The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-18
.ORT VISITS
ATLANTIC
TO-DAY
Received at Mays Landing
by court House Hay Loft
Brass Band
rrrom a STAN Correspondent

| iCdAG1o 1AOhA 49,
from Cape May County are here in the
Court House today to welcome John
Franklin Fort. their party's nominee for
Governor, who will make his only speech
In this county during the campaign this
afternoon. The hour has been changed
from moor to 2 o'clock in order to accom-
modate those who are expected over from
Cape May City.
Congressman Henry L~oudenslager and
Isaac Moffett accompanied the candidate
from Camden, where he had spent the
night. As both have many friends IN the
county the party was met at the railroad
station by the Court House Hay Lott
Band" under charge Of A. Carlton Hill
dreth, the county chairman. who has all
arrangements under his care.
Others who met Mr.. Fort at the station
were Senator Robert Hand, Prosecutor
Harry S. Douglass, Judge James T.. Hill
drcth, Charles Vanaman, candidate for
Surrogate, and Assemblyman c. E. Stille,
who is up for reelection. Instead Of lead
ing the throng Mr.. Fort fell in behind the
band when 1t started from the station. and
was soon Joined by Senator Hand.
The road 10 the Beileview Hotel, where
luncheon was served, was not lined with
people, as there are not enough in town
to line 1t. and the outlying districts have
not vet sent In their c~ontingents, but all
who were able to get away from work
were present to look at the head of the
party ticket. More people were met with
at the hotel, however, and half an hour
was devoted by Mr.. Fort to shaking hands.
Good roads will probably be the chief
topic of Mr.. Forts talk this afternoon, as
road Improvement has become a live issue
haraahOIffC f. lIa also fall an Fla 0tth.
1ect of the harbor at Cape May city.
Congressman John j. Gardner is ex-
pected at the meeting this afternoon.
CAMDEN, Oct. 1s.-With the Wheel
prints of his opponents automobile
scarcely effaced from the sandy roads
over which he had traveled two days
ago, John Franklin Fort, nominee of
the Republican party for Governor,
.romped-that is as good a word as any
when the condition of the highways is
considered-through GLOUCESTER County
yesterday, speaking al one Epworth
League convention, horse sale and
innumerable glass factories. Then he
went on into Camden County. deliver
ing three talks there.
1t was at one of these meetings, in
Haddonfield, a temperance town, that
he got the biggest applause of the day
by quoting "Oh! Zion, what a favored
lot is thine" after referring to the
towns non-license policy. The trip was
by far the most ~wearying of any that
the candidate has undertaken during
the campaign. The roads were inches
deep in dust, which settled alike upon
the just and the unjust; upon candi-
date and followers. Only one thorough
fare, and that the White Horse pike,
presented anything like a permanent
surface.
When the candidate and his party
arrived in Gloucester County in the
morning the principal topic of CONVERSE
ton was still the arrangements, or lack
of them. that had characterized the
democratic invasion, and those in
charge of the days evolution had taken
care that lack of cars should not ham,
per Mr.. Fort IN the discharge of his
mission.
AT the home of Sheriff Harry West in
Gloucester, Camden County. Candidate
Fort arrived in time to take dinner and
prepare for his three evening speeches,
the first to be in the City Hall In
Gloucester. Although Frank S. Katz-
enbach, jr., visited the adjoining county
last Tuesday. he does not come into
Camden until next Saturday, so the
Republicans had first innings in the
City Hall, which the two parties share
turn and turn about. The place filled
up simultaneously with the arrival OF
Mr.. Fort, who had come from the sher-
ifs home preceded by a band and fol
lowed by a torchlight procession.
Though Gloucester is still ~rejoicine
in the possession of the first Republican
Mayor it has had in eighteen years, ant
will continue to rejoice therein for anothe'
two, this years election will by 40 mean'
be a dull one. Three Councflmen are Il
be elected, besides a Freebooter. and 1T Il
hoped that the candidate at the head O
the Republican ticket will carry weigh
enough to bring the ,evenly-divided towI
into his ranks Hence the excitement.
There was no time for a long stop
for a houseful OF Republican enthusiast
were waiting in Haddonield, six milei
away, and Mr.. Fort made all haste to &c
to them. One of the first persons to gree
him on his arrival was Judge Wilbur A
Mott, who had run down to help out
Judge Joseph II. Gaskill, another OLE
friend of Mr.. Forts, Joined the part!
there. Outside of his compliment to tn
cause of temperance the candidate touche'
on nothing that has not been brought GU
before.
The arrival in Camden Of the candidat
and his party was more like the old-tim
election days than anything encounters
by him so far. For more than two mile
from the centre of the city and the Oper1
House. where the meeting was to tax
: place. men and boys, armed with red fr
and Roman candles. had been statione
along the routes which the automobile
were to take. 1t was the work of tn
various ward clubs of the city. The tri
4 through the town was made under
: glare of colored lights.
! An audience of nearly 1,5W persons wa
I gathered In the opera house, and 1t ha
n just finished listening to Prosecutor Spec
of Hudson, when Mr.. Fort arrived. In HI
e address, which was a reiteration of hi
i Fformer speeches., he prefaced his statemer
. that he would support the Bishops bill b
: saying that he would not go deeply int
s the question, BIS he knew his opponent W
not doing so and he had already made hin
! self understood
Following the meeting, Mr.. Fort attent
!; ed a reception in his honor at Mr.. Baird
home. Among the notables present wei
Judge. Joline, Frank T. Lloyd and Charl'
G.. Garrison, j. Hampton Moore and Sem
d tor William j. Bradley. Today Mr.. Fo
win have a day of comparative rest,
l. only two speeches are scheduled, one
Cape May Court House, at II O'Clock. al
the other In Salem at night.
The days journey brought two, warriI
!. factions into at least temporary peace. +
the past five years Congressman Loudel
slayer and Senator Avis have been stru
Cling for the control of Gloucester Count