The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-11
REGULAR
TWO OUT OF THREE WARDS
WITH MACHINE.
Three Fort and Two Sommer Delegates
Six Regular and Three New Idea
County Delegates.

Yesterday was Regulars day in
Irvington with few exceptions. Thu
delegates to the State convention ar,
three Regulars and two for Sommer
In the county convention the tune viii
be six Regulars to three New Idea men
Not n exponent of the Colby move
ment will find a seat in the town con
v~ention of nine delegates, For member
of the unit committee the Regulars
won,
Except in the Second Ward. the home of
George f. Scribe, a New Idea candidate
for Assemblyman, the majority was al
most overwhelmingly Regular.
Following are the results of the election
or delegates TO the State convention:
First Ward-Regular, William II. Heer-
wagon, III; New Idea, Francis S. Green,
Second Ward-New Idea. Mahlon S.
Drake, 235, and Joseph Walker, Dos; Regu-
Jar, warren Z. Frey, 1874; James G. May
Third Ward-Regular, George F. Bran
denburgh, PA, and Joseph T. Castles, 1875;
New Idea, Austen j. Fitzgerald. "a; Fred
eriek p. Fowle, 14, and John jeff. 125.
For the county convention:
First Ward, Regular, Benjamin Bader,
1873; Harvey Campbell, 1873, and George
Deisier. 1874; New Idea, Frank Hopper, 12l
Eugene p bacombe, 122, and Dayton %.
Second Ward, New Idea, Frederick J..
jacob, 231; Archibald Mills, 229, and John
w. Wolf, $50; Regular, William L. Brice.
lSP; Maurice Hagerstrom, 1884, and Otto l..
Third Ward, Regular, Moses-F. BadgIey,
222; William F. Beatty, IFS, and Matthew
Ruoss, go; New Idea, Charles II. Blake
man., 100; Eugene F. Heuschele. 1923, and
Joseph Sonnenberg, 12S.
Fof members OF the town convention
Joseph J. Maser, David B. Reed and Will
lam sherman, Regulars, won by comfort
able margins in the First Ward: John b.
Kent, Frank F. Schweikert and Charles
Wahlers, Regulars, in the Second, had but
few votes to spare. while Joseph Mauer,
Der, also Regulars, wi~rerepresent the Third
Ward. This practically assures the nomi-
nation of town clerk to the present clerk,
Mahlon Stockman; the assessorshipl to AS
SCISSOR James Fl. Mortland, neither Of whom
were opposed, and the tax collectorship TO
w. Clifton Terrill, who ran against George
b. Adams, the present collector.
The expected hot contest for Council
manic nomination in the Third Ward was
realized only partially. The present in
cuinbent. Ernest Boerger, ran away from
his rivnls, ex Councilman Frank Sharp and
George w. Hayward. The vote stood 20S,
126 and 70. respectively.
In the First Ward Councilman Webb re-
celved 165 votes, his competitor. Thomas
r.. Jones, Sc, While In the Second Ward
Councilman Lacombe won over c. William
Pfeil by a narrow margin. The vote was
For member of the School Board, Henry
A. Dawes. unopposed, received 260 ballots
in the First Ward; DIR. Albion C. Christian,
under like circumstances, polled 413. and
the present incumbent in the Third Ward,
Frank Fl. Harbidge. received 40 without n
contest. To fill the unexpired term Of
Henry F. Belcher from the First Ward,
Frederick N. Jacobus received PSI.
For constables in the Second Ward, Wal
ter Dixon, Gottfried f. Mes~serschmidt and
Walter b. Katson were the nominees while
in the Third Ward John II. Wolfe was
n MINATED for a similar office.
In I%rvington the Republican nomination
is considered almost equivalent to election
in local offices. The Democratic nominee
from the First Ward. the only ward that
had a ticket, polled but thirteen votes.
The Socialist ticket polled seven in the
First Ward, five in the Second and six
in the Third Ward.
BY wards the hig Republican vote was
297 In the First, with 80 rejected; 466 in the
Second, with 43 rejected, and 442 in the
Third, with 80 rejected.
There was nothing of an unusual nature
to Great excitement save the mistake of
somebody in charge in allowing a few So
cialist tickets to go. in the Republican box
in the Third Ward. There was a sharp
dispute followed by the election of Carl
Kneip, Socialist, from the quarters.
Owing 10 the illness of Election Clerk
Harry Jenkins in the Second Ward 1t was
near 3 o'clock this morning before the re-
suits were known.
The registration figures in Irvington are
follows: First Ward, 625; Second Ward,
ass; Third Ward, so. This is about nor
NAL.