Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-25
". {. SACKETT MAY
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Proposes to Stand on "ReaI
Democracy" Ticket if He
Gets Proper Endorsement.

william E. Sackett, of this city, is
willing TO offer himself as a candi-
date for Governor of New Jersey. In
public letter today he declares for
Real Democracy" ticket. He
questions the right of Acting Gov
ernor Fielder to be a candidate, and
declares for sheriff drawn juries: an
entire new set of laws for the State;
Tor the repeal of all civil service laws;
against eugenics in the schools, and
Tor a New Jersey metropolis that will
overshadow New York.
Mr.. Sackett In his letter says In
part:
1T was because I saw the factions
OF the party so absorbed in their ran
corous squabbles as to leave no room
for the consideration of the larger
topics of State I refrained fmrom fl
my my petitions for participation in
the primary scramble, as candidate
Tor the office of Governor of New
Jersey: / concluded / could render
better service by appealing to the
sober second thought Of the people,
with all the dust of the preliminary
skirmish cleared away, as an indie
pendent Free-Lance.
The opportunity for such q can
didacy is enlarged-and perhaps Its
necessity enforced-in the fact that
the scattering and disintegrating
force of the ridiculous election sys-
tenn Mr.. George L. Record has,
through DR.. Wilson. succeeded in i'm
posing on the State. sends the great
Democratic party of the nation to
the November polls in New Jersey
without a candidate of its own. A
hyphenated hermaphrodite candidacy
..<I
the smallest degree. A progressive
Democrat is Democrat as far as the
Republicans will let him be one,
and q Republican as far as the DEM
ocrats will let him be the other; and,
with a candidacy of so shifty q pedi-
gree, the party has no leader to hold
its standard aloft In the hour of its
ascendancy.
Even if 1t were otherwise, the can
didacy of an acting governor may be
30 repugnant to constitutional re-
quirements as to be no candidacy at
all. When she forced Voorhees, in
1898 to surrender his acting governor,
ship into Speaker Watkins's hands, so
that he would not be an acting gov
.ernor in the election through which
he sought the governorship for the
succeeding term, the State ruled that
the constitutional clause forbidding a
governor to seek reelection just as
effectively bars an acting governor
from serving In the succeeding term
as a governor. The Geran law makes
the primary election an integral part
of the States election SYSTEM and.
an acting governor who has no right
to be in the poll on election day has
no more right to be in the poll on pri-
mary day. One who Is disqualified
for the finish in a race is necessarily
disqualified for the start in 1t. He
vhas no right to employ the States
primary machine to promote a candi-
dacy impossible on election day.
The presence of the acting gov
errors name on the primary ticket
may therefore, have been an error in
official procedure In Trenton that the
law will not countenance; and, II,
when the secretary of state comes to
make up the official ballot on election
day, the acting governors candidacy
be protested on the ground that he
had no right to be in the primary,
the Democratic party will find itself
withouta candidacy of even this hy-
brid character to fall back upon.
80 that the Democratic party may
not be without a candidate on cleo
ton day, I offer myself to it's suf-
fragists ON the understanding that
if any better man sees fit to take the
party standard from my hand I shall
gladly withdraw in his favor"