The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-09
KATZENBACH
IS GREETED
BY VOTERS
Attends Somerset Co. Con-
vention and Makes ADJ
dreSs--ShakeS Hands, Too.
Especial to the Evening start

SOMERVILLE, Oct. 9.-Frank ). hatz-
enbach, Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, attended the county convention
which was opened here at n;3O ocioeh
today. He spoke on the issue. sand was
given a hearty reception. Previous to at
tending the county gathering the cahoi-
date made the most of his time by meet
ing and shaking hands with the voters :,
The convention itself promises to De Iu'i
of interest.
No agreement upon the slate could be ar
rived at during the morning gatherihs'
and there are indications that the problem
will not have been threshed out unul
late Today. All hands are agreed to the
nomination of, Frank T. Ross for Sheriff,
and 1t is probable that former Sherltt
C. d. McMurtry will get the conventions
! backing for Surrogate If the present holo-
er of the office. William j. Demono' Is
not returned, Until recently the can
didacy of others tina Mr.. Demond had
not been considered, but when Mr.. NC
Murtry entered the race he asked tne anu
of influential supporters.
1t was regarded as significant that
County Chairman Scully, upon meeuns
the Gubernatorial candidate at the train
this morning, drove him Immediately 10
the First National Bank and that MT.
Katzenbach had a fifteen minutes CON
ference with McMurtry before greeting the
reception committee. Both william Prout
and Frank A. Allen are being pushed by
their supporters for the Assembly noml-
nation. The convention elected Munroe +.
Ellis, chairman and John d. Bartine, sec
rotary.
Mr.. Katzenbach left Trenton this morn
ing at 8 o'clock, accompanied by william
| Gordon. who was with him on his Free
hold tour, with which his campaign start
ed, and has some hopes Of getting psck
to his home there late tonight. in whlch
event he will take an early morning train
from there tomorrow for Newark, for the
State committee has planned a busy cay
for him. His Morris County schedule
calls for his start from the Jersey me-
tropolis by automobile in time to make
speeches at Chatham, Stirling and Mend
ham before noon. He is due at Chester
at 2:30. German Valley an hour later,
then at Flanders, Netcong and Montville
before stopping for dinner. In the even
ing there will be two mass-meetings one
at 7:30 at Boonton and the second at
Dover at Q o'clock. Bergen County is to
be toured Friday.
Preceding the convention the candidate
established himself this morning at the
Somerset House for a couple Of hours, and
there went through one of the Misunderstanding
seances for which he has shown sucn
marked ability during the past fortnight.
His ready wit and unlimited supply of
funny stories put everybody in jolly humor
and at once placed him on a vote getting
basis with the crowd. Some of those who
crowded about him were Colonel Nelson Y.
DUNCAN, State Prison Inspector Jacob
Shurts. Surrogate William J. Demond, ex-
Sheriff Selah Schoonmaker. Tax Commits
sioner Stewart A. Kennedy, Guy Bergen,
son of Vice-Chancellor Bergen; Tom
Moore. OF the county committee; William
I. Robinson. Newton O.. Dunster. Horace
C~oddington. Fred Nelson, Luther Martin,
John A. Freeh. John Groendyke, ex-Sherif
C. D.. McMurtry, John Burns, Frank Allen
and John M. Holmes.