Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-15

ties. And you know how Wide open
the whole thing is. Take the matter
of registration. In every other State
h a has paid n attention to this
matter a man must go in person to
register. He must be seen to be there.
He must be known actually to live in
that district, and himself give his resi-
dence and occupation and the other
things that are pertinent to know
about 1t, but in our State he can do 1t
by proxy. He need not do it himself.
He does not have to be identified. lie
is at pleasure to change his place or
registration from one place to n
other within a few months without
question OF statement"
Condemns Marked Ballot.
Here he condemned the private dis
tribution OF marked ballots and con
tinued:
In New Jersey all the doors are
thrown wide open 10 the use of cor
rupt methods. No restraint is made.
rs in other States, rs to the amount
to be spent on election. No restraint
is made upon the committees or candi-
dates, by requiring them to publish
their expenses item by item, and to
reveal the sources of contribution of
money received. This has been done
in State after State, nut not in the
State of New jersey
He then condemned the Republican
leaders for failure to pass an effective
public utilities bill.
Many Republicans We're heard to state
hat they would vote the Democratic
ticket, and Mr.. Wilson received great
encouragement on all sides as he left
the hall.
Looks Like Large vote.
There is every reason for the Demo
Gratis to feel encouraged over the pres
ent situation here in Ocean county, and
the indications are that there viii be
q large, vote polled for the Democratic
ticket from the candidate for governor
to the candidates for State senate and
the Assembly. The Republican party
of the county is in sad plight, and
there is a e existing which serious
ly impairs the chances of a majority
here in this county, which is normally
Republican. One CT the members of
the county Republican committee
stated today that II the election should
be held tomorrow George c.. Low, the
Democratic candidate for the State
Senate, would easily win out over
Mathis, who has become discredited
through alliance with Joseph 3. Hoff,
who forced his appointment as county
chairman in spite of the protest az
many of the conservative and indie
pendent members of the party through
out the county. 1t appears that there
is a repetition of the state Of affairs
which existed some years ago, when
the Independent Republicans turned
from Shinn, their senatorial nominee,
and gave enough votes to the late Will
lam Harrison to insure his election Ivy
a large majority.
The Lakewood Times and Journal,
owned and edited by Leslie +. Fort, in
an editorial IN its issue yesterday
called upon Hoff to resign his chair
manship for the good of the party, pro-
dieting a great desertion among the
Republican voters il the discredited
leader persisted in holding his official
position until the compaign closes. The
editor seemed to be convinced. how
ever, that Hoff would not resign, and
it mean the hardest fight the g. o. =.
of Ocean could possibly have TO pull
through its candidates.
A number of the Republicans of The
county who have been interviewed
view with great alarm the drift Of
things throughout the different Soc
tons of the county, n there is an
absence of confidence among the Re
publican leaders of the consistently
strong Republican section.
Three years ago Fort received 100
majority, and the Democratic leaders,
after the favorable impression that
Wilson has mad in all the towns of
the county where he stopped. and in
the two addresses he mad at Toms
River and Lakewood. are claiming
that when the votes are counted On the
night of November S they viii give
Wilson a majority for the county, and
Low will win out over Mathis for the
Senate, while the Lakewood attorney,
II. e. Newman, the Assembly candi-
date, will allow Applegate a small, If
any, majority.
This afternoon the candidate. ac-
companied by q number of the mem
bers of the state Central Committee,
and the newspaper correspondents,
will leave here for Asbury Park, where
Mr.. Wilson speaks in the Hippodrome
at 3 O'clock, and from there the party
will travel to Freehold. Monmouth's
county seat, where Mr.. Wilson will
end his weeks work.