The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-25

ana That they also had hopeS OF ianulnR
the delegates at large. The Taft leaders
based their claims, they said. on care
ful canvasscs. They added that they
believed the President would have tho
Oew Jersey commutcr vote. Political
observers who have been following the
President In other States have been un-
able as yet. however, TO discern evil
denccs Of Taft victory in New Jersey.
although the chances for him there
seem to- be a little brighter than they
were In ohio. The Presidents friends
will be satisfied II he breaks even with
Col Roosevelt in New Jersey.
A considerable furry was caused In
Republican camps in New Jersey last
night through the circulation OF re-
port tha. the President at a luncheon
at STATE senator Freiinghuysen's home.
near somerset. yesterday had said that
he he'd tl,' delegates and would be NOM
mated q; Chicago provided money was
not used The President. when his at
tent.op was called to this story. denied
vigorously that he had made any ref
ercnoe to money. From another source
II was learned that the President had
declared at the luncheon he would be
nominated, but that somebody else In
terjec ted the remark about money, and
that the President ignored It,
The President began the second day
Of his Jersey campaign with a speech
at Flemington. He had started out from
Trenton AT o'clock In the morning.
Mr.. Taft spent practically all the morn
Ing in the counties of Hunterdon and
Warren. These are both Democratic.
and the crowds. while good sized, were
only lukewarm in their demonstrations.
At Fiemington. the county seat Of
Hunterdon. the President was greeted
by about 1000 persons. At Frenchtown.
Phillipsburg and Stockton he had
crowds Of about the same size.
From Phillipsburg the President
turned east and made :ons jump on
his special train to Somerville. the
county seat of Somerset county. Here
the President was in Republican terri
tory and he also was beginning to hit
the New Jersey commuters country.
The enthusiasm of the crowds began to
perk up and the turnouts were larger.
When the Presidents special train
pulled in AT the Somervillc station Mr..
Taft and his party found about hfty
automobiles drawn up in two long lines
Part of the cars were filled with local
committeeman from Somerville and New
Brunswick. and the others had been re-
served for the thirty or forty newspaper
men and others who were trailing the
President As the procession moved
out from the station II might have been
mistaken for great big automobile
field day run. And the dust that the
long line stirred up. IL Somerville gets
itself brushed of clean in time for the
next Presidential primary campaign she
will he doing we'll
The automobiles headed for the home
Of State Senator Joseph S. FrelinE-
huysen just outside OF Somerville. For
half an hour they were struggling up
to his front door. until one almost Won
dered II the entire county OF Somerset
had heard about the fine buffet lunch
that the Senator was serving and had
climbed into autos and headed for It..
The Senator had as his special guests
besides the President Austen Colgate.
United States senator Briggs. former
Governor Franklin Murphy. both of
whom were travelling with the rresi-
dent; Assemhlyman William de Far
Roche from Somerset county and Sem
ator Smalley. The rest Of the hungry
multtud" enjoyed buffet luncheon on
the biz v"randa of the Senator'S home.
After the luncheon the big autnmo-
bile fleet moved off on It's fifty mile run.
WHICH WIS 10 Gnu carry IN tnc evening
at Elizabeth. The President stopped at
the Somerset county court house and
from its steps addressed a crowd of
1000 or 1000. The President was pre-
rented by Mayor W. V. Steele of SOM
ervile Mayor Steele Is a Democrat. 1t
is seldom enough in these days that the
President finds a Democratic Mayor
who cares about mixing up in a Repub-
licsn primary campaign meeting
Mayor Steele, however. not only in
troduced III. President, but he expressed
his sympathy with the President in the
undignificd situation that had been
forced upon him. Also he had some
good words to say about the President $
sta nd for the preservation Of Constitu-
tional government. Mayor Steele :
words tick."d the Jersey Republicans
who were following the President
In his S"nerville speech the presi-
dent i.feir"d to Roosevelts 81 am the
Republican party" statement
"A man who can say that" declared
the President demonstrates the pos
session of certain faculties and tendcn-
cies that would make him unsafe 10
put into office"
The President in mis- Somerville
speech expressed an opinion for the frs,
time as Ia the reason why Roosevelt
has been pulling out victories recently
The trouble Is" said tho President
that the whole people are not aroused
on thlS subject of the violation of the
third term tradition. They do not un.
derstand what the crisis Is and they
do not go out and vote II is only III.
discontcntel and those who ar. aroused
oy appeals to discontcnt and class feel.
Ing ana hatred that Mr. Roosevelt at
tempts To stir up and they do come out
Now ] appeal to those VINO are friends
or constitutional government and VIII,
believe IN maintaining II. Let then
snow their colors and their Coniidc nc,
next Tuesday"
AS th' long line of automobiles filed
out Of - 'mcrville all tho steam whistles
IN the community opened up and there
was terrible racket, The President
stopped tYr fifteen minutes at Bound
Brook, speaking to 1000 from a stand
near the centre OF the town
Al New Brunswick the President also
met with cordial reception. His speech
there va" delivered in one of the city
squares \ reception committee, headed
by the Mayor, John j. Morrison, and
Edward W. Hicks. Henry q. Parker and
Dr. George II. Payson of the New
Brunswick Taft business Mems Club
had met the President in Somerville and
escorted him into the city of New
Brunswick, \ lot of Rutgers College
boys added TO the racket that New
Brunswick raised in Tafts honor. The
President, when it came time to speak
referred to the fact that Mr.. Justic.
Bradley of the supreme Court had beer
Rutgers man and expressed the hope
that Rutgers Is rearing more like hin
to uphold the Constitution and the laws