Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-08
JERSEY ELECTION
ANOTHER SLAP At
GOVERNOR WILSON



Hudson county and also for the EN-
ployees of Jersey City were plans sub
mitted to the voters interested. The
vote on the county proposition was in
favor of it by 5000. In Jersey City the
question was carried by 5000. Mayor
H.. Otto Wittpenn won by 5000 plural
ity.
For mayor of Bayonne, Mathew 7.
Cronin, Democratic leader and agent
for a Staten Island brewery, was elect
ell over Charles Annett (Pro. Rep.).
In Hudson county the Democrats
made a clean sweep, electing their en-
tire legislative ticket, N. p. Wedin
sheriff n rejecting II. Otto .Wittpenn
as mayor of Jersey City.
In Essex the Republicans We're sue
c~essful, electing a State senator and
-assemblymen. The Democrats elected
their sheriff and n member of the
Street and Water Board OF Newark.
Complete returns from Somerset,
which was invaded by Governor Wilson
the night before election to urg the
election of LaMonte, give William w.
Smalley, Republican, 290 majority, and
William De L. r. Anderson, Republi-
can candidate for assemblyman, 100
majority.
After making a complete tout of the
county two weeks ago Wilson reentered
it twice. : The night before cleo
ton, when he appealed to the voters
at a big mass-meeting held at Bound
Brook to vote for LaMonte and A. M.
Beekman, the Democratic candidate
for assemblyman, both of whom were
pledged to support his policies. Bound
prnoIx xyhiob &c thu hOy1a town Of
Senator-elect William w. Smalley and
Assemblyman George M. LaMonte, the
d. eeated Democratic candidate for
State senator, gave LaMonte nine ma
jority.
LaMonte was backed by an odd COM
bination, consisting of the moral up
port of Governor Wilson and h strong
influence of the Liquor Dealers Associ-
alton throughout the county. Smalley
a declared himself in favor of local
option when he served as an assem-
nlyman two years ago, and while local
option was not made an issue of the
campaign, the liquor dealers worked to
elect LaMonte. William D. Steele was re-
elected mayor of the borough of Somer-
vile and Walter During and Elmer
Richards councilmen. All three candi-
dates ran on both Republican n DEM
ocratic tickets, as there IS an unwrit-
ten law in Someryille against drawing
party lines in the election of municipal
officers.
Mixed Results In Gloucester.
II mi--cd results in Gloucester
county ar laid to the war that exists
between the Avis and What was known
as the. L~oudenslager factions. Every
other Democratic candidate in the
county was elected will the exception
of Hurff, the senatorial nominee. 1t is
charged that the Avis men knitted the
Republican ticket outside Of George
w. F. Gaunt, the senatorial aspirant.
The recent excitement in Atlantic
county, where an elisor-drawn grand
jury has indicted many Republican Of
ficials, had apparently nc effect on
the result Harry Baccharach, the Re-
publican candidate for Mayor of Allan
tic city, was elected. Neither did the
disclosures in Bergen county over the
building of the new courthouse have
any bearing on the general result. The
scandal had been one of tile things re-
lied upon by. the Democratic nominees
to carry them through.
The senatorial result in Gloucester
was considered in doubt early this
morning, but the final figures showed
a plurality of 1858 for Gaunt.