The Morris County chronicle., 1910-11-15
COUNTY GOES
DEMOCRATIC
Wilson Carries the County and
Sweeps with Him Senator and
Assembly Candidates.
ELECTION FIGURES In DETAIL

For the first time in many years
Morris county returned democratic
majorities at Tuesdays election.
Woodrow Wilson carried the county
by majority of ,735. The big demo-
cratic vote which turned out for him
was sufficient TO elect the democratic
candidates for senator and assembly.
Senator Edward X. Mills was beaten
for reelection by Richard Firzherbert,
democrat, by 223 majority. Assembly
man William f. Birch went down to
defeat as-did Alvah L. Reynolds, the
other republican assembly nominee.
Their votes were 6,182 and 6,l87 re-
spectively. Albert Bum and Eugene
s. Burke we're elected, receiving $500
and t, 1926 votes each.
The democratic nominee for coE-
gress from this district, William Tut
tie, jr.. carried the county by ZIG ma
jority over Judge William N. Runyon,
the republican nominee.
Though beaten at the republican
primary, the Local Optionists ran an
independent ticket which polled 537
votes. The prohibitionists ticket re-
ceived 155 votes and the Socialist
Labor 273 votes. Soaring for assembly
was on both the Independent and the
Prohibitionist tickets. The total vote
in the county was 4,226, of which 226
were rejected.
The county bosrd Of freeholders has
gone democratic along with the state
and country. The members elected
Tuesday are. Boonton township,
George EStler, rep, reelected Chat
ham, August Molitor, rep; Chester,
William Dee, DEM: Hanover, William
III. Grimes, rep, reelected; Jefferson,
John Tierney, dem; Madison borough,
Frank earle, dem, reelected; Mend
ham, Theodore Hill, DEM: Mt Olive,
Mahlon X. Tharp, dem, Passaic, E.
Frank Oliver, rep; Roxbury, John w
Fancher, dem., reelected Washing
ton, William N. Coleman, dem, re
elected Randolph. M. N. Tucker, dem.
There beings tie in the third ward
of Morristown between DIR. Gustave
Becker, rep, and John p Lyons, dem,
the election of a freeholder will be
made by the board of aldermen as was
the case last year. AS the new board
OF aldermen will be democratic this
means that Lyons will be elected
This will give the democrats o major
ity of three in heboard OF freeholders.
The offisial returns will be fovnd on
the eighth page.
The returns made by the election
board of the first district of the first
ward of Morristown as handed to
County Clerk E. Bertram Mott by
mistake gave as the votes of Dr. Will
son and Mr.. Lewis the democratic and
republican tickets voted in the dis
trict. This was 178 republican and
123 democratic. In fact DIR. Wilson
was on seventeen and off one ticket
and Mr.. Lewis was of seventeen,
making their actual votes In the dis
trict l6l for Lewis and 139 for Wilson.
If the board is allowed to make the
change in the returns now on file in
the clerk s Office DR.. Wilson'S majority
will be increased by sixteen votes.
Sc
AS the belated returns come in the
indications are that Woodrow Wilson
will have a plurality OF not less than
$4,000. In every county in the state
he ran ahead of his ticket, and he drew
enough votes TO the Democratic legis-
lature candidates to make the Legis-
lature Democratic by twenty-one on
joint ballot. The Republicans still
control the Senate, but are hopelessly
outnum bered in the House.
The Republicans elect three Of the
ten New Jersey Representatives, Con-
greSsmen Loudenslager, Gardener and
Wood. by greatly reduced maiorities.
One OF the peculiar features Of the !