Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-22
So. JERSEY SOLID
FOR I. R., He SAYS
Former Governor Stokes Claims
Big Majority for
Roosevelt.

Following the meeting of the Roose
welt candidates and alternates to tbs
Republican national convention at Tren.
ton yesterday former Governor Edward
C. Stokes declared that there would be
a solid Roosevelt delegation from south
of the Raritan river. Borden D. Whit.
ing. chairman of the Roosevelt League
declared he was confident Roosevelt
would carry the delegates-at-large and q
majority of the district delegates In the
district primaries, which will be hello
May %.
Th optimism of the Roosevelt men
over the outcome of the contest in South
Jersey appears at this stage to be Justi-
fed. Private reports from several Of the
counties that are usually depended upon
TO roll up Republican majorities on cleo
tion day are to the effect that a%ntagonism
to some of the local leaders, factional
lights and the effect of the Roosevelt
campaign in the country have created
a situation that is not hopeful for the
Taft supporters. However, the Taft men
are going to keep pegging along until
primary day.
Senator Gaunt. of Gloucester, says there
is no doubt about the way his county will
so. He says it will be for Taft, despite
what Stokes predicts. Assemblyman
Blanchard White, of Burlington, is classed
by the Roosevelt men among their sup
porters, while Senator Lewis, of the same
county, is a Taft man. Whatever
Gloucester does, the Taft people believe
that David Baird will be able to roll
up a sufficiently large majority for Taft
in camdon which is also In the First
District, to elect the anti-Roosevelt dele
gates. Salem Is the OTHER county In that
district. 1t has a light vote and will
give but a small margin either way.
Burlington Divided.
The Second district is regarded as al
enigma. A man who Travelled all through
Burlington County a few days ago for
the purpose of taking a complete poll says
that he found it practically evenly divided
between Taft and Roosevelt. Cape May
Is known to be in bad snaps from the
Taft standpoint. In Cumberland there Is
war to the knife between the Stokes and
anti-Stokes factions. Senator Isaac Mich
OILS, who has downed Stokes more Than
once In local fights, Is strong for Taft.
The vote In Atlantic County may decide
the situation In the Second.
Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean, CON-
prising the Third district, is giving the
Taft leaders much worry. County Clerk
Joseph McDermott, of Monmouth, and
Clarence +. Hetrick, who was the party
candidate for sheriff last fall, are both
Roosevelt men. McDermott Is the chair
man of the county committee.
United States Senator Briggs, the chair
man of the Republican State Committee,
who lives In Mercer, which with Hunter
don and Somerset composes the Fourth
district, is spending a lot of time at
Trenton these days looking after the
Taft fences. Neither side comedies any
thing either publicly or privately con.
corning this district, nor admits that 1t
has any unusually steep hills to climb
there. Both. sides are what may be de.
scribed as ''cocky' over the result In the
Fourth.
These four districts are what Is gen.
orally included in the territory south OF
the Raritan, which Stokes alleges Roose-
welt will sweep.
The Fifth district is considered Taft ter
ritory to date. An announcement was
made by the Roosevelt headquarters yes
terday to the effect that a drive was to
be made ut the Fifth between now and
primary day, which may be an indication
of the view entertained of the outlook
there.
Hudson for T. h.
The Taft men think they rave the
Sixth District, composed of Bergen, War
rem and Sussex and two townships In
Passaic, nailed down. There is a small
Republican vote in both Sussex and War
rem, the bulk of which the Taft organ
ization says it will get. Former Senator
Edmund w. Wakelee is leading the Taft
light In Bergen. He has a corps of
strong workers around him. The Roose-
welt people are not displaying so much
activity as their opponents.
In the Seventh District, which is Pas
sale County with the exception of two
townships, the Taft organization looks to
George Wright, the State water supply
commissioner; Assemblyman Thomas r.,
McCran and Assemblyman Radcliffe, who
Is to be a candidate for sheriff next fall,
to hold the delegates for Taft.
The other five districts are in Essex
and Hudson counties. On the Hudson
side of the river it doesn't look rosy for
Taft. The Progressives, under the lead
ership of George L. Record, and the Reg
ulars who pay allegiance to John Rother-
ham both are on the Roosevelt band
wagon, leaving Sam Dickinson to make
the fight alone for Taft.
One outlook in Essex is for an un-