Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-26
DEMOCRATIC CRISIS
PUT UP TO FIELDER
Jersey Executive Told consti-
tutionaI Convention Bill Will
Fail Without His Aid.
lrrom a slan correrpondcn..l

TRENTON, n. j., March 26.-Gov-
ernor Fielder had the constitutional
convention issue put squarely up TO
him personally today. He was told
at the hearing he gave that he had
the nower and ability to push the
Hennessy bill through the Senate and
he was urged to show militant cour-
age and lead the fight.
Several members of the committee
on constitutional revision, nom
PARTISAN body. earnestly pleaded with
the chief executive, who assured them
he would do all he could.
George L. Record after outlining
the needs for the convention, said TO
Governor Fielder: II think this bat
tie is lost unless you say. l am going
ahead with this. and let every man
who is with me follow
Governor Fielder answered this
view by saying ut is all very well for
YOU gentlemen to talk about the
power and prestige of the governor
office, but the sentiment that senator's
are supposed to represent is what
counts, and unless / can show them.
and unless you can help me to do so,
that sentiment in their counties is IN
favor of this you need not expect toe
much
Edmund b. Osborne said that as
Progressive he hoped the Democrats
would kill the bill. but that as a
citizen of New Jersey he hoped they
would pass 1t.
Labor's desire for the passage of
the bill was told by Cornelius Ford.
president of the State Federation OF
Labor. and Hugh Y. Reilly OF
Newark.
AS other speakers Llewellyn 70.
Pratt. of Nutley, presented Assem-
blyman I1enness.s, j. Harry Hull, OF
Nutlev: Theodore S. Fettinger, presi-
dent of the Clinton Hill Improvement
Assoeia tier. cf Newark, and Edward
II. Wright and George H. Strobeu.
both of Newark.
The E;~use today tas.sed TIC Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 for an eques-
trian statue of Major-General Phiiip
Kearny. of Newark, to be erected in
the National Cemetery At Arlington.
Va.
The constitutional convention bill
has been favorably repor-e in the
Senate.
One of the strongest pleas yet made
for the Democratic party to push the
constitutional convention bill to final
passage in the Senate and thereby
escape Reputation at the polls in NO
vember is contained in the letter adj
dressed to Senator Days. majoritS
leader in the upper house, by Assem-
blyman Charles O'Connor Hennessy.
Of Bergen, father of the bill
MIR. Hennessy has also invoked the
aid of President Wilson, calling upon
the former Governor of this State 10
bring all the pressure to bear that he
can to insure the passage of the bill.
His letter 10 the President was not
made public, but his communication
to Senator Davis, who. coming from
Salem county, is against the measure,
is in the form of an open letter.
I'VE seem to have come to the part
ing of the ways writes the Bergen
assemblyman. and to the most vital
test of our sincerity as Democrats.
TO pass this bill substantially as 1t
passed the House of Assembly is 10
be at once true to our principles and
oGr pledges. To fail to pass 1t OF, to
attempt to redeem our pledges by
Offering a convention bill that Will
violate Democratic principles is to
confess incapacity and dishonor, and
if the Democratic party will not rise
TO the great opportunity before il, !
take the liberty TO tell YOU that |
believe some other party will be
called upon soon to do this work.