Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-26
Clean Sweep at South Orange
Election Leaves Peoples Men
Without Representation.
RECORDS BROKEN, THOUGH
LIGHT VOTE is POLLED
Dominant Organization Carries
Every District, Something
Never Heard of Before.


the only spring election in the State.
The record majority was polled; the
record of winning in every district was
made; the record of placing the village
entirely in control of the one. party
was made. and these, too. in the face
Of an unusually light vote. There was
nothing to it but the Citizens at every
stage of the balloting.
Here is the result:
For Village President-Francis Speir,
jr.. Citizens party. SOP; Dr. t. O'Conor
Sloan, Peoples party. 1886. Speir's ma
jority. I57.
For Village Trustees: Citizens
party-Edwin s. Allen, 5S1. Frank l..
Sage, 563; Frederick ]. Lovatt, 5sl.
Peoples party-Tom c. Watkins, $50:
Harold B. Byron. 1888; Raymond T.
Marshall, 33e.
Edwin S. Allen, high man on the Citi-
zens' trustees ticket, tailed just 242
more votes than Raymond I. Marshall,
and 1873 more than Harold B. Byron,
low man and high man, respectively,
on the Peoples party.
Frederick ]. Lovatt, low man on the
NAtStCSS tAChCt, BOl &Sz NOtGS
more than Mr.. Marshall and 17S votes
more than MI. Byron.
Light Vote Polied.
There are, on the registry lists. 1,425
voters. OF these only 935 voted, as
compared with 1.025 last year. The
difference vas almost wholly account
ed for by the failure Of sixty of the
seventy stu 'ents at Seton Hall Col
lege to vote. and the holding off of
thirty negroes until too late to vote.
The negroes had been employed in
various capacities by the two parties
heretofore. This year, however, both
parties agreed not to employ them,
n h result vas their failure TO
vote. An effort was made by DR..
Sloan to get the student vote out, but
the Rev. DIR. James r. Mooney, presi-
lent of the institution, claimed that
the students had no direct interest in
village affairs and they adhered to this
view, although DR.. Sloan was once a
professor at the college.
The successful candidates will take
Office May /, or next Monday. Mr..
Speir will succeed Ira. A. Kip. jr., as
president The retiring trustees are
John F. McDonough. Charles H, Burke
and Frank J. Hill. The three hold
over trustees are all Citizens party
men, the result being that the board
will be of a single political shade.
Both sides were surprised at the rr
suit. The Citizens were confident
throughout the campaign and felt that
they had won when h polls were
closed, but were swept off their feet
when they learned the size of their
victory. The Peoples party men are
trying to figure it out. They thought
that two of their candidates would GER
tainly pull through, and the clean
sweep of the opposition surprised II
pained them.
But four ballots were declared defea-
tive. OF that number three were rated
in the voted in the third district y
the other in the Second district.
Z. Slcane's three sons took an active
part in the getting odt of voters on
one occasion one of them was warmer
by Motorcycle Policeman Edward A.
Tracey against speeding with his auto
mobile while corralIng vetcis. Not q
single challenge was made during the
day.
The result of the election indicates
tina a large majority of the voters are
satisfied with the present village en-
ployees and civil service, inasmuch
as Mr.. Speir in all of his campaign
speeches said that the principal issue
was the municipal jobs. He claimed
thai the root of evil in village politics
was the fact that the main object Of the
Peoples party was to Dust the present
lncumbents and fill their places with
their favorites.
r. Ill 41,4 Ct4fzAn= ~
todied a plank which read that compe-
tent public employees should be kept
undisturbed in their Offices and nc re-
movals should be made until ar inn
partial hearing be given and on charges
made and proved. To that end they
favor submitting to the voters the quos-
ton of adopting the civil service act
A referendum will probably be ordered
at an early dale.
1t is evident also that the residents
favor mosquito determination, which
the Citizens advocated. The Citizens
are pledged to keep the closing hour of
saloons at IL o'clock and to accept
Cameron Field as a public playground.
at is highly gratifying to me-" said
Mr.. Speir today, speaking of his sweep
ing victory. "The attempt to give
these village elections the character
of partisan contests is purely artificial.
That / have said from the start, and
evidently a majority of the voters
agree. The matter was. in fact, pure
ly one Of selection as between individ-
uals. After the question of the tax
rate" said the prospective president.
"the problem OF paving n lighting
our streets appeals more directly to tho
voters than any other one subject" :
Trustee John +. McDonough is over
pleased with the result and regards II
as a compliment to him. He believes
that the name in which he was treat-
ed by the Peoples party was in D.
great measure responsible for the over
whelming landslide. He said he re-
ceived many phone calls at his home
yesterday from his friends, who asked
his advice on what ticket to vote, and
to which his reply was the Citizens
IF l had promised the Peoples men
that / would remove Clerk Fitzsim-
mons from office And be our to sew
eral other UGH pledges / could have
been nominated on their ticket" he
said. There is entirely too much
politics and juggling in the party for
me, however" he added.