Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-09-26
SAYS WILSON
is STRONGER
State Leaders Review the
Result of the Primaries.
tFrom the NEWS Correspondent

renCOn sept, poi
iticians are figuring up the results OF
the primary election on Tuesday and
all are agreed that Governor Wood
row Wilson energies from the Demo
cratic contest with James Smith, Jr.,
considerably strengthened as a Pres
idential candidate. State Chairman
Edward E. Grosseup and other Dem
ocratic leaders, in the Wilson camp
are elated at the defeat of Smith
of course, and claim that the Gov
ernor's decisive victory gives assur-
ance that he will carry New Jersey
in November. 1t is the very general
opinion around the State House that
the defeat of James Smith, Jr., fl
nally eliminates him from the ranks
of New Jersey political leaders.
His retirement takes off the politi-
cal stage of New Jersey one Of the
most notable characters that has ever
occupied it. Fol many years he has
been II of the dictators of the De-
mocracy, and as United States Sena-
tor from 1893 to 1899 he occupied
not a small place in the Democratic
eounsels of the Nation.
State House politicians see in the
general result of Tuesday a further
emphasizing of the passing away of
the old time machine leaders. Not
all of them are agreed that this is
the best thing for the state. One
prominent Democrat expressed the
opinion today that the present swing
toward wide open primaries was a
strike at the vitality of the political
parties and he declared that to
wreck the parties would be a bad
thing for a Republican form of gov
eminent. He thought parties were
needed to give unity and direction to
politics and to hold candidates &C
oountable to the people. When polit-
lcal parties are strong, he said, there
Is always the opportunity of curing
political wrongs by voting out the
party responsible for the O and
making the opposing party the vic
tor. In this manne the old race
track scandals were wiped out. This
man thought the present tendency
away from party organization and
toward individual nominations les
sened the chances of getting at polit-
ical evils.
Wittpenn Victory.
1t Is conceded that the victory of
Mayor Wlttpenn, Of Jersey City,
makes him the Democratic leader of
udson county and adds materially
10 MS boom as the Democratic candi-
uate for Governor in 1913. The
Wlttpenn victory over Sheriff N. p
"eden was complete. Not only was
smith dec1sively beaten In Hudson
put the W1ttpenn tickets for he As.
semply and the new small Board ot
freeholders were nominated.
livery one of the Democrats nom1-
nalea TOT Congress is a Wilson man,
81 ehat II 1t were possible for the
democrats to elect the entire New
Jersey delegation, with the Governor
as PRESIDENT, Woodrow Wilson would
81 10 washington backed by twelve
CONGRESSIONAL votes from this state,
me Republican Congressional ticket
Is not SO solid, two or three of those
nominated being Progressiyes.
Defeat of DaIrymple.
Inc downfall of Alfred N. Dalrym-
pie, h Essex County Republican
leader, as evidenced by the defeat Of
MS candidate. John l.. Reid for the
nomination of Mayor of Newark, is
causing much comment at the State
house. 'Dal,' as everybody calls
him. IS chairman of the Essex County
Republican Committee and the direct
representative Of former Governor
FRANKLIN Murphy in State Republican
counsels. The victory of Louis v
Aronson over Reid for the Mayoraltv
nomination, therefore, is regarded
mere as a strike at both the leader
snip OF Dalrymple and former Gov
ernor Murphy. The nomination Of
will likely cause a realtgn-
mem OF the regular Republican ma
chine in Essex.
1t a long been charged at the
state House that Dalrymple and
James K. Nugent, the Democratic
S of Newark, worked somewhat
together in every campaign and that
thfs working basis was that the Dem
ocrats were to control the CITY Gov
eminent Of Newark, while the Re-
publlcans ere masters of the Essex
county government. Nominations. if
Is said, were generally made on this
Dasls and the campaigns were con-
quoted accordingly. The defeat of
REID, therefore, is more significant
appears on the surface, and If
shall be elected Republican
in Essex will likely undergo
a considerable change.