The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-16

Doctor Wilson, there have
been some political srefornsfs
who. after they have been elected
to office as candidates or one
party or another, have shut the
doors in the face of the organiza'
ton leaders, refusing even TO lis
ten to them. 1t is your idea mat
q governor should regard himself
free of all obligation to his party
: organization"
A Very Hard Summer.
At least that is what this
friend told Josephus Daniels, and
Daniels quoted Wilson's reply as
this:
Gentlemen. have always
been believer in party organiza'
tions. If I were elected Governor
of New Jersey, ] should be very
glad to consult with the leaders
of the Democratic organization.
/ should refuse to, listen to no
man, but / should be especially
glad to hear and duly consider
the suggestions. / found the
recommendations for appointments
made to me by the organization
leaders named the best possible
men, / should naturally prefer,
other things being equal, to APP
point them, as the men pointed
out by the combined counsels OK
the party"
Very Elzely the dialogue was
not set In that kind of third
reader rhetorie. Bup at any rate
Doctor Wilson was clever enough
to side-step the trap and the Irish
were fools enough to let him get
away with his tall talk, instead
of pinning him down to- cases.
This was in mid-July.
The Newark News" reporter,
Just back from New England, was
explaining to the managing edi-
tor that Wilson was undecided,
and probably was not, a candidate,
that Wilson had decided when
the telephone rang. 1t was Doc
tor Wilson calling the reporter
to give him the announcement;
and then the fun began. The
announcement was made July 10.
that If it was The wish
of majority Of the thoughtful
Democrats Of the State''-that
phrase thoughtful Democrats !"
particularly CALLED the Irish and
cost the Jim-Jims machine q
pretty penny in good beer and
free lunch--he would accept the
nomination. He went back to
his New England bungalow and
did not turn a hand for the nomi-
nation.
Home County UnruIy.
But the organization had a
hard summer, The difficulty In
the Wilson pre-convention cam
paign lay somewhat in the fact
that he could not control his home
county. He had never identified
himself with the organization, and
the leading candidate OF the anti
machine crowd was from Mercer
county, where Mr.. Wilson lived.
The reformers in the Demo
cratic Party in New Jersey in the
summer OF 1910 were against
Woodrow Wilson. They had the
same opinion OF him that the
bosses had; that he was an hon.
est, thick headed, well-n1eanirg
innocent who would take orders!
The reformers were a shivering
little band Of Irish who had tried
to do for Democracy what Record
and Colby had done for the Re.
publican Party in the State; free
1t from the domination OF an
organization controlled by Wall
street. These star-eyed godiets
Of reform lined up behind the
candidacy Of Mayor Frank s..
Katzenbach, Of Trenton, also in
Mercer county, ana picked him to
beat Wilson and the machine.
September IA came. Colonel
Harvey brought Wilson down from
the cool Businesses Of New Eng
land. The State convention was
to meet the next day. The politi-
cal hotel where the statesmen
gathered was filled with stale
smoke beer-fumes, sour lunch, and
the clamor of marching clubs
romping through the halls. The
Katzenbach band serenaded the
Wilson headquarters in Room
100. where Colonel George Harvey
held FORTH but never Wilson
delegate from his home county
was there to vote for him-not
even one from Princeton, In
the meantime, Woodrow Wilson
in Prospect, the presidential home
at Princeton, was working
through the hot night on his
speech of acceptance.
Hot, Red Faced, and LiquOred.
AT 2:30 o'clock, the next after
noon, hot. red-faced. full Of heavy
food and too much rebellious
liquor, the delegates stamping
into the close, stuffy opera house.
Tension made their hearts beat
quicker. Their nerves were raw.
A thousand fans fluttered.s Men
let down their wet suspenders and
unbuttoned their sweaty shirt
fronts. The nominating speeches
began. The speech for Wilson
was greeted with enthusiasm:
that was a part of the machine
program. Enthusiasm is one Of
the things in a convention that a
machine always can produce.
Clarence l.. Cole, of Atlantic City,
made the Wilson nominating
speech.
the midst of the mechanical
demonstration for WILSON, Jonn
7. CrandaIl, and old and pic
turesque. lawyer in the Atlantic
City delegation, arose to- protest
the nomination of Wilson. The
Atlantic City delegation was d.
vided. Cole was regarded as an
apostate from Silzer, the "faVo-
rite son." A man slumping in
chair near by woke up, nearing
the row in the Atlantic City del.
egation. rose and tried to pun
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