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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-12
POLITICS AT SEA GIRT.

@ EA GRIT is no longer TO be an encampment for the National
- Guard, for which use only it was acquired. The ma.
tional rife competitions are no longer held there. In a
military way, the ground is now devoted to military rifle practise
and to the annual meeting of the State Rife Association. Unofi.
cially, 1T has become the summer capital by reason of the resi-
dence there of the governor, who has no official residence at
Trenton. As a governors residence, Sea Girt has also become a
political headquarters, and never before as much as it is this wear.
1t may be affirmed that, since politics is a part of our government
tai system and not merely a class diversion, it is well to main
tain a spacious resort, where men may congregate and crowds
gather in perfect freedom and away from demoralzing influences.
ii is true that the representatives of only one political party have
this use of a State property, and that the others are excluded and
have to go and hire halls in the cities and put up with contracted
accommodations, but no party can have a perpetual lease on Sea
Girt. To get possession, it is only necessary to elect the roy
ernor. 1t is one of the spoils of victory.
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ROOSEVELT GAINS

MAUCH CHUNK, Pa, Aug. H.
Leighton c. Scott, of L%ansford, dele
gate to the National Progressive Con-
vention at Chicago, has returned.
THE progressive sentiment in this
county and district is stronger now
than ever, and is getting stronger
every day." he says, "Many of the
voters who upheld Taft at the prima-
ries will not vote for him in Novem-
Der. The entire Roosevelt and John
son ticket will sweep the county over
whelmingly. In fact, after the No
vember election, President Taft will
not know that he was running. The
Progressive padty is going to win
and will be the great party of the.
future"
Leaders of the Washington and Ma
tional Progressive parties, which are
Identical in this State, say they will
not stand for anw candidate aspiring
for nomination who supported Presi-
dent Taft on the national delegate
fight.
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HARDsHIpS OF THE MILITARY GAME.

AV HAT with the heat, the rain and delayed rations the
WV first experience of the guardsmen in the campaign for
the capture and defense of New York was a trying one.
To the seasoned regular it was ordinary routine, and individually,
under such circumstances, he knows how to take care of himself
and make the best of things, an accomplishment that the guards
man has got to learn. Military campaigning isn't a matter of
marching up hill and down dale, with a bed and substantial sup
per always in sight. The trouble with the National Guard is
that it's members get too little of that experience which makes
the regular soldier hard as nails.
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How the Campaign Progresses
PROGRESSIVE Democratic Republican
.PLAN TO CHOOSE
TAFT ELECTORS
Pennsylvania Regulars Discuss
Means of Overthrow
ing Finn.

ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 12.-Elect-
ors honestly committed to President
Taft, representative Republicans. will
be selected to succeed the pro-Roose-
welt electors who will resign shortly
in accordance with the plans of the
Progressive party. The selections will
not be made by the present Pennsyl-
vania State committee unless the
Finn members agree to elect mon
known to be Republicans.
The plan by which the Taft Repub-
licans propose to overcome the
scheme of Finn to control the selec-
ton of the electors for the Taft tick
ct. was party unfolded last night by
Senator Penrose to the political lead
ers with whom he conferred.
The announcement vas made that
the Republican fight wills be waged
free of any ENHANCEMENT with the
Finn faction.
Regulars to Submit List.
Every opportunity will be given the
Finn controlled Republican State
committee, headed by his agent,
Henry G. WATSON, to carry out
~squarely the declarations of Roose-
welt as to the composition of the
electoral ticket. Committees repre-
senting leading Republicans of the
State, including William T. Tilden
and Howard B. French, will first lp-
pear before the Finn committee and
suggest that inasmuch as Roosev alt
has proposed that his electors leave
the Republican ticket the vacancies
should be filled by Republicans and
not men who have Joined the Pro-
gressive party.
In case the Finn committee refuses
to accept these recommendations ana
fill the vacancies from a list which
will be furnished them by the Repub-
lican committee, the remaining mem
bers of the Republican State commit
tee, almost a majority, will fill the!
vacancies and transmit them to the
secretary of the commonwealth as the
proper certiication.
May Go to Court.
In the event that this becomes nee
and Finn leaders say 1t will.
a suit will be later started to compel
secretary of the commonwealth
to print James of the electors certi-
fed to him by the true Republican
If it should be necessary to go tol
court the Republican leaders will be-
gin at once the reorganization of the
party, beginning with the Dismissal
IF uaprv q Wacson az Rapuhljpan |
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STRENGTHENING THE WEAK PLACES.

m MONG the Republicans who will soon disappear from public
fA life is Senator Robert Hand, of Cape May, whose fourth
term expires this year, and who will not be renominated.
The loss of Cape May by the Republicans would mean the loss
of the Senate to the Democrats and also the loss of a legislative
vote for United States senator. In the changed conditions of
things politically in Cape May the chances for the reelection of
Hand, if he should be nominated, would be microscopic, and evil
IDENTIFY pressure was brought to bear upon him by the State lead
es to force him out in favor of Lewis NJ. Crosse, of Ocean City.
The substitution is a good one, as Crosse is not identified with
the kind of politics for which Hand is noted in his county. But
in the Republican primaries in Cape May last spring Roosevelt
got 500 majority, and in the general election last November the
Republican plurality was only 16S. With a Progressive candi.
date for senator in Cape May, it is evident that the candidacy of
Crosse is going to have some hard Shedding.
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MEN ANGRY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. H.
Whether the supporters of Governor
Wilson in the recent Democratic
primaries or those who supported
Champ Clark and defeated Wilson by
d th~ree-to-one vote in California,
shall manage the presidential cam
paign of Governor Wilson, is to be
decided at the meeting of the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee to-
day. Theodore A. Bell and Chairman
Dewitt, of the State Central Com
mittee, were Clark supporters. After
the convention at Baltimore the
Democratic State executive commit
tee placed Chairman Dewitt in
charge of the Wilson campaign in
this State. This angered the orig
inaT' Wilson men.
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VOTES

SEA GRIT, Aug. 12.-Although the
Democratic party has no plank in it's
platform advocating oma suffrage
a plan has been formulated by the
Wilson campaign managers by which
they hope to make a bid for the
feminine vote in the six woman suf-
frage States.
Mrs. J.. Borden Hartman, of New
York, is to have charge of the Will
son campaign among woman voters
in California, Washington, Wyom-
ing, Utah. Colorado and Idaho. With
out going into the suffrage question
Mrs. Hartman, according to present
plans, will make her gappeal by
speeches on the tariff and the cost
of living, as we'll as on legislation
relating to hours of employment and
workmen's compensation.
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GORE GIVES WARNING

SEA GRIT, Aug. 12.-Roosevelt is
The candidate Governor Wilson has
o fear, in the opinion of Senator
Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma. He
is chairman of the committee or or
g%anization of the national committee,
md the note of warning that he
ounded created a deep impression
here. After leaving Governor Wilson
Senator Gore said:
THE conditions of the campaign
ire very gratifying, but 1 consider
hat it is never safe to feel too safe,
and for that reason we are going to
conduct a very vigorous and spirited
campaign.
There are two blunders that are
very easy to make. One is to yer
estimate your own strength, and the
other is underestimate the strength
of your opponent. We are not going
to do either"
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SEES T. X. STRENGTH

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Charles f.
Hamlin, editor of School, published
in New York city, grandson of Han
nibal Hamlin, who was Lincoln's
first vice-president, and who enjoyed
great distinction before Civil War
days as a senator from Maine, is a
student and author of Republican
party policies and enjoys peculiarly
favorable opportunities to observe
the drift of public opinion.
Mr.. Hamlin was asked for his
views on the political situation as
he has observed it up to date, and
he made the following statement:
Judging the situation from a. de.
tached point of view, l long ago
formed the opinion that there is u
big tidal wave rising for Wilson.
and from conversation and associa-
ton I have partially confirmed my
fears. Still, 1 cannot now surely
determine how much is foam and
how much is wave.
"The point to watch. | think, is
President Taft's management. If his
campaign is handled right he may
win. Roosevelt will be a tremendous
factor in the fight. In New York, at
least, and possibly in certain New
England and Western States he with
make the earth shake.
president Taft's managers may
succeed If they can draw Roosevelt
and Wilson into a contest, bidding
against each other for votes by
promising even more extreme meas
ures than they are offering now. At
this time / judge that Roosevelt VIII
poll more Democratic votes than it
is generally figured that he will"
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I is up to the Democratic caucus of the House of Representa-
Ii tfves to say whether the navy plank of the Baltimore plat
fern means what it says. The platform declares for an
adequate navy. The caucus majority has declared for an made
quate navy. 1t has proposed to cut batteships out of the naval
program this year and so greatly cripple our naval progress that
In a few years our naval power will be inferior to that of Japan
and vastly inferior to Germanys. Either the plank of the plat
form means something or nothing. It is for the Democrats of
tae house to interpret It for the country, more especially since the
candidate of the Baltimore convention made no reference to the
subject in bis acceptance address. And if it is declared to be
without any meaning, what of the other platform pIanks?
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AGAINST MAKING
LIQUOR AN ISSUE
Governor Wilson'S Views Are
Sent to Maine for Use
in Campaign.

In reply to inquiries by Maine DEM
ocrats as to his attitude on the liquor
question, Governor Wilson has SEN to
that State for use as campaign litera-
ture a copy of a letter he wrote orig
inally to Rev. Thomas B. Shannon, of
his city.
81 am in favor of local option" the
letter says. IT am a thorough be-
lever in local self-government and
believe thai every self-governing
community which constituted a social
unit should have the right to con-
troll the matter of the regulation or
of the Withholding of license. But
the questions involved are social and
moral and are not susceptible to be-
ing made parts of a party program.
Whenever they have been made the
subject matter of party contests, they
have cut the lines of party organiza-
ton and party action athwart to the
utter confusion of political action in
every other field. They have thrown
every other question. however i'm
portant, into the background and
have made constructive party action
impossible for long years together.
so far as l am myself concerned,
therefore, 1 can never consent to ha We
the question of local option made an
issue between political parties in this
State. My Judgment is very clear in
this matter. l do not believe that
party programs of the highest con-
sequence to the political life of the
State and of the Nation ought to
be thrust on n side and hopeless
ly embarrassed for long periods to-
gether by making a political issue
of d great question which is essen
TALLY non-political, non-partisan.
moral and social in it's nature,
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"A CALL TO WOMEN"

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Mary E.
Dreier, delegate-at-large from New
York to the Progressive national
convention, says:
ut is a great moment in the his
tory of the women's movement in
America. For the first time, women
not only from the suffrage States,
but from non voting States have
taken part in the convention of a big
political party. 1t is doubly signifi-
cant that they took part at the birth
of the party, and that they were
recognized on an equality with men
even before the splendid suffrage
plank had been adopted by the con-
yention.
1.-THE platform is a call to the wom-
en- of the country to ally themselves
with the forces that make for right
eousness."
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AH-CHOO

Chu-Chu Is a blacksmith, and shoes
oxen. the beast of burden in his dis
trict, with straw shoes. Shu-Shu,a a
rich farmer, brings his coos to be
shod. Shu-Shu chooses Chu-Chu to
shoe his COOS, and Chu-Chu shoes
Shu-Chu COOS choose to chew Chu
choose to chew his shoes Chu-Chu
chooses to shoe Shu-Shu cooes with.
Should Chu-Chu sue Shu-Shu because
Shu-Shu COOS choose to chew Chu-
Chu's shoes, or should Shu-Shu sue
Chu-Chu because Chu-Chu chooses
sSe shoes which Shu-Shu's coos
choose to chew?-Montreal Herald.
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R. WILL OPEN
CAMPAIGN FRIDAY
Speaks in Providence First.
Reticent About Opposition
to Longworth.

OYSTER BAY. Aug. 12.-Colonel
Roosevelt Is engaged busily on pre-
liminary work for his campaign in
New England. Friday he will speak
at Providence and from that city will
go to Point-of-P Pines, near Boston.
He plans to be bac kat Sycamore
Hill a week from today and intends
to go to Wilkes-Barre four days
later to take in the golden jubilee
of Father Curran, who figured con-
~spicuously in the settlement of the
coal strikes in that region.
At his home here today the colonel
refused 10 discuss the report that DR..
A. o. Zwick, of Cincinnati, would run
for Congress on the Progressive
ticket against Nicholas Longworth,
the %colonel's son-in-law.
Eyes, I've heard the report. but l
have nothing to say" was his reply
when questioned on the matter.
The colonel attaches much impor-
lance to the turn affairs have taken
in Ohio, and is reticent only on the
of DIR. Zwick. The colonel
says the P~rogressives now will make
a straight-out fight in Ohio.
His elation- over the indications for
a strong third party ticket in Ohio
were clouded by the news that Will
J. Bryan would not track him
through his campaign of the south
and west.
That the line of his speech-making
was to be followed by the Nebraskan
uao ~ tho oaIapaliS Ikiog ~ q
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JOHNSON TO RESIGN

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-Gover.
nor Hiram w. johnson, candidate of
the Progressive party for vice-presi-
dent, arrived today from Chicago and
announced he would resign as COVER
nor of California. He stopped at Sac
ramento, the capital, only ten min
utes, where he made an address to
a crowd at the railroad station.
In his talk he said he had been
drafted into the ranks of the fighters
for the cause which the third party
represented, and that he was ready
to do his duty.
He will remain at his home here
until Tuesday morning, when he will
go to Sacramento to attend the
duties of his office. At the end of
two weeks he will return East to be-
gin his speech-making tour.
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Home Thanks Public for Aid. +,
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Sir-The board of trustees of the
'Colored Aged Home of New Jersey
desire to thank the public through
your paper for its charitable consid-
Grafton and kindly aid which has re-
lieved the home absolutely of the debt
occasioned by the severe winter.
Let it be noted that hereafter all
contributions shall be published az
the end of each month, however
small. We wish the public to know
that every dollar is properly applied.
Books are always open for inspection.
REV. j. w. FREEMAN,
superintendent.
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ELIOT DENIES M

BOSTON, Aug. lin reply to the
statement that DIR. Charles w. Elicit
had declared for Governor Wilson his
sister, Mrs. Charles Eliot Guild,
speaking for him, declared that she
had heard DR.. Eliot positively deny
he had announced his support of the
candidacy of Governor Wilson. In
fact, she said that so far as she knew
DR.. Eliot did not discuss politics Sat-
urday evening, pleading ignorance be-
cause of his long absence from the
country.
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TALKS OF TAFT GAINS

DETROIT, Aug. 12.-Chairman
Groesbeck, of the Republican State
Committee, says he has received re-
ports showing that out in the State
Progressive Republicans are every
where growing cold toward Roosevelt.
IF half the reports we get are
true he says, the people who have
been for Roosevelt are slowly chang
ing their minds as they have time to
think over the situation.
From every county in the State we
have reports that Republicans are
banding together TO fight the seces-
sionists. That's what ! call them."
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ANTl-MURPHYlTES MEET

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Aug. 12.-
Nearly all the Democrats who are
here to hold a conference this after
noon, with a view of founding an
anti-Murphy faction of the party,
met last night In secret conference to
discuss plans for today's meeting.
The call for the meeting, issued by
the Nassau County Committee. Is a
protest specifically stated against
the dictation and domination of
Charles F. Murphy"
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QUITS DEMOCRACY

CHARITAN, Ia, Aug. IF. o.
Stuart, for years an active Demo-
cratic leader and supporter of Bryan,
has joined the Progressive party and
is campaigning for Roosevelt. Mr..
Stuart is circulating a pamphlet Civ
ing his eason for his change. Po-
litically, he condemned the Demo-
cratic convention for rejecting
Champ Clark, who, he says, was the
real choice Of the party rank and
file.
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SEEKS ASBURY cLERKsHIP

ASBURY PARK, Aug. 12.-Heilner
Calvert, Of the real estate firm of
calvert & Shubert. has announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination for the city clerkship.
This brings attention to the rather
unusual fact that the present city
clerk, William Burroughs, Is the only
one the city ever had. 1t is under
stood he will seek denomination upon
the same ticket. If so his candidacy
will meet the first opposition it ever
has had.
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BUNGALOW LIFE BECOMING POPULAR.

NY o one who travels through the woodland and seacoast re-
AW gions of New Jersey and keeps his eyes open can fail to no.
tce how many bungalow colonies are springing up. 1t is not
a mere summer resort idea. The occupants of many of these
picturesque little dwellings built them for yearround residences.
The bungalow -dweller figures that the rental, say from $25 to $50
q month, that he has been paying for a city fiat will meet the
interest Oh a sum sufficient to purchase a bungalow with a good
sized plot that will afford him all the comforts and conveniences
be needs. with the added healthfulness and Joy of country life.
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/. H. SAGE FOR CONGRESS

PASS&IC, Aug. 12.-Progressive Re-
publicans of the Sixth Congressional
District, including Bergen, Warren
and Sussex Counties and the upper
end of Passaic County, have agreed
upon Leveritt H. Sage, of Hacken-
sack, member of a Newark firm which
prints law books. as their candidate
for Congress, and will that
two of the eight members of the
campaign committed will be women.
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r FOR COLONEL

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. H.
DR.. S. G. Ebert, a leading negro
resident of this city and a delegate
to the Progressive convention in
Chicago, declares that nine out of
ten negroes of this state are for
Roosevelt, and that since his atti-
tude toward them has bee Unexplained
they are for him by a great majority.
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H.. w. TAFT CONFIDENT

LONDON. Aug. 12.-Henry W. Taft,
brother of the President, WHO is taxi
ing a holiday in Scotland, today ex-
pressed the opinion that the prospecs
of Republican success are very ia
vorable.
The real contest" he said, will
ultimately be between President Taft
and Governor Wilson. I don't think
Mr. Roosevelt's supporters or him
self have any expectations of his
election. 1 am quite confident the
lines will be so drawn that President
Taft will be reelected"
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OHIO IN THE CAMPAIGN.

MN HIO is TO present an interesting campaign spectacle.
W. There is to be a Progressive State ticket from Governor
down and in all the congress districts. The Presidents
own State voted heavily against him in the Republican prima-
ries, and if the same adverse vote obtains in the election, it is
hard to see how a Taft Republican candidate can secure q
plurality. An overwhelming party disaster in Ohio would be the
most msrtifying feature of a defeat in November.
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WILSON LEAGUE BRANCH

Voters of the Third, Ninth and
Sixteenth wards will meet in st.
Stephens hall, II Elizabeth avenue,
tonight, to form a branch of the
Woodrow Wilson League. The ques-
ton of placing q ticket in the field
by petition will be thrashed out.
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RESIGNS TO AID o

JOPLIN, Mo, Aug. 1%2.-Judge
Paul A. Ewert, a special assistant
to Attorney General wickersham,
has telegraphed hi sresignation to
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Washington 10 be free to support
Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy for
President. Ewert has been in charge
of government land suits in the
southwest.
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WHAT hi DID MIND

s-ella-Her gown is just like yours.
Bella-I don't are If hers is q
duplicate of mine, but / don't want
mine to be a duplicate of hers.-Ex-
change.
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