Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
HAIGHT'S NAME
IS READY To co
TO THE SENATE
White House Prepares Nominal
ton of Jersey City Man to
Succeed Judge Cross.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE nomi-
nation of Thomas @. Haight' OF jersey
City, to be United States distrlot
Judge In the third circuit, succeeding
the late Judge Joseph Cross, was pre-
pared today at the White House ior
transmission to the Senate.
The announcement OF Presloeht
Wilson'S intention to name Tholllae
G. Haight to succeed Judge Cross
nuts an end, for the time oeins' 10
the inside fight, wherein the Big
Four consisting Of Naval Officer II.
Otto wittpenn, National Democratic
Committeeman Robert s. Hudspeth,
State Chairman Edward e. Grosscup
and Congressman Thomas J. Scully
sought to so shift Federal and State
patronage that they would land men
OF their own choice and practically
dictate to Governor Fielder the
naming of county judge.
The Governor refused to be a party
&c the deal He would name the
county judge when it came to that
point, he said.
The original proposition was to
make Judge George G. Tenant Fed
eral judge, Haight county Judge and
James ]. Murphy county counsel
Governor Fielder again quietly init
mated that If a vacancy should occur
in the county judgesnip, he would at
tend to the filling of such vacancy. He
further let it be known that he was
TO be the master of New Jersey affairs
and would see to it that friends of his
own obtained recognition. This atti-
tude of Mr.. Fielder. 1t is pointed out,
raaSed fha change in plans
Under the new plan, forced by Mr..
Fielder's stand in the matter. the
naming of Mr.. Murphy as county
counsel, to take the place Of County
Counsel Thomas Haight, can come to
pass, leaving Judge Tenant to con-
tinue on the county bench.
Thomas G. Haight lives at 104 Bent
ley avenue, Jersey City. He was born
August 4, 1879, at Freehold, N. ]. He
is a graduate of Princeton and of the
New York Law School. He married
a daughter of the present secretary
of state, David s. Crater. In 1900 he
was admitted to the bar. He became
a law partner of George G. Tenant,
at that time president of the Board
of Education. and now judge of the
Hudson Court of Common Pleas.
Mr.. Haight's first appointment to
Office came in 1911. when H. Otto Witt
penn, now naval officer and then
mayor of Jersey City, made him as
sistant city attorney. Last spring he
was selected to succeed John Griffin
as county counsel by the new small
Board of Freeholders of Hudson. The
name of his law firm was changed
about this time to Haight & Auten-
reith, Judge Tenant retiring from
the active practise of law.
Mr.. Haight has been very active
in supporting Naval Officer Wittpenn
and his policies and has worked hard
for him in every campaign.
Naval officer Wittpenn said today:
MIR. Haight will capably fill the
bench of the United States District
Court. l am sure every right-think-
ing person in Hudson county Will re-
jolce at this appointment.
"The matter of Judge Haights sue
cessor as county counsel has not yet
been settled, or even seriously consid-
cred. I know of a half-doZen names
that have been mentioned. | do not
know that any of them actively seek
the position, although 1t is most de-
sirable one"
Two names have been connected
with the post of county counsel to
Hudson and the owners of both are
high in Wittpenns regard. One Is
James ]. Murphy, who was city attor-
new Of Jersey City during Mayor
Wittpenn's three terms and while Mr..
Haight was assistant city attorney
The other is Warren c. Dixon, who
was city counsel during the same
time that Murphy was attorney. i
In some quarters it is whispered
that County Prosecutor Robert 5.
Hudspeth has made bid for the JOB.
In others that suggestion is set aside
with the comment that the prosecutor,
while not too eager to continue in his
present place, If he can get better
one. has dreams of a Supreme Court