The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-05-09
Governor EDGE
is MENTIONED
FOR PRESIDENT
Lightning Begins to Coruscate in
Newspapers and Periodicals
Outside of the State.
HIS RECORD IS CITED
AS REMARKABLE ONE
Has Accomplished Big Things IN the
Face of Opposition and His Name
is Widely Known.

Trenton.-There has been talk OF
late in newspapers and periodicals ID
different parts of the country about
Walter E. Edge of New Jersey as
possibility for the Republican nominal
ton for President. The governor and
United States senator elect has Deen
keeping his own counsel. The boom,
if it may be called boom, has started
outside of New Jersey. 1t remains now
to see what the governors home state
has to say This is the way the New
ark Sunday Call, an Independent news
paper, sizes up the situation:
"While the Warwicks Of the nation
are busily engaged in making Presi-
dent, New Jersey seems to have
strangely overlooked the fact that one
of her own sons is being doomed for
that high office. Under the old tradi-
ton which found it's apt application to-
the town of Nazareth. it is perhaps no
wonder that the boom was started else
where than in his home state.
mot to keep anybody guessing any
longer than necessary, It may be stated
right here that the man of New Jersey
who has been picked for the big race
is Governor Walter E. Edge. That may
not be surprising to those who have
kept in touch with the contemporaries
Gus political literature of the country,
but it will be surprising to those who
have been provincial in their browsing
in this field and have heard not gasp
of the Edge presidential idea from the
governors Jersey friends.
Has Forced Progress.
at really shouldn't be news to Jer-
seymen that a recent issue of Leslies
mentioned their governor and United
States senator elect In no uncertain
terms as presidential possibility and
that editorials in leading newspapers
in the west and In another leading
newspaper in the nations capital have
taken him up in the same way.
I'm not on the band wagon with
Walter Edge remarked a Democratic
politician to State House corridor
group the other day, but / certainly
must admit he has been doing things
ut is the usual style in politics,
when talking through the press to
mixed audience, to say that a candi-
dates friends claim this or that for
him. 1t saves the newspaper from be-
ing responsible and preserves that neu-
trality so desirable and so dignified In
the news columns. Besides, it gives
the editorial writer a valid reason for
drawing his pay.
Therefore
Governor Edges friends say that
him in a class of his own as a Jersey
governor.
Some Of the Things He Has Done.
"They point to the system of bust
ness government he has built up as
the head of the state administration.
1t has been an object lesson to other
states.
"They point to the new state high
way system, which was the governors
child and bears his name, and they de-
clare that it is a healthy child. with
the finest prospects, even II 1t was
rocked in the rough cradle of war
time finance.
"They point to the plan of large and
symmetric development of the inter-
state port of New York and New Jer-
sey, the greatest port in the world
and to the fact that the governors
valiant fight for this great, co-ordlnat-
ed effort was carried right up to the
last ditch, where it was swallowed up
in the profound and murky depths of
Tammany politics
"They point to the Delaware bridge
and the Hudson vehicular tunnel as
coming developments which will speak
eloquently of the enterprise and ener-
gy of one New Jersey governor.
"They point to numerous other large
| constructive things as evidence Of the
versatility of this same governor. -.
Strange his Jersey friends haven't
thought of him for President? Maybe
they have. But IL they have they have
let outsiders do the talking.
but says the professional polit-
ical prognosticatnr. the next President
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