Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-10
VAST PATRONAGE
TO B DISPENSED
BY Gov WILSON
Scores of Appointments, Includ-
ing Judiciary, in Demo-
cratic Hands.


TRENTON. Nov. 10.-woodrow Will
son is the first Democratic governor
elected in New Jersey since 1892, when
the people of the State, indignant over
the ratk-track legislation, for which the
majority party was responsible, swept
1t from power and elected John w.
Griggs, a Republican. Mr.. Griggs,
after serving two years of this three~
year term, gave his party a chill by re-
signing to accept a seat in President
McKinley's cabinet as encouragement
of the United States. Fortunately for
the Republicans, who controlled the
State Senate, the president of that
body, Foster NJ. Voorhees,, who was
elected to succeed Griggs, became act
ing governor, and there was no inter-
ference with the supremacy of the
party in the State House.
The governor of New Jersey probably
has more patronage in the way OF
Offices at his disposal than the execu-'
tive of any other State.
state Omcers' Terms Expire.
Every judge, State, county and dis
trict, is appointed by the governor. SO
is the prosecutor in each county
Among the offices to be filled by Gov
ernor Wilson will be the secretary of
State for five years from April /, 1912,
at a yearly salary of Sc, 900, to succeed
Colonel Samuel d. Dickinson, long a
Republican State leader, who has
served since 1902. The term of J. B. r.
Smith, assistant secretary of State and
commissioner of motor vehicles, with a
salary of $4,000, expires at the same
time.
A successor will be named in 1912 to
| Vivian NJ. Lewis, State commissioner of
banking and insurance, and Wilson's
Republican opponent for governor. The
salary is $4,000 and the term three
years.
The three-year term of Frederick
Gilkyson, State commissioner of public
roads, will expire next January. His
salary is 1900.
William Riker, jr, of Orange, en-
joys a $4,000 berth as clerk of the SUI
preme Court. His five-year term viii
expire November ?. 1872.
George o. Osborne's term of five
years as keeper of the State prison will
expire March 1s, 1917. The salary is
SO, 800. =
Theodore Strong, Republican leader
of Middlesex, will lose his place as a
member of the State board of assessors
next spring, and the terms of Messrs.
Bogardus md Hendrickson, the Demo-
cratic assessors, expire in 1912. The
salary Is 81, 800. A Republican will sue
coed Strong.
!, Changes in Judiciary.
Successors will be appointed by Cow
ernor Wilson to the following mem
bers of the State judiciary:
Supreme Court Justices-Alfred Reed,
1911; I. w. Trenchard, 1918.
Circuit Court Judges-Allen B. Endi-
colt, 1911; WILDER A. Heisley, 1911;
Benjamin August Vail, 1913; Frank L.
Lloyd, 1918.
Court of Errors.Garret d. w.
Vroom. 1913: James Brooks Dill, 1911.
All are Republicans except Judges
Reed and VrQom.
1t is among the county judges that
! there will be the greatest shake-up.
The South Jersey ~jurists, all Republi-
cans, likely to be succeeded by Demo-
Gratis, are: Enoch A. Higbee, Atlantic.
1913; Charles V. d, Joline, Camden,
1912; James NJ. E.. Hildreth, Cape May,
1911; Maja Leon Berry, Ocean, 1912;
Clement Fl. Sinnickson, Salem, 1911.
| Louis Starr, jr, Gloucester, 1912. Coun-
ty judges will also be appointed in
Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Nor
ris, Passaic, Sussex, Union n War
rem.
Terms of District o judges ex-
pire in Atlantic City in 1911 and in
Camden in 1872.
County prosecutors in South Jersey
whose terms expire in the Wilson adj
ministration include: Clarence L. Gold
enberg, Atlantic, 1918; Henry S. Scovel,
Camden, 1912; Ernest w. Lloyd, Cape
May, 1918; Alex L.. Rogers, Gloucester,
1912; T. j. r. Brown, Ocean, 1912.
Tax Board shake-Up.
Every county tax board in the State,
an important adjunct of the Republic
can organization, will change its politi-
cal complexion. Each board is COM
posed of two Republicans and n
Democrat, appointed for three years,
the term of one member expiring each
year. Unless the Legislature abolishes
these boards. a reform advocated by
Governor Fort, their membership in
each county soon will consist of two
Democrats and one Republican, with
a secretary, enjoying the same salary
as the members chosen by the party
In control.
Terms of Henry J. Trick, of Burling-
ton, and George M. Mccarthy, of Hud-
son, both Republican members of the