Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-05
ESSEX IS DIVIDED
ON THE ASSEMBLY
! REPRESENTATIVES
Split Gives Republicans at
Least Two, Balance Going
TO Democrats.
COUNTY q. O. P. SWEEP
ON FREEHOLDER TICKET
Fielder Carries Essex by More
Than 600, but Loses in New
ark-coIby's Showing Poor. =

Ten Democrats and two Republi-
cans will represent Essex county In
the Assembly next year. according to
the figures compiled by the Evening
Star from the official election re-
turns yesterday.
Three Republicans We're elected to
The Essex County Board of Freehold
ers. The board will stand next year
as it does now, six Republican and
three Democratic members.
Governor ELECT James r. Fielder
was given a plurality of Gil in the
county over Edward c. Stokes, the
Republican candidate.
The twelve men elected to the As-
sembly from Essex county in the
order in which they stood in the vote
are:
Edward G Eaton, Democrat, 22,71O;
votes; James Roosevelt Byrne, Demo-
crat, 22706; Bennett III. Fisher, Demo-
crat 22625; Frank A. Foley, Demo-.
erat. 22.576: Thomas j. Smith, Repub-
lican. 22.563; Lawrence McCabe. IT.,
Democrat, 22.553; Michael 7. Quig-
ley. Democrat, 22,534; Charles A. Nut
ting. Democrat, % .4S4: Hubert j.
Rowe Democrat 22,462; Joseph B.
Bloom, Democrat. 22,415; Simon L..
Fisch, Democrat, 22,S61; W. ChVe
Crosby. Republican, 22,352.
George NJ Titus. Eugene IT Scud-
der and Harry ID. Johnson. all Re
n,Iblicans. were thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth on the list, each having
over %, 900 votes.
Joseph f. Papscoe, member or
the 1918 Legislature. was the low man
ON the Democratic ticket. His total
Sate was q, ,756. or 954 votes less than
Eaton. Democrat. the high man on
both tickets.
William II. williams stood lowest
On the Republican ticket with Il, 4SS
votes, or 1,064 votes less than that
received by Thomas j. Smith, who
received the high Republican vote.
1t was not until the very last dis
tliet 10 come in the Second district
Of the Tenth ward. was received ar
the City Hall at 6:15 today, that IL
became possible to tell whether the
Democratic or Republican Assembly
ticket had been successful. Returns
received last night and early in the
morning indicated the election OF the
Democratic ticket by a small ma
iority. but this majority was wiped
-sfdit when the returns from the county
districts had ali been received.
The votes cast by the National Pro-
llibition. Socialist and Socialist LABOR
Ill
and had little il any bearing on the
results of the other parties.
The ProgressiVes failed to mate
rialize with their expected strength
and fell six to seven thousand shy OF
the vote cast by the Republicans ana
Democrats. making an especially
poor showing in the western Essex
towns Cavicchia headed the tlckeC
with q total vote Of 1886, with van
Ierali as the bottom man with 3.2Ol'
The result of the election Tor three
members of the Board of F'reeholders
was in doubt until practically all OF
the returns were in, although the
three Republican candidates obtained
n lead early i'll the evening that they
maintained throughout.
William CardWell. former mayof OF
East Orange, led the ticket; Ernest
Syman was second: Walter A. Evans,
present director of the board was
tbird. The pluralities of the three Re-
puhlicans was in the neishborhood or
= coo over their Democratic opponents.
Wallace Ougheltree, Edward Wins
low and Daniel Ruder, tho Progressive
candidates, failed to make the run
ilat had beer expected Of them and
were far behind the Republican and
Democratic candidates
NUM- Quinn AND Stein, the three
candidates who represented the viii
son Democratic principles, got mighty
few votes il the county. Their totals
We're near the 1000 mark.
Govemor-elect James r. Fielder
RULED through with plurality of Oil
in the county. although he was beaten
IN the city OF Newark by a couple of
hundred votes Early returns indi-
Gated that Stokes was going to have
"A. healthy plurality in the county, but
his early lead was gradually cut down
by Fielder.
Fielder received a total of 25,229
votes In the county, against 24,61S for
stokes.
The showing made by former Sena-
tor Everett Colby was disappointing
to his friends, especially to those who
had wagered that he would poll ut
least 10000 votes in the county. He
fell far shy of that figure, getting a
total of but IL, 365. polling 6,132 of these
in the county districts, his vote in the
city Of Newark being but 5,2Ss.