The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-02
THIRD TICKETS IN ONLY
TWO JERSEY COUNTIES
Progressives Generally. Fight
to Control the Republican
Organizations.
FUSION IN MORRIS COUNTY
Congress Petitions Filed 1ndi-
cate Warm Contests for Sept.
"a Primaries.


seats in the House OF representatives
which fall 10 New Jersey under the new
Congressional apportionment act show
that only in two Of the twent -one counties
in the State will the Progressives put n
third party ticket afied. Tho contests
Of the Roosevelt aspirants in other counties
for the nominations 10 he made at the
open primaries Of September ~ have
resolved themselves into strifes between
the two fact ions for the regular Republi-
can nominations.
In Morris county the ProEessives
and regulars have entered into fusion
that gives the third party men TWO places
on the Republican Assembly ticket
and averts a third party nomination
for Congress.
Passaic and Hudson are the two counties
in which the third party movement is
to make itself manifest in the primary
poll No situation was ever more mixed
than that in Hudson county. A year ago,
"a the result Of a local factional war,
the Record forces secured control of the
Republican county committee. When
Roosevelt was ON mated at Chicago the
county committee repudiated Taft. The
committee, after Taft's renomination.
declared its purpose Of committing the
Republican Assembymen who should
be elected in Hudson to the nomination
in the State Republican convention of
which they may be part. Of electors who
will vote for Roosevelt
The declaration was ~ no particular
account so far as the Assembly ticket ia
concerned. because the coun'y ia 40 over
whelminglv Democratic that there IL
no apparent chance Of the Republicans
getting single member there. Rut
rs attitude Of opposition TO the regulars
has surrounded me Congressional con-
test in the new Twelfth Congress district
with perplexites Through his control
OF the county Republican machine. Geor ge
u Record was able 10 control the regular
Republican nomination for Congress
Mir Record cannot vote in the party
primary TO which he il appealing for
votes. The district was cut out for the
Democrats by about 1900 ma ajority and
, the indications are that there are not
enough Republicans and gressives
. combined in II 20 defeat the reelection of
Congressman James A. Hamill. who
practically has The field on the Democratic
side a to himself
In the other Democratic district in
Hudson, the Eleventh, covering Hoboken
and the north Hudson towns. the factions
| led by Mayor Wittpenn and bv Sheriff
! Peter Wedin and that representing the
/ ieaderless remnant OF the old Robert
Davis machine in the county are engaged
in the bitterest kind of struggle for the
ascendencv
The anti -wittpenr factions swing a
pretty fair stroke in Hudson county
| politics. and If they carry out their threats
they may hand that Democratic strong
hold over TO the Roosevelt men They
will endeavor to capture the nomination
for Congress for Recorder Mc(;overn of
Hoboken. The others talked OF for the
nomination in this district are Emil
Walscheid. a young North Hudson lawyer,
and John j. Egan and Cornelius Ford
In the two Newark districts the re-
nomination of Congressman J.. W. Town
send and Walter |. McCov seems to be
assured. United States Senator Marines
protegs, Congressman Tuttle. has no
opposition worth talking about in the
Fifth district. Congressman Scully in the
Third district is meeting with some oppoS-
tion because IL il said. after the Smith
me chine had named him and elected
him 10 the seat he holds he went over to
the Wilson camp, One of the localities
in which the old machine retains some
of its power is this district OF Mr. Scully's.
But the Congressman friends think it
is not able to harm him much, and he is
making his campaign for denomination
with every confidence in it's success,
There is big field of aspirants for the
seat from the Fourth district. to which
Congressman Ira W. Wood has refused
to be reelected. and for the other seat
that Congressman Hughes is supposed
TO he about to vacate. Mr.. Hughes is an
aspirant for the preferential nomination
for United States Senator on the Demo-
cratic side and has been much crit-
cisnd by impatient aspirants for the seat
because he has not yet stepped out of
their way.