Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-14
HU1sON REGULAR
DEMOCRATS WIN;
G. 0. ?. IN DOUBT
'Nittpenn's Overwhelming De-
feat Gives Woodrow Wilson
i Delegates at Convention.
MAYOR FAILS TO CARRY
SINGLE HOME CITY WARD
Early Returns Indicated Pro-
gressiye Victory, but Tide
Changed Suddenly.

the outcome on the Republican side is
still in doubt
The defeat of Mayor H. Otto Witt
penn in his contest for delegates to the
Democratic State convention means
that the vote of Hudson county will
be cast for Woodrow Wilson. Al
though the organization delegates ran
unpledged to any candidate. it Is
known they favor the president OF
Princeton University for the guberna-
torial nomination.
Even the friends of Mayor Wittpenn
expressed surprise at the poor showing
he made In this city where he expect
ed to elect majority Of the delegates
he did not carry single ward, and out
side his home ward, The Sixth and the
Second, in which City Hall Custodian
Frank Hague was In charge of the
anti-organizaIion forces. he failed dis
mally.
OF the 126 delegates in the city only
27 are in the Wittpenn column.
In Hoboken, where the party leaders
are opposed to the county organization.
Mayor Wittpenn did well, electing 10
of the 20 delegates. In Bayonne, where
similar conditions obtained, he also got
majority, winning 15 out of the %
delegates. But in West Hudson and
the North Hudson towns he failed even
worse than he did in this city. Out of
Al delegates in North Hudson only 6
who favored hls nomination were elect
ed. He did not elect o delegate in
West Hudson. the entire 10 votes being
for the organizations choice.
Wittpenn Beaten.
There are 239 delegates in the county
and the vote stands: Organization, Ill;
Wittpenn, 81 The anti reorganization
ward cardidate were all beaten and
in their efforts to get control of the
county committee Mayor Wittpenn and
his followers We're also unsuccessful.
Robert Davis retains control of the
committee. more than two-thirds of
the members elected favoring the CON
tinuanoe of his lead. rship.
The organization county ticket was
Nominated without any great difficulty.
1t is as follows:
state senator, James f. Fielder;
members of the general assembly, Ed
vari Kenny William $. Davidson,
Cornelius Ford Peter II. James, jams
c. Asnew James Ii. Christie, Charles
L, IS. Simpson, Thomas NJ. Donnelly,
Charles NJ, Egan. Thomas F. Martin,
Thomas F, A. Griffin. James j. Nc
Grath; county supervisor. Luke j.
Clark; boulevard commissioners. John
Haas. John F. O'Gorman.
Felix h. Tumulty opposed Clark for
supervisor, and Edward Berger was
candidate on the Wittpenn ticket for
assembly In voting for Berger the
anti organization Democrats scratched
Thomas Martin, whose vote was much
smaller than any of the other candi-
dates.
There was no opposition to Congress
man Eugene F. Kinkead in the Ninth
District, and Congressman James A.
Hamill in the Tenth District, and both
will be renominated.
James E. MARITIME was supported in
preference to Frank McDermit for the
Endorsement for United States senator.
When the result was known Robert
Davis expressed himself as pleased,
. and said it was a splendid victory for
the organization. He added that the
victory was all the more surprising be-
cause of the activity of the police at
the polls III the inte 'csts of the anti
organization candidates
Davis Easy winner.
Davis was candidate for member of
the county committee and delegate to
the. State convention. He was opposed
for delegate, but won out with ease
Mayor Wittpenn was defeated by three
votes for county committeeman, but he
succeeded in electing his delegate to
the State convention. Corporation At
torney James j. Murphy, who ran as a
Wittpenn delegate, and who was to
have placed the mayor in nomination
for Governor, was defeated. He may
go to the convention in the place of one
of the elected delegates.
Early returns indicated a victory for
the Progressves at the Republican pri-
maries. and George L. Record and
other leaders were jubilant. AS the
night wore on the figures took change
and the Rotterdam, or organization
faction. were the ones to rejoice. What
looked like a defeat for the big organi-
cation had apparently changed into
victory. Then there was another shift
Bayonne. Hoboken and North Hud-
son may have saved the day for the
organization, and, with the vote in
this city, gave the Rotherhamites
substantial ma jority They claim 10
have nominated their county ticket
and a majority of the delegates to
the State convention, and obtained an
undispvted control of the county COM
mittee of the 113 votes in the State
convention, the Regulars elected 95
These votes will be cast for Prosecutor
of the Pleas Pierre p. Garven for the
nomination for Governor. Secretary of
State Samuel d. Dickinsons followers,
who had full ticket in the field, will
have q votes, and the Progressives 81
The Dickinson delegates will cast their
ballots in the convention for William
p, Martin.
In the county committee the vote viii
stand: Regulars. 246; Progressives, 1873;
Dickinsonites, II. The vote between
Record and George T. Vickers, candi-
date of the Regulars, is close, and the
result viii depend upon the votes OF
the Dickinsonites. In the Tenth dis
trict the Regulars will control the con-
vention.
Fowler Gets Votes.
At the primaries yesterday both
Dickinson and Record were beaten for
State delegates in their voting districts,
while Rotterdam defeated his Progress
sive and Dickinson opponents. Con-
gressman Fowler received majority OF
the votes for the Endorsement for
United States senator. He had the
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