Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-02-29

flag to be displayed upon each Court
House and City Hall every business
lday and prohibiting the removal from
the State of more than so reed or rail
birds in one days hunting.
$3.50
DR.. Calvin N. Kendall, State Com
missioner of Education, delivered an
address in st. Louis, Tuesday before
1.-The National Convention of City and
State Superintendents, Principals of
Normal Schools, and Heads of Uni
versities and Departments of Educa-
ton. He spoke on the value of edu-
cational commissions in determining
the efficiency of school systems.
The Presidential campaign which
is just opening in this State will be of
unusual interest because of a contest
in both the great political parties.
The Taft-Roosevelt contest for the
nomination, which bids fair to be one
of the greatest fights the Republican
party has ever known, will be warmly
waged in the state. The regular Re-
publicans are doing everything in
their power to combat the Roosevelt
Progressives and to keep the State
in the Taft column
The Democrat contest will center
around the efforts of former United
States Senator James Smith, Jr., to
prevent the election of delegates to
the National Democratic Convention
who will be favorable to the nominal
tion of Governor Wilson for the Presi-
dency. Senator Smith, it is said has
lieutenants at work in an endeavor
to pick men who will run as delegates
at the primaries next May against the
Wilson candidates. The ,open pri-
mary method of choosing National
delegates this year will bring nov
city into the campaign and will make
l. difficult to predict just what the
outcome will be.
The Pierce grade crossing bill, one
of the big measures of the present
session, was passed by the Senate
yesterday after a lively debate. 1t
provides for the removal of one dan
gerous grade crossing for every 30
miles of track operated by railroad
company, the State Public Utility
Commissioners being given the power
% determine which grade crossings
are dangerous and should be removed.
Senator Pierce, in advocating the bill
said it would mean practically the re-
moval of 84 dangerous crossings an
nually. Some of the Democratic Sem
ators opposed the bill because it re-
quires a municipality to pay Is per
cent of the cost of abolishing grade
crossing if the municipality applies
for the removal.
*****
Assemblyman McAllister, of Cum
berland, introduced in the House yes
terday resolution for the amendment
of the State Constitution to permit
women to vote. It is duplicate of
the resolution already introduced in
the Senate by Senator Gebhardt.
The Republican Publicity League,
which was launched some time ago
in this county by former Governor E.
c. Stokes, will hold meeting here
Friday evening to plan a campaign to
carry the movement into other sec
tions of the State. The purpose of
the organization is. to foster Repub-
licanism and to keep the public ac-
quainted with what the Republican
party is doing.
With ony six Assemblymen voting
in the negative the House has passed
the Gill bill which repeals the mini
mum examination clause of last years
school law. This section of the law
which eliminates term work as part
of the basis of promotion in the pub
lie school has been for several weeks
the subject of a bitter controversy
The repeater received "A votes in the
Assembly and is now in the Senate,
where the fight against it will be re-
newed by the educators who are op-
posed to it. Seven of the Senators
who last year voted for the law are
still in the Senate as follows: Fielder,
Fitzherbert, Johnson, Low. Prince,
Price and Silzer.
Industrial accidents in New Jersey
last year caused the serious injury
or death of Ills persons while at
work, according to the industrial ac-
cident report just issued by Winton
c. Garrison, Chief of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. OF the number, $40
workmen were killed outright or fa-
tally hurt, leaving 77S who were SER
iously injured.
80 4 y
That New Jersey is not yet ready to
abolish the death penalty for murder
was shown in the Assembly few days
ago when the Revision of Laws Com
mittee made an adverse report on the
Hennessy bill for this purpose. An
effort to override the committee re-
port and have the bill go on second
reading, was defeated by vote of "a
to 26.
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Senator Harry D. Leavitt, of Mer-
Ger county, who has been supporter
of Theodore Roosevelt for renomina-
tion, is not in favor of the stand tax
en- by Colonel Roosevelt in his Col
umbus speech. The Senator disagrees
with the former President on the lat
ter's proposal to apply the recall to
judicial decisions Senator Leavitt
says that in his opinion, the logical
outcome of such theory would be