The Penn's Grove record., 1912-05-10
JERSEY PRIMARY
FORCES LINED UP
Taft and Wilson Workers Con-
dent of Carrying State.
500 DELEGATE CANDIDATES
Third Anti-Taft Ticket Expected to
Help the President-Many
Wilson P~Iaceholders
Running.
Especial Trenton Correspondence

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-With the petitions of can
didates for seats in the two National
Conventions all on file in the offices Of
the designated officials, the campaign
for the Presidential primaries that are
to be held in New Jersey on May %
has now something like definiteness.
In the list of aspirants, including those
for Gov. Wilson and against him on
the Democratic side, for President Taft
and against him on the Republican
side, are more than 500 names. The
outlook is for an unusually busy and
animated three weeks of ante-primary
work on the part of all hands.
Notwithstanding the setbacks he has
been getting in other States, Gov. Viii
sons friends yet have faith in their
ability to end a State delegation favor
ing him to the Baltimore Convention,
and Senator Austen Colgate, who has
been made the chief of the Taft forces
in the State, has eve less apprehen-
sion that Roosevelt will get away with
the State delegation to the Chicago
Contention.
A survey of the lists Of names shows
places in which there are likely to be
tangles that will have marked effects
upon the outcome of the primary
struggle. In the Congressional dis
tricts around Camden and Atlantic
Counties the Roosevelt and La Fol
lette anti-Taft tickets have been sup
%plemented by a third anti-Taft ticket,
which will be labeled on the official
ballot as "U%npledged." State Senator
Walter E. Edge of Atlantic County is
the chief figure on n of these. The
Roosevelt men say that these tickets
of "unpledged" candidates are a de-
vice Of the Taft people to draw votes
away from the Roosevelt ticket, and
that is just the effect the politicians
expect to see them produce. The
Roosevelt tickets there are besides
there are five names for the two dele
gate seats. The result is likely to be
such a division of the anti-Taft vote
among the three tickets, and among
the too many aspirants even on the
Roosevelt tickets, as to give the Taft
ticket in the three southern Congress
sional districts an easy plurality.
The presence of the name of Frank
McDermott on the anti-Wilson Demo
cratic ticket as a candidate for dele
gate at large is expected, too, to pro-
duce confusion that may cost the anti
Wilson movement some votes. His
name on the ticket makes a group of
five, while the electors are to choose
only four. A current rumor has it
that the anti-Wilson men may per
suade Mr.. McDermott to withdraw,
but the Wilson men say they will also
exert all their influence to keep him in
the poll. One of his colleagues in the
anti-Wilson group is George w. Young,
the New York banker, who welded
Nine. Nordica. Mr.. Young is said to
have ambitions to reach the United
States Senate some time, and that he
has chosen this opportunity.
The number of Wilson appointees
who appear in the list of candidates is
attracting much attention all over the
State. The unusual spectacle Of two
judiciary appointees, both of whom
owe their places to him, is presented
in Hudson County, where Mark A. Sui
livan, Judge of the State Court of Err
rors and Appeals, is running as a Will
o delegate, and in Passaic, where
eX-Congressman Hughes, whom the
Governor recently made Presiding
Judge of the Passaic county courts, is
also a Wilson candidate.
That some of his most favored ap
pointees are even candidates on the
Roosevelt ticket gives rise to rumors
that a flop of the Roosevelt men in
Hudson County to Wilson, in the
event of his nomination against Taft,
is in contemplation. The names most
talked of in this connection are those
of James w. Mccarthy and George L.
Record, the n a Roosevelt candidate
in the Eighth and the other in the
Tenth District.