New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-20
NATIONS SPELLB|NDERS
WILL INVADE JERSEY
BRYAN, Johnson, BOrah and
CumminS to Take Part IN
Campaign.
STOKES MEN SEE VICTORY
Republican Chairman Says He
Will Garry II Counties
Democrats and Moose
Confident.

TFrom a Stan Correspondent OF The Tribune
Trenton, n. j., oct 19.-Wnliam Jen-
nings Bryan, Governor johnson Of Cali
fornia and United States Senators Borah
and Cummins are few of the political
headliners who are billed TO speak in New
Jersey during the next two weeks-the
closing days Of a campaign which VIII
make this state the centre OF the political
whirl Of the whole nation.
A Governor is TO be chosen on Novem-
Der 4. but a glance at the speakers who
have been hauled from the capital TO
participate in the contest is enough 10
make one believe that a Presidential cleo
ltion is at hand.
The mere selection Of Governor would
not cause such great interest outside OF
New Jersey IL the contest were not Tor
the place that President Wilson gave up
10 go to Washington and also for the FUR
Their fact that the President has picked
the candidate whom he wants to succeed
him as Executive of New Jersey.
This is the Presidents home state, and
II is only natural that he should want to
see II go his way because that would
mean that the people closest to him had
Endorsed his administration as far as II
had gone and that they approved OF the
tariff bill and the other reforms he was
theoretically pushing. on the other hand'
a defeat for the Democratic candidate Tor
Governor will be construed as defeat
for the President also.
In addition there is also the question
as 10 whether the Progressives will con-
tlnue as a strong party, for should MT
Colby. the Progressive candidate. poll
comparatively few votes 1t will mean that
the Progressiyes no longer will have to
he reckoned with.
Each Of the three candidates-eX
ernor Stokes, the Republican: James f.
Fielder. the Democrat, and ex-senator
Everett Colby. the Progressive-have been
talking nightly, but II seems probable that
each and every one OF them will have 10
step aside In the next fortnight to make
way for the galaxy Of statesmen who are
coming to New Jersey to tell its voters
who they should elect Governor
Mr.. Bryan will head the Democratic in
vaders. and with him will come Senator
Ollie James, Speaker Champ Clark, Rep
resentative A. Mitchell Palmer, OF
Pennsylvania: Representative Warren
Gard. Of Ohio; Representative George
O'Shaughnessy, Of Rhode Island; Repre-
sentative Thomas w. Sisson, of Missis-
sippi Representative Baker, Of California
and Representative Thomas L. Reilly. OF
Connecticut There has been some talk
that the President himself will make one
or two speeches in his home state, but II
is not probable that ne will, IL he listens
10 the advice of his friends, who say no
good reason exists for his coming here
United States Senators Cummins, OF
Iowa; Borah. Of Idaho, and Sherman. OF
Illinois, will be the Republican headliners
who will get into the fray. In addition
there will be Representative s. d. Fess.
of Ohio; Congressman T. w. Kelly, OF
Michigan; Job T. Hedges, Of New York;
Representative Sidney Anderson, Of Min
nesota: Representative Philip z. Camp
bell of Kansas and Representative
Frank Plumey. OF Vermont.
Governor Johnson of California will
be the heavy man" for the Progressives,
while others in their list include United
States Senators Clapp, of Minnesota, and
Poindexter, of Washington; ex-United
States Senator Beveridge, Ex-Governor
Stubs OF Kansas Henry ]. Allen, OF Kan
sas; Representative Victor Murdoch and
cambridge Colby, Of New York.
According TO Newton A. K. Bugbee,
chairman Of the Republican State Com
:mittee. Mr.. Stokes will carry at least
IL out Of the q counties, and conse-
Iquently Mr.. Stokes is going to win hand
lily. Edward E. Grosscup, the Democratic
State Chairman, says that Mr.. Bugbee
has his figures transposed and that Mr..
Fielder will carry II out Of the q coun-
tiles Axel Beeken. the Progressive cam
paign manager, says that both Grosscup
and Bugbee are talking through their
hats" and that Mr.. Colby, the Progress
sive candidate. is going to nose through.
From a layman's point, OF view ex-
Governor Stokes looks like winner at
this early date, with a majority some
where between 10000 and 10000.