New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-29
Farmer Orator Subject OF
Ridicule of Administra-
tons Campaigners.
SPLIT VOTE is PLAN
TO SWING PRIMARIES
Senator's Rival Still Hopes
to Win Through His
Pull with President.

Enemies of United States Senator
James f. Martine-which means the
friends of President Wilson-are carry
/ ing on a campaign of ridicule in an
/ attempt to defeat for denomination the
man who dared oppose the policies Of
Wilson in the Senate. Ask them what
chance the Senator has for success az
the primaries, and they reply:
what. MARITIME? Why, he went to
the St. Louis Convention with one dol
lar end one collar, and came back with
out changing either"
Marines candidacy in 1911 may have
begun as a joke and his election may
have been a fuke, but he has proved
pretty serious question for the Will
son Administration, and if the opinion
of the men in the street may be taken
as a guide, he stands good chance
of defeating John w. Wescott, Will
sons choice, at the primaries on Sep
TENDER 26.
At the first direct primary in New
Jersey, in 1911, group OF newspaper
men sitting in the Hotel Sterling, Iren-
ton discovered that the Democrats had
advanced no candidate for United
States Senator at the primaries, it
, baing generally supposed that James
Smith former United States Senator,
would land the plum for his service IN
| e1ecting Wilson Governor of New Jer-
sey.
"Good Joke" Proved Serious.
Albert St. John, a free-lance news
naner correspondent, suggested IN
| ioke that some one call up MARITIME and
ssk him il he would be a candidate. 81.
John was elected for the duty, and got
/ MARITIME on the telephone. go,
"Hello, Senator" st. John SAID will
you rum ..,.,
Sure" replied MARITIME quickly
The situation was explained to him,
his designating petition was Med ana
( everybody said Good joke" But At the
state primary MARITIME won hands down
q Wilson. who was committed TO the al
rect primary, threw down Smith,
helped MARITIME TO win, and then began
J the feud between Wilson and the Smith.
| Nupent state machine that was one OF
/ the bitterest in the political annals OF
Although Wilson elected MARITIME, he
could not control him. The first break
came when MARITIME voted against the
/ President on the Panama Canal bill.
MARITIME Has Many Followers.
The Democratic party in New Jersey
/ is largely the Irish party, and IT is with
( the Senator almost TO a man. Even the
friends of Joseph Tumulty, Secretary
TO the President, in Hudson, VINO arc
with Wilson, are outspoken IN FAVOR
of MARITIME. He also has big follow
ing among the grangers of the state,
having earned the title of "the farmer
orator" Then, too, there is the Ger
man vote, which cuts big inquire IN
North Jersey, and which is against WIZ
son.
The Wilson administration figures
that a few hundred votes either way
will swing the primaries, ana IN oruei
TO split up the MARITIME vote they nave
induced August J.Bruggeman, theatre
owner of Hobokep, TO enter the race,
but X is doubtful If he is strong enough
to hurt MARITIME.
ne tdUuludNg VI ONhh
of Camden, is based largely on the
fact that he nominated Wilson foI
President at both the Baltimore and
st. Louis conventions. For his Balti.
more endeavor he received the post OF
Attorney General of New Jersey
MARITIME has been getting about the
state on a hsndshaking campaign, but
up TO date Wescott has been content
to sit back and depend upon his Will
son pull TO get him his party's votes.
The Republican contest for the
United States Senatorship nomination
is as pretty and clean as could be de-
sired. On the one side is Franklin
Murphy, National Committeeman and
former Governor of New Jersey, and
on the other Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
former State Senator. Murphy is an
old-lne Republican and member OF
the former blouse Of Lords" which
for a time controlled New Jersey Re
publican politics. He has with hin
both the old and the new guard.
Republican Campaign Clean.