Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-17
WILSON LEAGUERS
REFUSE TO INDORSE
WITTPENN BOOM
Resolution Favoring Jersey
City Executive Rejected
by Close Vote.
MAYORS RECENT DEFEAT
HELPS TO KILL CHANCES
Fielder Followers TO Form Per-
manent Organization Here
Tonight.

night by the Wittpenn faction IN the
executive committee Of the Wood
row Wilson League. of Essex county.
TO put the leagce on record as in
dorsing the Jersey City mayor as the
Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
1t failed, because the other mem
bers of the committee, anticipating
the action as they have been for
the past four months since John L.
Armitage. president of the league,
tried to put it through. were there
and defeated the motion by a single
vote, II to TO-
John M Rhodabeck. who has been
Wittpenn's Essex county lieutenant
since Armitage failed him by his In
ability to swing the Endorsement,
proposed the motion with a little
speech that would have made Witt
penn swell with pride had he been
there. 1t was promptly seconded ac-
cording to a previously cut-and-dried
plan that had been promulgated in
the hope of saving the league for
Wittpenn from his rapidly falling off
constituency after his summary re-
lection by the Jersey City voters in
the commission government election
last week
The poor luck that followed Witt
penn in the Jersey City election, how
ever, was still with him. and the mo-
/ ton was killed. Twenty-one of the
committees twenty-four mem bers
were present and out of that number
the entire Wittpenn following was
there. This following. including Ar
mitage. who is still hanging on TO his
ambition TO be made postmaster
| through service to Wittpenn, voted
for the Endorsement, but it was shy
one vote. Furthermore, the Fielder
following in the committee. through
motion proposed by Judge Patrick
J. Dolan. succeeded in having the in
dorsement of any candidate deferred
indefinitely and this motion went
through by a vote of u to 9,
Hind TO Vote for wittpenn.
1t was apparent that the sympa-
| thies of several members of the Witt
penn faction were with Fielder. al
though their votes were with Witt
penn In fact. one member. William
F. Hamilton. sr.. president of the Or
ange Wilson League. kopenly an
nounced that he was opposed to in
dorsing Wittpenn, but had TO do it
because he was so instructed by his
league
II is declared that Rhodabeck has
suddenly become active in Wittpenn' S
behalf to gain an end for himself.
He is Newark agent for the State
motor vehicle department and re-
Gently charges were preferred against
him in that capacity. to the effect
that when he issued licenses here he
solicited automobile insurance.
When the charges were made
Rhodabeck naturally needed an arm
to lean on, so, 1t is declared. he went
to State Commissioner of Motor We
hicles Job H. Lippincott, who just
now is the subject of a Senate in
vestigation as to why he and his
clerks took so much of the States
time and stationery for press agent
campaign for Wittpenn
And Lippincott, in rather ridicu-
lous statement, justified Rhodabeck
by saying that the s2.100 that the
State pays him is not enough to sup
port him and he has to run some side
issue to support himself, the side is
sue. of course, being an automobile
insurance agency with offices in the
Newark branch of the State automo-
bile department Wherefore Rhoda-
/ becks sudden activity for Wittpenh.
Fielder Followers TO Organize.
1t was brought out that the Jersey
| City election was seriously affecting
/ Wittpenn. John n. Cox, of Mont
clair. who up until week ago was an
ardent Wittpenn man in the commit
tee. announced last night that he
would no longer stand for the in
dorsement because of the contrary
election, and he threw his vote with
the anti Wittpenn members.
The Fielder following in the COM
mittee viii be among those who will
gather tonight at the Continental
Hotel to organize in the Governor
/ behalf. This meeting will include his
supporters from all over the county
It was arranged when the Governor
came here on June II, the day after
the Jersey City election, for a con-
ference with his Essex leaders.
Armitage would not talk today or
the result of last nights committee
meeting.
Nothing of interest happened, .
was all he would say to repeated
qeustions by an Evening Star re-
porter.