Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-09-10
Effort Being Made to Down Haney-
ism in This ty---Opposition to
The Bossism Of Doy" Strong.
HARD CONTEST IN 7 COUNTIES.
Result Of The New Idea" Campaign
in Essex Of Much Interest
Throughout the State.

In all parts of the state today the
people are waging fight for
representative government. The
primary elections are the only
time when this can be done, for af-
ter the candidates for Office are nOmi-
mated it is too late, for the corpora
tions control the bosses of both poll
tical parties and it makes little diff
ference to them which party wins,
as long as the right men are nominal
ted.
The principal contests today are
in the republican ranks in Essex Hud
son, Passaic, Union, MiddleseX, Ocean
and Atlantic counties. In all of these
while the fight is a fierce one it is
mainly of interest only to the coun-
ties themselves, excepting in Essex,
where the outcome of the New Idea"
campaign for the gubernatorial nomi
nation may decide who the candidate
will be. The democrats seem to be
harmonious everywhere.
In Middlesex county the fight is
confined almost exclusively to Perth
Amboy. There are few, if any con-
tests anywhere else, although Gran
bury is reported to have little dis
turbance of her own.
Fight i'm Perth AmbOy.
In Perth Amboy the question be-
fore the republican voters is whether
or not George j. Haney shall con-
troll the city and deliver the local
deleg" tes over to his boss "Dory"
Strong. Any effort to make the is
sues appear otherwise is useless. The
polls opened at l o'clock this af-
ternoon and will remain open until
O'Clock tonight. During this time
the opportunity is offered every re-
publican voter to register his protest
against the domination of Haneyism.
Following are the delegates to the
county convention in the different
wards who are pledged to vote against
Haney and Strong and do all in their
power to put them down and out in
politics:
FIRST WARD-First poll, $. II. Far
ringtOn, Franz Nelson; second poll,
Heman Anderson, l.. j. Hope, Peter k.
Peterson.
THIRD WARD-First poll, II. A. Pei
tier, william II. HOffner; second poll,
William l.. Smith, Henry A. johnson.
FOURTH WARD-First poll, Martin
Hansen. William POuisen; second poll,
Henry w. I<insey, Emil II. Fitzke.
FIFTH WARD-Andrew KOnOpka,
Robert II. POrtex.
There are no contests in the second
and sixth wards.
Failing to deliver the city's delega-
ton to the county convention last year,
George j. Haney is leaving no stone un-
turned to make good this fall. Work.
ers in the cause of Haneyism have been
busy in every ward for several weeks
past and as the day for the election ap-
preached, they have become more ac-
tive. They do not stop at expense and
there is every reason to believe that the
same old campaign fund is working.
All kinds of methods are being resorted
to and the people must be up and doin g
if they would clean out the ring.
Situation In Essex.
NEWARK, Sept 1870 bitter has
the republican primary fight here be-
come that the opinion was expressed
freely last night that 1t will result in
the undoing of Sheriff Frank Fl. Som
mer, the Colby candidate for governor,
and Justice J. Franklin Fort the
choice of the anti-Colby republicans in
this county
"A careful study of the situation con-
vnces me that there is a strong drift of
republican sentiment toward Sheriff
Sommer and our assembly candidates,
Gardner Colby, chairman of the Essex
County Committee for Limited Fran
chises and Equal Taxation, said yester-
day. IF the voters will only come out
and vote we will win. l make this
statement after a careful canvass of the
entire county,"
There are about forty delegates to
the state convention pledged to Sommer
who have no opposition, and about the
same number of regular delegates un-
opposed. To the county convention the
Colby men have about 110 delegates
who are unopposed and the REGULARS
are sure of about 115. There will be
400 delegates in the county convention
and 257 delegates to the state conven-
tion are to be elected from this county
While the REGULARS" are unpledged
it is generally understood that a victory
for them means a victory for Justice
Fort for the gubernatorial nomination
Fngnn's Fight In Hudson.
In Hudson county the fight is over
the nomination for mayor in Jersey
City. The battle is between Mark M
Pagan and Samuel Dickinson.
That they would elect at least 1877 ot
the 200 city delegates to be chosen and
that Colonel Dickinson, leader of tn,
rival faction, would not elect more thar
70 delegates was the confident asser.
tion of the Pagan leaders last night
The mayors friends said his forces
never were better organized than now
and that an effective fight had beer
made in all the wards. The Dickinson
campaign managers would not concede
however, that they were destined tc
such an overwhelming defeat at the
hands of the Faganites. They would
not concede ward to Pagan except the
Afth.
"And the result will be so close tha
the victory will not be worth CROWNS
over" one of the Dickinson lieutenant.
said. Such predictions did not seem tt
worry the Faganites.
That Mayor Pagan will be nominated