Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-11-06
FIGHT OVER, ALL
ARE OPTIMISTIC
Republicans Say That Defeat
was Only Result of the
Progressive Vote
DEMOCRATS ExUBERAhT
Bull Moose Party Supporters
Claim That Fight Has
Just Started

ueoudy tudI party Is eXuDerant over
its success, the Republican party
which widely outstripped the Pro.
gressive party is encouraged and the
Progressives feel as If the defeat was
mere "skirmish in a long war" in
effecting the principles of their party
according to leaders of the different
political faiths. Republicans say
that the small showing made by the
Progressives will take the enthusi.
asm out of the party, and that they
did not even poll enough to estab-
l1sh itself as a party to participate
In the primaries next year. Accord
ing to one Republican the party re-
ceived its death blow Tuesday. But
that defeat is only a stepping stone
to ultimate success is the way Pro-
gress1ve leaders in the city and
county view the situation.
County Chairman John Pfeiffer, of
the Republican County Committee,
declared this morning that Stokes
was defeated because of the exist
ence Of the Progressive party, which
he believes swung thousands of Re-
publican votes for Colby, which
otherwise would have gone for
Stokes. He stated that the Demo-
cratic success in the fourth ward was
entirely due to the candidacy of A.
K. A. Overgaard. of the Progressive
ticket, who pulled so votes, in which
ward John Kutcher, the Democratic
candidate won by only four votes
Many Demand Recount.
There Is talk In the Republican
ranks about ordering recount of
votes In this ward, and according to
one Of the workers in the party, a
recount would show that Chris An
dersen polled more than 331 votes.
The matter will be discussed at the
meeting of the Young Mems Republi-
can Club tonight. Leaders of the
party, however, say that as there
seems to be no evidence of errors in
the counting, that the matter will
probably be dropped. One said that
there would probably be contest il
the Republicans had gained the sixth
ward, but as 1t is, even if the fourth
ward was theirs, it would still make
Democratic majority in the coun-
Gil. AS 1t is said that there were
only four ballots thrown out from
this ward, one of which was Dem
ocratic, the recount is not likely to
be made. Chris Andersen, the de-
feated Republican candidate, has not
expressed any intention of having a
recount to close friends.
The unprecedented sweep of every
poll in the city except the first dis
tr1ct OF the first ward, by w. Guy
Weaver, Democratic candidate for
alderman-at-large, is one of the most
gratifying results of the election to
the party. In the first poll of the
first ward, In which Mr.. Wilson lives,
Weaver received 80 votes and Wilson
80. Mr.. Weaver's plurality of
1,068 In the city even outranks the
precedent of LOAF plurality estab-
Hshed by Mayor Ferd Garreson
when he was popularly elected mayor
last year.
Future for Progressives.
According to former Judge Adrian
Lyon, recently elected as state com
mitteeman from the county for the
Progressive party, the long fight of
the Progressiyes has just begun.
Judge Lyon, when asked If he
thought the party would continue its
light after its defeat throughout the
state, said: "The Progressive party
Will surely continue the fight. There
Is every reason why it should"
County Chairman j. A. Edgar, of
New Brunswick, who was defeated
for the assembly on the Progressive
ticket, expressed similar sentiments
when interviewed by a NEWS man
this morning. He characterized the
election as only "skirmish" in a
long fight for the principles of the
party. ''The work of the party is
not one battle" he said, "but it is
war. We did not expect to poll as
many votes this year as we did under
The leadership of the personality of
Roosevelt last year." He predicted
hat in the future there would be
,wo big parties, the progressive or
'adical party, and the reactionary
party, composed of the ultra-conser-
yatives of both the Republican and
Democratic party.
Judge Lyon, when asked his opin-
on OF the future of the Progressive
)arty, said: 81 think the Progressive
)arty controls the future of the Re-
publican party When asked if they
would have ticket in the field next
vear as they had this, he said that
le saw no reason why they should !
lot. When asked If he thought that
he election showed that the Repub- |
lean party is disintegrating, he said |
le thought 1t did. AS to the local |
Of the Progressive party |
Ie thought 1t would continue fighting
or the principles of the party.
Mr.. Edgar said that he felt the
progressive party have got to fight !
t out on the principles adopted by |
he party. He declared that the
ght had been conducted purely for
he principles at stake and not the
ffices. 1--WE are not seeking Offices"
70 said, when asked II he thought
be enthusiasm in the party would
,ane following the results of Tues
ay. ''If 1t were the expediency of
ffices for which we were fighting the
lection might have ended the move
lent." But because of the charac-
er and principles Of the party, he
eclared the Progressires would con-
hue to be active. He declared that
s far as he could learn in the county
be Progressive party polled more
han fifty per cent. of the ballots cast I
or Roosevelt last year. Speaking of i
results he said: al think
70 did fairly we'll, considering what
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