Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-12-28


and, Of course, the Wilson men will
seek to prevent this If both Mr..
Katzenbach and Sheriff Madden enter
the race it will raise the question of
Governor Wilson's supremacy in his
own county, and will bring to focus
in an emphatic way the Governors
chances in his own state for the nom
nation for President.
In an interview given to newspaper
men, Governor Wilson has stated that
the tariff will be the unquestioned is
sue in the approaching presidential
campaign. The Governor is quoted
as declaring that all other questions
are involved in this one issue. The
regulation of trusts, the unrest of the
country, disgust with present condi-
tions and the popular discussion of
the high cost of living all lead back
to tariff regulation, he maintains.
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Friends Of Senator Isaac r. Mich
OILS, of Cumberland county announce
that he will be candidate for the
Republican nomination for Congress
in the Second district next year, to-
succeed John J. Gardner. Congress
man Gardner assures his friends that
he will be a candidate for renomina-
ton, and it is well known that Senator
Griffith W. Lewis, of Burlington
county, will be a candidate. Scott
Hand, of Cape May, has already an
nounced his candidacy and there has
been some talk of former Senator
Bloomfield H. Minch as a candidate.
With all these candidates in the field,
the contest will be lively one. With
out doubt the real fight will be be-
tween Congressman Gardner and the,
.sOld Guard" leaders and Senator Edge
and his followers in Atlantic county,
are seeking to become the party lead
ers.
State House politicians see in the
present course and recent appoint
ments of Mayor H. Otto Wittpenn, of
Jersey City a move of the Mayor to
become the Democratic leader in
is claimed, has already captured many
of the old Bob" Davis followers and
his friends claim that it will not be
long before he is the real leader in
the county. 1t is the talk among
State House politicians that Witt
penis real aim is to capture the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor in
1873
There will be another flood of fish
and game bills in the new Legislature
is evident by the fact that petitions
for the revision of some of the game
laws are already being circulated in
various sections of the state Some
of the new legislation asked for is as
follows
ITO allow the hunting of deer dur
ing the last ten days of November, |
each year, and to permit the use of
dogs in hunting deer. To allow the
hunting of quail, rabbit, squirrel. Eng !
lish pheasants, Hungarian partridge
and other wild birds from November
10 to December 81, each year.
The automobiles of the state are
planning to wage more determined
fight than ever before the Legislature
this year to bring about the passage
of law giving reciprocity between
New Jersey and the other states to i
motorists. A joint legislative COM
mittee has been formed composed of 1
five representatives from each of the 1
three leading auto organizations in |
the state The motorists claim they \
will present truly united front toh
the lawmakers this winter, and they'll
say they are determined to- secure the
passage of a reciprocity law. The (
State Grange, at its recent meeting in
Atlantic City, declared against any I
liberalizing of the present automobile /
laws, and the outlook is, therefore,
that the automobile question viii not |
be settled without lively fight.
The Court of Pardons will meet at I
the State House, Friday of this week i
for the consideration of the applica-
tons for clemency filed for the No
vember term. The list of applicants +
is unusually large and contains nearly t
two hundred names. 1t was the de-
sire of Governor Wilson to have the |
court meet last week, so that what
ever paroles were granted might come
as Christmas gifts, but owing to the |
arge list it was impossible for the ex-
amining committee of the court to
complete its work at the prison in
time for the meeting before Christmas. |
The list includes a large number OF :
important cases. Besides several |
murderers the applicants include An
drew ] Campbell, William A. Death |
and Walter G.. McA1lister, each of I
whom is serving 80 years for the muir
der of Jennie Boschieter att Paterson.
Kerr the fourth man convicted for |
this noted crime, will be released in
February, his term then having ex-
pired. Among the other notable
cases before the Court are William H. |
Belcher, former Mayor of Paterson,
convicted of embezzlement, and David |
H. Brand, of this city, who was con-
yicted of aiding in setting FIRE to his /
department store, in trial which was
the most famous i'm the history of
this county.
State Forester Alfred Gaskill has