Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-03
K|NKEAD IS SURE
!. LEAN Up
IN ESSEX COUNTY
Hudson County Man "Chesty'
Over Plan to Fight Demo-
cratic Organization Here.
SPOILING FOR BATTLE,
INTENDS TO "SHOW THEM"
Bears a Chip on His Shoulder,
but There Is Little Trembling
in Newark.

Now, who's who? or what's what?
That's the double barreled question
that is puzzling the think tanks and
disturbing the gray matter in the
craniums of New Jersey politicians
and others who care but little for
politics, but who are naturally inter-
ested in mixed situations. Represent
Iative Eugene F. Kinkead, of the
Eighth Congressional district, COM
posed largely of Essex county sec
tions appears to be in the limelight.
Whether in accordance with his char
acteristic habit Of showing himself
to the front or whether he was pushed
there as the instrument of others,
he is there in all his self-considered
Importance. Kinkead is spelling for
fight; he bears chip on his shoulder
and is trailing his coat behind him.
He is going to wipe Essex county off
the political map, Kinkead is. that is
to say he SO proclaims in that strident
tone of his. Some contract surely.
Kinkead lakes himself seriously,
others do not. They have heard him
rant before at picnics, in halls and
on public highways. A high and
mighty shrieker is Kinkead, whether
alone or i'll a crowd.
I<inkend's Philippe.
Kinkead directed a philippe from
Washington last Wednesday,, in
which he announced that Governor
James f. Fielder, with the advice
and consent of President Woodrow
Wilson, it was intimated. had made
him (KinkeaD Communicated chief
of the Fielder campaign forces in
New Jersey, had relegated the regu-
larly elected State chairman, Edward
Z. GroSscup, to a position as high
private in the rear ranks and given
the Hudson man sealed orders to go
forth and mutilate, ruin and destroy
the Essex Democratic organization,
capture James r. Nugent alive, burn
him at the stake and so torture him
that the Smith-Nugent wing of the
party would be consigned to eternal
oblivion, never, never to rise again.
1t may not have been exactly that
way. but any one knowing Kinkead
will appreciate what sealed orders
would mean to him. He would have
to talk and hlat and bluster. It's q
way he has. Never needs a tonic to
set that tongue of his a-wagging.
Then came a snag prominent
Democrats realized that someone had
blundered Why was Grosscup to be
dethroned? Why was such a forrnid-
ably force as the so-called Smith
Nugent forces to be maligned at
the very outset of campaign that
meant so much to New Jersey
Democracy in general and Governor
James F. Fielder in particular
There was a shaking of bones. 1t
was asked "Wno is this Kinkead
that he has become so great? On what
II ha ;a hi Tc
this to be a personally conducted
fight on personalities by a disgruntled
and disappointed office-seeker who
was so thoroughly spanked for his at
tempt to become State chairman; a
campaign to vent President Wilson's
spite, or an earnest and sincere effort
to elect a Democratic governor and
other Democratic candidates."
There was no use in trying to stop
people from talking. Kinkead had
sowed the wind and was destined to
reap the whirlwind
Governor Fielder was the first to
puncture the Kinkead cut1cle. He
denied emphatically that he had au-
thorized Kinkead to run at-large with
messages of reprisal to President
Wilson, or to anyone else. He repu-
dated almost everything that was
contained in Kinkead's given -to-a ia
vorite- correspondent message at
Washington to send to his paper. The
governor had not placed Kinkead
over Grosscup. In fact he left
everything concerning the manage
ment of the campaign to Chairman
Grosscup and the State committee
to prepare, to plan and to execute.
Fielder failed to see the wisdom of
committing political hara-kiri.
oh. That Wicked Wire.
This setback was like peeling the hide
off the dragon to Kinkead. 1t put
dent in his exaggerated ego. Some
thing must be done to square Kin
kead. So it was decided to blame
the telegraph company for an error
in transmission. 1t was North"
Jersey that the astute and acute Hud-
son congressman was to manage, not
New" Jersey. Oh, that wicked wire.
1t got crossed and mixed things sad
ly. 1t must be so, for the Evening
News. which received the wretched
service. says it's so. How deplor-
able! May result in the organizing
of a new telegraph company with
better machines, better men and, most
important of all, better and more re-
liable wires. The little scheme, how
ever. may have soothed Kinkea DIS
WOunOeu prlue, even III IL was SlSut
lv humiliating to the News and re-
Election upon the telegraph company.
But what of the ponderosity of par
ticularity that featured the Wash
ington letter. The spleenish, acri-
monious innuendos on the Smith |
Nugent people, and other matters?
Perhaps the wires were crossed on
these points, also. Oh, those plaguey |
wires. They should be put under |
ground. Can anyone be blamed for |
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