The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-06
FORT ELECTED
GOVERNOR
BY 5000
tcOntinued from First Page.)

tCohAAhuOu hhSA AoECJ
George L. shinn. This is a gain for
the Democrats in the upper House.
The Democrats elected three Assem-
blymen in Monmouth County, to sue
coed Republicans.
The House of Assembly will stand
forty-two Republicans and eighteen
Democrats.
The Senate will be composed of hf-
teen Republicans and six Democrats.
Katzenbach carried his own county,
Mercer, as well as the city of Trenton,
which also elected a Democratic Mayor.
In this county John B. Woolston, of
East Orange. wa elected as county clerk
over Dr.. Charles T. Kraemer.
Augustus F. Eggers, present member
of the Board of Works, was reelected.
His majority, it is estimated, will be
not over 1000.
In this city, three of the four pro-
positions submitted to the referendum
Of the people were carried and one was
defeated. The latter was the PROPOSE
ton to develop the meadows.
The propositions voted on favorably
were for the appointment by the Mayor
of a small School Board, for the in
crease of the salaries of the police to
the same amount as is paid the fire.
men, and the proposition to establish a
municipal lighting plant.
The Democrats get a big increase In
the Common Council.
If the election of members of the
School Board were not nullihed by the
adoption by referendum for the APP
pointive board. the Democrats would
have controlled the School Board next
year instead of being divided equally
with the Republicans. as at present.
Special interest was felt in the fight
over the Board of Works. If Mr..
Eggers had Deer defeated the board
would have been turned Democratic,
and the hundreds of Republicans who
now hold office under that body would
have to get out to make place for
Democrats.
This fear lent activity to the Repub-
lican workers, and they made all kinds
of efforts to save the candidate and
their positions. The consequence was
that Thomas F. Holzinger, the Demo-
cratic candidate, a to bear the brunt
of a bitter onslaught.
Another contest in which consider
able interest was felt was over the
f~reeholdership in the Sixteenth Ward.
The ward was created a rear 6 and
has not been represented in the county
board yet.
The Sixth Ward contest also at
tracted attention by reason of the re-
port that unless a Democrat was
elected to the Council from the ward
that a Republican would be appointed
for the coming year
1t was stated that the selection by
the Council of John j. Gaynor was
only until the election of yesterday,
and that a successor, either himself or
a Republican, would have to be chosen
again to sit legally in the board fol
the coming year. Whether these state
ments are valid or not is not known.
At any rate, the Democratic candi'
date. Seth Smith, won out for alder.
man in the ward. and as the board viii
be Democratic next year as well as al
the present time. Mr.. Gafney is almost
sure to be continued in any contin-
gency.
Judge ]. Franklin Fort, the Republic
can candidate for Governor in New
Jersey. t%elephoned to David Baird, the
Republican leader of Camden County
today from his home in East Orange,
N. j., that he had carried the State by
1000 majority.