Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-30
our TRENTON LETTER.


sey's political history there has never
been seen the equal of the campaign
which closed yesterday at noon. In
the first place attacks and counter
attacks of great bitterness were made
by President Taft and Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt, each charging that
the nomination of the other next
month would be a calamity to the
party United States Senator Robert
M LaFollette in all his speeches as
sailed both the President and the Col
onel and held them both responsible
for the present high cost of living and
other evils which he laid at the door
of the trusts. The President arraign-
ed the doctrines advocated by Roose-
welt, particularly his proposition for
the recall of judicial decisions.
Down with the bosses,' was the chief
slogan of Colonel Roosevelt and he
charged that Taft was the candidate
OF the Bosses, and to nominate him
was to perpetuate boss rule in the
party. LaFollette. claimed to be the
real Progressive and declared he stood
for the principles which, if put into
effect. would mean the downfall of the
trusts.
The strenuousness of the campaign
since Thursday morning OF last week
was unprecedented. Both the Presi-
dent and the Colonel toured the entire
state in flying trips which were literal
whirlwinds of travel. By special train
and automobile both candidates were
rushed around the state at top speed
and visited more towns and made
more speeches than any previous CAM
paign in this state. Both candidates
were greeted with large crowds in all
the cities visited In this city about
10. 1000 greeted President Taft, and, the
audience for Roosevelt the following
evening numbered about 10000. Gov
ernor Wilson made no formal cam
paign tour, contenting himself with
two or three speeches and the issuing
of the special appeal to the voters
****%*
The Civil Service Commission has
announced that six men passed the
recent examination for the position OF
State Architect, which pays a salary
of $500 year. The successful ones
were, in the order of their standing:
Samuel E. Sutton, of Newark; Arnold
H. Moses, of Merchantyille; George s.
Drew. of Grantwood; Francis H. Bent,
of Boundbrook; Walter Hankin, OF Jer
sey City, and August Seider, Jr., OF
South Orange. The names of the tirsf
three will be certified to the depart
ment of Charities and Corrections, to
which the architect is attached, and
the selection will he made from these
names.
Featured by direct attack on for
mer United States Senator James
Smith. Jr., and hard raps at the
Board of Guardians formal appeal
to the voters of the state was issued
last week by Governor Woodrow Will
son. In it the Governor made his flrst
formal admission that he is candl-
date for President. He asked the Vet-
ers for the suffrages at the polls on
Tuesday in the contest for the nomln-
alton for the Presidency on the Demo-
cratic ticket. The Governor charged
that the opposition of former Senator
Smith to him was only an attempt OF
the former to re-establish his control
over the Democratic party and put
himself an adjunct and partner OF the
old Republican machine in serving the
special interests in New Jersey
Governor Wilson based his claim to
the support of the citizens upon his
victory in the fight for the upholding
of the law for direct voting for United
States Senator, as evidenced in the
choice of James E. MARITIME, and his
leadership of regenerated party last
year in the passage of numerous re-
form laws He declared that Senator
Smith is opposing him from motives
of revenge and is working in a Sc
cret way that he would not dare make
public. The Governor declared that
the great issue in the primary cam
paign just completed was whether
there should be government in this
state conducted by public opinion or
whether the state should go back to
government of special interests
The Governor asked: Shall the
Democrats of New Jersey send dele
gates to Baltimore who are free men,
or are the special interests again to
name men to represent them? He
said this campaign was to determine a
choice between a government belong
ing to the people, to be conducted ac-
cording to the peoples judgment and
interests, and a government made to
conform to the interest and the ambi-
tfon of small group of men, who, by
whatever party they may be called,
are in the play for nobody but Them
selves.
Blanks for the filing of campaign
expense statements in the primary
election campaign have been mailed
by the Secretary of State to every can
didate participating in the campaign.
Under the corrupt practices act each
candidate for the position of delegate
or alternate to the National Conven-
tdons must file statement OF his
campaign expenses within five days
after the primary election, or on or
before next Monday The statements
must include the name of each con-
Hributor or other source from which
money was received for the campaign,
and ifemized statement of all ex-