Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-25
DEMOCRATS ARE
DISCONTINUED AT
WILSON METHODS
Failure TO Hand Plums TO Loyal
Partisans Displeases
Many.
O'GORMAN THREATENS TO
START lNSURGENT MOVE
President Will Be Defied if He
Cannot Force Pet Jersey
Legislation.
Star bureau.
Star bureau.
MetropoIitan National Bank Bldg,
WASHINGTON, April 25.

WASHINGTON, April z5.
President Wilson's -partisanship
and refusal to be bound by party
precedents and traditions in the dis
tributions of offices in New Jersey are
causing not little apprehension
among Democratic senators and rep
resentatives who look upon the dis
tribution of patronage as the most
important feature of the change in
parties.
OF the first batch of important New
Jersey postoffice appointments sent
to the Senate yesterday two of the
three were a distinct shock to par
tisans. The selection of Repub-
slican assistant postmaster for post.
master at Princeton, the PRESIDENT
home town, and the ignoring of Con-
gressman Mccoy in the appointment
of a new postmaster at East Orange
served to accentuate interest in the
Senate i'm the New York colectorship
fight.
Senator OGorman, of New York,
has started an insurgent movement
among old-lne Democratic senator's,
with the avowed purpose OF making
trouble for the administration and
holding up other appointments III the
Presidents persists in naming f. Il.
Polk. an -Tammany man, for the
$4,000 job of port collector. Whlle
Polk's name did not go to the Senate
Yesterday, it was asserted by friends
of the President that he has fully de-
ternined to defy Tammany in max
ing this appointment.
Hughes and MARITIME In Line.
Senators Hughes and MARITIME have
declared that they will agree to the
confirmation of any New Jersey
nominations made by the President.
They are already under fire from old
line Democrats in the state, however
because of the Princeton and East
Orange postoffice cases, and when 1t
became known that there is proba-
bilitv of the Atlantic City postofiice
appointment going to Harvey
Thomas. editor of the Atlantic City
Review. an independent in politics,
there were many whispered confer-
ences among Democrats, who shook
their heads and wondered how far the
President was going in his repuula-
tIon of the old-tme doctrine that to
the victors and party workers belong
the spoils of office.
In the Atlantic City case Thomas
has not been an active candidate Tor
the office. and his name has not been
commonly connected with the hSht
for that plum Although not an
avowed Democrat, the Atlantic editor
supported Wilson vigorously in his
naner both before and after the con-
vention last year.
II so happens however, that the
Democratic County Committee, under
the direction of Michael Devine, an
anti Wilson Democrat indorses man
named French for postmaster of At
lantic city. and State Chairman Ed
ward C. Grosscup who was opposed
to French, has personal candidate
in the person of William b. Louden->
slayer. Congressman J. Thompson
Baker who carried the Second dis
trict last fall by a squeak, Is for
Thomas, but isn't saying so very
loudly. because of the clamor that
the job be given to lifelong Demo-
crat Senator MARITIME feels about the
same way about the place.
plum Seekers Increase.
And in the meantime the disap-
pointed band of lifelong party
workers who have been here since
March waiting for their reward,
and for the most part waiting unsuc-
cessfuliy, are receiving large numbers
of new members daily.
AS a matter of fact, there is much
more interest in the patronage situ-
alton in and out of Congress in Wash
ington than in the tariff bill or any
legislative question. There are still
a half dozen Democratic senators who
are goose-trotting on the sugar and
wool schedules and some other
features of the Underwood bill, but.
aside from the two Louisiana sena.
tors, they win all get into line and
vote for that measure about word
for word as it passes the House, when
the time comes for roll-call.
Some of them will do this not be-
cause they like the bill. but because
they don't want to commit what they
consider would be political suicide in
inviting an issue with Wilson, Bryan
and Underwood. who are in agree
ment on the tariff and present a
strong party leadership, not to be
lightly antagonized.
There are a few Democrats who are
awaiting the outcome of the Presi-
dents efforts to force through jury
reform and constitutional convention
legislation in New Jersey, and who
are saying on the quiet that If the
President is beaten on these issues in
his own State it may be safe to defy
him on other things.
Democratic senators see in the de-
iiberate manner in which the jobs are
being parceled out suggestion that
If they don't line up right on the
tariff they may be left out of the
distribution of plums. H. B. W.
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