Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-14
TWO VOTES WIN
IN FIGHT FOR EAST
NEWARK ASSESSOR
Martin Gets Isl Votes and His
Opponent, Mckenna,
Polls l49.

Only two votes separated John Mar
tin and Henry e. McKenna for the
Democratic nomination for the Office
of assessor of East Newark, when the
election officers of that borough had
completed their work shortly before 4
o'clock this morning. The final vote
was Martin 151, Mckenna 149 This is
the closest vote that has ever been
recorded at either primary or other
election IN East Newark.
Early in the night it was conceded
even by friends of McKenna, that Mar
tin would win out, as he seemed to
corral quite number of the first votes
drawn from the box. McKenna was
slow to make a start but when his
ballots began to appear things looked
whole lot different. The contest be-
tween the two assumed a nip pand-
tuck aspect before midnight and the
crowd present was kept on edge until
the last ticket was drawn from the
box. AS there were a few ballots re-
jected, 1t Is reasonable to suppose that
MoKenna will seek a recount.
Another contest that was watched
with much interest was three-eor-
nered affair for two councilmanic
nominations on the Democratic ticket
Councilman John Brown, Thomas j.
Corbliss and John johnson were the
contenders Brown and Corbliss won
out, the latter being high man.
Browns vote was 1899, Corblisss 202
and Johnson 1874. The East Newark
voters favored James e. MARITIME for
United States senator. He received 161
votes. while Frank NJ. McDermit, his
opponent. got 81. For the nomina tion
for county supervisor on the Demo
cratic ticket Luke j. Clark received 127
votes and Felix Tumulty, his op-
ponent, tailed 64.
John P. O'Gorman and John Haas.
unopposed for the nomination of
boulevard commissioners, received al
most every vote cast, as did also Ed
ward Fitzgerald for the freeholdership,
Terence II. ODonnell for the borough
colectorship Mayor Cornelius A. Nc
Glennon for delegates to the State con-
yention, Edward Fitzgerald for MEM
Der of County Democratic Committee,
David Crowell, Daniel ]. Delaney and
Timothy Furphy for delegates to the
congressional convention of the Ninth
district and Thomas Brannigan and
Robert Godfrey for justice Of the peace
and constable, respectively,
The regular Democratic nominees for
the Assembly lost number of votes
because of the failure of voters to
scratch one of che thirteen names that
appeared under the Assembly legend,
Twelve were to be voted for, and IN
many cases the ballots were deposited
without a scratch under the Assembly
head, thus invalidating the vote for all
Assembly candidates. A summary Of
the vote for the assembly follows:
Edward Kenny, 1872; William S.
Davidson. 1si; Cornelius Ford, 10;
Peter II. James. 1889; James c. Agnew,
1893: James H. Christie, 1893; Charles t..
s. Simpson. 1871; Thomas NJ. Donnelly.
1874: Charles NJ Egan, 1874; Thomas f.
Martin, 194 Thomas f. A. Griffin. 1877;
James ]. McGrath. 176 and Edward
w Berger Und.). &c.
The Republicans tailed only 10 votes,
and not one candidate received any
more than six votes. For popular
choice for United States senator.
Franklin Murphy received four votes,
Charles n. Fowler and Edward C.
Stokes none There were no contests
for local offices. and the successful
Democrats will have an easy time of
K on election day.
The total number of votes cast was
S45. Eight ballots were rejected fer
various reasons.