Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-10
DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913.

! advance There should be carefully
drawn plans and specifications. before
! the men who construct shall bend to
the undertaking.
! Therefore. it is that while SO many
! other Governors are taking their
places curing January. Gov. Wilson is
of chiefest interest and will be all OF
this month and next. Success at home
helps when one gets away from home
and Gov Wilson, during the next two
months. can do a vast deal to help
President Wilson during the next four
years.
+ Possibly next in interest to Governor
Wilson as relates to state govern
ments, is GOV. Sulzer of New York.
The former representative in Congress
is not only the Governor now of the
richest and most populous state in the
Union, but he is looming large as a
political figure. 1t is often thus with
a Governor of New York. particularly
a Democratic Governor of New York.
They are talking about Gov. Sulzer as
q Presidential possibility just as two
years ago at this time they We're talk
ing of Gov. Dix in the some Connec-
ton Sulzer has started off by deelar-
ing his independence. He proclaims
himself as the political and party
leader in New York. Recall that Gov.
Wilson did the same thing in New Jer-
sey. Coy. Slllzer insisted that all the
glittering ceremonials of his inaugural
at Albany should be dispensed with.
Gov. Wilson IS urging the same idea
in connection with his inaugural at
Washington.
Tammany Hall is the great bugaboo
of New York politics. Charles +. Muir
ply likes to dominate the state as
Democratic leader. That is unpopular
with the masses but Mr.. Murphy does
not seem to care. Gov. SulZer, as one
of the very first acts of his admins
| tration reduced Murphy TO the rank
| of county leader and insists that he
shall obey in that capacity. There will
/ be a tug of war over that and if Gov.
Sulzer carries his point he will come
off mighty conqueror and, likely
enough, +. grow in popularity and re-
gard SO, that he may be talked of much
more as a Presidential possibility. Ii
was Gov Wilson's defiance of similar
forces in New Jersey that elevated him
| into such prominence that the country
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tial capacity.
Apart from Sulzer, the new Cover
nors have not attracted much atten-
ton to themselves thus far. They will
get d little more national attention
probably about inaugural time, be-
cause very many or them, whether
they be Republicans or Democrats,
will come down to Washington when
President Wilson takes office. The new
Democratic Executive of Ohio. James
NJ. Cox, will not be taking office until
about Jan. 10. Just when the Electoral
College will be assembling to elect
Woodrow Wilson President. There are
also Ralston of Indiana and Dunno of
Illinois, Democrats. taking the helms in
their respective domains; also a DEM
ocrat in Michigan. These make four
Democrats of great official influence in
four commemorative of the Middle
West and as the weeks go by and de-
velopments come these men will be
moro specifically identified to the pub
lie mind.
Half the states of Republican New
England continue under Republican
Governors Maine returns to the fold
but New Hampshire strays and has
the first Democratic Governor IN many
years. Interesting reports may be ex-
pected from that quarter. But this is
the season, all over the land when
governors are getting down to bust
ness and Washington by no means
monopolizes the industry of making
laws and fashioning policies.