Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-10
REPUBLICANS
STRIKING WHILE
THE IRON IS HOT
Tuesdays Victories at the Polls
Bestir Jerseymen to Plan
for 1916.
STOKES FOR PRESIDENT,
MURPHY FOR U. S. SENATOR
Austen Colgate Comes in Line
for Governor in That Event
full Year.
STOKES FOR PRESIDENT,
MURPHY FOR U. S. SENATOR
speeial to the Evening star.

Special to the Evening Star.
TRENTON. Nov. i0.--While the
Democrats of the State are not en-
Unused to the point of declaring who
they will boom for President of the
United States In 1916, Governor of
New Jersey or United States senator
in that same year of grace. the Re-
publicans are laying plans and jar
ring the welkin with prognostica-
lions.
For New Jersey Republicans zee
bright future before them. They
scored great victories at the polls on
Tuesday last, and cannot. for the life
of them, see why they should fall
asleep. or even slumber. They be-
Iieve in striking while the iron Is hot,
and are making calculations accord
ingly
In the estimation of the Republican
political calculators their party is
plumb sure of electing q successor TO
Governor Fielder in 1916 and fail to
see why they should not have q
United States senator to wear United
States Senator James E. Marines
shoes. or a pair that would match a
= Republican equally as well, or bet
ter.
While counting on these good
/. things the Jersey Republicans feel
that they might just as wei have the
President of the United States for
good measure.
Figuring It Out.
Here is the way 1t is being figured
out.
In March, 1917 President Wilson's
term will end and so also will that
of United States Senator MARITIME.
4 in January, 1917, the term Of Governor
Fielder will expire. It is believed that
in November, 1916, the popular majori-
ties Will be Republican and that the
successors OF Wilson, MARITIME and
Fielder will be Republicans. Naturally
this expectation has led to a canvass
of the names of the men most likely
10 be the Republican candidates. or
the most desired by the voters of
New Jersey.
The Republican party in this State
IS under heavy obligations to Ed
ward Casper Stokes. But for Mr..
stokes the Republicans in this State
would not have been in condition In
The campaign this year to make any
effective fight. They would surely
nave lOSL lu6 hC6t ciid t1tSS
have lost most of the Congress dis
tricts.
In 1913, when the Republican party
In the State was crushed under the
great defeat of the previous year
and was almost hopeless Of carrying
the election for Governor, the man
who stepped forward to take the
nomination was Stokes. His purpose
was to bring back the Progressives to
: the party fold. Everett Colby was
y the Progressive candidate and he
polled Al, 1872 votes IL Colby had not
been in the field, Stokes would have
accomplished the almost incredible
feat under the circumstances of elect
ing himself.
But he did the next best thing. He
reduced the Progressive vote of 145,-
40 in 1912 to Al, 1872 within one year.
In 1912 not a single county went Re-
publican. In 1918 Stokes carried eight
= counties. He put the Republican
: party on it's feet. He made possible
the Republican victories this year by
conserving to be party sacrifice in
1913, by his remarkable campaign
that year and by his unremitting
labor since in reorganiZing the party
and winning back the Progressives
who this year turned in to elect Re-
publican candidates.
stokes Presidential Timber.
The feeling is growing among Re-
publcans in the State that Edward
Casper Stokes, who has already dis
tinguished himself as Governor, is
Presidential timber and that he is
the only Republican in New Jersey
whose name could be presented with
favor in a national nominating con-
vention. Furthermore. that his nom
ination would at once win over the
Progressive vote not only Of the State
but Throughout the United States.
For the record of Mr.. Stokes as to
Republican and Progressive policies
is unique. Throughout his whole
political career he has been a con-
sistent and staunch Republican and
leader of his party. AS Senator
he was the special guardian of public
education, and to him more than to
any other man is due the develop
,nent of the public school system In
New Jersey. He also guided the
Legislature through its financial
problems.
AS Governor Mr. Stokes made his
best record, for he was given his
great opportunities. A Democratic
State leader made this remark at the
State House the other day: PRO
gressive legislation began with Gov
ernor Stokes. You see that policy is
not party policy until 1t is accepted,
and parties are not counted in oppo-
sition until it is rejected Now, Gov
ernor Stokes as soon as he was elected
laid out new program for the Legis
lature, a program unheard of before,
and he submitted it to the Legisla-
ture in his inaugural message.
"The cruStaceanS shook their heads
in disapproval and said these ideas
would never get through the Legisla-
ture. But they did, and his recon-
mendations were turned into laws.
But his browning feat was the enact
ment of the new railroad tax law in
New Jersey, which increased the rail-
road assessments from s1,595,121 in