New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-18
Sea Grit Crowd Takes It He
Means Efforts of "Jim"
Smith to Regain Power.
REC0UNTS STATE REFORMS
Candidate Makes Two Speeches
to New Jersey Day Gather
ing-Tells Women of High
Cost of Living.
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune. !

sea Grit y. j., Aug. 17.--This was New
Jersey Day at the little summer capitol
here. and for the first time since Gov
ernor Wilson became the Democratic cam
ddate for President he ran into some real
enthusiasm. He made two speeches, one
from the knoll under the big WILLOW tree
in front Of his cottage to about fifteen
hundred men and women. and the other
to the newly formed Womens Wilson and
Marshall Club from the porch Of the quar-
termaster- generals cottage. At each Of
these gatherings there were applause and
cheering a-plenty, and there Is little doubt
that 1t made good music for the Demo-
cratic candidates ears when compared
with the quiet that greeted his speech OF
acceptance aud his later speech at the
farmers picnic.
But Governor Wilson was among his
friends. and he knew II, for he conflded
10 them the Information rampant for the
last week or so that Jim" Smith, once
Democratic boss of New Jersey, was lay
ing plans 10 regain control Of the Demo-
cratic party in New Jersey.
Governor Wilson In his warning OF the
activities Of the cx-boss OF his party did
not mention Mr. Smith by name, but
there were few who listened to his speech
from the knoll who didn't make guess
that he was referring to the former Sena-
tor, his one-time friend, when he uttered
these words:
Plans are being laid TO put the old
men in the saddle again and restore the
old order OF politics In New Jersey. Are
you going TO consentP Are you WILING
that the doors Of the government should
be shut against you again. and that you
shouldn't have even a share In the voice
that is 20 determine what your own gov
eminent Is going TO do? Do you not
know the men who engineered those OLD
processes Of deceit, and are you going
TO permit any one Of them 10 besmirch
again the fair name OF New Jersey?
They have made professions which they
have not fulfilled, they have seen the
light OF the new day, and have shut
their eyes to IT, they have said that they
have acquiesced, and they are simply
waiting for the present regime TO De over
Don't you want 10 look forward TO the
weather Of that time, and don't you
want to come In again? There are men
whom ! am facing here to whom that
thing has been said. know II. Does
the hog desire to return 10 his wallow?
Tolls Of Smith. Secret Plan.
II know Just what Governor Wilson was
aiming at" said Colonel John r. Mulliken.
president of the Civil Service Commission,
v no was one Of the Governors listeners.
He was aiming at Jim Smiths secret
plan TO control the votes OF the next Leg
islature for United States Senator Mr..
Smith preached the subject to me himself.
lie said he considered the primary law a
joke and was not binding on any MEM
Der OF the Legislature. and that the men
| he expected to control would no doubt feel
at liberty 10 vote as they wished"
The statement that Jim Smith was
trying 10 come back was not news
around here. where reports OF tho many
conferences held at the Office OF the ex-
boss in Newark have been plentiful, the
most recent one being on last Thursday.
Smith has already picked on. the twelve
men he intends TO make the Democratic
candidates for Assembly In Essex County,
and he boasts that he will elect them. too.
In view of the determination OF the third
party men TO put a ticket In the field.
The crowd that made the pilgrimage to
the little White House" was dlsappoint-
ing to the Democratic managers, who had
hoped for numbers that ran In the neigh
borhood Of 10000. Throughout the whole
day possibly three thousand men and
women wero on the grounds. but what
they lacked IN numbers they made UP
for In enthusiasm.
Says Jersey Has Conc Ahead.
Governor Wilson In his speech from the
knoll told OF progress, which, he said,
New Jersey had made under his admin
istration, and OF the progressive laws he
had helped put upon the statute books.
lie said. IN part
have seen things happen in New Jer.
sey the CLEAN OF which has widened
across the whole continent and men have
seen the state that we charged With
mothering all the trusts has now dis
played the power by which the trusts
may be curbed and governed.
Perhaps we. as a mother. understand