The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
EASY FOR
SOMMER in
ORANGE
Gets Eleven Out Of Fifteen
DeIegates--LOrd Regular,
Wins Personal Victory.

with County Register Edward 8 Perry
and his followers a unit for Sheriff Fran
H.. Sommer. the latter had an easy Vlctot'
IN Orange yesterday. Eleven delegates gu
Of hfteen were secured for him. although
three of the eleven are supposed to d.
u~npIedged.
There was little to oppose the tidal wave
Of New Idea ballots, excepting in the sec
ond Ward. where City Counsel Wilnam =
Lord. head OF the Regulars. was out hShf'
ing strongly for the control of the two pls
tricts in the ward.
CITY Counsel Lord won a great persona
victory for county committee In the nrsl
district of the ward, where he defeated
Harry Rawnsley for the position, gettint
n total of 2O5 votes 10 IS for Rawnsley. IL
the same district the Fort delegates go'
40 to 125 for the Sommer candidates. 9he
eity counsel was on the job all day. aud
assisted by Factory Inspector William
S~chlachter. he got out a heavy vote
In the second district of the ward the
ballotiug was very close, and the New ldea
county delegates broke even. Ernest K
Patter. New Idea man, got 95'votes: Mer-
rick r. Baldwin. Regular, 80. and these
two will 20 to the county convention. as
Joseph K. Bowling, the second Regula'
got but % votes. James Neil, the other
New idea man, got 50 votes.
In the same wald. where all the Repubh'
can fighting In the city was practically
concentrated. Ira II. powHer was defeated
for School commissioner by B. Frank VOL
finger. Downer got 81 votes in the second
district and 81 in the first. Wolffnger goI
III in the "hghting" second district and l9l
In the first. Hit majority was 1872.
In addition TO Mr.. Lords fight. there
was a lively contest in the First Ward,
where j. Lewis Smith supplanted James r,
Perkins as county committeeman. Inc
fight was d lively one.
5rhe successful county committeeman are:
First Ward, Max n. Mohor. j. Lewis
Smith and Thomas Mahoney; Second Wa1d,
William A. Lord and Charles Ackerman;
Cheetham and Richard Osborne; Fourth
Ward, Frank W. Gray, Fred Berg. 1r., aud
Alexander Clark; Fifth Ward. FLleweliyi
r. Wheeler and John w. "Gegenheimer.
OF these Mohor, Mahoney. Perry, Cheet-
ham, Osborne and Clark are SAID to b
Colby men, and Lord. Alderman. Gray an
Gegenheimer Regulars, with the others IN
pledged.
There were varying majoritles in the sew:
eral districts of the city. In the second
district of the Fifth Ward William frei
v%ention, beat William e. piney by three
majority. The vote was "a to oil. III the
First Ward. first district. the Sommer
men got lis votes to Is for their opponents.
! ll0 1NtM iuci lbtia IL tii1 tNtCAh
of the ward WAS 131 to 81.
The Second Ward gave a Regular vic
tory. and in the laird Ward Register
Perry. with Councilman Edward CheethaD,
walkoVers. Mr.. HartshoTn had the only
opposition in the third district. where I've
got So votes to q for A. W. Bray.
In the Fourth Ward a. s. Condict won III
the first district, getting Al votes to 10 for
Frank Gray, the Regular man. In the sec
ond district Wilbur l. Farnan got So to 40
dale unpledged, won in the third district by
Il vote Of 95 to 50. In the Fifth Ward MI.
Freddy got through by the tight squeeze
mentioned. and George NJ Williams, a
Fort man. won by n vote of Is TO %.
The Orange representation IN the State
convention will be as follows:
First Ward-Willian w. .Conklin and
Herman B.. Walker (Sominer)i Tony Poll
seno and Ernest L. Johnson (unpledgodl;
Second Ward james S. Holmes, George
Ronch and Stuart Lindsey (Fort1; Third
ham and Richard e. Osborne (Sommerl;
Fourth Ward, Stephen Il. Condict and ".
1. Farnham (Sommer), and William ID.
Barradale (unpledgcdl; Fifth Ward, George
p. Williams ForD, and William Freddy
tunpledged).
Several election officers delayed sending
In returns until early this morning. and
some of these sent lncomDleted papers
Twenty notices were sent ont today by
Citv Clerk Gano to the men of FIVE wards.
In the Democratic amp the real excite
ment centered in the Third and Fourth
wards. In the Third Ward James Under
wood and James II. Brown were the con
testants. and the former won handily. The
stotal vote of Underwood was 20 to 12 for
Brown. a majority Of l27 for Underwood.
He will oppose Joseph D.. Birkholz, the
Republican candidate. In the Fourth Ward
Owen c. Dolan defeated Edward f. Ran
Kin casily. The totals were: Dolan, 242;
Rankin. so.
There was one unpleasantness in the
Third Ward yesterday, which will result
In an arrest, Henry b. Vaughan, Of Rey-
nolds. terrace. insisted when voting in the
Essex avenue polling place hat he could
vote without going into a compartment to
pleeare his ballot. Frederick Marsh, Judge
of the election, read him the law and also
gave him an opinion secured from City
CCnnse William A. Lord, directing him
as TO his duty ms a voter. While the argu-
ment was going on Vaughan slipped his
ballot in the box for Republican tickets
and then the indignant election officers di-
rected Policeman Crane to arrest him
Vaughan entered his carriase and his
%coachman whipped up the horses before
Crane could stop HIM. According to tho
election officers Vaughan was profane ant
told them some directions about a warm
Innate and thai they could 10 as they
pleased about the matter. Today Marst
sWore ont . warrant for Vaughan's arrest
Arthur Wiley, who is an active New
Idea workef N the Oranges, and lives II
the Second Ward of Orange, was ac
cused late last night by Adolph Schlaehter
n Regular worker, of circulating the re
port that Hugh O'Brien and Gustav'
Kunz were doing crooked work. in TIL
Second Ward
Mr. Wiley said when asked of the at
fair;
II received instructions from the New
ark headquarters tpat the hght to, cleo
a county committeeman in the Seconl
Ward was of no Importance and that |
was merely a matter of personal ambition
on the part of the candidates who sough
the office. / followed those instruction
accordingly. What ] did say to Schlaehte
was. Can you tell me where O'Brien an
Kunz stand?' That remark is the onl,
foundation Schlachter has to make tn
charge he old. and If any one who ha
NOT been 'e~lectioneerlng' at the time the
wish to make the charge that I circulate
a report that was detrimental to the part
I worked faithfully for, I am ready I
make them prove It,"