Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-08-08
OUR TRENTON LETTER
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the Democratic leader to use more
than $S8,000 of the county funds Many
OF the irregularities are charged in
the report. The state leaders who are
pushing the Wilson campaign. claim
that the disclosures will not hurt the
Governor as ever since he has been
Governor he has combatted municipal
.crookedness and the political system
of bossism under which it thrives
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There is evidence that the Sunday
baseball question will come to the
front again during the next session
of the Legislature. The proposition
has recently been agitated in Mercer
County where the police refused to
permit Sunday games, and now Sun
day baseball is finding numerous adj
vocates in North Jersey. In several
recent sessions Of the Legislature,
Sunday baseball bills have been passed
by the assembly, but failed to get
through the Senate
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The plan for the organization of a
New Jersey State Chamber of Com
merce is making good progress. 1t is
reported that nearly 700 of the leading
business men and corporations of the
state are willing to become members.
The meeting will be called soon to
effect the permanent organization, the
purpose of which will be to boom New
Jersey along all commercial lines.
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United States Senator Briggs has
recommended to President TAFT that
former County Collector James H.
Coe, Of Englewood, be appointed
postmaster in that town 1t is ex-
peeted that the president will appoint
him in a few days. His salary is
$2S00 year.
The rivalry for the Democratic
leadership in Hudson County between
Sheriff N. P. Wedin and Mayor II.
Otto Wittpenn, of Jersey City, the
latter OF whom wants to be governor,
continues Its latest manifestation
was that each headed his own delega-
tion to Sea Girt today owitness the
to Governor Wilson of his
nomination to the presidency The
peculiar feature of this little political
fight is that both men are followers
of the Governor.
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Following the two or three limericks
composed by Governor Wilson, War
rem Johnson, one of the Governors
stenographers, has composed the fol-
lowing:
There was an African hunter OF note,
Who used capital rs when ne wrote.
So busy was he
With his s.I' and his Me"
That the Democrats captured his goat.
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The formal decision of Governor
Wilson not to resign his Office during
the campaign has been received with
the greatest satisfaction in Democratic
circles all over the state. His an
nouncement is very satisfactory to
the Democrats fer the reason that it
will keep the executive reins in Demo-
cratic hands until after the organi-
zation of the incoming Legislature,
which will meet January 14th, and
because it will dispense with the dam
ger of many important state Offices,
with salaries aggregating more than
$50, 900 month, falling into the hands
of the Republicans through the medium
of a Republican acting governor. State
Chairman Grosscup declares that the
decision will aid the Democrats in
the Presidential campaign. The Demo-
Gratis are figuring on carrying the
Legislature next November through
the polling power of the Governor
as the head of the National ticket,
and if they can secure control of the
Senate it will give them the acting
Goyernorship through the senate pres
idency and then the governor might
reign without endangering the state
offices referred to, as appointments
acting governor. Six state senators
are to be chosen in November and to
control that body the Democrats must
elect four out of the six. Should they
accomplish this it is expected that
Senator Fielder, of Hudson County, will
be the candidate for president of the
senate, and, of course, would become
acting governor when the governor
resigned.
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The fight for control of the legisla
ture will be one + the bitterest in the
history of the state, caused chiefly by
the fact that it win be a three cornered
contest. The progressives will have
their legislative ticket in most Of the
counties and this viii mean red
hot fight for the nominations at the
primaries. The Republicans will
make desperate effort to retain their
present majority of one in the Senate
and to increase it if possible. Neither
party is losing sight of the fact that
the next legislature will elect the
successor to United States Senator
Briggs.
For the first time since the primary
election law was enacted, the state.
this year. in eight counties, will have
three parties participating in the prim-
airy election. This is due to the fact
that the Socialists last fall, in the
counties of Bergen, Hudson, Camden,
Essex, Gloucester. Mercer, Passaic
and Union cast more than five per
cent. ofsthe total vote, thereby giving