The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-24
NEW IDEA MAY
GET CONTROL OF
COUNTY MACHINE
Fight to Be Commenced at Once
in Effort to Capture
Committee.
HUDSON AND ESSEX
TO BE BATTLEGR0UNDS
Whole State Is to Be Aroused
by the Leaders of the
Movement.

New IDEA Republicans are preparing
to make things lively next fall In this
county. and II they do as has been
seriously suggested they may organize
to capture the State party organiza-
ton. They figure that with enough
money to maintain a hot fight. they
could carry the primaries in most OF
the counties of the State and crush
the Regulars.
A tentative list Of names TO be backed
by the New Ideaites at the primaries
IN September has been prepared and
will probably go before the people
Former Senator Everett Colby and
former Sheriff Frank H. Sommer are
on the list. Assemblyr1an William P.
Martin. leader OF last years ma jority,
and the head Of the New Ideaite fac
tion in the present Assembly. will be
candidate for another nomination, it
Is said.
Besides these three the New Idea
League leaders are said to want on
their primary ticket Colonel Austen
Colgate, Of Orange; Eliot E. Ford, of
the Tenth ward; Henry C. Hines, OF
the Ninth ward: H. Stacey Smith, of
South Orange. and John F. Clark. of
Nutiey, membe<s Of the present Essex
Assembly delegation Another to go
on the ticket, as at present considered.
would be former Assernblyman William
Fellowes Morgan, of Miuburn defeated
for sheriff last fall Gustav Roeber and
Philip Walsh. jrs will probably COM
plete the ticket
After County ccnamittee.
viii be Capture the county commit
tee" They say they have made a very
serious mistake in the past in not
making more Of q fight for the men,
bers of the county oreanization,s and
that they now propose to carry the
comlnittee and elect one OF theis men.
ssAg sltsr sF Simpson, county chairman
They nave charged that tlieir%candi-
dates were the victims of treachery al
the hands of the Regulars of the party
lsst fall and propose to get the reins
IN sympathetic hands If that be pos
sible
It will be somewhat of surprise to
many to hear that former Senator Col
by will consent to be a candidate for
the Assembly nomination. and the fact
that he and former Sheriff Sommer, al
present member of the State Railroad
Commission. are to be in the vanguard
of the battle with Assemblyman Mar
tin, will rouse good deal of interest
throughout New Jersey Bitterness is
sure to be injected into the primary,
the knowing ones declare.
Mr.. Colby served in the Assembly as
a Regular, and when he failed to get
Endorsement for nomination for sena-
tor made his first independent fight i'm
the fall of 1905, winning the nomina :
ton for senator. That year he had
been majority leader in the House
Big Fight I'm Hudscs.
The New Idea men of Hudson county
are preparing to make a big fight there,
too, with Mark M. Fagan Jersey City $
former mayor, and George L. Record.
former corporation counsel. as the lead
ers. In Passaic county James G. Blau-
velt will be the prime. mover in the New
Idea camp. Bergen, Union, Morris.
Middlesex and other counties are to be
reused
A conference of the big men of the
movement was held this week at Tren-
ton, Informally. and the Statewide plan
of campaign there approved. 1t seems
that Captain Peter Vredenburgh, OF
Monmouth county. member of the AS
senbly. is going TO be somewhat of a
New Idea man, and Assemblyman Ben
jannin Crosby viii fight the organiza-
tion again in Ocean. There will be
Sornefhinp doing too in Con, eyeat