The Washington herald., 1914-06-27
JERSEY LOOKS
GOOD FORG. O.P.
Political Observer Says Dem
ocrats in Wilson's State
Have Trouble Ahead.
SCULLY SEEMS SAFE
Others in the Congressional Delega-
ton Said to Be Concerned
Over Situation.
SCULLY SEEMS SAFE
BY FRANCIS b. GEssNER.

New York. June 2s.-A political philan-
thropist who knows the stretch OF
Jersey from Trenton on the north
side Of the Delaware River to the
Jersey City docks opposite Gotham town,
planned a little diversion for himself
during the last week and incidentally
did some good for the G. o. p. The
diversion consisted Of simply sauntering
through the several congressional dis
tricts traversed by the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania roads and in
learning at first hand the sentiment to-
ward incumbent Democratic members Of
the House and II they could be defeated
by high class righteous efforts on the
part of the Woods-Eversman congress
sional committee doing business In the
Riggs Building at Washington.
The report OF the political philanthro-
pist has not yet been made to the COM
mittee, but an informal report was given
The Washington Herald correspondent
on the Waldorf roof garden last night
and those distinguished Democratic
statesmen. Messrs. William z. Tuttle
jr., of Westfield. Eugene Rlnkead, OF
Jersey City: Walter Mccoy, OF East Or
ange; Ed w. Townsend Of Montclair,
and Hamill. OF the Twelfth district, all
second-term members, would be much
interested in the result
Not In Eagan's District.
As yet the political phIlanthropist has
not gotten through the Weehawken dis
trict. now represented by J. J. Eagan. a
Democrat serving his first term. There
will be a getting around to Eagan later
and possibly he may share some Of the
apprehension that is coming to the other
statesmen when the committee acts on
the advice of the citizen who may be
chosen to quietly conduct the campaigns
in the districts he has SO diligently ira
versed.
Possibly the Trenton district may not
need so much attention as the others
and Tuttle. the WestfieId lumber baron.
may be startled a month hence to find
his snug little district somewhat stirred
up in a mysterious way and with vigor
that will cause him to spend less time
In the aristocratic Cosmos Club in WASH
ington and impel a hiking to the rippling
waters Of the Passaic.
There are no frills about Tuttle, and
he does not pose as a highbrow or q
savant with scientific tendencies, but
some OF the hard handed and plain
folks of his section wonder a bit that
they have to look for him in Wash
ington at such an aristocratic club. 1t
matters not that Scully. the vigilant
young statesman from South Amboy,
lives at an aristocratic hotel with even
more sumptuous surroundings than his
colleague and loyal friend, Tuttle.
GCIub'' seems to VeN.
The Club" of il seems to irritate the
hoi polloi OF the back townships and
Cosmos is a word that has a lofty sound,
as II Indicating something very exclusive.
OF course the amiable Tuttle will be able
to dIspel all apprehensions about his mod
est way Of living in Washington, but
there Is promised a Republican candidate
and campaign which will have something
besides fashionable club membership as
issues.
Many Tuttle voters do business in New
York each day. coming home at night
somewhat saturated with the sentiment
against the administration. that Is so evil
dent In Gotham, and especially In the
downtown financial and wholesale as
tricts. Really. the greatest fear of Tuttle
will be these commuters. who talk things
over on the trains going up in the morn
ing and coming back at night. Each one
has a newspaper. and imbibes much dur
ing the day in counting room and office
that is never told in newspapers.
These voters care nothing for the Cos
mos Club or the personal preference of
Tuttle as regards a Washington abiding
place. Rather, they want Congressional
action or inaction at Washington that
will give more cheer to the downtown
business operations day by day of Man
haitian Island.
TuttIc Is Alert.
TuttIe is alert enough to appreciate all
this and once he finds the Republican
getting down to facts in his
district he may make use of all the wis
dom. business, and political, that he
learned while active in the lumber trade.
Others of the Jersey delegation have
more commuter constituents than Tuttle,
and are much more concerned about the
sentiment against the admin
istration than the first citizen Of West
field. They do not need to worry about
Cosmos Club residence or that sort OF
guff, but they will find time to talk things
over on the New York side once week
at least and possibly secure oratorical
and financial aid from the ones in Gotham
lust now most bitter towards Washing
ton.
ScuIIy Saws Wood.