Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-04-12
S|[zER BOOM
FORPRES|DENT
GIVEN BOOST
Speaks Before the National
Democratic Club in New
York Tonight
DAVIS ALSO TO SPEAK
And Senator Robinson-Gov-
ernor Is.to Make Other
important Speeches
DAVIS ALSO TO SPEAK
BY LEO J. MANNING.
Trenton Correspondent of The
Perth Amboy Evening News

TRENTON, April 12.-Governor
Silzer's boom for the Democratic
Presidential nomination ought to be
further enhanced after his appear
ance before the National Demo-
cratic Club at its dinner in the Hotel
Commodore in New York tonight.
This is one of the leading party Or
ganizations of the country and the
fact that Mr.. Silzer is on its pro-
gram of speakers indicates the high
regard the managers of the event
have for the New Jersey executive.
Unusual significance will be add
ed to the occasion because of the
fact that several of the other prom
inent Democratic Presidential pos
sibilities are also down for speeches.
They include former British AM
bassador John w. Davis, of West
Virginia, now practicing law in New
York, and Democratic Senate Lead
er Robinson, of Arkansas. It was
the slate of Robinson for President
and Silzer for vice president which
recently came from the lips of Col.
George Harvey as that political
prophets opinion of the two most
available men for the Democrats to
select as national standard bearers
in the coming campaign.
The dinner of the National DEM
ocratic Club of two years ago came
more prominently into the public
eye than those hitherto held be-
cause it was ar this event that JOS
eph p. Tumulty delivered a message
purporting to come from Woodrow
Wilson. which the latter repudiated
the next day with the resulting
,Sfr E&n -
Although there has not been
much blare of trumpets in the Silzer
campaign to land the Democratic
nomination. there has been a lot OF
quiet, effective under the surface
maneuvering to hiring the name,
personality and accomplishments of
the governor before the proper per-
sons of national influence in the
Democratic ranks.
The executive has all along been
dark horse" type of candidate for
the nomination and his friends are
not seeking to develop him in any
ether way. From observation it is
apparent they foresee a deadlock
in the convention between McAdoo
and Smith. for instance, with the
eventual fading of tne chance of the
two.
The psychology or the Silzer man.
ayers plan undoubtedly will be TO
wait until the leading candidates
for the nomination on the early bal
lots have killed each other off and
then to become the legatees of the
delegate strength of some one or
the other. The scheme has the ex-
ample of the late Warren G. Hard
lng's nomination at Chicago in 1920
as a guide. Silzer, like Harding,
will go into the party conclave with
the votes of his own state delega-
tion, probably that support and
nothing more. Developments will
then be awaited. OF course there
will be other dark horses" looking
for the same opportunity but New
Jersey Democrats hope so beat
them to it,"
That the governor is attracting
attention by the powers that be, is
evidenced not only by his appear
ance in New York tonight, but also
by the numerous invitations he is
getting for speaking engagements.
Tuesday evening of next week his
candidacy ought to get a big impe-
tus when he goes into Pennsylvania
for an address at Harrisburg at the
JcLci sui uillHtT Oh Lne democrats
of that state. The invitation came
from Joseph F. Guffey, who is the
representative of the Keystone state
on the national committee. An in
dication of the way the Pennsyl-
vania party leaders are warming up
10 the Silzer candidacy lies in the
fact that Vance Mccormick, of
Pittsburgh. former chairman of the
national committee and the man
who conducted the successful 1916
campaign for the /, election of the
late President Wilson. is heading
the reception committee arranged
to meet the governor at Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania has about seventy
delegates In the coming convention
and with no favorite son to bestow
them upon, the friends of the New
Jersey governor are banking great
prospects upon his visit to the Tues
day evening dinner.
Later in the month Mr.. Silzer
goes TO Buffalo to address the Ma
tional League of Women voters in
conference there. These and SIM
liar engagements are the things
lending forcefui impetus to his
name as real contender for the
Presidential nomination,
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