Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-17
THE PART VOTES
PLAY, NOT A HAIR
PART, IS The THING
Elizabeth Democrats Teach the
Charley Moore Faction This by
Nominating Stein for Mayor.
special to the Newark star.l


ELIZABETH, Sept. 17.-It's not the
It's the part of the votes in the ballot
box. The Charley Moore wing of the
lately faction-torn local Democracy
learned this without the aid of a dia-
gram when Alfred A. Stein, president of
City Council, won the mayoralty nomi-
nation with a plurality of over 1,200
votes, in spite of the fact that the part
of his hair is located due north of the
nose. instead of west of one of mis- eyes.
This physiological detail quickly be-
came the main issue of the primary
campaign.
Charley Moore, as all Elizabeth
knows, is a man of confirmed ideas and
a habit of expressing his convictions
Regardless During a verbatim news
paper report of one of his utterances
early in the campaign he was quoted as
five times inside of 600 words using ex-
pressions all of which were stronger
than glory be-" When the primary
campaign began to warm up, things be-
gan to look rather bright for Mr.. Moore,
and one day conversing with friends he
jokingly remarked hat elizabeth
never has had a mayor that parted his
hair in the m~iddle-guess she won't
have one now" A friendly jab, mind
you, at Candidate Stein.
The electorate found ii would ave to
decide which was the right and wrong
way for EliZabeth's executive to ''coif"
his browning glory. There We're angry
determinations. The Democratic land
slide in Maine became a handful of dirt
in comparison with the mighty problem
of how a mayor should curry his name.
The leaders realized the situation was
becoming threatening for both sides.
Barbers' Union Got Busy.
They cast around for a compromise,
a truce, anything to get the matter out
of the public mind. The BARRIERS Union
got interested. Its walking delegate
realized that the d~issension might hurt
business-candidates might have their
heads shaved to avoid such singing
accusations as that their hair was
draped according to a mode three days
old. The poor, l~ong-suffering public
became alarmed, and the air, sur
charged with h~alf-repressed excitement,
became sitting with oratory anent
hair-dressing. Some one suggested that
Mr.. Stein be petitioned to get a
Riley which as every High School
freshie knows, requires no parting
whatever, just nerve. The Elizabeth
Bald Mems Club called a special meet
ing and decided to run one of it's
Democratic members at the primaries
in the hope that the organization might
get into the limelight fer a while. The
local jokesmiths even went so far as
to evolve all sorts of funny wheezes
about the controversy, such as: II hair
Stein is going to get it, Some of the
more timid "middle-parters" rather
than'g go over to the enemy refused to
brush their hair at all. Excitement
such as Elizabeth has not seen since
the launching of the good ship Arthur
Kill in 1924 prevailed.
In due time the primaries rolled
around. Stein won by the part in his
hair, said his supporters who part their
hair in the middle. Others declare he
would be bound to come under the wire
first. 1t is rumored that ever so many
who don't part their hair In the middle
and some who don't part it at all voted