Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-09-15
THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTE.

election In this city prove false th'
statement made by machine repub'
licans that there is no sentiment il
the republican party In favor of g
non-partisan school board. When 8
large number of republicans, in pro-
portion to the number who voted at
all, cast their ballot for five demo
Gratis to be placed on their party
ticket, 1t means that there is an in
sistent demand from all parts Of the
city to take the schools out of poll
tics. 1t was principle, not men, that
these republicans were voting for.
They expressed themselves in no
mistaken terms, even though the
machine, by a narrow margin, sue
ceeded in getting nine straight re-
publicans put on the regular party
ticket.
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WhenLt~fs possible to get 357
republicans to go to the polls at a
primary and vote to have a demo-
crat placed on the republican ballot
as a regular candidate of that party
1t means something. 1t is notice to
the ~would-be party bosses that these
republicans are capable Of judging
for themselves as to whom they will
have for their candidates. Thanks
to the direct primary, they are able
to do this.
A study of the figures must be
interesting to the machine leaders
who placed themselves in the role
of party dictators, without giving
the members. of their party a chance
to express themselves. They find
that in the first ward, that strong
hold of republicanism, the entire
n~on-partisan ticket was elected with
the exception of one man, and with
another tied with a regular" for
nipan place.
In the second ward there is nearly
the same story to tell. The repub-
lican voters there selected six of
the non-partisan board, two of them
democrats. There is a spirit of in
dependence in the air. Voters are
no longer slaves to mere party name.
The voter, in considering local
affairs, no longer asks, to which
party does he belong? He wants to
know first, what does he stand for
and who is he? The first and second
wards have a message to machine
republicans. Will they heed it?
But the machine has nothing with
which to back up its argument that
the republican voters woul5 not
stand for democrats being on the
republican ticket, in the eturns
from the. other four wards in the
city. The third ward was very close.
three of the n~on-partisan board be-
ing among the nine high men. while
Henry Jones, a democrat, was only
seven votes behind Jacob Goldberg
er, a machine republican candidate.
The fifth ward, also, was very close,
Ltddle, a machine man, beating
Jones, a democrat, of the non-par-
tisan board, by but one vote, and
Fletcher was but three votes behind.
1t was in the fourth and sixth
wards where the straight republican
ticket received the support that car.
ried it through. These wards are
known of old. They can generally
be relied upon to do as the machine
wants. Only machine politicians
Will stoop to the methods employed
in these wards to carry an election
With the ring" in control the
fourth and sixth wards can be de
pended upon to pretty nearly bal
ance whatever adverse action tn,
other wards might take, Tuesda,
was no exception. The returns are
enough to convince every homes
man that had the choice between
the straight republican ticket an,
the non-partisan ticket been left en-
tirely to each voteS to settle TO
himself according to his persona
inclination, the non-partisan ide;
would have won easily, 1t is thu
same old story of the bosses inter
fering to thwart the will Of tn,
people.
Hut the Frisry e.aesiQn is PASS