Bisbee daily review., 1913-03-28

| into the United States senate and who
 had retired from that body under crit ieisms connected with certain scandals incidental to the framing of the Will son tariff. Ex-Senator smith is pol ished man of affairs whose business in- terests are identical with those of his friends on the Republican board of | qua rslians." His chief lieutenant was
 James R. Nueent. a typical representa-
 tive of the old style strong arm meth
 ods in politics.
 However, the great moral movement which during the last five years has
 been abroad in the land had not left New Jersey unaware of its gathering power. The lenders of both parties were forced to heed it. Tn the Repub llcan party Everett Colby. George |. Record and others stirred up a dan
 gerous enthusiasm among new idea
 Republicans" Somehow. somewhere by some one, there was suggested tO Mr. Smiths organization a plan Of
 getting aboard the reform wagon and riding on it into power. The fight against privilege and the champion ship of democracy in college fife cap l tained by the president of Princeton l university had attracted the attention 1 of the. state and now suggested him | as a man who could lead a party to vic
 tory under the banner of political re | form President Wilson was a student of public affairs of authority through
 out the country. He was an accom- plished and persuasive speaker. a man of lofty character and winning person ality. Indeed. from outside the state from the press of many cities. bad come 1 the suggestion that the nation would be fortunate if it could place such
 man as Wilson in the presidential chair. It Is easy enough to see how the idea
 of running Wilson for governor needed only present itself to the imagination of a shrewd boss to become immediate ly eongeniaI. The Democratic leader no doubt naturally imagined that learn ed collegian would be as putty in the
 hands of an experienced politician.
 especially if his eyes were rose spec
 tacled by the promise of a nomination for president
 Dur4Eg the early summer of 1910 President Wilson was told by A num- Der of his ffiends that he could proba- ply have the Democratic nomination for governor if he desired it. These intiInations became so numerous and so pointed and were accompanied by
 so many assurances of the benefit the party and the state would derive from his acceptance that Mir, Wilson WAS
 constrained to lend them favorable
 ear
 And yet the prospective nominee was profoundly puzzled. While sentimeE: among the best class of voters through out the state was strong. the practical ! Oyertures came from the organization headed by Smith. Mir. Wilson was per feetly aware of ex-Senator Smiths po- iitIcal character and history. He knew l what the organization was. How could such a gang support him? Were they deceiving themselves as to their manf Did they fancy that his lifelong de testation of corrupt politics was simply
 pose? Did Smith regard the school master as q simple soul who would l hand out corporation favors without knowing? Did he expect to get Unit
 ed States senatorshlp through the Dem
 ocratle legislature which Wilson's pop
 ularity was likely to elect? On that point NIT. Wilson made spe-
 cific inquiry of the gentlemen who
 came to him on their puzzling errand. He required their assurance that Mir Smith would not seek the senatorship
 Were he to do so while l was gov ernor," he told them, 'I should have to
 oppose him. He represents everything repugnant to my convictions" They
 told him categorically that Smith had
 no idea of going back to the senate;
 that be was man thought to be sick | with a dangerous constitutional ail-
 ment and borne down by domestic be-
 reavement and that he was definitely
 out of politics
 On Tuesday. July 12, 1910. number of gentlemen gathered fin a private
 room of the Lawyers club, 120 Broad
 wny, New York. to inquire of MT. Wil- son whether he would allow his name to be presented to the New Jersey DenlOcEntlc State COINeuAiou-
 On July 15 Mir Wilson issued pub
 lie statement in which he said that if 1t were the wish ''of decided majort-
 ty of the thoughtful Democrats of the
 state" that he should be their candi- date for governor be would accept the nomination.
 The announcement caused sensa- tion. It was received with enthusiasm
 by many men of both parties. Yet
 there were not lacking those who
 were so suspicious of Smith and his
 associate bosses that they could not
 believe the nomination was to be giy-
 en Mir. Wilson without pledges from him. Again. some of the best and
 most intelligent men of the Democrat
 ie party. while they did not doubt the
 integrity of the proposed nominee, did
 fear that his inexperience in practical
 politics would make him an easy in-