Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-08-27
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in interpreting the action of the Esse,
County Republican Committee in ell
dorsing Banking and Insurance Com
missioner Vivian NJ. Lewis to mean tha
the Passaic county aspirant will surel.
be the Republican Gubernatorial nomi
! nee. 1t is calculated that he will b,
nominated on the first ballot with bi.
margin to spare With y73 delegate.
sitting in the convention, it will require
the votes of 1874 of them to make the
nomination. Friends of Mr.. Lewis say
that as the situation is now lining ut
he will have at least 100 delegates ready
to vote for him when they enter til,
convention.
| That the campaign preceding the direct
primary election on September IL, next
will be lively and possess State
wide interest is forecasted by the an
nouncement made few days ago that
| former Governor Stokes and James L
MARITIME will both stump the State in
the effort to rally votes to their respec-
! tive candidates. for the United States
was not ready to announce definitely
plans for his primary campaigning tour
but he expects that his speechmaking
will take him in nearly every section OF
the State. 1t is likely that he will pay
special attention to the South Jersey
counties in an effort to overcome the
bitter opposition of David Baird, of Cam
den, who, refusing to submit his Sena-
torial candidacy o vote of Republl-
cans, will strive to induce partisans i'll
counties where he has influence to vote
in the primaries without expressing ii
preference on the Senatorial question
1t is not known here whether former
Governor Franklin Murphy, of Newark,
will make any speeches i'll behalf OF his
own candidacy for the Senate.
If the Republicans again win ma
jority of the Assembly, Thomas +. Me
Gran, of Paterson, is almost sure to be
the majority leader. So far as the
Speakership is concerned, it is OH the
cards OF some Republican regular" lead
ers to see to it that if Assemblyman
Duane Z. Minard, of Orange, can wealth
er the opposition to his denomination as
member of the Essex delegation, and
hen succeed in being elected, to make
him Speaker.
Frank H. Smith chairman of the I'M
ion county Republican Committee, and
right hand man to Senator John Kean
i'll political way in the latters home
bailiwick, was here and had long con-
ference with State Treasurer Voorhees,
concerning the situation in the Fifth
Congressional district. Both Messrs.
Smith and Voorhees, said there was alb
solutely no doubt i'll their minds about
William n. Runyon, of Plainfield, being
successful in his fight for the Republican
nomination against Representative Chas.
n. Fowler In my home town OF Plain
! field, where Fowler has heretofore had
lots of support, he will not get a single
delegate" said Mr. Smith. He may get
some delegates i'll Westfield and a few
from the upper wards of Elizabeth, be-
sides some from Warren county, but he
will be swamped in the convention"
This year for the first time the Demo
cratic State convention that will nomi-
nate candidate for Governor will not
choose new State Committee. For
many years it was the custom for the
delegates to State conventions dealing
with Gubernatorial nominations to select
members of the State Committee whose
terms continued until the next time a
Governor was to be elected. At the con-
vention two years ago when delegates
were chosen to represent New Jersey ut
the Denver convention, a resolution was
passed extending the term of office ol
State Comitteemen to 1912 and provid-
ing for the election of their successors at
that time and every four years there
after.
Some idea of the stupendous amount
of work involved in revaluing the rail
road properties in New Jersey, which Is
| now in full swing under the supervi ;iai
of Charles Hansel, with headquarters il
| Elizabeth, may be gained by knowledge
| of the fact that there are 10 different
railroad companies operating IN 400 diff
| ferent taxing districts. They have 2,36;
miles of main stem, and enough traah
| laid out in sidings and switches to aggre
gate 1870 miles. Mr.. Hansel has fore,
/ os nearly seventy men working under
HIM, nearly all of whom are engage II
! field work. Except for a few incidental
| expenses, the 100000 appropriated b,
| the Legislature for this work, which is il
addition to the $4,000 expended unde
| the initial resolution authorizing the re
valuation work, will be paid out TO
| wages.
The State Bureau of Shell Fisherie
is anticipating serious trouble in secur
ing an enforcement of the law passed b,
the Legislature last winter authoriziu;
the OYSTER Commission for the Atlantl
county district to lease barren oyste
land within its jurisdiction to planter
i who want to use it for propagating pur
poses. The Atlantic county commission
ers have notified Charles R. Bacon, chic
of the Bureau of Shell Fisheries, that
good many oyster men in their sectio
are making plans to defy the right Q
the commission to make leases unde
the law, their claim being that the oyste
grounds in question cannot be allotted t
the exclusive use of any one party unde
a lease. The opponents of the law hav
engaged Clarence D. Cole, of Atlanti
City, as counsel and are prepared to pu
up stiff fight to use the grounds
question.
. Although their terms of Office expil
: on September 3, next, Governor Fort d.
cided, before starting on his vacation, NJ
to name the successors of seven of I'll
, | present state factory inspectors until |