Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-04-29
.BOLLSCHWEILER
OUT FOR WILSON
Circulate Petition for Sheriff
as Alternate At Large Fa-
voring Wilson.
FIND TAFT MEN SHY
Republican Machine Has
Hard Time Getting Men in
Ocean County to Run.

Petitions were placed IN clrcula-
| tion today in MiddleseX county en-
dorsing Sheriff Albert BollschweiIer,
| of this city, as an alternate-at-large
on the Wilson ticket to the Demo
cratic National convention to be held
in Baltimore the last week in June.
The petitions in this city will re
| handled by Collector of Revenue
Richard F. White, who was also
prominent in the circulation of the
| Scully petitions, which were signed
| by 1900 voters, endorsing the Mid
| dleseX county Congressman as a
| Wilson delegate from the Third
| Congressional district.
| No effort will be made by the Will
son leaders. they state, TO secure a
! large number of signers to the
| Bollschweiler petitions, as they be-
lieve the popularity of Governor
| Wilson In the state and the sheriff g
| ability as vote getter in Middlesex
sufficient to carry Perth Amboy' 8
former mayor to victory without any
display of enthusiasm following SO
closely on the heels of the Scully
| boom.
| 1t Is understood that Charles Far
rell, of Woodbridge, will run in op-
position to Sheriff Bollschweiler as
| alternate-at-large on the Anti-Wil-
| son ticket.
1t is now possible to get a line on
| the rival candidates for delegates to
the two national conventions from
the third congressional district. In
both parties the progressive element
I TO hn h. - t.
| been able to secure their delegates
| with the least trouble.
On the Republican ticket, where
the contest Is between Taft and
! Roosevelt. the delegates favorring
Roosevelt are as follows: Adrian
| Lyon, of Middlesex, and Clarence e.
| F. Hetrick, of Monmouth Alternates
William II. Jeffrey and Joseph b.
| Hoff, of Ocean.
On the Taft side, after much effort
the delegates will be James w. John
son, Of Middlesex, and Lewis s.
Thompson, OF Monmouth. The first
choice was Benjamin f. Howell, but
he refused to allow his name to be
used. Thompson is a resident of
New York, as much as Monmouth
county, and four years ago was an
anti-Taft delegate
But it is securing alternates that
the Taft men in the third district
find the most difficult. The alter
mates are given to Ocean county.
which Is the banner Republican
county in the district, but the SEN
timent there is so oyerwh elmingly
for Roosevelt that no one wants to
be an alternate for Taft. Former
Senator George G. Smith has finally
consented to be one. The other place
was offered to former Senator
Thomas A. Mathis, who while a Taft
man, refused to run because the
county seemed to him to be almost
unanimously the other way. Former
Senator A. c. B. Havens, of Toms
River, was the next choice and he
also refused for the same reason
The place on the ticket was then
passed around to County Clerk Hol-
man, former Township Collector Ca
leb Falkenburgh, and other prom
inent Republicans in the Ocean
county seat but so far no one has been
secured who IS willing to stand.
On the Democratic side OF the
Wilson delegates are Congressman
Thomas J. Scully, of Middlesew, and
State Senator John w. Slocum, of
Monmouth. The alternates are State
Senator George C. Low and Isaac w.
Carmichael, both of Ocean. Like the
Republican machine men, the Dem
ocratic standpatters had some trouble
getting their delegates, but after w.
Parker Runyon, of this city, had
declined, Samuel Schleimer, of Mid
dlesex. and DR.. o. c. Bogardus, of
Monmouth, were secured, the latter
running because he had been turned
down by Governor Wilson for reap
pointment on the Board of Assessors
The alternates have not yet been
made public, as far as known. They
will come from Ocean county if men
can be found there to make the run
against Wilson.