The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-26
WILSON'S FRIEND
m STATE SENATE
New Jersey Governor Failed TO
Act IN FitzherbeFt Case.
DID NOT END The DISGRACE

SS~l9S 49,
DID NOT END The DISGRACE
eaS 80
Executives -one Track Mind" Got on
crooked curve-Net Only His
Own state, but the Entire United
states, Is Entitled 70 an Explains
4ion-o one Was Promised SIX
Months Ago.
Why has woodrow Wilson. Gov
ernor of New Jersey and candidate Of
the Democratic party for President OF
the United States, been supine, pass
i've and silent for more than SIX
months in face of as black legisla-
rive scandal as ever beclouded the
fair fame of a sovereign State!
strike" bills are unhappily not novel
ties in State~capitals and II public I'M
pressions are In accord with facts New
Jersey has been a prolific field Tor
that sort OF harvest. The BLACK
Horse cavalry of Tweed's time were
not more ravenous, according to re-
mort than some Of their latter-day
imftators west OF. the Hudson ana as
many large corporations have their
headquarters or plants, OF Dotn' IN
New Jersey it is not di@eult for the
striker TO find an easy mark" for his
stand and deliver.
Hardly necessary is It to say that
the victims, as a rule usually deem 1t
cheaper to hand over than to put up
a fight. and it might be supposed,
therefore. that a mcnopolist Of official
riqhteousness, such as woodrow VIII
son processes to be, would seize an OPP
portunity not merely onered put
Trusting :tself upon him, for making
an example of the criminals
Herein woodrow Wilson has utterly
failed to measure up to the standard
Of a conscientious dare-to-do-rlght e&-
ecn+ive- Six months and more have
passed since the Senate OF New Jer-
sev- by vote of II to 9, found Sena-
tor Richard Fftzherbert guilty OF an
ac+ Inconsistent with the trust and
49, ~ a senator in that he had ne
potia+ed for the payment OF the sum OF
& 600 by the Commercial Acetylene
Company of New York as consider
a+iop for the withdrawal by the salo
senator of Senate bills 70 and ITO
1herfor introduced by him.
On March u. the day before the
vote couvicting Fitzherbert, Governor
Wilson said that he was looking lhUO
the testimony" and on March l" ne
had a conference with the Democratic
senator's. and said that he would issue
a statement No Statement was e nen
or has since been forthconlliS' al
though. TO quote from the oeale
,,a++e', If Trenton, from the time that
Ea fre+ appeared in the political arena
&C candidate for the Office of governor
woodrow wilson's greatest effort mas
t,aeT, To impress the people OF this ana
otber states with the idea that he IS
+y,e head and front of the Democratic
Ilavty and the adviser and guide or the
be on March Is. 1912. two days after
r-it,Jerbert's conviction Mr. Oscar +.
Oe+bv In behalf of the CommerclSI
scetyIene Company. APPEALED to Gov
800. Wilson to take some acton that
T,.o,Id nut an end to the public scan
dol and the menace to legitimate ousl-
ness involved in the presence Oh
nan with Fitzherbert's proved record
81 +ba senate of New Jersey Govern
~ Wilson replied under date OF March
or at o,,ite agree with what you say
70 the extreme seriousness OF the
EEi,zberbert incident shall certainly
- bv everv means within my power
TO see that no matter OIL thls KIM -
covered or conGOned-
And that more than six months ago
was the last Of it, so far as Wilson Is
concerned. The promised Statement
nv wilson has never been made. Fltz-
herbert has not resigned or onereo 10
resign. nor has any suggestion Deen
made that Wilson has asked him TO-
The conclusion K obvious that
yvoodrcw Wilson is a reformer only
IN snots- and that his one-Tack mlno'
&C he calls it himself. is as curved as
the horseshoe Bend when personal
sdvantage is to be gained IN making
+be curve Fitzherbert has been
s+eedfast supporter of Wilson in his
nIans for the uplift of New Jersey, and
little matter like the holdup of the
Acetvlene company is not permitted
70 mar their oneness Of moral and po-
IiticaI aims. It is possible-nay, prob
sble-that the public at large may
take a different view Of executive OBJ
Tqatious. and may conclude that
Governor with such a contracted sense
Of oficiai duty is united for the Tar
more important ONCE OF President OF
the United States. 80 4SssS
Increase of Savings Bank Deposits in
Taft's Administration =
Chicago, Feb. 8, 1903. .zes,fss