Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-09

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preference ticket. If the voting here
on May % should take a similar
course and ballots be invalidated by
voting for all Anti Wilson eandi-
dates, it would help the Governor.
At the election on May %, members
of each party will have the oppor-
tunity to vote for Is men. These will
be candidates for the following posi-
tions:
The man preferred for President by
| the voter; candidates for delegate
at-large from the state to the Nat
ional Convention of the party to which
| the voter belongs; alternates to the
delegates-at-large delegates to the
| National Convention from the Con-
gressional District in which the voter
! resides, and alternates to the dis
| trict delegates. The election will be
| of the same general character as the
regular September primaries, it will
be conducted by the same officers, and
will be subject to the same stringent
requirements of the laws that are in
tended to safeguard the ballot.
The last Legislature passed an
amendment to the Geran act which
makes a change in the form of ballot.
This change will effect the ballots to
be voted on May % and therefore,
party leaders, as well as the voters,
should take notice of the new statute.
The change removes the squares in
which the candidates to be voted for
are marked, from the right side of the
n
side. ALI the ballots for the primary
on May 2S will be printed according
to the new form, and the voters Will,
therefore, have to mark the X ON
the left side of the candidates voted
for instead of on the right side, as
they did last fall.
Two questions have been raised by
the State Republican leaders as to
the Presidential primary election
based on doubtful provisions of the
Geran act. In the past, under the
general election law, the custom mas
been for party workers to register by
affidavit voters who could not appear
in person to register. Considerable
doubt exists as to whether this Gus
tom CAM be continued under the new
law. The Geran law provides that no
voter of one party shall be permitted
to vote in the primary of the opposite
party. Each voter must put his pri-
mary ballot in the box of the party
on whose registration book his name
appears, as the book was made up
last September. There is NO pro-
vision in the Geran act for the desig-
nation Republican or Democrat OF
voters who register in person by affi-
davit. The other query, therefore,
is how the voting in such cases is to
be determined. twill probably take
an opinion from the Attorney Gen
eral to settle the matter.
The Wilson leaders in this state are
greatly pleased at the news that New
York State Democrats numbering 30,
who favor Governor Wilson for Pres
ident. have signed their names to a
paper calling upon the Democrats of
the empire state to support Wilson
at the Baltimore Convention. The
New York document declares the
great Democratic issue of this cam
paign ito be the struggle to secure
the rights of the people waged against
politicians who make themselves the
agents of special privilege. we be
lieve," continues the paper, that the
candidate best fitted to secure such
rights to the people is Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey
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Senator James F. Fielder, of Hud-
son County, the Democratic leader in
the upper branch of the Legislature,
has issued a statement calling upon
the special committee which probed
the Morris Canal bill charges against
Senator Fitzherbert, to make an i'm
mediate report exonerating the Nor
ris County Senator. Senator Fielder
bases his demand upon the result OF
| the inyestig cation last week, which
| was that there was no foundation tor
the charges. The members of the
Probe Committee have unofficially an
nounced that they found nothing in
yolving Senator Fitbherbert as far as
these charges were concerned, but
they say that they cannot make an
official report until the Senate recon
venes in January.
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Thomas B. Madden, who recently
succeeded George o. Osborne, as the
| head-keeper of the State Prison, has
named Robert j. Irving, Of Hudson
County, as his private Secretary, al
a salary of $500 a year. Keeper
Madden has also abolished as un-
necessary the position OF Assistant
Secretary, which has been held by
William Morrison.
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An appeal has been taken to the Err
rors Court in the case of Daniel A.
Dugan, Jr., son of Judge Daniel A.
Dugan, of Orange, who is one of the
State Democratic leaders. Young Du-
gan was recently sentenced to State
Prison for from five to ten years al.
ter conviction for the killing OF a lac
in Orange while on an automobile JOY
ride.
{. The New Jersey State Civil Ser
vice Association composed of city
county and state employees who worf
under Civil Service, has been organ.
;1ad Esdoar Vreelaud of Jersey City