Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-09-24
RESULT SHOWS
THE SENTIMENT
What Was Accomplished at the
Direct Primaries Some RapS
at B0SSiSm Here.
THE LINEUP FOR ELECTION

A careful comparison of the figures
of the primary election held Tuesday
brings out some interesting things,
among them the fact that the repub-
lican ring, headed by Theodore
Strong and George ]. Haney, is not
very popular with the members OF
that party In this city There were
some surprises in the results for
local Offices too. On the whole, the
direct primary has proven that, when
the people get to nominating the can
didates themselves, the result cannot
always be foretold.
The County Contest.
In the county contest, the real
fight was for the republican nomina-
tion for sheriff. A comparison of the
votes in this city and New Brunswick
SHOWS that William H. Pfeiffer, the
ring candidate, polled 970 votes in
New Brunswick against so for Pei
tier, while in this city Pfeiffer polled
but 593 against 556 for Peltier, win
ming out here by but 38 majority.
AS both men live in Perth Amboy
and are we'll known, 1t shows that the
people of this city do not approve of
the men back of the Pfeiffer candi-
dacy.
Peltier beat Pfeiffer in HIS own poll
by 10 votes. Pfeiffer carried only
two wards in the city, the second,
where he got majority, and the
fourth ward, winning by 104. It was
the good work of the machine men
in the fourth ward that saved the
city for Pfeiffer
Peltier ran poorly outside of this
city. In some places he polled no
vote at all Metuchen gave him only
2 and Woodbridge but "a against
174 for Pfeiffer Peltier is not even
second man in the county. He was
beaten by William Carman who made
a good run, especially in Metuchen
and New Brunswick. In the former
place he polled 145 votes and in the
latter 342 votes. These, together
with the sprinkling of votes through
out the county, easily offset the 566
votes for Peltier in this city and the
mere handful received elsewhere.
The total vote at the republican
primaries throughout the county
incomplete returns in
was as follows: for
sheriff, Pfeiffer, 2,728; Carman, L.
004; Peltier, 762; Oberman, 838.
For assembly, Minden, 3,728;
McKeag, 1870; Voorhees,, 1925; and
Edgar, 2,010.
voorhees, Badly Cut.
AS remarkable as is the showing
here against ''Dory'' strong's machine
on the vote for the sheriff nomina-
tion, the way the people cut Assem-
blyman voorhees,, who is Strongs
right hand man in the legislature, ih
even worse. Voorhees, is low man of
the republican assembly candidates
in all but one ward, the fourth. This
is where Pfeiffer also made his big
gain. James A. Edgar, the local OPP
tion candidate. and who was opposed
by the Strong machine, beat Voor-
hees in all the other wards by sub
stantiaI maJorities, the sixth giving
him 100 votes more than Voorhees,.
In the fourth ward Voorhees, got So
majority. Edgar beat him in the
whole city by 1872.
In New Brunswick, on the other
hand, where "Dory'' Strong is in un-
disputed control, Voorhees, polled
], 1,271 votes to Edgar's AL, giving
Voorhees, a majority Of $50 in that
city Metuchen gave Edgar a nice
majority of ~ over Voorhees,
Surprises for Local Candidates.
Some surprises Of much signifi-
canoe were wrought at the primaries
IN the vote on the city and ward can
There was. perhaps. the
greatest interest in the nominations
for the recordership, with five con-
testants on the republican side and
six on the democratic.
william T Major defeated his
nearest opponent, George D. Runyon,
by only 40 votes, in the race for the
place on the democratic ticket, to
oppose Harold e. Pfckersglll, the
present recorder. who got a renom-
nation at the hands Of the republic
cans. There was an average Of about