Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-29
JUDGES
At WORK FILLING
ELECTION OFFICES
Work Is Slow, as Many Appli-
cants Fail to
Appear.

With Judge Davis looking after the
Republican applicants for election Off
GERS and Judge Martin after the Demo-
cratic applicants, the work of filling
the vacancies for the coming primaries
and the general election was begun to-
day. There are 140 more Republicans
to be- appointed and 141 Democrats to
fill vacancies. The list of eligibles
from which appointments were made
a week ago by these two judges VAS
printed in the STAR on the day before.
Judge Davis sat in the Supreme
Court room and Judge Martin in his
regular court room when the work of
hearing the applicants began. Judge
Davis started with Newark and Judge
Martin with the suburbs. Belleville be-
ing first.
As each applicants name was called
he stepped forward and the court
asked the formal question as to what
experience he had, n if he was
familiar with the election law. During
the early hours of the proceedings
tnere was no rejection because of
ignorance, but n man, Jerry '. Rob-
ertson, Sixth district, Sixth ward, was
turned down by Judge. Davis because
he hadn't voted last year and because
his application was too late, anyway
Judge Davis's work was finally O. KID
by Judge Martin and Judge Martins by
Judge Davis, and then the successful
applicants were old that they could
get home and that they would receive
their credentials from the clerk of the
County Board of Elections.
Walton B.. Russell, third district, Sec
ond ward, lad the distinction of being
first appointed by Judge Davis, and
after there had been no responses from
several other districts, lillian w. Dis
brow was appointed to fill the vacancy
in the Third ward, fourth district. The
third man named was Philip lauder, of
the Third ward, eighth district.
Judge Martins first three appointees
We're John Hoznack. FIRST ward, second
district, Belleville; Robert Crisp, Third
ward, first district, Belleville. and
Archie d. Sullivan, First Ward. third
district, Bloomfield.
Clarence e. Young, who described
himself as a progressive, vas appointed
by Judge Davis for the eighth district
of the Seventh ward, where George w.
Vernet, regular, was his rival.
When it came to filing the vacancy
in the seventh district of the Tenth
ward there We're two applicants, Au-
gust E. Horn, Progressive. and George
l.. Leon, Regular Republican. Judge
Davis appointed Mr.. Horn. Others
appointed by him for Newark We're
Joseph Hirsch. Third ward. tenth dis
trict; Thomas Ray, jr., Third ward,
eleventh district; Louis f. j. Boehm,
Fifth ward, sixth district; Morris
Shiffman, Sixth ward, second district;
Andrew Nosti. Seventh ward, third
district; Arthur II. Wolfe, Eighth
ward, first district; James G. Pitten-
ger. came ward and district; Alison
S. Bomery, Eighth ward, fourth dis
trict; Carl II. Rabke, Tenth ward,
third district; Joseph r. Abel, Elev-
erth ward, first district; Elmer w.
Jacobus. Sixth ward, sixth district;
Frederick y. Ullmann, Fourteenth
ward, second district; Raymond Del
Tisfo. Fifteenth ward, second district;
William NJ. Deva, Fifteenth ward,
fourth district; Howard w. Freeman,
Fifteenth ward, fourth district; Fred
erick C. Kugelmann, Sixteenth ward
seventh district; Edward G. Schu-
maeher, sixteenth ward, ninth dis
triet.
In Belleville James G. Phelps was
named by the same judge, and Joseph
Is. Kent, Stanford S. Baldwin. Joseph
Fairbanks, Rudolph Bamy, Edward
Won Gretchen, William Haight and
Howard Miller for Bloomfield vacan-
cies.
Others were: Frank e. Jacobus,
Frederick Eckel, jr., Franklin p. Mil
Ter and william Christophansen, Of
East Orange; John e.. jacob and John
A. Smith, of Irvington; John Law
renee, Belleville; Thomas North,
Bloomfield; John C. Moore, Caldwell
borough; Patrick j.. Manson, Edward
Miller. James p. Larkin, George L..
Wheeler, John J. MacKellar, Ralph w.
Lawrence and Peter A. Boyle, of East
Orange; Thomas Wilson, Addison r..
Adams and Michael DAILY, %Irvington;
Henry B. Van Ness, Livingston; John
Dunn, Millburn; Bernard Mona and
M. c. Whalen, Montclair.