Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-10-30
The Political Mill -...
Jersey Provides Picture
Of Rising 6. o.P. Tide
Hague and Democrats Pushed BacL
Into His Own Bailiwick
By Gould Lincoln

By Gould Lincoln
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 9o-Perhaps New
Jersey more than any other state provides o
good picture Of what has been happening to
the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roose.
velt's second election to the presidency. Not
all the efforts Of Democratic boss Frank Hague
have been able to stem the Republican tide.
Mr.. Hague and the Democrats have been
pushed back into the boss own bailiwick Hud.
son County.
In the election on Tuesday, the Dewey-War.
rem ticket Is slated to win, conservatively. BY
100000 votes While Mr.. Hague Ia making no
open admission of defeat, It Is understood (via
the grape vine route) he suspects that the
Republican margin may 60 even as high as
800, 000
The late President Roosevelt's margin Of
victory in 1895 was $4,000. -Four years later,
his lead was cut to $4,000; and he defeated
Gov. Dewey In the 1914 race by only $4,000
votes.
Today, Jersey has O Republican governor.
two Republican Senators, and 10 out of the
States IL Representatives in the House are
Republicans. The prospect Is for the election
Of 10 Republican House members again. leaving
only Mrs. Mary T. Norton and Edward ]. Hart,
the present Democratic members from Hud-
son County, to the minority party. There Is q
brisk fight in the Fourth District, but Repre-
sentative Mathews Republican, is expected to
win.
Thomas Safe.
II the Justice Department and Attorney
General Clark were cunning for Representative
j. Parnell Thomas, Republican, chairman of
the House Un-American Activities Committee,
when an indictment was obtained recently
against him, they seem doomed to failure in the
coming election. MIR. Thomas comes from q
rockribbed Republican District. He will be re-
elected, unless there Is an unexpected I'D.
heaval The indictment came too late in the
campaign to be really effective as political
blow to MIR. Thomas. Further, his charge that
the Attorney General was playing politics"
in this move was an obvious reply
For the Senate, the Democrats are running
an F.F. J. First Families of Jersey, Archi-
bald S. Alexander, but in this race, too, they
have little or no chance Of victory. Robert c.
Hendrickson, State Treasurer, the Republican
candidate, Is expected to run not far behind
Gov. Dewey in New Jersey.
Boss Hague, who is still an important mem.
Der of the Democratic National Committee,
has been unlucky this year. He was one Of
the first Of the Democratic leaders to fall
for the idea of nominating Gen. Eisenhower
for President-not because he was so fond Of
Gen. Eisenhower but because he was con.
WINGED that President Truman hadn't q ghost
Of show to win. Having gone as far as
he could to ditch the President, Mr. Hague
found it necessary later to line up with Mr..
Truman When the President came into the
State, Mr.. Hague put on the best show he
could for him, with red fire, roman candles
and torch light procession.
Seeks To Save Power.
The veteran boss of Hudson County has
lar greater interest than President Truman's
candidacy He is intent upon saving his
political hide in the municipal elections in
Jersey City and the county next year What
he is doing now is to fight hard to keep his
grip intact.
II The Democrats in Jersey have been hard
put to it to finance the campaign this year.
The Republicans, for their part, are expected );
to wind up with whatever funds they need.
The pattern is all set for COP. victory,
Notwithstanding the efforts Of the Go and
AFL political agencies.
No more bitter attack has been made on
President Truman during the entire campaign
and perhaps none so bitter-than was FORM
er Governor Edisons member at one time
of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
cabinet. He ikened Mr.. Truman and the
Pendergast machine in Kansas City to the
corrupt machine run by Mr.. Hague, in Jersey
City. Mr.. Edison, when he was Governor, did
his level best to combat Mr.. Hague's influence
in the Democratic politics of the State It
was q nice fight, but not too successful