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

ernor of New Jersey. former United
States Senator James Smith. OF.
New Jersey, bedecked as became
a statesman and the boss Of New
Jersey, called at Prospect, the
home of the President of Prince.
ton University.
With Senator Smith was a dele
cation from Mercer county which
had been the home county Of
Woodrow Wilson for twenty years.
The delegation was composed Of
the local party workers, followers
and cohorts of Frank 8. KatzeI.
Zach, whom Wilson had defeated
In the convention at Trenton. Elk
cepting when he stood on the
platform in his two-piece suit and
knit gray vest, to deliver mis-
speech of acceptance, these party
workers In Mercer County had
never seen President Wilson of
Princeton. They were ushered in
10 his workroom, q large book
lined place, and then and there he
and they went over that queer,
vague essence of nothing in par
ticular that politicians call the
situation"
For an hour or two Woodrow
Wilson and the Mercer County
gang talked 1t over. In the mean
time the Honorable James Smith,
ranking boss Of New Jersey,
strOlled out upon the terrace over
looking the garden. The garden
where q vista opens. In the gar.
den the autumn flowers, dahliAs
Zinnias, cosmos, golden glow, cam
~ wfNfAAfn Ia
OF autumn blossoms stretched be-
low him on the hillside. AMI
through tan evergreens on either
side, q yista of the New Jersey
hills gently rolling, crowned here
and there with cluTnps OF woods
led away into a far horizon.
A beautiful Place Il was.
A beautiful place it was, that ter
race. overlooking the garden of
Prospect! Ellen Arson, an artist,
made that garden, composed it
tended Il, loved IT. James KerneV,
editor Of the Trenton Times"
standing by the big boss, took in
the placid scene with the garden
in the foreground
..Jinr,s'a said the big man,
patheticaIly, what in hell a man
wants to leave this for to get
into politics is more than / can
see"
It was that he might anchor In
that kind Of a harbor that the
Honorable James Smith had been
wrangling in politics for thirty
years. 1t is for something OF the
sort-peace,s glory, self-respect--
the thing for which all politicians
think they are in politics: just
az, gamblers think they gamble
for the gains. But It il really
the game and not the stakes
that holds them. The other lads
OF Mercer county had no such
delusions as bothered Senator
smith. II they saw the vista,
they paid no heed to it, and
looked upon the garden with
blinded eyes. They had fallen
IN love with woodrow Wilson.
Going down the front steps,
through the tall trees and graveled
walks that led from the front or
Prospect, through the shade OF
the Princeton campus, these
husky young governors OF the
sovereign people gave their verdict
OF approval.
wilson 0utguesses the Bosses.
There can be no doubt that he
went into the gubernaturial cam
paign in 1910 with a light heart.
He stood before hiss audiences
with d certain grace of youth in
his figure; spoke easily; more like
a teacher than a politician. For
teaching was his second nature.
He was at his very best in thai
campaign.
He sent for Dave Bryant down
in Wilmington, N. c., and let
him work among the colored
people Of the New Jersey cities.
He was always felicitous in ex-
preston and usually really happy.
He had a bad day when the
trustees of Princeton snapped up
his resignation as president with
out waiting until after the cleo
ton. But bad days were few.
Fate, In choosing Wilson's enez
mics, made him a liberal.
In passing, let us note this
significant thing about Wilson.
He has been helped more often
by the maledictions Of his enemies
than by the benedictions of his
friends. So being at the moment,
in the campaign, of a liberal
mind and proud of 1t, even
exuberant about it, he spoke his
liberal mind splendidly.
He was stealing the thunder
of the New Jersey Republican liO-
erals, men inspired by Roosevelt;
translating the Roosevelt policies
into New Jersey terms; the New
Idea crowd, of which Everett
Colby and George l.. Record wers
the responsible leaders of the Jay
Listen to BIithe Talk.
They Listened to the blithe talk
of the intruding professor and de-
cided to test him. Publicly they
demanded to know-and Record
was the man who sent the dues-
tions-whether, when Wilson was
talking of bosses, he meant set al.
The Democratic bosses were cut
from the same piece of cloth that
furnished the Republican bosses.
Both crowds believed in the wis
dom of the great corporate in
terests which were using the State
of New Jersey as a sort of fence,
where, under the corporation tax
laws, many corporations were
avoiding shamelessly their moral
obligations to coViety.
1t did not occur to Smith and
Nugent that their candidate would
pay serious attention to Mr.. Rec
ord's questions, and one day a car
full of amiable bosses dropped in
at some local opera house" to
hear their candidate talk. Fo" he
was always delightful taIker,
always worth hearing.
They sat in a box above the
stage. Their candidate appeared,