Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-06-28
FATE Of S|[zER
At CONCLAvE Up
TOFRANK HAGUE
He Is in Full Charge of For
tunes of N. ]. Governor
at Convention
MOVES NOT PUBLIC
May Be Working Agreement
Between New York and
New Jersey
YES NOT PUBLIC
By LEO j. LANNING
Especial Representative OF Evening
News at N. Y. Convention.

Especial Representative OF Evening
News at N. Y. Conyention.)
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, June 2S.-The fate of the
Silzer candidacy for the Democratic
presidential nomination today rested
in the hands of Mayor Frank Hague.
of Jersey City. Practically every
body in the movement for the gov
ernor of New Jersey has faith in his
handling of the situation. The steps
taken to date here have all been un-
der the advice and consent of the
Jersey City executive. The friend
liness for Governor Smiths candi-
dacy. the formal presentations OF Mr..
Silzer's name to the convention so
successfully yesterday and the action
ef-New York in permitting - stan
d.rd to participate in the parade Of
the New Jersey governors supporters
were. all parts OF the Hague scheme
of grooming for the Jersey execu-
tive.
From this time forward, the gov
ernor's managers will rely upon the
Hague management to bring their
candidate under the wire for either
President or vice president And
when the mayor gives the word to
switch to the Smith standard. it IS
expected that the delegates from
New Jersey will do so. The, feeling
now Is that New York has stood by
her understanding with New Jersey
by terms of which each has joined in
open manifestations of friendliness
for the others candidate. New Jer-
sey's banner was carried in the
Smith parade on Thursday and New
York's in the Silzer procession of
yesterday.
Governor Silzer and Governor
Smith are close personal friends.
Therefore, when New York in the
balloting to come wants help for her
candidate from New Jersey it will
be provided, but in the second or
some later roll call. And IL the time
ever comes when Smiths cause ap-
pears to be lost and Silzer's to be
rising. the latter's managers hope to
see New York's votes swung to New
Jerseys candidate.
The crux of the situation, or the
strategy of the campaign, lies in an
alliance with such a powerful factor
as New York. Standing alone with
a favorite son candidate, New Jersey
might not get far in such a large
field of rivals. but by team work
with New York and Illinois, another
influential state, the managers of the
Silzer campaign see a chance to get
somewhere.
In yesterdays demonstration for
New Jerseys governor. not only the
New York standard but those of Illi-
nois and Pennsylvania as well were
conspicuous. Only four states to be
sure. but as it has already been
pointed out a block of votes number
ing some 230. Should they be swung
to Silzer at crucial moment in the
balloting 1t would be decided i'm
petus to New Jerseys candidate.
Memories of Woodrow Wilson'S
fighting days as governor surged
back yesterday in this convention
hall as three of his lieutenants of
those old days held the attention of
the 14,000 delegates, alternates and
spectators. George S. Silzer, of Mid
dlesex county, was being nominated
for president, the same George S.
Silzer whom Peter F. DAILY, of New
Brunswick, now circuit court Judge.
placed before the gubernatorial con-
NtHllOn OIL 1Jlu at lIcHluIl dS d TlNdl
of Wilson's for the nomination there
bestowed on the Princeton professor.
Silzer had some 200 delegates in that
convention.
He lost to Wilson in that contest,
despite the plea of Judge DAILY. The
writer heard that speech in which
Silzer's record of progressive legis-
lative proposals were reviewed. He
asked who 1t was that had sponsored
this program and answering his own
inquiry on each point declared: ut
was our man."
Yesterday the great Democratic
national convention heard Silzer de-
scribed as the inheritor OF the Will
son mantle and executive chair in
New Jersey, and the rightful heir to
his post as president.
Two of wilson's "boys"--so to
speak--won their spurs yesterday
as platform orators in a national
convention when they extolled the
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