Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-14
". {. SACKETT ON
TRENTON BATTLES
His Second Volume, Just Pub
lished, Deals With Wilson's
Political History.

In his second volume of Modern
Battles of Trenton" the first volume
OF which dealt with the political his
tory of New Jersey for half century,
William e. Sackett, bringing his tale
down from the administration of the
late Governor George T. Werts to the
end of Woodrow Wilson's abbreviated
term, relates many interesting Incl
dents and events which figured in the
sudden rise of DR.. Wilson from the
presidency of Princeton University to
the presidency of the United States.
The story, as Mr.. Sackett tells it, of
the most phenomenal reach for the
presidency in American annals" is
that of a. man, "a participant,
aloof from the current of public at
fairs, unacquainted with the men and
ASSOCIATED from the forces that
mould them, who picked up his hat
one morning in his cloister studio at
Princeton and said he guessed he'd
go out and get the presidency of the
United States, and came back the
next day, as it were, with 1t in his
hand" 1.-THE adventure" New Jer-
sey's political historian says, sis the
eliminating romance of American pol
tiles"
DR.. Wilson got his start for WASH
ington, Mr.. Sackett says, because
former United States Senator James
Smith sought big name to head the
Democratic ticket which would elect
Democratic Legislature to make
Smith senator again. This was in the
campaign of 1910.
MIR. Smith," the narrative goes on
had assurances that the Princeton
scholar was ready to welcome the
nf his ne The nm DltlOD-
more, as he has said himself, the aim,
the purpose-of the doctors career
was the attainment of the presidency:
BY that occult interchange OF
thought between two minds, which
none can explain, Mr.. Smith was con-
templating DR.. Wilson as man VINO
ought to be President at the same
time when the doctor was contem-
plating Mr.. Smith as the man VINO
could make him one"
Then Mr.. Smith let the national
Democratic leaders into the secret
that he had at last found the winning
name for the party banners, Mr..
Sackett says, and confided his plans
to Colonel George Harvey, whose
picture appears in the volume as the
man ito whom chiefly Woodrow Will
son owes his selection for the presi-
dency."
men ne tAOiODtl Iial NCSl YIN
cluded to join the senator in his presi-
Dental enterprise" Mr.. Sackett con-
tinues, 1.-THE bank vaults of Wall
Street were opened for its promotion.
That was an important gain for the
movement. DR.. Wilson was poor
man. Money was needed to
finance the campaign. Harvey's
friendships amid the money kings
could bring it. The coloners control
of a number of influential publications
made him a valuable acquisition also
as an advertising force"
Mr.. Sackett tells of a conference
with DIR. Wilson in Colonel Harvey 8
editorial room attended among others
by James r. Nugent, Smiths kins-
man, political manager and connden-
tial agent, but not by Smith, at winch
he saws there was an understanding
that if DR.. Wilson would but consent
to stand for the governorship tine
colonel would bring the forces at his
command and Mr.. Smith the other
forces at his beck into unison to Sc
cure his nomination for the presidency
in 1872"
nState Chairman Nugent insists,
too."the writer goes on, that 1t was
agreed that in return for his ,valu-
able services in shaping things up for
DR.. Wilson the doctor would upon
election to the governorship throw all
his personal and official weight In
favor of Mr.. Smiths election as
United States senator"
Then he makes note of the fact tnat
DR.. Wilson in the gloomy days Tor
Smith that followed in his unsuccess-
full fight for the senatorship denied
with much earnestness that he ever
had any such understanding with
Smith.
By the combined forces of united
Democracy and Progressive Repuo-
leans Dr. Wilson was elected.
Right here Mr.. Sackett describes the
subiect of 1.-THE eliminating ro-
NANCE" "He has a cold, colorless
face. with gray eyes, that shows In
every line a spirit of combativeness
and a petulant impatience with con-
tradiction. He carries the autocracy
of the schoolroom into his public re-
lations. He is master; everybody
must obey and follow him; but In
social converse he is the most cap
tjyating of companions-his taik
flashes with wit and overruns Win
anecdote.''
Mr.. Sackett then tells how former
United States Senator Smith, arter
Governor Wilson'S election and with
the Legislature Democratic on a
Joint ballot, stepped forward to re-
ceiye the reward he had promised
himself for his labors," of the contro-
versy that followed which excited the
State and of the declaration by Gov
ernor Wilson that he wasn't for Mr..
Smith, but for James e. MARITIME, the
farmer orator, because the Demo-
cratic voters at New Jerseys first