Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-21
STOKES PICTURE IN
PAPER CAUSES STIR
coIby's Press Agent and G. O
P. Publicity Promoter in
WrangIe Over Print.

A big stir has been created in po-
litical circles by the publication In
last Sundays New York Sun of a
free photographic picture of Edward
Casper Stokes, the New Jersey Re-
publican gubernatorial candidate. It
has led to the drawing of swords by
rival publicity bureau heads
Axel L. Beeken, Everett Colbys
campaign manager, did not see the
Sun Sunday, but he so declares was
shown the free picture stunt yester-
day and his observing eye noticed
that it contained no label telling who
paid for the picture. Now, Axel
Beeken has ideas of his own about
the Sun and its association with Wall
street and reactionary methods, so
he was much distressed to hear that
Mr.. Stokes and the Sun had become
so "chummy" He determined to
find out what it all meant and issued
the following statement, aimed at the
Stokes headquarters for an answer:
Sunday the New York Sun, prob
ably the most reactionary newspaper
in the United States, paid ex-Gov-
ernor Stokes the delicate compliment
of presenting each Of its New Jersey
subscribers with lithograph of the
Republican candidate for Governor,
This Autograph formed a special
supplement of the Sun, was duly
printed in a union shop NOW the
Sun loves union shops) and was in
scribed, Compliments of the Sunday
Sum-
This action on the part Of the
Sun gives rise to several reflections.
WAS this done with the approval
of Mr.. Stokes or his manager, Mr..
Bugbee? Was it paid for either di-
rectly by Stokes or his committee,
or indirectly by Stokes's Wall street
friends? Why did it not carry the
notice required by law, as to who
paid for 1t? Is Stokes party to this
scheme to circumvent the election
laws of New Jersey? Or was the
whole thing Just a delicate hint that
Stokes is the Wall street candidate
and that all good rsac tdonaries ought
to vote for him2 "
ssTf stokes is satisfactory to Wall
street and the New York Sun he will
not be satisfactory to the people OF
New Jersey.
81 call upon Mr. Stokes and the Sun
10 explain who paid for this compli-
ment. and, If the Sun paid for it. since
when did it go into the business of
a philanthropic institution?
IF the people of New Jersey needed
any evidence as to the question of
Stokes is a progressive or re-
dictionary we now have it
This brought Edward ". Gray, n
manager of the Republican State
Committees publicity bureau to the
front with rapier-like thrusts. Mr..
Gray had seen the Sun on Sunday,
and when the Beeken statement was
shown him he was there with q ready
reply, which he handed out with a
most charming smile. He is the way
Mr. Gray jabs back at Mr. Beeken:
"If Mr.. Colby's press agent will
search the files of the New York Sun,
I think he will find out that the Sun
has printed many editorials favorable
to Mr. Colby 1t may be unkind of
me. however, to mention this fact
No, ! shall not try to make up for it
by using my well-known influence
with the metropolitan press to pre-
vent the Sun from distributing por-
trait of Mr.. Colby, which, l under
stand. it intended TO do. Perhaps [
can prevail upon the American or
World to print in one picture por-
traits of Mr.. Colby and Mr. Fielder,
with their arms around each others
neck, and thus may righteousness
triumph and the cause of evil be re-
buked.'