Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-06-25
Political Gossip Flows Fast
al Governors Day at
the State House.
OLD PARTIES BADLY SPLIT
Democratic Candidate and
Recent Progressive Confer
ence Are Subjects Discussed
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renton, June 25:-Goyernor' s
day at the State House yesterday
brought the liveliest discussion of
the two important political develop
ments of the past few days, namely,
the talk of compromise Democratic
candidate for governor and the re-
suit of the meeting of the Progress
sive State Committee at Asbury Park.
,-The statement by Banking and In
tsurAnce Commissioner George M.
LaMoste that he Is not seeking the
DemocratiG- nomination for governor
and that he is still for former Mayor
Wittpenn, of Jersey City, as the can
didate, served to emphasize the prob
ability, In the opinion Of most Of the
politicians, that there will be no COM
\ promise on the goyernorship. Cover
\ nor Fielder Is prosecuting his cam
paign with vigor and former Mayor
Wittpenn and Frank 8. Katzenbach
have both declared they will not
withdraw, and practically no one
looks for anything but a fight to
finish In the Democratic ranks for
the place at the head of the state
ticket. NJ Aasaa@
Commissioner LaMonte is not the
only Democratic leader who thinks
that oYtseT f1sht for the nomination
- lendanger party success at the
lin November, and this belief
Ito talk Of how to overcome the
situation. One Democratic leader
declared that President Wilson
should step in and by a conference
of the state party leaders and the
candidates, effect a compromise.
1T will be political suicide" he
said, "for the Democrats to wage e
bitter primary fight for this nomina-
ton. especially in view of the fact
that the Republicans and Progress
sives seem likely to get together on
a candidate. Who, besides President
Wilson, is there to work for the COM
promise? He is the leader Of his
party and the condition of his party
in his home state should be of great
concern to him,
I'VE cannot look to Governor
Fielder for Ection, because he is not
;, The real leader OF his party in the
Esstate, having only inherited his office.
Besides he is a candidate, himself.
. Neither State Chairman Grosscup nor
1 National Committeeman Hudspeth
n can act, for both are pledged to
RWittpenn, and so could not consist
sntly work for any compromise. SO
there seems to be no one to take
4 hold of the situation but the Presi-
, dent"
1t was the general opinion that
President Wilson would not take any
part in the fight. He has declared
that he would not support any par
ticular candidate for governor and
has removed his summer home out
side the state in order to avoid being
mixed up In the contest.
While the LaMonte boom is being
actively pushed by friends of the
commissioner and one or two news
papers, 1t ir not being received with
much general favor. Practical poll
ticians do not regard Commissioner
LaMcnte Rs winning candidate.
They point out that he has opposition
IN his own county OF Somerset, and
st this was 80 pronounced last
nter> that State Committeeman
William L. Saunders, of North flain-
= field, rendered his resignation to the
governor. Commissioner LaMonte
has been defeated in his last two
campaigns. In 1911 he ran for sena-
tor in Somerset county and was de-
feated by William w. Smalley, the
present senator, by a plurality of
295. Last year he was a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
congress in the Fourth District, COM
prising Mercer, Hunterdon and Som
erset counties, but was defeated by
former Assemblyman Allen B. Walsh,
of Trenton. Walsh was elected after
winning this nomination.
There continues to be some talk
of Chancellor Edwin Robert Walker
or Secretary of War Lindley M.
Garrison as a compromise candidate.
Chancellor Walker declares that the
mention of his name is altogether
unauthorized. When told today that
he was still being mentioned as a
possible candidate for governor, he
said:
mo one has been authorized to
mention me in that capacity"
When asked If he would make a
further statement, he replied:
Il have nothing further to say"
The Progressive Meeting.
While the Progressive meeting at
Asbury Park 1s construed as paving
the way for the Progressives and
Republicans getting together on n
.gubernatorial candidate, not by
physical fusion of the two parties.
brt blythe Republicans endorsing a
Progressive candidate acceptable to
the former, politicians yesterday af-
ternoon discussed the technical diff
s Guilty in the way OF such fusion on
candidate presented in the proyi-
sions of the Geran election law.
The Geran act saems to contradict
Z Itself on this very point and this may
lead to legal tangle that will great
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