Evening star., 1911-08-13

It is calculated to hurt him with the men
OF his own party, 1t Is answered that the
antt-cOmmission democrats who will lose
the places and their pull under the new
system are disposed to be against him
anyhow; and that there are yet enough
of their own party for the new system
to keep them within the line Of prudence
In their opposing demonstrations.
These are only two of a dozen direc
tfons In which the governor is fortifyins
and making sentiment in his favor, an(
the sum of them all, II the calculation
OF his friends are not all wrong, is I,
be popular demonstration for him II
the presidential poll that will overruI
party lines and awe even the magnate
Of the machine into complaisance.
Potent Clause In Law.
To materialize all these forces work
ing in his interest is q clause in his elec
tion law that is more potent In President
making than all the rest. That claus'
enables any thousand voters IN the stat,
to put him in nomination before the peo
pie of the state as q candidate for thu
chief magfstracy Of the nation; and tht
secretary of state upon the fling OF theil
petition must put his name on the Of
fetal nominating ballots OF the "choic'
for President"
Let me ask you." said one Of thu
Woodrow Wilson League today. ''wht
would have the assurance to put thu
name Of a candidate from another STATE
on a nominating ballot against the desig
mating of Jerseys own most distinguished
son on other nominating ballots, and l
any one attempted 1t how may OF thes'
foreign ballots do you suppose woult
be used by Jersey voters?
There is scarcely Jersey man wh'
would vote for another man when hi,
vote can help Jersey herself to get th'
presidency for the first time In the his
tory of the nation. We think that claus
In the nominating primary law cinche
the state delegation for DR.. Wilson"
Efficacy Of the System.
The efficacy Of this new system for the
conduct Of nominating primaries is te
be tried out at the elections to be held
IN the state this fall. The democratic
stand a change Of losing some Of theil
Davis-Egan disclosures and graft scan.
dals Of all kinds have turned public senti.
ment right around, and to gain in some
of the republican counties like Camden
and Atlantic, where all kinds of rascali'
ties are being exposed by court drawn
grand juries.
On the total vote of the state the bal.
ance may be against the democrats. But
an adverse majority will not at all feaze
the Wilson plans. 1t will be a house
cleaning that will enable the democrats
to commence all over again, with the
Wilson campaign for the presidency as
starter. and Wilson, with his heel on
the necks of his machine adversaries, az
leader.
This falls experience with the law will
show. too. whether the national primary
system needs STRENGTHENING or elaborat-
ing. and the legislature of next winter
whether republican or democratic, VIII
be whipped by the gubernatortal policy
Of "pitiless publicity" into licking 1t into
nxso.uh,io IT, u,lcoc camnaicners are
not losing sight of the necessity OF or
ganization. Two or three weeks ago Gov.
Wilson was in conference over the meth
DDS of campaign. and 1t was decided 70
put q Wilson ticket in the field in every
locality In which the machine threatened
to make opposition to him.
In Smiths Stronghold.
Thus far, however, the only known
organization whose specific object is pro-
motion Of the governors presidential
campaign is the Woodrow Wilson League
Smiths stamping ground, and tn VIII
son workers think 1t particularly neces-
sary to beard the lion Of the democratic
machine in his den.
The Wilson theory is that the fac
tional disturbances in the democratic
camp may result in republican advantage
this fall, but that after 1t is all over
there will be no Smith faction to stand
up against w uSOn IN the lau VI McAs
year, and that the governor will then
have a clear road to success in the coun-
try.
Thus with the decks cleared in the dem
ocratic counties in the northern part Of
the state, and reform worked in the other
end so absolutely through his efforts as to
leave no one to dispute his way there,
and rural counties tickled with profess
aOns. and faddists all over the state en-
Unused over the Wilson short ballot sys-
tenn. the Wilson forces anticipate no diff
fculty whatever in getting the state for