Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-15
VOTE MAY CHANGE
SENATE POLITICS
Republicans Must Elect Six,
Democrats Three, to Get
Control This Fall.

81 TRENTON, April 15.--The terms Of
eight Senator'S of the recent session
of the Legislature expire next Jan
uary and the result of the election
J this fall will determine the conf
plexion of next years upper house.
FIVE Republican Senators win so ont
Of office before the 1915 Legislature
.eonvenes and the terms of three
Democratic Senators expire before
Fiat time The Republican Senators
whose terms expire are: Read, CAM
den; Colgate. Essex; Gaunt, Glouces-
ter. Smalley Somerset. and Pierce,
Union. The Democratic Senators who
90 out are Slocum. Monmouth; Smith,
Salem, and Barber, Warren.
Senator Smith was only elected last
fall, but he was not chosen for n full
term, but for the unexpired term OF
former Senator j. Warren Davis, who
resigned to become United States dis
trict attorney.
Senator White. Republican, OF Bur
lington, will enter the primaries for
a Congressional seat this fail. ac-
cording to gossip here, and Senator
Aokley, Democrat, OF Cumberland,
also has aspirations to go to Con-
gress, and both may be rival candi-
dates in the First Congressional dis
trict. If these two Senators decide
to enter the race they may resign
their places in the Senate, and this
would necessitate the election of two
additional Senator's this fall.
As conditions stand at present
eight of the present eleven Senator'S
composing the Democratic majority
will hold over. The Republicans will
have five holdover Senators and must
elect six of the eight candidates rum
ming this fall to gain a majority of
The twenty-one men who sit in the
upper house. The Democrats would
nave to elect but three Senators this
fall to retain control of the Senate
next year.
The Democratic holdover Senators
are: Hennessy, Bergen; Wheaton,
Cape May; Ackley, Cumberland;
Egan. Hudson; Martens, Hunterdon;
Ramsay, Middlesex; McGinnis, Pas
sale, and Munson, Sussex.
The Republican follower Senators
are: Edge, Atlantic; White, Bur
lington; Hutchinson. Mercer; Rath-
bun, Morris, and Mathis, Ocean.
Of the eight Senators whose terms
expire this year it is understood here
they will all seek recollection with the
exception of President Slocum, of
Monmouth. Former Speaker of the
Assembly and Acting Governor Leon
r Taylor, of Avon, is anxious to re-
turn to the Legislature and Is under
stood to have the backing of the
Monmouth Democrats for the Demo
cratic Senatorial nomination. County
Collector Charles Mcdonald is also
understood to have aspirations to
succeed Senator Siocum.
Minority Leader Read. of Camden,
is almost sure to be returned to the
Senate If he enters the primaries for
the nomination.
Senator SmaIley, of Somerset, is be-
iieyed to have q hard fight ahead OF
him for reelection. Rumors here are
that Speaker Beelkman will be can
6idate for the Democratic nomination
for Senator IN Somerset.
ATLANTIC CITY, April 14.-Mayor
Riddle announces not only himself,
but also Commissioner Harry Bach
arach as candidates for the As
sembly to succeed the present legis-
iators, Emerson Richards and Carl
ton Godfrey. That n cog was slipped
somewhere was brought out when Mr..
Bacharach bluntly denied the story,
ssying: mo, indeed, 1 am not can
didate for any Office. have all the
Jobs I can handle and do not want
any more"