Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-03
BRYAN AND JAMES
MAY TAKE HAND IN
JERSEY CAMP PA|GN
Tumulty Reported as Doing
"Scout Duty in Behalf of
Progressive Democrats.

Word came tripping over the wire
today from a South Jersey source
that Joseph P. TNlmulty. secretary to
President Woodrow Wilson, is doing
scout duty in this State, blazing
the way for Secretary of State Bryan
and Senator Ollie James, of Ken
lucky, who, rumor has it, are COM
ing TO New Jersey on political mis-
sionary work.
Be rumors right or wrong. Mr..
Tumulty was in New Jersey yester-
day and other days. 1t is said that
he telephoned to Democratic State
Chairman Grosscup of the probable
advent of the peerless" Nebraskan
and mammoth proportioned Ken
tuckian, and, it is added. that Cross
cup became excited and spilled a cup
of tea. Tumulty need not have tel
ephoned, from all accounts, as he
was near enough to have a heart TO
heart talk with Grosscup and to have
broken the news gently to him. But
it sounded better to say "telephoned. :
Grosscups excitement, the story
goes, was ascribed to apprehension
that he and his followers were be-
coming scared over the outlook in
the various State committee fights
and had called for help, or that 1t
might occur to Jerseymen that the
Grosscup group was not in hearty
sympathy with Governor Fielder in
his campaign. At all events the ru-
mors have waited their way to New
ark and Essex.
Now comes another story direct to
the Evening Star today from its own
correspondent at Trenton. 1t says:
The report that Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan and Senator
Ollie James, of Kentucky, are coming
into New Jersey within the next ten
days to aid in the campaign to make
Governor James F. Fielder the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial candidate was
not taken with very great seriousness
at the State House today. According
to the report, Democratic State Chair
man Grosscup had said that he had
heard from Secretary Tumulty at the
White House that the two big men
from Washington were coming to this
State.
Mr.. GroSscup was not In Trenton to-
day, being in South Jersey, and so
could not be seen as to the rumor. 1t
is regarded here as doubtful that Sec
retary Bryan and Senator James, in
view of the seriousness of the MeXi-
can solution and other pressing ma
tional questions, would leave Wash
ington to engage in a contest within
the party ranks. even though that
contest be in the Presidents own
State.
1t is the belief here that if arrange
ments have been made to aid the
Fielder campaign in the way indi-
aatad hn or hnnn ta the
request of President Wilson. 1t was
said at the State House today that if
the President has inspired such a
move 1t will probably do the Fielder
campaign more harm than good.
While the speeches that the national
leaders would make might help Gov
ernor Fielder in some degree, the fol-
lowers of Katzenbach would un-
doubtedly hold that President Wilson
was taking an unfair advantage of
them.
The view here is that visit of
Secretary Bryan and Senator James
to New Jersey in the interest of Gov
ernor Fielder would so embitter the
Katzenbach men as to render impos-
sible a united party after the primary.
Congressman Kinkead did not dine
at the White House last night. Sec
retary Tumulty had invited him to do
so, but Tumulty went to Avon last
Saturday to spend Labor Day with
his family, and decided not to return
to Washington until today, so he
wired Kinked yesterday that their
dinner party was off
I'm not for anybody for State
I'm minding my own busi-
ness" said Tumulty today when
asked to make some statement about
candidacy for the State
chairmanship.
Kinkead was shown newspaper
articles this morning in which his
was made by State Chair
man Grosscups friend to appear as
part of conspiracy on the part of
the big counties to deprive the small
counties of political power.
That is very unfair and wholly un-
he said MY friends
know have no sectional prejudices
whatever"