Evening star., 1934-11-28
MOORE, IN SENATE,
PREFERSLAST lob
Former Governor of New
Jersey May Yet Run for
Post in 1887.

TRENTON, N. j., November ~
NANA9.-Senator-elect A. Harry
Moore Of New Jersey, present Cover
nor. would have preferred retirement
to sitting in the United States Senate.
Had he retired at the end of his term
for New Jersey Governors cannot sue
ceed themselves-Mr. Moore would
have started Immediately to campaign
for Governor again in 1887.
No man has been Governor Of New
Jersey for three terms, and it is Mr..
Moore's ambition to be that man.
With two terms behind him and
visioning a three-year vacation from
of1ce in which to make speeches, Gov.
Moore was well satisfied until the
Democratic party drafted him to run
for Senator. For weeks the Governor
refused, but in the end Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City convinced him
that his candidacy was necessary to
aid William L. Dill, Democratic can
didate for Governor.
Won by 10000 Votes.
The carefully laid plans of Hague
went awry. Moore was elected SEN
ator by 100000 votes over Hamilton F.
Kean, conservative Old Guard Repub-
lican. But Dill lost the governorship
by 1000 to Harold G. Hoffman, a
rising star in the Republican firma-
ment. Now the Democrats are left
without a strong candidate for Gov
ernor in 1887 and already there is talk
of running Moore, despite his election
to a six-year term.
AS Senator Mr.. Moore is pledged to
support the entire program of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. His campaign was
based on support of the New Deal. He
raised no differences with the Presi-
dents program, nor did he reserve the
right to use his own Judgment. In
essence. his campaign was Ito support
the New Deal instead Of the Raw
Deal"
Kean Opposed Roosevelt.
Kean opposed most of the Presi-
dents policies. The Moore-Kean con-
test, however, cannot be taken as
clear cut referendum on the New Deal
in New Jersey, because Moore is the
most popular vote-getter in the States
history. with friends in every hamlet,
while Senator Kean was swept in with
the 1928 Hoover landslide and was
never popular figure.
Senator ELECT Moore is opposed to
Federal encroachment on State fields
OF taxation. He is opposed to the
Federal gasoline tax and to Federal
luxury and amusement taxes. A strong
believer in States rights, he for
time upheld the far-reaching State
code legislation in New Jersey as
against the N r. A. policies. But
after series of conferences with Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson, Gov. Moore ac-
cepted the program of the national
administrati ton
Senator elect Moore is personally
friendly with President Roosevelt. He
and Roosevelt were in constant COM
munication when the latter was Gov
ernor Of New York. When Mayor
Hague fought Roosevelt at the Chi
cago convention, running the cam
paign for Alfred E. Smith. Gov. Moore
remained at home Although high
man in the election Of delegates,
Moore let an alternate vote against
Roosevelt. He tried in vain to per-
suade Hague to support Roosevelt.
Will Ask Liquor Tax Cut.
One of Senator-elect Moores moves
at Washington will be for reduced
liquor taxes. He fought for low State
taxes and will seek reduction Of
Federal levies.
The higher the taxes are on liquor"
he said. the greater the margin of
profit for evading them, and the
greater incentive there is to boot
leggers. The only way to end boot
Logging is to take away the profit by
reducing taxes. Competition will do
the rest
Unemployment insurance and old
age pensions, major planks in Presi-
dent Roosevelts social welfare pro-
gram, will meet with Moore's ap-
proval. His career has been marked
by considera ton for the poor and
underprivileged. His proudest ac-
complishment is in being the founder
of the first school for crippled chill
dren in the country, Jersey City
institution that bears his name.
Affable and friendly, Senator elect
Moore is expected to be a popular
figure In Washington. as he is in
New Jersey. Slim Of figure and with
his once-red hair now silver, the Gov
ernor has a springy step and energy
found seldom in man of SIS years.
(Copyrirht. 1894. BY the North American
American Newspaper Alliance, Inc)