Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-13
RAPS WILSON FOR
THRUST AT SMITH
In Resigning from State Com
mittee, Charles Gallagher
Criticises Governor.

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the Smith Ease there is some hidden
motive. Does anyone believe that
Wilson honestly believes Smith is the
least fit of the five Democratic CAN
didates that are in the field?
smith Knows Tariff.
This is an industrial State, greatly
interested in the tariff problem. Sena-
tor Smith is a business man of wide
acquaintance. He knows the tariff
question both from the standpoint OF
the manufacturer and the workman.
THE other four Democratic candi-
dates are lawyers, not n of whom
stands high in that profession. one
of the four has already been dis
barred for improper practices.
another has been before the Supreme
! Court on a charge that was con-
sidered sufficiently grave to warrant
disbarment proceedings; a third has
not been entirely free from criticism
in the practise of his profession.
"Does Governor Wilson think that
the Democratic voters of the state
are going to believe him honest when
he singles out of such a list of candi-
dates the one man who created him
politically? Is the man who will de-
liberately and cold1y do such a deco
likely to have any consideration for
his fellow men after he@has finally
I,had the full greed of his ambition
| gratifed?
Former Senator CIeveIand's Friend.
governor Wilson in his attack re-
calls the fact that Senator Smith
during the Cleveland administration
refused to consent to free trade legls-
lation. If the facts were as Cover
nor Wilson presents them how does
he account for the warm friendship
that existed between Senator Smith
and Grover Cleveland right up to he
day Mr.. Cleveland died? When Gro
yer Cleveland came to North Jersey
he made his home with Senator
| Smith, and the latter frequently
visited the Cleveland home at Prince
ton. Why was Governor Wilson not
able to retain the friendship OF
Grover Cleveland until the end? Or,
for that matter, was Governor wilson
able to retain the friendship of n
of the important men at Princeton
| any more than he has been m pupilc
life?
"Only recently. we witnessed the
spectacle of Governor Wilson remain
ing in his home at Princeton while
President Taft and Chief Justice
| White and other dignitaries of the
nation were joining in the Inaugural
ton of John G.. Hlbben, as president
of Princeton University. Hibben and
Wilson were old chums in the uni
versity.
"As Governor of the state. Woodrow
Wilson IL president of. Princeton Uni
versity; yet he coldIy and deliberate
Iy refuses to quit his home and go
across the street to the Inauguration
of his successor at the head of the
institution. Why? The only ex-
PLANTATION would seem to be that the
green-eyed monster had SO completely
enveloped him that he cannot stand
for anyone else advancing. He wants
to he the boss, and the whole works.
and apparently can only tolerate small
men who will dance to HIS, music.
VIII Vote for Wilson.
LAS a Democrat. I am going to vote
\ lpt tiDOltt OdL l. w 1 NV =
gretful knowledge that his victory
will bring the complete wrecking of
the party that. for fifteen years, 1
have been battling for. 1t is little
wonder that those who have actively
been in the fight, without hope of re-
ward, have lost heart. I did not be-
long to what was commonly known
as the Old Guard. / entered active
party work when the New Jersey
Democracy was at its lowest ebb,
During the five years hat I have
represented Mercer county on the
State committee we have carried the
county twice for Governor; we have
elected a member of the Legislature
twice; a mayor and tax receiver and
common council in the city and a
sheriff in the county; and during that
time the present governor. who is
a voting resident of this county,
vegetated peacefully amid the classic
shades of Princeton, never once con
%tributing a dollar nor making a
speech for the cause of Democracy.
"Not only Inns he never aided, fnan-
cially or otherwise. In helping the
local Democracy, but in the big fight.
W hen the county was trying to eman-
cipate itself from the trolley domIna-
tion. he didn't even take the trouble
to go to the polls and vote. When
he sought a pension from Andrew
Carnegie he pleaded poverty, but he
certainly was made poor paying
his annual taxes, which foot UP the
sum of $50.
Like many other men who have
stood by the Democratic party in the
dark days of the past, l am weary
of the hypocrisy of such leadership;
and so l am going to discontinue my
active work-not when the party is
out in the cold, as 1t was fifteen years
ago. but when 1t is in contrsl in the
city. county and State"