The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-28
SEPARATE VOTE IN
SENATORSHIP FIGHT
Aspirants Against Martin and
Swanson Will Have No Chance
to Run In" as Dark Horse.
Elect an Entire Gen.
eral Assembly.

HMOND, Vas D cia l.
When the State Democratic Com
mlttee meets TO make arrangements
for the primary of next year. at which
time two candidates for the United
States Senate are TO be named, care
will be taken that the situation is
! not mixed, complicated or involved,
whereby those who are not of the
! faithful might possibly slide into a
large. fat and lucrative office-not
understanding to what IS believed
TO be the plan already agreed and or
dained TO be the one which will gov
ern the senatorial primary.
In other words. when the primary
/ is ordered il will be stipulated that
whoever may desire to oppose either
Senator Martin or Ex-Governor Swan
son shall declare such candidacy and
make the campaign against his man.
The. primary viii not group the can
didates under the head of For the
United States Senate" and then print
the names Of those who may offer for
the nomination without designating
which term is to be voted for.
In this way there viii be no chance
for an anti-machine man to aspire to
get into the game. If the candidates
were grouped and all the men voted
for under the heading of For the
United States Senate" leaving the fix
ing of the terms by the General AS
sembly, there might be a chance for
the opposition to the alleged machine
to get in and make a combination
whereby one of the two gentlemen
who are said to be cognizant with all
the signs and cOuntersigns of the 'or-
ganization" might be obscured when
the returns come in.
A Contingency.
There is no telling what might hap
pen in a primary when the full vote
Of the people is assured. 1t might be
that the ants would take up some
man who might have even more pop
ularity than one OF their own number
and yet one who is not aligned with
the machine, and undertake to run
him in with a view to causing a split
in the organization and defeating
either Martin or Swanson. The or
/ ganizatien has determined that il
either OF the men who are to repre-
sert the machine are defeatedit shall
be done by direction and not by in
direction
BY making it so that the voters viii
have a chance to vote for the two
candidates separately, there will be nc
chance for any swapping or trading
of any sort, but each voter will have
a chance to vote Tor the Gandidate'
for the two places to be filed with
out in any way complicating the other
or involving the success of the other
No Time Chosen.
or course, there has been no dis
cussion of any time for the holding
of the sessions of the State Demo
/ cratic Committee. and there will be
none for some months. When that
/ body convenes, however, and fixes tn
date for the senatorial primary it is
believed that each of the counties and
cities of the State will follow suit anC
order the election for the members
OF the General Assembly at the same
time, thus saving the expense of two
primaries. two campaigns and the say
| ing OF time to the candidates ass wei
as money, in ths@tfv,e election would
cost very little NJ than one-half OF
OF the General Assembly are to bS
chosen next year, the members of the
Senate 10 serve for four years and th'
members of the House to serve fol
two years