Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-21

To the Editor Of the Evening star:
Sir-John w. Wescott was induced
to enter the list of a~spirants for the
United States Senate by a very large
number Of Democrats. He is still a
candidate by law and his name is on
the primary ballot.
His friends believe thai he is an
able and brilliant man, who would
make a senator of whom the State
could be proud. He has v been a
machine politician or ~"bossed,. by
anyone.
Over in New York city the "bosses"
at headquarters have worked on
Johns weak side. his generosity and
disposition toward self-effacement,
until they induced him. to vacate for
a machine tenant-Mr. Hughes.
The pretext being that it is neces-
say to have only one candidate
against Senator Smith to prevent the
State going to destruction. Senator
Smith is known to have the welfare
dilo OopCi VI ANcW JtI StN > 1nQuS-
tries at heart. and this doesn't please
the new gang in the saddle. cavort-
ing around the Fifth avenue build
ing's dress parade. II they and their
scholarly leader were sincere the
trust question would now be largely
moribund, because sthe New Jersey
statute, the charter of trusts, could
have beer repealed.
Our governor Is SO afraid of a ma
chine politician that he has heart
knocks and pales like a June moon
machine.
When he looks at Billy Hughes
Governor Wilson should be as color
less as a corpse.
What else than politics has been
Hughes's occupation? For almost a
generation he has been a cog in every
Democratic machine. and has noise
lessly and smoothly slipped into the
Wilson heaven-born progressive ma
chine.
The election of a United States
ness. We want a senator who will
take care of New Jerseys bread and
butter. as well as of her ideals and
rhetoric.
The hypocrisy and reckless indif-
ference with which the new gang seek
Senator Smiths political assassina-
ton is quite enough to drive lifelong,
self-respecting Democrats out of the
party.
With vicious hearts and false
tongues, with visions OF office and
salaries galore, "the new gang and
its satellites gather around Senator
Smith with their faces turned to
heaven while they bray "holier than
thou" lamentations.
The facts are:
!. Wilson isn't elected vet.
?. Senator Smith Is one of New Jer-
sey's most substantial business men.
3. He is president of one of New
Jerseys largest financial institutions.
4. He Is q business man. and not a
professional politicians, with only poll
tics for a refuge from vagrancy.
:. He is a generous public-spirited
citizen.
6. He is a safe man to care for New
Iersev's interest in tariff schedules.
Hughes would vote for any old bill
or schedule devised by "the machine
Z, Senator Smith is Wilson'S politi-
cal creator.
7 can't swallow the cant of men
who choke over Senator Smith and
accent a $4,000 contribution from
Jacob r. Schiff. 7 am not casting any
dispersion on Schiff. I think he is one
of the greatest captains of industry
in the countryEcertainly next to J..
P. Morgan.
I appeal I'd the sense of fairness
and justice in every New Jersey
Democrats heart to think twice be-
fore voting once against Senator
Smith.
I appeal also to the great c~oncourse
of workers in our State. You don't
want the vitals ripped out of the
tariff so that or Saturday night you
go home with empty pockets. have
Your children tugging at your coat
tail calling. Papa. we are hungry"
while the wife and mother sobs out
the agonies Of poverty.
We had one Wilson tariff that put
the Democrats out Of business for
sixteen ear and filed our country
with idleness. hunger. despair and
agony. and now Senator Smith is
being damned by a lot of fedglings
and new come-on politicians because
he stood firm for our industries.
Take this to your soul: 1t is only
the fratricidal strife in the Repuh-
lican party that makes Wilson seem
like a sure winner; otherwise. on the
proposition to rip up the tariff. he
couldn't carry q state north of the
Mason and Dixon line.
] believe in revision of tariff and
just schedules, and also in having
some men on the job that know how
to do it from practical business
knowledge like Senator Smith.
CLARENCE It. ATKINSON.
The Original Progressive OF New .Jer-
COW