Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-07-25
DIR TRENTON LETTER
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party will more definitely declare


tory to the meeting of the Republican
State Committee in Newark and dis
cussed the question of his resignation
as Chairman of the committee. He
said that while he did not expect to
resign as chairman at once there were
| two reasons why he would vacate the
office at an early date. One was the
fact that he is to seek reelection as
! United States Senator and he does not
/ think it would be exactly ethical in a
political sense for him to manage the
State campaign as committee chairman
| at the same time that he is before the
people as a candidate for Senator.
The other reason was the outlook that
| the Senate win be in session for a
considerable period yet and he will be
needed in Washington. 1t is expected
that a special meeting of the COM
mittee will be called soon at which
time he will tender his resignation.
Following his interview with Rep
resentatiye Sabbath, of Illinois, this
week, about his views on immigration,
Governor Wilson has issued signed
statement intended to make clear to
the foreign-born citizens just how he
regards the question of immigration.
The whole question was raised by the
political enemies of the Governor en-
deavoring to injure him by quoting
from his History of the American
People, the phrase The lower and
meaner sort of people from Southern
Europe" The Governor declared that
he is for sound immigration and that
he favors only such regulation of inn
migration as will guard the health
and moral welfare of the United
States.
SIS
Secretary of State Crater will issue
next week the instructions" for the
use of election officers and others and
which is a chronological compilation
of the election laws of the State. 1t
will show that the first registry day
throughout the State will be Septem-
iber 10th, the second day for regis
tration and also the primary election
for the nomination of all candidates,
including congressman, state senator's,
assemblymen and all local officers will
be September 24th. The final regis
try day in all municipalities exceeding
5000 population will be October 22d,
and in all municipalities of less than
5000 population, October 29th. Both
party State Conventions will be held
in Trenton, October LIST, and on this
date also the county committee will
hold it's annual meeting.
State Motor Vehicle Commissioner
Lippincott has adopted the colors for
the automobile license tags for this
State for 1918, and they will be pure
white ground with maroon letters and
figures. The specifications on which
bids will be solicited for the 10000
pairs of regular tags and 5000 manu-
facturer's tags required have been
changed so that they are open, per-
hitting all manufacturers to bid. 1t
is expected that this plan will save
the State considerable money.
State politicians up from Sea Girt
yesterday discussed actively the plans
for the campaign to elect Governor
Wilson president, and which opened
in earnest this week, following the
appointment of the National Campaign
| Committee and the opening of head
quarters. In all the comment one
thing stood out prominently and that
was that this is going to be an origin
al fight as far as the Democrats are
concerned. Governor Wilson is dictat-
| ing all the plans and as one Democrat
put it: ANY campaign that Governor
| Wilson directs is certain to bristle
with originality Continuing, this
man said the party fight will be got
out by the Governor on pattern OF
his own.
The economy and Efficiency Com
mission authorized by the last Legis-
lature is making comparisons with
the methods of conducting govern
mental functions in other States, their
relations, special duties, and salary
budgets, the avowed purpose being to
promote greater economy and efflclen-
cy in the State departments and
boards of New Jersey The Commits
sion, through it's clerk, Howard B.
Tindall, is collecting data that ulti-
mately may show wherein the State,
by uniting a few kindred departments
and commissions, can reduce its pre-
sent fixed charges by several thou-
sands of dollars annually
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According to a report just issued
by Joseph P. Byers, State Commis-
sioner of Charities and Corporations,
there was a net increase of SO III the
number of insane persons in the in
sane hospitals of the State during the
month of May The total number OF
insane persons enrolled in all the
hospitals on June list was 6705. On
the same date the total number OF
converts in the prison and reforma-
tory was 1866, a net increase during
the month of 26 The grand total OF
all classes of wards OF the State on
June 1st was 1,460, the net increase
during the month was 100.
The State Civil Service Commission
bos certified tn fhn County JudqeS