The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-09
PRIMARY LEAGUE
ORGANIZED WITH
HUGHES At HEAD
PatersOnian Elected by Meeting
at Which Senator Colby
Presides.
CHARGES REPUBLICANS
USED DEMOCRATIC VOTES
Accusations Involve N0n-Reg=
ulars Who Won in Nor
ris County.

Although he did not attend the meet
J ing Of the New Jersey Non-partisar
Direct Vote Primary League which was
organized at a meeting in the Cont
q mental Hotel yesterday afternoon Con-
gresham William Hughes, of Pater-
son, was elected president. Senator
Everett Colby presided at the meeting,
Herman B. Walker was secretary and
) Assemblyman Edward Kenny was
made treasurer.
Probably the most interesting single
item OF information that was given out
during the meeting was made by a
| Morris county man, who said during a
Z discussion that the non-Regular Re-
publicans In Morris succeeded in de-
feating the Regulars under State Treas
urer Daniel s. VOORHEES, by the use of
Democratic votes In the Republican pri-
maries.
Those present were Assemblymen
Henry,C. Hines and William P. Mar
tin, former Assemblyman Philip c.
! Walsh, jr., Messrs., Colby and Osborne,
County Tax Commissioner Lathrop An
derson. G. A. Rieger, T. S. Beardsley,
John Austin. Health Commissioners
John w. Dobbins, Herman B. Walker,
Vice-Chairman Walter F. Simpson, of
the New Idea Republican League;
State Crimes n Dependency Commits
sioner Rosenwasser, all of Essex;
Mr.. Record, Assemblyman Joseph P.
4 Tumulty. President Eugene Kinkead,
OF the Jersey City Common Council
and candidate for Congress on the
Democratic ticket in the Ninth District;
Malcolm Isbistor, Assemblyman Ed
I ward Kenny, Captain Jack Graham,
Andrew Knox, of Hudson; George A.
! Williams. OF Sussex: Colonel Alexander
Fordyce. Of Middlesex, and Joseph A..
Fighter, of Morris, and Thomas Debe-
voise. Of Union.
Letters from Leaders.
/; Letters expressing accord with the
principles Of the proposed organization
were received from many candidates
n political leaders who had been in
vited to attend the meeting.
On motion of George L. Record. of
Jersey City. resolutions were adopted
providing that the poll Iii, of the pre-
vious general election should be used
at h primaries and that there should
be q registration day prior to the pri-
mary; that the names of voters of diff
:, ferent parties should be kept in sep
t4Qrate books In each voting district, and
that the. party, election officers should
bes from different factions of the same
party.
vice-Presidents Named.
The following vice-presidents were
chosen: Bergen, Charles A. Coe, Rep,
and Colonel Dan Fellowes Plat, DEM;
Burlington, General Edward Burd
Grubb. Dem. and Rep; Cumberland,
former Assemblyman Lewis H. Miller,
!, Rep; Essex, Senator Everett Colby,
Rep. and his Democratic opponent this
year for the Senatorship, Harry v. o.
borne; Hudson, George L. Record, Rep,
and President Eugene Kinkead, of the
Jersey City Common Council, Assem-
blymen Joseph P. Tumulty and Edward
Kenny, Democrats; Hunterdon, Sena-
tor William c. Gebhardt, Dem; Mid
dlesex, Senator George G. Silzer, DEM;
Monmouth, Harold Ayres n William
H. Barnard, Reps, and Secretary Will
ian. K. Devereux, Of the Democratic
State Committee; Ocean, A~ssemblyman
Benjamin Crosby and State Commit
teeman William H. Fischer, Reps, and
Senator William ]. Harrison, Dem.;
Passaic, Robert g. Bremmer and SEN
ato- John Hinchliffe, Denis, and As
sembly Nominee James Blauvelt and
former Assem- Imam Morelli; Sussex,
George A. WiIicms and Thomas w.
Bentley, Reps, and Assemblyman Levi
Morris, DEM: Somerset, former AS
semblyman S. s. Swackhamer, former
Senator Samuel S. Childs and former
Hudson. Assemblyman Archibald S.
Alexander, DEM; Union, R. Henry
Depue, Thomas Debevoise and Senator
Ernest r. Ackern'an. Reps, and James
e. MARITIME. Dem Warren, Charles
Rittenhouse, DEM. and George Angle,
Rep. No selcctio ~ were made for At
lantic and Mercer. Many of the men
are not on recors as tc their views and
may not accept