Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-29
W|TTPENN SAW
PROFIT IN DEAL
Thought Advocacy of Wilson
Would Be Help to Brick
Business.
JERSEY CITY MAYOR
IS KEEPING SILENT
Claims Lippincott Will Be Ap-
pointed Assistant Secre-
tary of State.

ERSE CITY, March 24.-It is now
eight days since the charge was made
at the Democratic County Committee
meeting that Mayor Wittpenn's sudden
conversion to the Wilson Presidential
movement was the result of a deal by
which he was to get, In return for his
support of the Governors candidacy,
certain patronage that would help
him in his business. The appoint
ment of a State architect, 1t was
charged, was to be included in the
patronage that Mayor Wittpenn was
to be permitted to dispose of. The
Mayor is a large stakeholder in a
company that manufactures a certain
kim of brick. inc it would be a big
advantage to him to have a State
architect of his own selection.
Although he has been given every op-
p~ortunity to reply to the charges the
Mayor prefers to remain silent.
Il have nothing to say" is his only
reply. The publicity given the charges
may interfere with the Mayors plans.
however, and there is some talk that
he may not get the appointment after
all. Frederick Long is the mayors
choice.
inges on Longs Appointment.
Governor Wilson fears that Il he
were to appoint Long it would be a
confirmation of the charges that he
and the Mayor had entered into a deal.
The Governor is also worked up owe
the publication in The Star of the
boast made by Mayor Wittpenn to his
friends that he had got the Governor
where he wanted him. The interview
between the Mayor and the Governor,
at which the deaI by which the
Mayor was to obtain for the Governor
the Endorsement of the Hudson County
Democratic Committee. n he in turn
was to be recognized as the party
leader, with the privilege of deciding
for the Democrats of the county who
should have the several positions, is
now public property, the Mayor hav-
ing told the details to his friends
again and again. His jubilation was
so great that he even boasted that he
had pushed Joe Tumulty and Mark
Sullivan aside nj was now after the
political scalp of Sheriff N. Peter
Wedin. Governor Wilson thinks the
Mayor was indiscreet, to say the least,
in talking in a public way about the
interview and it's results.
The Mayor, in the hope Of setting
himself right, has made a feeble de-
NAL that he talked of the interview.
Picks Lfppincott for job.
Il have aided Governor Wilson's
candidacy In Hudson County to the
best of my ability" says the Mayor.
That is true, but the fac remains that
it was not until the now famous In
terview took place that the Mayor
took the least interest in the Cover
nor's Presidential aspirations. Before
the deal" vas arranged the Mayor
was telling his friends he did not
think the Governor had a chance for
the nomination and he was advising
his followers to take a stand against
him. The sudden change on the part
of the Mayor surprised his friends I'M
i'll he informed them of how he had
brought the Governor to time.
The Mayor is having his own
troubles in convincing the Governor
that he is the acknowledged leader of
Hudson County. He has a grievance
against Sheriff Wedin and Patrick r.
Griffen, of Hoboken. Among those
whom the Mayor has picked out for
State jobs is Job H. Lippincott. The