Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-28
PLAN co.,
FOR ASSEE3::
Democratic Leaders of iht |
in Conference in Hotel in Nj
York TO Outline Work.
THREE COUNTIES CONCERNED,

" hSSc AHree SOuutleS were
Elected by Fraud and if Democrats
Can Be Seated in Their Places q
Democrat Can Be Sent to the
United States Senate This Winter.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2s:-Plans
were made at conference of New
Jersey democrats at the Manhattan
Motel yesterday for a movement that
contemplates the election by the New
Jersey legislature next winter Of a
democrat to succeed United States
Senator John F. Dryden.
This is to be accomplished accord
ing TO the plan, by the overturning
OF the republican majority on Joint
ballot In the coming legislature, and
replacing it with joint meeting con-
trolled by the democrats.
In whose interest as a senatorial
candidate the meeting may have been
called is matter of conjecture only.
IL was secret one, and held on the
call OF Chairman William B. Gourley,
of the New Jersey state democratic
committee, and was attended by.
among others, Oliver Kelly, Of
New Brunswick, Johnston Cornish.
state senator from Warren county.
and William J. Thompson. of Glou-
cester City. These were all local lien
tenants of ex-United States Senator
James Smith, Jr.. of Newark, before
he retired from politics" few
weeks ago.
Rumors of Fraud.
Ever since election day rumor has
piled on rumor of gross frauds in the
count and tallying of the votes cast
In the counties of Middlesex, Mon
mouth, and Cape May. The repub-
lican legislative candidates, who ex-
pect to sit in the senatorial contest
were declared elected by small ma
jorities by the canyassing boards in
each county. Democrats in all three
counties have insisted that If the
boxes were opened and the ballots
recounted the figures will seat the
democratic candidates in all three
counties.
The democrats of Cape May have
obtained from the supreme court an
order for recount OF the votes cast
in that county II the new tally
shows the democrat to have been
elected there, the court can issue to
MIN a certificate of election that will
supersede that given by the return
/ ing board to his republican rival.
The democrats OF the other two coun--
ties have not thus far thought 1t
worth while, for political reasons, to
ask the courts there for recount.
But they have been urging that steps
be ken to have the boxes reopen
oy the house committee on Gre
Gentials, which will be democratic.
when the legislature meets.
Purpose of Conference.
Yesterdays conference was
to consider plans to bring
unseating of the seven, re,
emblymen-elect in the
ties-three each in MIDI.
Monmouth and one in Cape
was said that plans were perfec
set the movement to unseat themA,.
der way The unseating of the seven
would just reverse the relative
strength of the two parties in the
joint meeting, as made up by the re-
turning boards. The democrats, who
now have but 81 votes on joint bal
lot, would have 44 The republic
cans, who now have Al votes, would
have but 81.
The twelve democratic assembly,
men-elect from Hudson county, who
are opposed to Senator Smiths re-
turn to Washington, say that the
recount movement is in his interest
and that they will not aid it in the
new legislature. They declare that
the method is revolutionary and that
when Leon Abbott employed it to get
control of the legislature of 1887 the
results to the democratic party in the
state were most disastrous.
Ex-senator Smith was seen in the
corridors of the Manhattan hotel af-
ter the conference. When asked II
he would be candidate for the seat
he once occupied, ii the democrats
should obtain control of the New
Jersey legislature, he only shrugged
his shoulders and said:
"You know | have never refused
to follow where my party calls"
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