Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-30

has received handsome engrossed
certificate showing the periods when
he was the acting Executive. The GER
tificate is engrossed ON parchment in
a highly ornamental style and bears
the signature of Governor Wilson. 1T
shows that former Senator Ackerman
was acting Governor in 1911 from
April to April Is; from May to
June A; from October 25 to October 81,
and from November 16 to November
21.
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A circular letter to the farmers of
the state has been issued by the New
Jersey Exposition Commission which,
in conjunction with the Second Amer
ican Land and Irrigation Exposition,
is to provide an exhibit of farm and
orchard products of the state in New
York next fall The letter calls at
tention to the exhibit and asks the CO.
operation of all farmers in making
the display one which adequately will
represent New Jersey as the farm and
garden state. The letter says:
THE Commission is desirous that
New Jersey shall be properly repre-
sented at this great land show. Ade-
quate space has been procured and
the hearty cooperation of each and
every society and individual interested
in agriculture, horticulture, fioricul-
ture, dairying, etc, is earnestly So
licited. Every effort will be made to
make New Jerseys exhibit second to
none"
Elmer Bradshaw, the new Secretary
of the Commission, has established
headquarters in the office of the State
Board of Agriculture at the State
House.
Owing to the fact that clause was
omitted from the new law permitting
volunteer workers without compensa-
tion to transport voters to polls, the
new statute could not apply to the pri-
mary election ON Tuesday, as was
originally intended, so that voters had
to walk to the polls or lose their vote.
Under a statute passed several years
ago all bills which do not have a
clause stating when they shall take
effect, become effective on July 4 fol-
lowing their enactment. This new
law, therefore, will not take effect un-
til July 4, next.
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The question of the right of county
tax boards, whose political complex
ion is changed to choose new secre-
taries of a new political faith, is
pending before the State Civil Service
Commission The question was rails
ed by the Republican Secretaries of
the Tax Boards of Atlantic, Somerset
and Union Counties In each case
the Board became Democratic by the
appointments of Governor Wilson, and
in each case refused to re-elect the
Republican Secretary and chose a
Secretary who is Democrat. The
question at issue is whether or not
Secretaries of County Tax Boards
have fixed terms of one year. The
Democrats claim that they have, tho
subject The Republicans hold that
there is no fixed term and that, there
fore, the Secretaries are protected by
Civil Service rules and cannot be re-
moved.
Governor Wilson has appointed the
New Jersey Commission on thesIntcr-
national Congress on Hygiene, which
will be held at Washington, D. C.,
September 23 to Is. Those named
were DR.. A. C.. Hunt, of Metucheoa; !;
DR.. Stewart A. Patton, of Princeton; !;
DR.. George E. Mclaughlin, of Jersey
City, DR. Henry "A. Cotton, Medical
Director of the State Insane Hospital
in this city, and DR.. Richard G. New
ton, of Montclair.
The june term of the Supreme
Court will open next Tuesday at the
State House and one of the most Inn
portant cases on the list will be the
application of Attorney General Will
son at the request of Governor Will
son for determination of whether
the Pierce grade crossing bill is a
law The taking of dispositions on
the application was completed on
Monday, when Senator Pierce testi-
fled that the Governors message We
toing the bill was received first in
the Senate, but was not acted upon
there owing to the contention that
the bill in it's final form was an As
sembly substitute which, having or
iginated in the House, the veto should
have gone to that branch OF the Leg
islature. This case is one of those
set down for argument on the open
ing day of the term
With the voters of the state having
their first opportunity of expressing
directly their preference for Presi-
dent, and also casting their ballots
for the frst time at a direct election
for candidates to the National Con-
ventions, the Presidential primary
was held throughout New Jersey yes
terday afternoon. The polls opened
at one O'Clock p. m. and closed at
8 p. M. Owing to the fact that the
campaign issues have been freely dis
eussed in every section of the state
by the candidates, the interest in the
voting was very general, though the
votes fell far short of the total num-
Der of legal voters in the state. This
was due in part to the fact that hum
dreds who did not cast their ballots