Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-04-09
TWIT WILSON OVER
RESULT IN SEVENTH
Administration Is Ridiouled.
Honeymoon Is Over, Says
Senator O'Gorman.


for Congress in the seventh district
of New Jersey was productive OF
considerable comment in the House
and elsewhere about the capital yes
terday. Senator O'Gorman said:
1.-THE results are significant II
would seem the Administrators
honeymoon is coming to an end"
Congressman Townsend of the
tenth New Jersey district, interpreted
the result as based on local issues,
asserting also. that the seventh New
Jersey district is normally Repubh-
can, having been gerrymandered.
wasn't Mr.. B.emner, a Democrat,
elected there two years ago." asked
Hi~eritv Leader Mann.
Mr.. Townsend admitted that this
wa, u ue. Jul said that MIR. Brem-
ner's personal popularity was respon.
sible. The minority leader asked
why the President and two senator's
had made a national issue of the
New Jersey election, and suggested
that Mr.. Townsend advise the White
House.
az can't tell the White House any
thing, for. in a sense, I am persona
non grata," said Mr.. Townsend. i
cant ever get postmasters appointed
If l had the privilege of handling
the correspondence that passed be-
tween gentlemen in Washington and
In New Jersey I think the result
would be to the advantage of the ad-
ministration," he concluded, ironi-
cally
Mr. Mann said:
Party Attack by Mann.
Some gentlemen will find that be-
cause the Carnegie Peace Foundation
Instituted a personal campa gn among
a number of influential persons in th5
Uni,ed States secretly to get them in
line on the tolls question, on the
English de, that is not going to
deliver the country" said Congress
man Mann, minority House leader.
THE people of the country are
pretty wide-awalie all the time. They
know what the honor of the country
Is. They know that the honor of the
country does not require us to bend a
knee to a foreign power. Gentlemen
will find that when the country passes
it's judgment upon these questions
the people of the country will stand
for America"
Commenting on the result of the
elections in New Jersey and in Massa-
chusetts, Mr.. Mann continued: Mr.
Gallivan, the Democratic candidate
elected, boldly announced that he
would follow Champ Clark.
NEARLY everybody in that district
was against the President. IL the
Rept blican candidate, in my opinion
had the boldness to come out on the
tolls question on the American side
he would have gotten a great many
more votes than he did. But the
Demo cratic candidate, standing upon
his party p,atform-on the platform
of Champ Clark as against the ma
Jority of the House--won hands down.
And when he comes here, repudiating
what you have done, and is sworn in,
you will have the nerve to give him
the glad hand.
II do not know what explanation
the Democratic candidate over in
New Jersey yesterday made" said
Mr.. Mann. 81 believe his excuse was
that he was loyal to the President
and to hades with the platform and
tsi6.cpuntry.
Sarcasm for Campsigners.
Senator James, of Kentucky, Is
reported to have said in New Jersey:
The eyes of the country just now
are upon the voters OF the Seventh
New Jersey district. If the Demo-
cratic cand date is defeated it will he
taken as a personal insult to Presi-
dent Wilson coming as it does from
his own State
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of Illi-
NOS, a very handsome and great
orator and statesman, is reported TO
have said in support of the Demo-
cratic candidate: If this man is not
elected. New Jersey will be dis
honored before the whole country ="
81 do not know whether the Presi-
dent is insulted or whether in his
opinion his State is dishonored, but
70 side
of the House." commented Mr.. Mann.
president Wilson himself has
gratuitously precipitated upon the
country the tolls question. He took
the trouble to interfere in the New
Jersey election, and he is reported to
have written to the candidate: May
/ not. as the time for the election ap
proaches, send you this line of warm
Endorsement? 1 hope sincerely that
the people of your district will elect
you to the House, and in that way not
only do you honor, but also show
their judgment with regard to the
present administration
"And they showed their good judg-
mcnt by eiectins the Republican can
didate"
Concluding, Mr.. Mann said:
Underwood no had the courage
which most Of you did not have, t.
stand for what he believed TO be
right. got q greater victory in Ala
bama than anybody expected, doubt
less through his right stand on the
tolls question"
Representative Murdoch, of Kan
sas. the Bull Moose leader, followed
with an assault on the wilson Bryan
forces.
az hope that the result in New
Jersey will have its effect upon the
Democratic patriots in the Senate
and that this tthe repeaD bill will be
killed there. Can you not as DEM
ocrat take warning from the Repub-
licans?
"a pledge In a platform is a sacred
thing 1t NAV not be douhlY read
u must be read according TO the ordi-
nary reading OF the plain English
language. You pledged the people
not TO take the action you did in the
canal tolls"
In Defense of Wilson.
Representative Carter Glass. Of
Virginia, spokesman for the Presi-
dent. said: II do not believe the vote
in New Jersey is rebuke to the Pres
ident because of his position on the
Panama Canal tolls question. The
only Significance of the election. as
view it, is that Eugene Debs and the
Socialist leaders pulled enough votes
away from the Democratic candidate
TO make certain the election Of a Re
publican candidate"
Representative J. Harry Covington
of Maryland. another supporter OF
the President against the party plat
form, who stumped the New Jersey
district, is on the eastern shore oi
Maryland trying to explain his posi-
tion to his constituency. Mr.. Coving.
toms forbears commanded at For
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