New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-19
Democratic Leader I'M
ports Speakers to Fight
Amendment.
INTERNAL FIGHTS
HURT REPUBLICANS
Men Taking Advan-
tage of Off-Year Apathy to
Work for 1916.

There appears TO be something rad
icallv wrong with the two great pollt-
ical parties in New Jersey this year'
as is evidenced by an apparent letnargy
over the primaries. but little more
than a month Oft.
There are but two reasons that can
be advanced at this time, one OF whlch
is the whole-souled interest the organl-
zation leaders of both parties are lend
ing to a movement to defeat the con-
stitutional amendment giving the SUI
fraCe to women, which is to be sub
mittcl at a special election October ~.
The other cause for the apparent
lack of energy this year is the ap-
proach C l-l6, in which on the ticket
with the Presidential candidate there
will be a candidate for Governor and
United States Senator.
Aside from a fight between the forces
of Mayor Thomas L. Raymond, of New
ark, and the adherents of Alfred ~.
Dalyrymple, Republican boss of Essex
County. there has been nothing on the
surface to lead TO the belief that any
great enthusiasm will be developed be-
fore the special election on woman
suffrage comes around in October.
James r. Nugent. Democratic boss Of
Essex and anti-WilsOn leader. is de-
voting his entire time to fighting Suf-
frage He has organized a campaign
of publicity in which he is employing
some of the leading men and women Of
the country to bring about the defeat
of the suffrage amendment.
An amusing situation with the Demo
Gratis is the strenuous effort made re-
Gently in Union County. at a dinner
20 X-Representative William Z. futile,
TO create an impression that anti-Wll-
son sentiment was dead in New Jersey,
and that even former Senator James
Smith. jr., of Newark. had buried the
Ratchet and was for the President.
Smith made a spreadeagle speech, and
the Democratic editors saw to II that
it received wide publicity. At the
same dinner, however, NuGent made a
speech that was susceptible of more
than one construction.
lie was for harmony, but harmony
of sort that would mean the doing
Of what he and his followers believed
was good for the party.
The Republican leaders are wonder
ing what success Mayor Raymond will
have in his Essex County fight TO rid
the party Of bossism as represented by
Dalrymple. The opinion seems to be
general that Dalrymple will win.
There is an organization in Essex
called 1.-THE antl-Dalrymple Repub-
licans," which is out to capture con-
troll Of the Republican County Com
mittee, and whether the fight will be
reflected in the state organization IS
problematical. South Jersey has its
candidates, who are working differently
than the North Jersey men. They are
waiting for developments that will put
them in a position to tell North Jersey
its divided forces cannot expect to be
given hOnCrs. -,
Camden County, where David Baird
still maintains the leadership, will
probably have a gubernatorial aspirant
in State Senator William /. Read, ma
ioritv leader in the upper house last
winter. Atlantic City Is the home Of
Senator Walter E. Edge, who presided
over the Senate last year and is IN
the race for United States Senator