Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-25
EXECUTIVE BODY
I ENDORSES NUGENT
City Counsel Gets Great Ova.
ton When Proposed for
: State Committeeman.
FOUR NEW CANDIDATES IN
FIELD FOR LEGISLATURE
Democratic County Committee
to Meet Tomorrow to o.
K. City Aspirants.

The fight for the Democratic nomt-
nation for governor was forgotten for
the time being yesterday, when Essex
county Democrats constituting the
Executive committe OF the county
committee gathered at Avon to make
recommendations of candidates fer
the various city, county and State
offices.
Nominations were made Of candi-
dates for the Assembly, Board CT
Works, Board of Freeholders and for
city home trustee. The resomnenda-
fions will be submitted to the county
committee, which will meet tomorrow
/. night.
Great Ovation for Nugent.
During the discussion of the various
possibilities City Auditor James A
Rowe, after paying a glowing tribute
10 city Counsel James r. Nugent
moved that the executive committee
indorse Mr.. Nugent for the position of
State committeeman. Mr.. Rowe's
speech, in which he called Mr.. Nugent
,'the greatest leader in the State" was
the signal for an ovation to the latter.
! Mr.. Nugent explained to the mem
ers of the committee, after they had
assembled, that, under the new law,
party conventions had been abolished
and that since then such gatherings
as the present one had been held.
Practical politics made 1t necessary
10 go over the list of available men
. TO find out the men who would be best
suited, Mr.. Nugent said.
1t had always been the custom to
give men who had proven their eff
ficiency when in office a denomination.
Mr.. Nugent said, and 1t was, there
. fore, great pleasure for him TO
recommend eight Of the present as
Bemblymen for denomination
Those Not Named for Assembly.
Those whose names were not placed
on the Assembly ticket were John J.
Bracken, Louis Lewis, William e.
Mcguire and John A. Matthews. Mr..
Bracken asked to be excused from
running this year, and Mr.. Lewis's
name was placed on the ticket as
freeholder. Mr.. Mcguire is at present
working in the State comptroller's
office. and Matthews, of course, was
eliminated because of the stand he
took in the Legislature against every
measure proposed by any OF his col
leagues
The eight men who were recon-
mended for denomination were As
senblymen Charles A. Nutting, Ben
hett II. FISHER. Laurence McCabe,
ir., Frank A. Foley, Hubert j. Rowe,
Simon L. Fisch, Joseph It. Papscoe
and Joseph p. Bloom.
Nine Candidates proposed.
In place of the four vacancies nine
candidates were proposed, from
which number the final choice fell on
the following: Michael II. Castellano,
First Ward; Edward c.. Eaton, Sec
pnd Ward; James r. Byrne, Sixth
Ward, and Michael j. Quigley, Six
teenth Ward, all of this city.
Others who had been proposed
were Thomas J. Kenny, Fourth
Ward; William McTague. Eighth
Ward; Thomas ]. Sinnott, jr., Sec
ond Ward, and William ]. Byrne,
Orange, and C. w. Lentz, of East
Orange.
Z Although there were more candi-
! dates than vacancies to fill the mar
rowing down process come
about very quickly.
. Rivalry, If such 1t may be called,
. developed only on the question of
! getting together on fourteen candi-
! dates which We're proposed for the
: three freeholders to be voted for this
/. fall. Here the final choice was Louis
! Lewis, of the Sixteenth ward, this
city: P. Allen Smith, of Orange, and
) Thomas Cannon, of West Orange
Z The settling on a candidate from
! Newark did not necessitate much dis
2 cussion, but Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Gan
(. non had hard time when their re-
spective delegations got together
Cannon Wins by One Vote.
!. Mr.. Cannon was opposed by Frank
: j Black, OF Montclair, and the vote
!. of the fifteen representatives from tho
townships, exclusive of Orange and
i, Belleville, gave Cannon but one vote
: over his opponent.
: Mr.. Smith had three rivals. William
/, Byrne, Fred C. Sham and James I'm
: derwood. The first ballot of the Or
ange delegation stood, Smith 2. and
the others l vote each. On the sec
(. ond ballot Smith won one more vote
= and thereby became the choice.
Others who had been mentioned
: for freeholder were Edward c. Eaton.
James p. Rogers, John McEnroe,
John J. Brady, Frank A. oliver,
I Frederick r.. Cook, Frank ]. Black
Z and Michael J. Doyle
The objection raised against Mr..
Cannon rested on the point that he
came from West Orange, while there
was already one Orange man in the
Z person of Mr.. Smith. Against this
1t was stated that Mr.. Cannon, who
had been a freebooter, was legis-
lated out of office before his term
expired when the freeholder board
was reduced to nine members. It IS
understood, however, that when the
recommendation in favor of Mr.. Gan
non comes up tomorrow night at the
county committee the Black men will
be on hand and try to have their
man chosen.
Louis Lewis NewarISs Choice.
While the townships were discuss
, Ing the freeholders the city members
made their choice for the freeholder
from Newark which fell on Assem-
f, blyman Louis Lewis. Tho choice OF
! the one Board of Works candidate
70 be voted for was unanimous for
/. the present commissioner, Patrick H.
Ryan, whose term expires. The
7 choice of William II. Barkhorn, for
City Home trustee. the present in