Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-22
POLITICAL CHAT
HAS MANY IFS"
Legislative Slate a Thing of
Mystery, but Everyone Has
His dope"
EDWARDS, HOWEVER, SURE
OF COMPREHENSIVE JOB
Beekman Would Have Cinch,
Too, but for His Republic
! can Past.
Especial to the Newark star.I


TRENTON, Nov. 22.-What will
next Tuesday, governors day." at
the State House bring forth? is
question being asked now just as it
was asked prior to last Tuesday and
other governors day." Senator's
and senators elect, assemblymen-
elect. party leaders. large and small.
and politicians of high and low de-
gree will come here, look, talk and
listen, tell how states shoulud be made
! and return to their respective homes
TO come back another day to repeat
performances.
Once again 1t will be told that AS
semblyman Azariah Beekman, of
Somerset county, having the backing
of Governor James r. Fielder,
VIII be the next speaker of the House,
that Assemblyman Walter l.. Nc
Dermott, of Hudson, will be the
Democratic majority leader and that
this thing and that thing will come
to pass. Then there will be amend
ments such as IF nothing unforeseen
happens" or. IF so and so doesn't
kick the traces" or, IF 1t is satisfac-
tory to somebody else"
Edwards Is Certain.
there is nothing to it but Edward l.
Edwards for State comptroller and
that Senator John Slocum of Mon
mouth, is certain to be president of
the Senate and Senator McGinnis, of
Passaic, majority leader on the floor.
Senator Read and Senator Edge will
do the plotting for the Republicans.
Then comes another switch, and 1t
"a fcfapf f1ala hi
for Beekman. He can't pick up this
speakership and pack it away in cold
storage until January 10 next. There
are Others"
Among the there are others" are
mentioned Assemblymen McDermott,
John Kirkpatrick. of MiddleseX;
Joseph Branegan, of Hudson; Agnew,
of Bergen, and Nutting, of Essex.
Branegnn Not Particular.
If he can't make the spealership,
Branegan would like to be the ma
Jority leader, place said to be at
McDermott's disposal If Beekman
lands the chair.
feeling that Beekman should not
be handed the speakership on a gold
platter is said to have sprouted from
the fact that the Somerset man up
to within about four years ago was
known as a Republican, and held Of
flee as a Republican. This has stirred
inquiries, and the murmurs of discon-
tent reached the ears of the governor
elect. Mr.. Fielder, replying to objec-
lions offered, said he had pursued in
vestigations and had failed to dis
cover anything to change his good
opinion of Mr.. Beekman.
Old Democrats Complain.
1t is argued that while there is no
fault to find with Beekman for chang
ing his political faith, there is no
special reason why he should be given
the post of honor over lifelong Demo-
Gratis.
On Tuesday the Republican .sena-
tors and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will get
together to prepare plan of warfare
as it may affect legislation, but as
they can do little more than to OBJ
struct or put the Democrats on
record, no great things are expected
at this early stage of the proceed
ings.
That little mixup at Washington
wherein President Wilson and United
States Senator William Hughes
figure as being ION the outs" Is at
tracing much attention here. Some
believe that everything that is said
about the alleged differences is true
while others are irreyerent enough to
wink knowingly and say Sham pat
tle'
They point to the fact that the
President is achieving surprising sue
cess as a political manipulation and
that Senator Hughes is not a novice
at the game.
Duffy nm ImpossibiIity.
Hughes knows that his candidate
for internal revenue collector for the
Fifth New Jersey district, Charles V.
duffy. of Paterson. is out OF the
running, or at least they say Hughes
knows it. 1t is declared that every
body else is aware Of 1t. ard also
that Secretary of the Treasury Nc
Adoo, as well as P# silent Wilson,
have decreed that Duly cancel have
the job. a.
"This spat between the President
and the senator furnishes ali oppor-
tunity to let Hughes Gown eary." re-
mark the students of matters political.
He can retain his standing with
Duffy's friends for fighting to the
last ditch for him, and may then be
allowed to have a voice in the selec-
ton of the man to be named"
Wittpenn Is Besieged.
A rush is being made toward the
Jersey City offices of H. Otto Witt
penn, recently appointed naval officer
of the port of New York, in the juris-
diction of which is Newark, fer in
dorsement as internal revefde coll
lector. Assemblyman John A. Mat
thews, of Essex, the latest TO be named
in connection with the office. has an
nounced that he has been assured
that he is as good as named for the
collectorship and that all other con-
tenders might just as well stand from
under. This attitude of confidence on
Matthews's part has not, however, de-
tered Joseph Connolly, Cornelius
Conlin, John V. Diefenthaler and