Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-08
La MONTE URGED
FOR i. S. TOGAAT
HARMONY SESSION
Banking Commissioners Name
Broached to Help Unite
Hudson Democrats.
WlTTPENN is ALSO PUT
FORWARD FOR GOVERNOR
National Delegates Agreed
Upon, but War Is Still
in the Air.
Special to the Evening star.

| Special ta the Evening star.
| Jersey CITY, Jan. S.-While the
anEouncement of the result of the
harmony conference by the delegates
| of the two factions of Hudson county
| Democrats held yesterday embodied
! the intknaton that there was no dis
! cussion of candidates for the two
I offices, governor and United States
/ senator, to be filled at the election
next fall, information CLEANED from
other reliable sources disclosed the
/ fact that the name of Naval officer
! II. Otto Wittpenn was preached for
! the former and Banking and Insur-
ance Commissioner George NJ La
| Monte, who il is said leans toward
! the naval officer, and Governor James
! f. Fielder, an anti, were tentatively
| advanced for the latter office.
Another compromise suggestion
/ which apparently developed as "A re-
! suit of the peace conference was the
! probable withdrawal of State Senator
! Charles II. Egan from the field for the
/ Democl atlc nomination for surrogate
3 in Hudson and the coalition of the
( factions for the support of Surro-
gate John p Egan. an anti-Witt-
| pennite, for reelection.
! Both factions agreed that there
! should be no attempt made to bar
any aspirant from the primary
scramble for either local, county oC
State offices. This suggestion was
made first by Naval officer Wittpenn
| in a resolution read at the beginning
! of the conference and shortly after
! wards in another resolution in al
most identical terms by Commissioner
George f. Brensinger. of the opposi-
| ton. The former resolution also pro-
posed the devising of some method
whereby the large expenditure Of
money by aspirants might be cur
tailed, and declared the corrupt pTac-
! tees act insufficient and inadequate
to cover the situation. The radical
amendment of the act was advocated
| to cover these deficiencies
However. regardless of the appar-
ent amicability which prevailed at
the session. those ominous Hudson
| political war clouds still hung
! jflrenteniiigiy and the pronounced
Difference shown by the delegates for
| those of the opposing faction did not
portend the completes success of tho
, harnSay plan.
Agree on National Delegates.
The coalition of the Wittpennites
and the ants during the coming
campaign still seemed as remote as
ever at the close of the meeting. The
only matter which the two forces
really united upon, it is believed, was
the choice of delegates to the ma
tional convention. That the Jersey
"Big Four" will be National Com
mitteeman Robert S. Hudspeth, a
Wittpennite; Governor Fielder and
Senators William F. Hughes ana
James E. MARITIME seems likely.
The question of delegates to the
national convention from the con-
gressional districts in Hudson
county was not touched upon. it is
asserted. However, from the
eleventh district it is said that City
Commissioner Frank Hague, of this
city, and Mayor Patrick r. Griffin,
of Hoboken. will be candidates.
Hague is an avowed anti, while Grif-
fin is Wittpenn's strongest individual
force in this county.
An example of harmony may be
CLEANED from Mr. Brensinger'S reso-
luton, which says:
1--WE are unalterably opposed to any
arrangement. agreement or deal
which shall have for its purpose the
limitation of the number of Demo-
cratic candidates for all offices, local.
county or State. We are opposed to
bossism in any form. We favor not
one ticket at the primary but sew
eral The great reform act, the Geran
law. was passed to give every man
in political party an opportunity TO
become a candidate. We cannot coun-
tenance any agreement when Would
circumscrbe this right.
wittpenn's Statement.
The Wittpenn statement read at the
beginning of the meeting was the text
book used by the conferees through
out their session That statement is
as follows:
Prior to this meeting my four col
leagues and myself, representing as
we believe, the Progressive Dem
ocracy, held a conference at which
we discussed the question OF how
far, considering the mandates OF the
Geran election law, we might with
propriety go in what has been called
an arbitration meeting OF this char
acter. We beg leave to respectfully
submit to YOU our conclusions, so that
your tina and our time may not be
wasted, but devoted exclusively to
profitable subjects. They are as fol-
lows.
"First-Assuming that there is no
difference of opinion in Hudson
County as to the wisdom of renomi-
we may ioin with in you in some
amicable arrangement for the selec-
ton of candidates for delegates to the
national Democratic convention, pro-
yided, of course, all such candidates
shall pledge themselves to Wilson and
his policies. Delegates this year, no
matter who they are, will act only as
messengers from Hudson County to
st. Louis AT the meeting called by
Mr. Fielder and recently held at Tren-
ton, q plan was devised and adopted
without opposition whereby the dele
gates and alternates-at-large might
be picked out without contest, and
we can see no great objection to fob
lowing that precedent with respect to
the district delegates. Here, then, we
think Is one proper subject Tor dis.
cussion which can be taken up with
view to obtaining harmonious action
"Second-We believe that party
platforms and issues. national. State
and local, particularly local, are
proper subjects for discussion here, or
in fact, anywhere else where thinking
Democrats may gather.
"Third-We should like TO frankly
discuss with You plans whereby the
Hudson Democratic factions may in
future primary contests be persuaded
to abstain from abusive personalities
such as have characterized similar
contests in the past, and which, IL
continued, will, we feel sure, ultimate
ly bring the party to ruin. We should
also wish to discuss arrangements
whereby the expenditure of large sums
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