Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-14
PARTY HEADS
PREDICT SUCCESS
Three State Committeeman
Tell of Unusual Conditions
of Campaigns.

TRENTON, Oct. 14.-With election
day but three weeks off, the political
pot of New Jersey is at the boiling
point, and the turmoil is the greatest
that the State has seen in many
decades, yet there are several party
leaders who can see no chance what
eve for their candidates to lose at
the polls.
In this city, Camden, Jersey City,
Newark, Paterson and other centres
of political activity one of the things
of paramount interest in discussions,
as well as in the work which is being
done, is the matter of the control of
the next State Legislature, which viii
mean the determination of whether
United States Senator Frank o. Briggs
is to succeed himself or whether the
victory won by Judge William Hughes
at the September primaries for the
preferential vote will bring him the
senatorship at the hands of the Demo-
cratic party.
There are six State senator's to be
elected, in Passaic, Sussex, Hunter
don, Middlesex, Burlington and Cape
May counties. To control the Senate
the Republicans will have to elect at
from them the Democrats will have
to win in four counties.
Former governor and present State
leader of the Bull Moose party John
Franklin Fort declares that the vic
tory of Roosevelt and the ticket
throughout the State is certain. In
his statement Mr.. Fort declared that
a month g he would have said that
1t would be impossible to carry Jer-
sey against Governor Wilson, but
the change in conditions has clearly
shown the Progressive organization
Is the n that the people of the
State are going to favor at the polls
this November.
Giving as his reason for this
change Mr. Fort said that the Re-
publican party is badly split, and
that there is ~ill-feeling in the Demo-
cratic ranks, so much so that their
defeat is certain.
1.-THE Progressive party in this
State will get a very large part of
it's vote from men who see through
it a chance at this time. by one |
to clean out both of the old
machines in the nation and the
declared Mr.. Fort. "Such an
opportunity does not often arise, and
] think the people mean to embrace
Watch and see how the people
of New Jersey wreck both the old ma
chimes in this State on the fifth day
of November next
ut is not too much for the Demo-
cratic party in this State to expect
with confidence a clean sweep at the
election of all the impor-
tant places within the. gift of the
people," said Edward E. Grosscup, |
chairman of the Democratic State |
Governor Wilson has
his sincerity of purpose in
trying to give them a government of |
their own, uncontrolled by any par
ticular interests, and the people have
this, ever men of rival par
ties. Appreciation of the work the
governor has done has attracted to
him the interest of voters every
where who desire to have the State
governed for their own benefit, and
the result is that the Democratic
party has been restored to a position
confidence that it has not held in
a score Of years.
Even If the great mass of the
people did not possess full confidence
in the good intentions of the party,
the Democratic candidates would
have good reason to anticipate win
ming at the polls because of the or
ganization of the third term party
and the dissensions that exist in what
is left of the Republican party"
Edmund w. Wakelee, chairman of
the Republican State committee,
said:
"It is rather difficult for a State
chairman devoted to the object of
carrying his State for President Taft
TO make a statement on the political
situation hat will not sound some-
what trite and commonplace. There
is nothing dramatic or theatrical
about President Taft, and there Is
nothing dramatic or theatrical about
the campaign we are making for him
in New Jersey.
ut would be futile for me to at
tempt more than a cursory analysis
Of the situation in New Jersey, but l
wish to make a statement as en-
phatic as possible that the sentiment
for the President is growing stronger
with every day that passes. Signs
point to the utter collapse of the third
party. More and mor people every
day, who have been inclined to sup
port Colonel Roosevelt, are becoming
doubtful Of the wisdom of entrusting
the government to a man Of his pc
culiar though wonderful attainments.
ION the other hand the threat of
free trade which Governor Wilson's
candidacy contains has frightened
thousands of Democrats who might
otherwise support him. and l firmly