Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-06
WILSON IS NOT A
POLITICAL CRUTCH
So Many New Jersey Demo-
Gratis Are Beginning to
Find Out.
star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg,

| WASHINGTON, sept. D.
| New Jersey Democrats who have
posed as party leaders, trading on
the name of Woodrow Wilson, are
beginning to realize that they've got
to look out for themselves. The
President is making it very clear that
while he has not lost his interest in
| New Jersey affairs, and reserves his
right to take a hand in State politics
| when he pleases, he doesn't propose
| to devote much time to the job or
furnishing crutches for the States
| political crIpples.
It is gradually dawning upon some
of the men whom Mr.. Wilson trusted
and looked to for help when he was
governor, that his purpose in making
lieutenants of them and giving them
offices, was not to take care of them
and aid them in perpetuating a ma
chine for their own uses. Gathering
about him as governor a new crowd
of Democrats, for the most part, Mr..
| Wilson placed them in a position
where, If they possessed the ability,
| they had the power to control and
| dominate the Democratic party and
| keep 1t headed progressively in the
direction he had started it. Some of
| these men who believed the President
| was building up a personal machine
| through which he intended to con-
tinue the personal dictation of State
| politics. are now thinking differently
about it.
Wants Strong Organization.
| In a number of ways, the President
| has made it plain that he is more
| interested in having the Democratic
party strongly organized in the State,
and captained by men of progressive
| Democratic ideas, than he is in the
mere matter of keeping any one set
of men In office or in control.
| Take the cases of Representative
Kinkead and State Democratic Chair
man Edward e. Grosscup, as an ex-
| ample. Kinkead made a big hit al
| the White House, and Grosscup lost
| out in the presidential estimation ac-
cordingly, as a State leader, during
the campaign for Archie" Harris
| election in the Sixth district a few
weeks ago. The President was very
| anxious that Hart should roll up 6
| big majority in that district, not par
| ticularly because Hart was the nomi.
nee, but because he knew falling
off in the proportion of the Demo
cratic vote would be heraldet
throughout the country as showing
| loss of faith and confidence on the
/ L
ton and tariff program, while bis
| Democratic vote would be accepted
as a reiteration of confidence which
would have its corresponding effeci
upon Congress. Reports came tt
| Washington that the Hart campaign
showed little signs of life, that tht
State committee was ignoring 1T, anc
that State Chairman Grosscup wa'
too engrossed with the Wittpenr
boom to take any part in helping cleo
a Democratic congressman from thu
district.
Kinkead Came to Front.
In this situation Kinkead came tx
| the front. He went to the White
House, asked the President to sent
letter to Hart. and with Congress
man Tuttle and one or two Others
went into the Sixth district and in
jected some life into the listles
Democratic campaign. The result
was all that either Kinkead or thu
President desired, and Kinkead stool
went away up at the White House.
Reports come to Washington tina
the Democratic barbecue at Port Re
public, Atlantic county, on Septembe
20, is going to be a real old-fashionet
affair." with copious "eats," and al
the trimmings that go with an old
fashioned Democratic outing. Amont
the attractions are a 1,200-pound stee
and a 60O-pound hog, which are to b.
roasted whole as part of the feast.
| H B. W.