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Show ' ta ncoioiii lUjjtdluN Friends Want Wilson to Retain Governorship of State. " Sea Girl, N. J, July 17 Whether Woodrow Wilson will resign his office of-fice as governor of New Jersey or retain It during his presidential campaign cam-paign will be known definitely wlthl In a short time, perhaps within a few days. The governor said today he expected soon to set at reBt speculation specula-tion on this point. Edward D. Gos3Cup, Democratic state chairman, and other leaders havo been foremost In urging him not to resign. Their views have been strengthened by party leaders outside the state and it Is believed the governor gov-ernor will decide to hold his office at least until the first of the year, ii he is elected. His decision, he saj's, will bc made known after he haB consulted con-sulted further with friends. The governor said he had been pressed for time to write his speech of acceptance Ho has not yet begun it yet and is anxious to start soon and have plenty of time to give mature ma-ture thought to the platform and the Issues he wishes to discuss. He hopes to havo It completed ten days before his formal notification of nomination on August 7. It has developed that Governor Wilson Wil-son will defer his invitation to Governor Gov-ernor Marshall to visit Sea Girt until after the Democratic congressmen come here to see him noxt Saturday. Governor Wilson's list of what ho calls "debatable states," which formed the theme of his talk with Mr. Underwood Un-derwood at Trenton yesterday, is by no means completed. The governor said there woro many states whose polltclal status had not been taken up, among them being Massachusetts, which ho regards as "extremely debatable," de-batable," and Wisconsin The latter was reported last night as having been removed fro mthe list of uncertain states, he said, and had been set aside for discussion later. At the same time ho thought that his chances for carrying the state, based on reports of party leaderB, were excellent. ex-cellent. So far as Massachusetts is con-corned, con-corned, the governor said there was no reason to believe that the success of Governor Fos could not be duplicated dupli-cated in a presidential campaign. William F. McCombs, the now national na-tional chairman, and other leaders with whom he and the governor will discuss the proposed personnel to direct di-rect the cnmpalgn, are expected here tomorrow. |