Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-13
The Political Min
Things Are Looking Up
For Jersey 6. O. P.
Case Seen Sure Winner
For Hendrickson's Scot
By Gould Lincoln


By Gould Lincoln
New Jersey Republicans are coming
up with a new look"-believing they
can erase the black eye they took in
the 1858 elections when they lost the
governorship and a Representative in
Congress from the sixth congressional
district.
Their particular new look Is former
Representative Clifford P. Case. who is
expected to have the Republican nomi-
nation for Senator. Walter Margetts of
PaSSaic County. who has been State
treasurer, has filed. too, for the SEN
ate nomination. 1t is expected. how
ever, that either Mr.. Margetts will
retire from the field, or if he stays in
the race. he will be defeated in the
primary April 20.
Mr.. Case. known as q progressive
Republican, withdrew from the contest
for the gubernatorial nomination last
year when many of the Republican
county chairmen declined to 60 along
with him. He resigned from the House
and took an important job with the
Ford Foundation.
Back In Politics.
Now he is giving UP that job He is
back in the great game Of politics. Had
he been nominated for Governor last
year, it is quite likely a Democratic
Governor would not now be sitting in
Trenton. Many of the Republicans who
turned a cold shoulder to Case then
were mighty sorry last fall. Their
candidate for Governor, Walter L.
Troast. was tied in with the uproar
raised over the case of Joey" Fay,
labor leader and convicted extortionist
and racketeer. Mr.. Troast had written
Gov. Dewey of New York, where Fay is
imprisoned, urging leniency for Fay.
Coming on top Of the charges that the
gamblers and racketeers had been run
ming loose during the administration of
Gov. Driscoll. New Jersey Republican,
the incident sank the Troast candidacy
almost without trace.
Mr.. Case has become the leading
Republican candidate for the senatorial
nomination as result of the voluntary
withdrawal of Senator Robert c. Hen
erickson. The party leaders. including
Senator Hendrickson high praise for
the step he has taken, as an act OF
unselfish party loyalty. 1t happens that
Senator Hendrickson has in the past
been closely identified with Gov. Dris-
coll in politics, although none of the
alleged scandals in the Driscoll admin
istration touched Senator Hendrickson
in any way. A fear was expressed that
this identification would weaken Mr.
Hendrickson as a candidate to succeed
himself. Also. as Mr.. Hendrickson him
self explained, he had been so busy
attending to senatorial business he had
not been able to spend much time in
New Jersey looking after his own politi-
cal fences. It is explained that Sena-
tor Hendrickson was not pushed out of
the way-but that he himself took the
initiative in making a thorough study
of the situation throughout the State.
His decision not to run was his own.
Nor was any deal made by which Sena-
tor Hendrickson was to have another
job.
The Democrats have as their candi-
date for the Senate, Representative
Charles r. Howell, now representing
the fourth district. This is his third
term in the House, and the Democrats
have decided to put all their eggs in
the Howell basket for this Senate seat.
The Republicans have done well in
senatorial elections in New Jersey in
recent years, and with Case as their
candidate, they expect to win again.
1t is vitality important they do in this
New Jersey contest, II they are to have
control OF the Senate in the next Con-
eIess.
Hopes to Regain Seat.
In the sixth congressional district.
the G. O.P. hopes to regain the House
seat which 1t lost to the Democrats
when Representative Harrison A. Will
llams, jr., defeated the Republican can
didate for the Case seat, George Hat
liams, jr., defeated the Republican can
Tor the district has been strongly Re-
publican in the past, and with Mr.. Case
running Tor Senator in the same cleo
ton. the Republican candidate for the
House should win. Mr.. Williams had
the advantage of the big stencil over
TroaSt and DriScoll in the election last
year, and the resentment of voters in
the district because Case had not been
nominated for Governor instead of
Troast. Mr. Williams will have the
Democratic nomination to succeed him
self. But Harry Mopsick, who was the
Democratic candidate against Mr.. Case
In 1850, has filed as an independent.
II he remains in the race, he may swing
thousand or perhaps several thousand
votes. That in itself would make it
difficult for Williams. who won last
year by only about 1000 votes.
A half dozen Republican candidates
for the sixth district nomination have
filed. One of them is Horace Baker.
who was noSed out of the nomination
for the Case seat last year by Hatfield.
by action of the Union County Repub-
lican Committee. Another is Guy
Gabrielson, jr., son of former Repub-
llcan national chairman. Efforts will
be made to have the Republicans center
on one candidate, or to have them all
step out and let Florence Dwyer. as
semblywoman, run. She, it is believed.
would make strong race.