Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-05-18
[rrom New York r,vsnIng Iournal.1

[From New York Evening Journal.1
In campaign soon to open Professor
Wilson, late of Princeton College, just
recently made Governor of New Jersey,
will try to persuade New Jersey that he
should be President of the United States,
Professor Wilson's appeal to the voters
of New Jersey is interesting and the
result of the appeal will be UNUSUALLY
enlightening.
Professor Wilson asks the voters of New
Jersey TO indorse his candidacy for the
Presidency--in spite of the fact that
every man In New Jersey KNOWS THAT
PROFESSOR WILSON HAS SYSTE-
MATICALLY AND SHAMELESsLY
NEGLECTED HIS WORK AS GOV.
ERNOR.
This isn't a matter of Idle accusation or
speculation but a matter of record.
The treasurer of the State of New Jer-
sey announces that any citizen is entitled
to investigate the records of the State
Treasury
And these records include checks for
salary NOT EARNED BY PROFESSOR
WILSON, BUT COLLECTED BY HIM.
Here are facts with which a great ma
jority of New jerseys voters are ia
miliar:
Professor Wilson has been out of the
State of New Jersey FOURTEEN TIMES
SINCE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR. The
title professor" suits bim a great deal
better than the title Governor" For
he is a professor, when 1t comes to hunt
ing job other than that he has and
neglecting the one he has. And he is no
Governor for he does not stay at home
attending to the duties of Governor.
The law of New Jersey says that when
the Governor leaves the State the presi-
dent of the Senate becomes acting Gov
ernor. and the salary of the Governor Is
paid to the acting Governor.
Fourteen times since the beginning of
this year Professor Wilson, drawing the
salary of a Governor ALL OF THE TIME
AS SHALL BE EXPLAINED LATER,
has been wandering away from his State
and over the country asking for a better
job.
Many thousands of times those that had
business with the Governor of New Jer.
sey, those that had right to meet him,
those that were interested In the char
table, the penal and the other institu-
tions of the State, have been unable to
find him.
But any distant boss with delegates at
his command, and any crowd OF gaping
idlers outside the State, could find Pro-
fessor Wilson easily enough.
The Professor has felt that he had New
Jersey in his pocket, therefore he didn't
have to think much about NEW JERSEY.
But the rest of the United States he still
had to GET-hence his travels
Professor Wilson has been away in this
year on fourteen separate occasions.
And already. NOMINALLY. he has for
feited more than twelve hundred dollars
dent of the Senate.
The voters of New Jersey. If they know
Professor Wilson, will not find any COM
fort In the delusion that another man got
the money for doing the work or that
Professor Wilson did NOT get it.
A man like Professor Wilson who ap.
plies to Mr.. Carnegie, of the Steel Trust,
for a pension-''IN ORDER THAT THE
PROFESSOR MIGHT REMAIN HOMES
IN POLITICS. is not the man to throw
any part of his salary into anybody elses
pocket.
The treasurer of the State will tell you,
if you ask him. as he told the editor of
the New York Herald, that while twelve
hundred dollars of Professor Wilson'S
salary as Governor had been turned over
to John r. Prince in checks. John t.
Prince had indorsed those checks back to
Governor Wilson-and the Governor" has
the money in his pocket now. although he
hasn't worked to get it,
Last year Governor Wilson was absent
from the State constantly also. Nominally
he is supposed TO have forfeited eighteen
hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty
cents of his salary-about one-quarter OF
the years salary. He was away one,
quarter of the time-to say nothing of the
small absences not noticed. And checks
for his salary amounting to over eighteen
hundred dollars were sent to Ernest r.
Alderman who was president of the SEN
ate last year.
Mr.. Ackerman also indorsed the checks
back to Governor Wilson, and Governor
Wilson has that money-WHICH HE
DIDN'T EARN.