The sun., 1916-02-07
JERSEY DEAL TO
AID MURPHY SEEN
Dalrynlplc-Baird Combination
Is Cause Of Political
Speculation.
LIOTOR BILL PLAYS PART

TRrSToN y. j. Feb 6.---Two or three
hdppenings last week indicated that the
nold Of the so.cailed Dalrymple- Baird
combination on the Legislature If not as
secure as many Of the politicians
thought. The popular notion has been
that the combination was formed pri-
marily to bring about the nomination
md election of Franklin Murphy to the
United States Senate. and II possible to
elect Austen Colgate as Governor, and
that Alfred y. Dalrymple OF Essex and
David Baird Of Camden were the prn-
cipals
Baird has been III and has had little
- do with politics for several months.
Frank Patterson, County Clerk of Cam
den. is the real Republican leader in his
county and I'm South Jersey, and Pat
,erson has been In such bad way
physically that concern is felt over his
recovery.
George W. Decker. state committee
recently, told a political gathering that
and D,lrymple had Informed him that he
'Dalrympe) was not responsible for the
attack made In the House on Judge Ten
nant and Prosecutor Hudspeth. but that
the order came from men higher up"
There are no men higher up In Es-
SEX county than former Governor Frank
lin Murphy, the Republican National
Committeeman from New Jersey and
Thomas y. McCarter. president of the
Public Service Corporation. who was At
torn.y General under Murphy Dalrym-
pies reported admission has set the peo-
pie thinking and asking whether the at
tack on the Hudson court was made for
the purpose OF getting the support of the
Nerdon- Smith faction for Murphy and
Colgate.
when it came TO showdown the
House unanimously refused to be- Al
party TO the attack OF Teunant and liud-
Speth That was one of tn. incidents
that attracted attention. because the
Johnson resolution was Introduced only
after Dalrymple had passed the word to
'hc ihtroducer, at the request of Ner-
don and Smith
The second incident was the notice
served on the combination by Senator
McCran. Assemblymen Runyon. Ham
mond and others that they would not
and Offices by Essex and camden coun-
ties. This notice came in the shape Of
sufficient number of votes TO maxi"
trouble for the majority Il they should
be cast with the Democrats
But the local option bill played An
important part IN the third happening
that Indicated how unsubstantial l. the
control OF the Dalrymple Baird COM
biuation over tn. Legislature. The
story had gone around that senators
colgate and Edge were anxious to avoid
going on record this year in local op-
tiou, though both voted asa!nS, the
Gaunt bill last year. and the liquor deal
ers and brewers had a nice scheme for
saving them.
A duplicate Of the Gauut bill had been
introduced in the House. and the plan
was 10 rush II through tu third reading
and defeat IL. Then the Gauut bill was
To be abandoned on the excuse that there
was no us" m passing h IN the Srnaf"
since IN" Hous. had already defeated
it's counterpart. 'he LAX. local Optiol
bill. When II cam" to putting the trick
over several cug~ slipped and the Hous,
voted nearly 'hre. go one in favor Of
giving the local op;iouists fair play
Essen cast eleven Of the sixteen votes
thai the liquor dealers We're able 20
muster. with a single exception the
Democratic Assembymen all voted
against the trick.