The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-02
LEAGUE SLATE IS
COLBY IN SENATE;
MORGAN SHERIFF
New Idea Organization Indorses
DR.. Gardner for County
Supervisor.
PICKS CANDIDATES
FOR ASSEMBLY RACE
Request to Sommer to "Please
Run" for Mayor Made by
Eighth Warder.

Endorsements were made by the Re-
publican League at its meeting in the
New Idea headquarters last night as
follows:
For Senator-Everett Colby.
For sheriff. William Fellowes Nor
gan.
For County Supervsor-Dr David G.
Gardner of Caldwell.
For Coroners-R. NJ. Pierce and DIR.
Joseph Elm, of Newark, and Frederick
w. Keyler, of Orange.
For ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Assemblyman
Philip G. Walsh, First Ward, Newark;
Assemblyman Henry c. Hines, Ninth
Ward, Newark; Elliott II. Ford, Fifth
Ward. Newark; former Assemblyman
Gustave w. Roeber, Sixth Ward. New
ark; Assemblyman William P. Martin,
Eleventh Ward, Newark: Frederick A.
Fischer, Sixteenth Ward, Newark; As
semblyman Austen Colgate. of Orange;
David H. Slayback, of Verona.
Assemblymen H. Stacy Smith. of
South Orange, and John T. Clark, of
Nutley, were not indorsed, but it was
agreed they would be If they made a
principles before Friday night, when
another meeting will be held to COM
plete the slate. The imaginary district
composed of the Tenth and Twelfth
wards, has not yet made selection
Assembyman r. A. Braun is the pres
cnt representative.
1t had been intended to name candi-
dates for the mayoralty and Board OF
! Works nomination, but as ii was neal
midnight when the county slate had
been finished the rank and file got tired
and We're dissolving the meeting. The
! boss slatc-makers took the hint and
then formally adjourned until Friday.
! A unique feature of the evening wa
! motion by J. w. Howard, of th,
! Eighth Ward. appealing to Sheriff
Frank ii. Sommer ito please be can
didate for Mayor" The sheriff has
| been consulting over this matter with
friends. and they advised him not to
run. That he should refuse was urged
by his most intimate and sincere
friends out of personal regard for the
sheriff
Sheriff Sommer said that a contract
to teach law in the New York Univer-
sity Law School would interfere with
his duties as Mayor If he were elected,
and that he would not take the nomi-
nation. if rendered to him. under the
circumstances.
An effort to mollify former Assem-
byman William Mungle, of the Fiji
teenth Ward was made in a proposal
TO indorse him for a place on the Board
of Works ticket. with former Alder
man Curtis r. Burnett, OF the Eighth
Ward, as his running mate.
Former Sheriff George Virtue and
Henry Hahn were also presented for
the place.
Mr.. M, ngle is candidate for the
Sheriff nomination, and it is said by
his friends he will not "stand for being
sidetracked to the city slate by the
people who would not indorse him for
Sheriff..
DR. David Y. Gardner. who was nom
mated for Supervisor, was slated to go
on the Assembly ticket but Slaybacll
beat him. His friends were determined
to get 81 place for him if possible and
when the Supervisorship was taken up
they in turn broke the slate by putting
DIR. Gardner up for the place against
r. Arthur Heller. whom the leaders
wanted for the place. Sympathy for
DR.. Gardner on account of the previous
rundown got him some votes and Hell
Ter was defeated as was Freeholder
Fred L. Baldwin. of Caldwell. Bald
win is the candidate of the Regulars,
but lie. nevertheless. got % votes last
night. Heller received AZ and Gardner
125.