Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-26
New Idea Delegates Will Have
u Delegates When
Convention COnveneS.
SOME OF THE DETAILS.
More Delegates from Southern
End of the County FOrdyce
Loses His Own Poll.

the county convention, Friday, secur-
ed twenty-four delegates at the re-
publican primaries. He got five in
Woodbridge, eight in Perth Amboy,
four in Piscataway, two in North
Brunswick, two in Cranbury, and
three in Sayrevile. The regulars got
81 delegates. Milltown is yet to be
heard from.
The regulars carried the first, sec
ond and fourth wards in this city,
and each ticket was successful in one
poll in the third ward, the ma
chine" electing two delegates to the
county convention in the first poll
and the two Fordyce men being cleo
ted in the third wards second poll.
The four sixth ward delegates to
the county convention are unpledged,
but are Fordyce men. The regulars
elected IA delegates from this city
The regulars elected all 81 delegates
in New Brunswick, and elected the
one delegate in the third polling dis
trict of Woodbridge, which includes
Port Reading and vicinity. The reg
ularsl }ected their two delegates in
Roose/elt by majority of SO.
Fordyce won in Piscataway town.
ship, getting all four delegates to
the county convention. The South
Amboy republicans elected all eight
machine delegates. Raritan gave
the machine" three delegates; High
land Park, one; Metuchen, two; Dun
ellen, two; East Brunswick, two, and
South River, three.
The regulars delegates were elect
ed at Jamesburg by a majority of 76.
The Fordyce man lost in Helmetta
by ten votes.
Monroe went for the machine" by
70 votes. South Brunswick elected
four machine" delegates by ma
jority of 25.
Cranbury was divided, electing two
Fordyce delegates and one regular.
The voting was very close there.
There were, in round numbers, o.
900 republican ballots cast in New
Brunswick, of which Fordyce re-
ceived about 500.
Sayreville gave the three Fordyce
delegates a majority of IL, by vote
of 62 to 81.
w. Il. Bradley for School Board.
One of the closest contests in the
primaries was the victory of William
p. Bradley, who won the three-cor-
nered fight for the republican nomi-
nation for school commissioner in the
first ward. He received 100 votes
Ellsworth b. Walker received 81, and
l.. C. N. Brogger, Sr., SO. Mr.. Walk
er had majority of 16 in the first
poll of the first ward, but in the sec
ond poll Mr.. Bradley pulled ahead
by 30, thus giving him majority of
IS in the ward. l.. G. N. Brogger,
Sr., received but 8 votes in the first
poll, but polled SO in the other
Democratic Contests.
Although the republican contests
for the election of delegates to the
county convention took the chief
share of interest, the democrats had
close battles in three wards of this
city, the second, third and fifth. Feel
ing was rife in the second and fire.
quent clashes occurred among the
poll workers.
In the second ward two delegates
were to be chosen to each of the
three democratic conventions. For
the congressional convention, Jacob
W. Martin was the low man, James r.
Burns and James M. Glenn being
chosen. For the county convention,
B. M. Cannon and William Calvin de-
feated Adam Eckert and John +.
Reilly. For the city convention, Rich
ard F. White and Hugh C. REILLY won
from +. A. Seaman and w. d. Voor-
hees.
J. j. Garland for Alderman.
James j. Garland won the demo-
cratic nomination in the third ward
for alderman, defeating Peter A. Jo-
hansen and James J. Flynn (the lat
ter not wishing to rum For the
John G. Arner received Al more votes
than William Howley.
In the fifth ward Richard II. Stack
secured the democratic nomination
for school commissioner by major
ity of 80 over John f. Feeney.
The vote in this city on the dele
gates to the republican county con-
vention, over which the greatest bat
tie was fought, was as follows:
First Ward.
In the first ward, first poll, the
machine candidates received the
following vote: w. f. Van Pelt, 81;
Thomas ]. Clark, So The Fordyce
delegates, James e. Noe, 40; Charles
W. Barnekoy, 40.
In the second poll. the machine"
delegates received this vote: A. H.
Koyen, III; Charles Palmer, 1913;
Hans Iverson. 119.
The Fordyce men received the fol-
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