Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-27
WILSON AFRAID To
co HOME IN DARK?
Governors Speech
in~-Jersey" Prompted by Fear,
Says Democrat"
BREADS BEING QUIzZED
ON COURSE AS EXECUTIVE
Resorts to Ananias Refuge to
Escape Results of Betrayal
of Friendships.

The following is from a voter who
helped elect Woodrow Wilson Governors:
To the Editor of The Star:
Just for a brief space In your valued
paper to tell you and others why a
Democrat who voted for Grover Cleveland
and every Democratic candidate since bis
time, will never vote for Woodrow Viii
son for President, If 1t should be De-
mocraey's misfortune to have New Jer-
sey's Governor as its national standard
bearer, which prospect. am pleased to
think, Is remote.
Il supported DR.. Wilson for Governor
and he was then my ideal of a candidate.
But | was woefully, sadly disappointed
In the man. The more l follow his career
the more | read his speeches, the closer
! watched his official actions, the more
convinced did l become that had in
vested in a pig in a poke My ideal
was shattered and self.shattered at that.
Though not very active In politics and
never having held an Office, I am a
thorough organization man and appreciate
the necessity for organization in every
thing, particularly In politics.
so does DR.. Wilson, according to his
own declaration, for it was the organiza-
tion that brought about his nomination
for Governor. But il is quite clear that
he only wants organization that can be
used and moulded TO suit his selfish aims
and personal ambitions. Facts bear me
out.
at is that last letter OF his. however.
that proved the straw that broke the
camel's back. What could have possessed
him to indite such a thing? This great
and erudite professor, this expounder of
grand ideas and of deep thought, de-
scends from the sublime to the ridicu-
Ions. The Sunday Call refers to the let.
ter as an astonishingly weak effort.
Wilson departs from a discussion OF
Presidential issues and resorts TO local
isms and unbecoming and unwarranted
personalities, yenomous too. like the
splitting of a cornered cat; vlndictive In
every sense.
e us take the learned gentleman at
his written and spoken word, past and
present, and there can be but one con-
elusion to draw: That his mind, like him
self. is giving TO wandering; that his
think tank Is sadly in need OF repairs
and that IL he isn't absent-minded and
.forgetful he Is even worse when it comes
10. handling the truth.
I'll deliver no more speeches to Jer-
seymen,' he writes. Why?
Did. he fear being bombarded by
pertinent questions as TO his cratic course
as Governors? Was he apprebensive of
the light of day In New Jersey, or was
he afraid TO go home In the dark?
Right on the heels of his written ulti.
matum he hearkens to the Help me. Cas-
sius, else | sink cry from his dishcart.
ened, confused and despairing Hudson
henchmen. led by Joseph Tumulty and
=, others. of his appointeers to office and
those promised office. Once more the
sbuttleGock character OF the would be
President.
~ have spoken frequently In the past
few months In other States because my
friends thought | ought to be personally
known there, but that couldn't be said of
me In New Jersey, he writes.
ALAS and alack for Wilson. Isn't he
sorry he went? He should be, for In al
most every State where he made himself
personally known he was ingloriously re.
pudiated by the voters.
hioIt lbcts. am deHlnE IN Facts
purely. And on the issue of State pride
alone. and for no other reason, it Is pain
full to be obliged to say that the more
Jerseymen know of Wilson the less they
like him.
For be 1t known that the sparkling
bewitchery that attracted men to the I'M
tried college professor does not even re-
tain a dim glitter In the wavering and
vacillating Governor. The veneer and
gloss have vanished.
Former United States Senator James
Smith. jr., told me he would not be a
candidate for United States Senator
walls Wilson in his letter.
Aha! doctor, l will make you my wit
ness. You are either right in your
writings or wrong In your repeated ut
terances, or vice versa.
"You declared time aud again that a
spokesman for Mr.. Smith had made
that declaration to you-a spokesman
mind you, not Mr.. Smith himself. And
when frequently challenged to divulge the
name of the spokesman You refused, al
though former Senator Smith denied that
either he or a spokesman had made
such a statement to you or to any other
person. Isn't that a fact? OF course 1t
Is. Now you write tndt MT. smith per-
sonally told you. You are clearly self
convicted of at least evading a plain
and frank and truthful statement. The
burden of proof is upon you
"Yousmust admit Governor. that former
United States Senator James Smith, jr.,
and Mr.. James r.. Nugent, then chair
man of the Democratic committee, were
consistent and above board then and by
all moral and legal deductions, must be
considered consistent and truthful now.
Pardon me, therefore, for unfolding them
in the manly course they pursued and are
pursuing now. They certainly helped
you and what did you do TO show slight
gratitude? Read the answer in the
stars.
For carpetbagging the Governor has a
~penchant. He carpetbagged 1t into New
Jersey and although expecting much from
Democratic J~erseymen, not only did not
support william Jennings Bryan, the
Democratic candidate for President, but