Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-01

State, and we most devotedly wish
ministration in the wider sphere to
which the people of the United States
have called YOU
The joint session then rose. A re-
ception followed in the governors
office
Governor Wilson leaves the State
with many of the tasks he had set
out to accomplish as yet undone, al
though other measures he has adj
vocated and fought for have been
placed upon the statue books,
His new jury drawing project is not
by any means certain to become a
law. A stormy course is still ahead
for the constitutional convention.
Furthermore, the bill for the aboli-
ton of grade crossings that he fa-
vored this year has not been passed.
The amendment to the primary laws
proposed by him and known as the
Wisconsin system of second-choice
voting, is another piece of legislation
he has been so far unable to obtain.
on the other hand, during his ad-
ministration laws have been enacted
regulating corporations and monopo-
lies and providing for workingmens
compensation and an extension of the
primary system to all elective off,
GERS. including congressman, United
States senator's and the governor. A
stringent corrupt practises act was
also passed.
With this record behind him, Cow
ernor Wilson went to the State House
today to see Senator Fielder take the
oath of office as his successor.
state House Decorations.
The State House was decorated
with flags, banked with palms and
brilliant with flowers. Two thousand
of Fielder's Hudson county friends
were on hand to give him a rousing
greeting. From Essex county had
come a delegation of 200.
From Essex county a delegation
of prominent Democrats came to wit
ness the Inauguration. The men
were members of the Essex County
Democratic Committee. for the most
part and they were headed by City
Counsel James r. Nugent, who is
State committeeman from Essex.
City Auditor James A. Rowe and
City Treasurer Elmer A. Day were
among those in the Essex group.
The Hudson county men and wom-
en-there was large sprinkling of
women-had come on three special
trains. They included many mem.
bers of the James F. Fielder's Citi-
zens League Pierre Cook, chairman
OF the league. was among them. Sur
rogate John P. Egan had come. and
SO had Mayor II. Otto Wittpenn, who
himself has gubernatorial aspira-
tions.
Women Fill state House.
Most of the women visitors went
Immediately to the State House
when they arrived and gathered in
the flower decorated outer office of
the Governors suite. Mrs. Fielder,
who came to see her husband be
sworn in as governor. was among the
first to arrive.
Practically the last act of Governor
Wilson was the sending to the Sen
ate today of the names of two APP
peintees for confirmation. They were
James Tolle, of Passaic county, for
the Passaic Tax Board, to succeed
George Wurts. and Walter Taylor, as
district court Judge for the first dis
trict of Monmouth county.
From Hudson county came big
delegation, including.
General William C. Heppenheimer
Judge Ernest j. Heppenheimer. for
mer Mayor Mark M. Pagan, of Jer-
sew City: County Tax Commissioner
Philip McGovern. Walter M. Dean
Thomas w. Leake, former Assistant
city Attorney John Milton, of Jer-
sey City, and former City Clerk
Michael j. Pagan, of Jersey City;
Congressman elect Eagan. of the
Eleventh district; Mayor Richard
Miller, of West New York; Register
John J. Mcmahon, Judge j. w. Ru-
fus Bessen, Counsellor William j.
Kelly, David F. Edwards, Theodore
and George w. Rurod, DR.. Daley, of
Bayonne: John Doyle, William B.
Bumsted and James ]. Ellington.
In the delegation from Essex county
were the following:
Tax Receiver Richard j. Franz,
John ]. Sugrue. Comptroller Tyler
parmiy, Tax Commissioner John l..
Carroll, Judge Patrick j. Dolan.
Andrew * Brady. James d. Mort
arty, chairman of the Essex County
Democratic Committee; Joseph Hen
rich, James Mccain. William F.
Meehan, Captain William F. Carroll,
of the detective bureau; City En-
gineer Morris r. Sherrerd former
Alderman Alexander Archibald and
former Governor John Franklin Fort;
Alderman Francis ]. Hanlon and
Cornelius Harrington. of Newark
biography of Fielder.
Governor James F.. Fielder was
born in Jersey City, February 26,
1857, and is lawyer by profession.
He was educated in the public schools
of Jersey City, and studied law with
former Senator William Brinkerhoff.
with whom he was in partnership un-
til October /. 1912.
In June, 1888, he was admitted to
the bar of New Jersey. as an at
torney. and became counselor in
| 1892. Hesnow practises alone. In 1903
and 1904 he was member of the
Assembly. AT the elections in 1909
and 1908, when he was chosen as
semhlyman. he polied more votes than
any other candidate on his. ticket
| In 1907 he was elected senator by a
plurality of $685., and in 1910 no was
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