The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-23

BURT Contest
In the city the Regulars rave won for
mayor and Board a. Works. CITY Al
ditor George For1ran, New Idea ca =
didate for the mayoraity Place On tie
ticket. made a splendid fight against
president Frank !. Book, of the Board
of Works. the winner. Mr.. Forman
ran ahead Of his ticket. Commiss oner
Arthur II. Denman is renominated ani
Ira Budd is selected as his running
mate for Board of Works. The New
idea faction captured the ward nom.-
nations il the Eighth and Eleventh
wards. with the Ninth in doubt.
E.As was anticipated, Assgmblyinaa
William Fellowes Morgan, New Iaea.
was nominated for sheriff, defeating
his eight competitors by a wide MAJ
gin. Samuel T. Wilson. with Chai'-
man Dalrymple's backing, ran sec2nd.
Ralph b. Schmidt, third. aud fourth
place lies between City Treasurer al
bert T. Guenther and Carl Val ntin7
Baumann.
The returns were received b. the
Regulars at headquarters in the usual
way. it being up 10 the district leaders
to report there as soon as the cnine
vas complete. Never. were figures 50
rlncOlnDIeIe ana never SO lli1AH hliAA--
tainty. At first everything was Fay
mond. The New Idea vote fell a#aN
off. Instead Of the ffty-three votes
cast three years ago for Colby in the
fourth district Of the Twelfth va. l.,
the first reported to Regular bead
quarters, he received four, a drop Of
f3rtY-nine.
Early Returns Favored Raymond.
All night, the Raymond men figured
victory. At 10 o'clock this morning
their figures showed q lead for their
candidate in the $50 districts heard
from of 5000. Then there was a rush
of Colby votes and revisions developed
serious errors that reduced the lead 70
6G9. Down, down it went until it was
claimed that he had won by 300. There
has been no surrender By Chairman
Alfred, N. Dalrgmple ard Secretary
John r. Flavell, Of the County ON
mittee. mot yet has been their re-
ply to questions as to whether they
concede defeat.
Mr.. Simpson. who managed the cam
paign for Colby, exchanged fluctuations
with him al midnight when scarcely a
half dozen messages had been received.
SAT 3fo'clock this morning the senator.
who was jubilant, declared that he had
won by a safe margin, if he vote held
good, as it had in the districts he con-
sidered representative. He went homo
AN hour later, firm in the conviction
that he had beer renominate0.
MIR. Raymond declared that he
wouldn't leave headquarters until he
knew his fate. His departure at noon
was taken TO Indicate that he thought
himself beaten. lie told some of his
, friends that he believed the fight mad
gone against him then. He has never
lnade a prediction OF the result.
ST. ACKNOWLEDGMENT William p. Martin. of
the New Idea faction. predicted vic
tory by $50 after much calculating sew
.eral days ago and he went home carly
last night declaring that All was
WE'LL"
Gloom settled down over Regular
headquarters during the morning. 1t
was apparent that the New Idea had
made gains on the whole in the city.
Frank J. Book won out for the nomi-
nation for mayor, but city Auditor
George Forman was far ahead of the
Colby ticket, and within 1000 of the
goal.
..BilIy" Swan Loses Own District.
For Board OF Works, there was a
goodly contest in the Republican party.
Jnheard-of thing, silly Swan lost
his own district in the First ward, the
New Idea carrying it by Il. It's the
frat time on record that such Il defeat
has been suffered by the veteran. John
Austin, one OF the New Idea candi-
dates for Board of Works nomination,
claims the credit.
Commissioners Arthur Il. Denman was
renominated, with Ira Budd, of the
Sixth ward, as running mate. Austin
and former Alderman Curtis r.. Burnett
being beaten.
The Regulars carried the First ward
for Raymond by just nine votes, The
result being, Raymond, SIS; Colby, 554
The Second, Third and Fourth wards
were swept by the Regulars, with odd
results in districts here and there. For
instance. in the Third ward Guenther
made n great run for sheriff and pulled
Forman way up for mayor. In Sam
Birn's district of that ward Forman re-
ceived ninety-four votes against seven
for Book. That was in part due to the
fact that Forman has a host of per-
sonal friends in that section.
In the Sixth ward the Colbyites cap
tured several districts. but lost the
ward, $50 to 730. In tho Seventh ward
the Colby men captured three districts,
polling 517 votes in the ward 10 128 for
Raymond. Colby carried the Eighth
ward by 500. the New Idea winning
every ward nomination ard giving big
pluralities to the Assembly candidates
Of their faction.
The, Ninth ward was carried by
Colby; the Tenth went three 10 one for
Raymond. The Eleventh was for Col
BY by over 500; the Twelfth turned
. Colby down, IS to 454. The Thirteenth
Nard went three to one and the Four
9eenth -four to one for Raymond, Ray
mond carried the Fifteenth by a big
/. margin and won out in he sixteenth
by 34S in a total vote of 1850.
Colby. just pulled through In Belle
viNe, but made up for it by winning
Bloomfield by more than 500,
It was a bitter, bitter struggle all
over the city. The apparent inactivity
and absolute quiet that reigned, to-
gether with the excitement over the
!. contest for the Democratic nomination
for the s%hrievalty nomination, dis
tracted atteption from what was really
/ going on, and led even the wise politi-
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