The Detroit times., 1912-05-25
Gov WILSON ASKS VOTERS
TO AGAIN REDUKE POLITICAL
BOSSES OF NEW JERSEY
Refers To His Record and Seeks
Support as Candidate
For President
HE WON'T GO ON STUMP
Says He Has Kept Faith With
People BY Fighting For
Representative Rule

TRENTON. N. j., May 24-Declar-
Ing that the people OF New Jersey are
familiar with his record on public
questions, Gov. Wilson has issued a
proclamation In which he says II
would be unbecomlng for him to take
the stump and seek to give color to
1t by his own exposition. He attacks
his opponents who have organized
against him and placed on the primary
ticket full set OF 'uninstructed dele
gates" to the national convention In
Baltimore.
y After announcing his candidacy for
the presidential nomination and ask
Ing support from the voters at the
New Jersey primaries to be held next
week, Gov. Wilson says:
Il was unwilling to canvass the state
for your vote. | have spoken fire.
quently in the past few months IN
other states because my friends
thought l ought TO make myself per-
sonally known there; but that could
not be urged as a reason In New Jer-
sey. You know me. For Is months
have sought to serve you as gov
ernor OF the state, and with a full
sense of the responsibilities you have
imposed, and my record all the state
knows. Nothing that | could say
upon the public platform could alter
II, either for better or for worse. Ii
would be unbecoming In me to COM
mend II TO you or TO seek to give II
color by my own exposition Of It,"
Gov. Wilson then reminds voters of
his fight against former United States
senator James Smith, Jr., and tells
hem that he opposed the reelection
If Senator Smith and favored James
:. MARITIME, the present incumbent OF
he office, because the people OF the
state had expressed their preference
'or Mr.. MARITIME at the primaries. He
.'eviews recent state political history
and continues:
This is the whole ground Of my Of
Tending. insisted that the party
should keep faith with the people. IN
the matter OF the senatorship as In all
others. Senator Smith wanted It's OBJ
legations ignored in order that 10
might be returned to the senate. He
seeks revenge, as do the guardians
and all others who have been deprived
of their private control. Their puI.
pose Is to regain their power and rule
again as they please.
publican party is obvious TO the whole
country, and very unedifying spec
tacle It Is. Bat what Is happening in
thissstate within the Democratic party
is no. so obvious. Ii Is, indeed, being
done very quietly and very secretly.
because II is being done by James
Smith. Jr., who knows no other way
OF acting In politics and who has no
suggestion TO make TO the voters OF
the state which he can quite venture
10 make in public.
"He does not, understand, avow
himself to be in favor OF any particu-
lar candidate for the Democratic
nomination; he Is only opposed to
me: and the men he has induced to
offer themselves as candidates TO rep
resent New Jersey in the national
Democratic convention wish TO be
sent without instructions II is in
teresting to note how large a proper
tioa of them who Sere candidates for
appointment to office, and whom /
did not appoint.
What concerns Us and makes the
matter very much larger and more
serious than the mere incidental ques-
ton OF whether am to be nominated
at Baltimore or not. is the fact that
this is Mr.. Smiths attempt to re-
establish his control over the Demo
cratic party and put himself once
more In q position to make the Dem
ocratic machine an adjunct and part
ner of the old Republican machine in
serving the special interests In New
Jersey. It is the last desperate at
tempt of the discredited old regime
% destroy and supplant the new"