Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-26
Machine Sweeps
Nearly Every
County.
COLBY LOSES.
Defeated in All But lone County
Which His Followers Tried to
arry--PIainfieId Is for Run
yOn, the New Idea
Candidate.

The return of United States Sena-
tor John f. Dryden to succeed him
self is indicated by the result of the
republican primaries yesterday
throughout this state The fight was
directly upon that issue. The Colby
Pagan republicans espoused the can
didacy of George l.. Record to sue
ceed Senator Dryden and they have
lost.
The regulars, as the Dryden men
were known, the machine or organi-
zation as their opponents termed
them, have carried Essex county,
which has dozen of the sixty votes
in the house. Camden, Morris, Bur-
lington, and other sure counties, re-
port the defeat of. the Colby Pagan
forces. Essex is Colby's own coun-
ty, and he lost ground all over it, but
most especially in Newark.
Some of the counties are expected
to return Colby assemblymen, but not
enough to control the caucus, and
Senator Colby may find himself iso-
lated and without any support in the
lower house. Last year he had SOL
i'd delegation from his home county.
Heavy Voting in Jersey City.
The primary election in Jersey City
passed off quietly. The vote was
heavy, being equal in some of the
wards to nearly two-thirds OF the vote
cast at regular election.
The Fagan-Colby faction of the re-
publican party carried seven of the
twelve wards and the Dickinson fac
tion five wards, but the latter claim
the outlying towns and Townships.
and also declare that Col. Dickinson
will still control the county or-eni
cation.
The novel feature of the cleo
was that the saloons in most place
the state were closed while the
were open, from l to o'clock T
was the first time that such thi.
has happened in the history of the
state. Under the old law only the
saloons within 100 feet of a polling
place were closed, and then only on
state election days.
Colby was defeated in his own
ward in West Orange by majority
of seven.
The republican primaries in Bay
onne resulted in a sweeping victory
for Col. Samuel ID. Dickinson, the
organization county leader and his
followers.
The organization republicans will
control the full delegation to the con-
gressional and county conventions,
having elected their entire thirty
three delegates.
The regular, or Dryden, republi-
cans won in Morris county. The Col
by men seem to have carried but two
districts, one in Morristown and one
in Dover. The country districts seem
to have voted solidly for the regulars.
The Colby candidates at the pri-
maries in Camden county have been
defeated in every instance by the reg
ulars.
Colby Won in MontcIair.
Montclair was swept by "the new
idea" men and will send solid Colby
delegations to all the conventions. :.
New Idea Won in PIainfield.
Reports from Union county,
though, though incomplete, indicated
that the delegates favoring the nom
ination of Judge William N. Runyonv
of Plainfield; William F. Groves, o.
Elizabeth, and Benjamin Fleuchau
of Summit, the new idea" candida
for assembly, were beaten by
delegates scheduled to support
regulars. Assembly candi
Randolph Perkins, of Westfield
Peter Tillman, of Railway, theS 4f6s-
ent assemblyman.
In Plainfield Richard Henry De-
pew, Colby candidate for mayor OF