reporter that he has a
suspicion that both the First and Fifth
Regiments of the National Guard will
be sent south to San Antonio within
the month
Colonel Hine will tomorrow night be
elected brigadier- general Of the First
Brigade. That makes his suspicion
of movement of Jersey troops to the
South very interesting, but what is far
more interesting is the fact that Col
Sonel Hine is very close friend OF
President Taft, and is said to have
been in his confidence for several
years.
The colonel continued to deny that
he knew anything definitely about a
movement OF Jersey militiamen to the
South, but he would not explain his
suspicion, except to say that he
knows that it will be actually a good
deal cheaper for the National Guard
maneuvering regiments to maneuyer al
San Antonio than az some camping
ground around here.
incidentally. he said that If the First
Brigade got away for the South, as
expected, it probably wouldn't have
anything to do with fighting Mexico
or insurgents or the Japanese. but
would get a month of the best mill
tary experience from watching the
regulars that New Jersey regiments
have had since the Spanish War.
The Fifth Regiment, of which Col
onei Hine has been the commanding
officer, has it's headquarters In Pater-
son. A story was printed in a local
paper there today to the effect that the
quartermaster' department at Trenton
had been ordered to send UP complete
field and manoeuvreing equipment for
that regiment so as to put it on a regu-
lar war footing.
Colonel Hine will probably go to the
front, anyway, and he had more con-
fircation for his suspicious" today in
dispatch from Trenton whilh an
nounces that the war department had
not only decided to send three off1cers
each from each regiment in New Jer-
sey but had added to it members OF
the medical staff of the guard.
Colonel Hine Merely smiled.
Colonel Hine, who must not be for
gotten as a Taft confidante, simply
smiled when that dispatch from Tren-
ton was shown him and said:
We'll, that bears out the suspicion
doesn't it? You'll find the whole bri-
gade wishing nothing better than to
CO."
Colonel Fraser, of the First Regiment,
doesn't agree with the colonel of the
Fifth. He doesn't think there's d
chance of the local national guardsmen
getting off, but he says he'd be as glad
as Colonel Hine If they did.
Colonel Fraser adds incidentally that
there isn't the slightest doubt in the
world of Colonel Hines election as
brigadier-g of the First Briga dv
when the voting takes places sin Jersey
City tomorrow night. It will be by ac
clamation, hes avs, and with whoop