Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-02
STATE DEMOCRATIC
CAMP REMAINS IN
DOUBTFUL FRAME
Acting Governor Fielder Dispels
Fears Caused by FAIRY
Tales"
'KINKEAD WILL NOT BE
PUSHED TO THE FRONT
Statements of Designs on the
Essex Democratic organiza-
tion Sent Throughout State.
IFrom a star Correspondence

TRENTON, Oct about all that
one can hear in this city today are
subdued murmurs and sometimes an
interrogatory ejaculation, such as
What can the matter be?" The peo-
pie who drop in at the State House
and out-of-town folks having busi-
ness at Trenton have been hearing
and they have been reading of doings
and sayings at Washington, d. c.
They do not care to doubt the evil
dences of their own senses, but Sc
riously doubt some of the stories that
have reached them. AS a whole, they
prefer to indulge in the mum act.
Governor Fielder, authorizing Con-
gresham Eugene F. Kinlead, who
was SO completely routed in the battle
for Democratic State chairman, to
convey to President Wilson an ex-
preston of willingness on his part
that a war of determination be car
ried on against the Essex county
Democratic organization, according to
Wilson and Kinkead ideas! The prop
osition was so preposterous that sub
stantial corroboration is needed be-
fore proceeding further. The people
refused to believe the washington
story.
To almost every one the plan had a
repellant flavor. Democrats point out
that, according to their understand
ing, the purpose of the campaign is
to elect Mr.. Fielder as governor, the
entire ticket to be boosted along too;
to harmonize and to encourage the
strengthening of forces; that it is not
fight against any county party or
ganization, its leader or it's friends,
or to foment discord in party ranks
1t is being called to mind that Presi-
dent Wilson, while running for gov
ernor of New Jersey, carefully nursed
and catered to the so-called Jim"
Nugent influence, until after the
votes had been cast and counted, be-
fore blossoming forth as high and
mighty independent and repudiation-
list. Wilson was a strategist. That
Wilson would permit Fielder to rush
in where he. Wilson, feared to tread,
arouses suspicion that the president
is not so much concerned as to the
governors future as he is TO get
hunk on his own account. The
same deep course, it is thought, is
Kinkead's hobby. Well-wishers OF
Eialder's are saying, Save him from
his friendsl' We cannot believe that
he is seeking to immediate himself for
any person or to commit political
suicide
1t was said that Fielder had turned
flown State Chairman Edward E.
Grosscup as manager of the Demo-
cratic campaign and selected Repre-
sentative Kinkead to control the
rens.
Governor Fielder put this crimp in
the tale from Washington when seen
at the Interstate Fair today:
THE statement in the Newark
News of yesterday that 1 have picked
Congressman Kinkead to manage
my campaign is deliberately untrue.
] have already given my reasons for
indorsing Kinkeads candidacy for
State chairman. Most of the mem
bers of the State committee are older
and more experienced in the manage
ment Of political campaign than I,
and they, having decided it unwise
to make a change in the chairman
ship, I at once bowed to their supe-
rior judgment very cheerfully, and
the conduct of the campaign will
be entirely in the hands of the State
committee and under the sole direc
ton Of Mr.. Grosscup.
HE and ' are working in harmony,
and we are having a conference to-
day on details. 1t is absolutely un-
true that Mr.. Kinkead went to Wash
ington with any proposals or mes
sages from me, and it is equally un-
true that after naming the State
committee as my campaign commit
tee | intend to ignore it's members.
That Washington yarn is fairy
tale"