Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-13
MANY IN CONTESTS /
FOR P. 0. POSITIONS.
MARITIME and Townsend Involved
in South Orange and Short
Hills Fight.

AS the time for the expiration OF
the. terms of Postmaster Frederick
b. TAYLOR, of South Orange, and
Postmaster William e. Lushear, OF
Short Hills, both Republicans, draws
near, the numerous Democratic can
didates for their offices are becom-
ing. extremely busy persons. Official
Washington is even all wrought up
over the coming appointments, and
CONGRESSMAN Edward w. Townsend
and Senator James e. MARITIME are
said to be arrayed against each otner
in the fights being waged
No less than eight men are out Tor
tho South Orange village postmas-
tership. while in Short HIS there
are seven candidates all told, includ-
ing two women. who SEX the ONCE
holm J. O'Hanlon and Edward A
Wallace are regarded as the most
likely of the many village candidates
RAYMOND b. Newcomb, Peter J. ker-
nan. William -. Gibby, G. Arthur
Burt Charles l. Beck, Andrew Nc
Donough, j. Budd Smith and James
=. MacGrath are considered by many
as possible selections of PRESIDENT
Woodrow Wilson, however.
Busiest of all the candidates Is
Mr. Wallace, who only recently went
to Washington, where he claims the
backing of many men prominent in
the Democratic party, especially tho
Wilson men. He is favored by SEN
ator MARITIME, who has long been n
personal acquaintance of the candl-
date Others who indorse Mr.. Wal
lace are Congressman Eugene II.
Kinkead and Thomas j. Sully and
Prosecutor Robert Il. Hudspeth. OF
Hudson county, and Naval officer
Wittpenn, of Jersey City. He has
also been Endorsed by the Wittpenn
League of Essex County. Mr.. Wal
lace is a newsdealer in South Orange.
support for oITanIon.
MIR. O'Hanlon, ndorsed by Con-
gressmen Townsend and Walter l.
Mccoy, is considered by many as the
most likely appointee. Mr.. O'Hanlon
was among the most ardent Wilson
workers at the polls in South Crane
at the presidential election. He has
always been n Democrat, serving for
several years as member of the
Democrtic County Committee. Nu-
merous citizens of the village, in
Guiding many residents of the fash
ionable Montrose section, have for
warded personal letters of recommen-
dalton to President Wilson and the
various congressman in favor of Mr..
O'Hanlon, who is head of a carriage-
painting establishment in South Ut
ange He is past exalted ruler of
South Orange Lodge No. 1854, b. +.
Q. f1lks
Mr.. Newcomb, who is freight agent
ut the Lackawanna station in East
ii0range, has forwarded to Washing
lit9dl "a petition containing the sigma
iflres of hundreds of the village resi-
lldhts who favor his selection. One of
1.-THE first in the race for Mr.. Taylor's
lplace was Mr.. Herman. Mr. Burt was
lalko among those to first announce
Ibis candidacy. Both are local bust
lness men. MIR. Ciibby, a Newark law
lynr, and member of the South Orange
1soard of Education, is said to have
been making quiet canvass.
I Mr.. McDonough, who is engaged in
i,usiness iii this city; Mr.. Smith, a
naster plumber in South Orange, a
member of the Board of Health and
Hoard of Playground Commissioners,
as well as Mr.. McGrath, most promi-
nent of all in the Wilson wing of the
Democratic party, are regarded as
OZARK horses"
Hot Fight i'm Short Hills.
Mr.. McGrath, however, has an
lnpunced that he is not a candidate
for the office. Postmaster Taylor
term of office expires on April 20.
Who is to be the postmaster at
Short Hills is the chief topic of con-
pensation in that suburb. The term OF
che present postmaster, William e.