Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-28
HUDSON SMOKING SILVER OUT

Judge Silzer's letter to Judge DAILY in which he declares
himself to be a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination does not seem to be altogether satisfying in
Hudson county. In view of the fact that it was the Hudson
county machine, headed by Frank Hague, that persisted in
getting Judge Silzer into the race this situation may be a lit
tie surprising.
Practically every day since Judge Silzer's letter was
published the Jersey Journal, Jersey City, has been ripping
that epistle TO pieces. And it was the Jersey Journal that
seemed 10 be Hague's %mouthpiece in urging Judge Silzer TO
become a candidate.
The first editorial in the Jersey Journal published i'm
nediately after Judge Silzer had declared himself was head
ed "Silzer's" Disappointing Entry. 1t says: Circuit Court
Judge George S. Silzer, in his letter today formally ANNOUNCE
ing his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina-
ton, talks like a man who was trying to meet Mayor Hague's
demand for clarity and courage without offending the Public
Service Railway Company. That stunt has been tried before.
! Judge Snzer makes a pitiful failure of the attempt"
The next day the Jersey Journal published an editorial
headed: "Sizer Sighting Wilson" 1t says: Besides pus-
sy-footins on the eight-cent fare issue, maintaining abso-
lutte silence on the liquor question and emitting any decla-
ration of war on the ploters against the direct primary law,
Judge Sizer, in announcing his candidacy for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination., did another queer thing.
! He afronted the army of Wilson Democrats in New Jersey
by unwittingly or designedly failing to give any credit to the
primer governor and former President for his part in the
hactment in 1911 of the Public Utility act that gave the
commission rate making powers"
After quoting from Judge Silzer's letter in which he
lions particularly Everett Colby as a helper in putting
legislation across when Colby was not even a member
Nn tie legislature at that time, the Jersey Journal goes on to
III Ills lDIhS 90 thDuS OLlSOOo WV bJ1c
memories of the biggest figures in that memorable battle OF
si9i1, when the direct primary law and the public utility act
enacted into law. The heroic figure was that OF Gov
aernor Wilson who, by forcing a reluctant legislature TO OBEY
the popular will, as exemplfied by Wilson election. IN 1911
forced on the statute books the two laws that helped 10
nave his wav to the White House. What olizer >
noint of view was in emitting all references TO wilson, VINO
ua there in 1914, and going out of his way to praise uoiDy
who " NOT there. is not quite clear. 1t may be that JuuSe
silzer was making a bid for the votes OF Colby hepuDHcd's
of Fssex. II NAV be, however, that there are more WiSoh
democrats in Essex than there are Colby hepuplcahs'
Again the Jersey Journal comes out with another edl-
forial headed .Hudson's Warning to Silzer. This editorial
is as follows:
1.-THE Democratic State Committeeman Joseph F. S.
Fitzpatrck's warning to Judge Silzer at Atlantic City, Sat-
urdav afternoon, that if the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor hopes to make that expected showing in Hudson on
November he will have to change his tactics and COM out
in unmistakable terms, and in language that cannot be mis-
understood. against the traction combine domination of New
JERSEYS politics, was quite timely.
"Fitzpatricks talk may not have pleased James R. MI
gent. who is trying to land Silzer in his vest pocket, but it
will meet with approval of the Democratic rank and file, who
want a winning Democratic gubernatorial candidate for
1922"
Just what all this means, coming from the leading
newspaper in the Hudson county metropolis, a newspaper
which has acted almost as if it were inspired in It's efforts
to get Judge Sizer into the gubernatorial race, time alone
will fell. It looks as if Hague was insisting that the judge
recognize who is boss from the very outset. Hague is no
man to betrifed with.