Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-15
JUDGE MOUNTAIN
READY TO ENTER
!. MAYORALTY RACE
Viii Run in East Orange It
Voters Convince Him He
Is Wanted.

Provided petitions that are being
circulated in his behalf are signed
by a sufficient number of voters to
convince him that he is wanted for
the office Judge Worral F. Mountain,
of the East Orange District Court
VIII be a candidate for mayor of that
city on the Republican ticket at the
September primaries. This announce
ment was made today by Philemon
E. Woodruff, chairman of the Citi-
zeas' Committee of Fifty, following
a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the organization last night.
Judge Mountain, Mr.. Woodruff said,
also stipulated that the couneilmanic
candidates the organization VIII rec
ommend to the voters must agree TO
be In accord with his platform
pledges before he will consent to as
pire to the office.
Two Of the petitions for the jurist
are already in circulation, and Mr..
Woodruff today requested City Clerk
Lincoln E. Rowley to secure a dozen
more from the county clerk as quick
" as possible.
The declaration that Judge Noun
tain has consented to run for the
Office stirred political circles this
morning, and incidentally brought the
political situation to an acute stage.
Former County Clerk John B. Wool
ston, for whom petitions are also be-
ing circulated to become a mayor
atty candidate, said he is not pre-
pared to say that he will enter the
race
Mayor Julian A. Gregory. whom the
Democrats are trusting will seek a
third term, was not at his office to-
day, and it could not be ascertained
IL he has as yet made UP his mind
TO oppose the successful Republican
candidate at the November election.
Though Mr.. Woolston has not said
positively he will run, his closest
friends and workers are firm in the
belief that he cannot decline, in view
of the fact that so many voters nave
signed his petitions. 1t is understood
that nearly eight hundred signatures
are already on Mr.. Woolston's petit
lions, though they have been In eircu-
lation only about ten days. His work
ers declare that the moment Mr..
Woolston says he will aspire to the
office at least a couple of hundred
more names win be added to the petit
tions.
Both Judge Mountain and Mr.. Wool
ston are actively identified with the
Republican Club, of East Orange, and
the former county clerk is chairman
of the Republican city executive COM
mittee.
The committee recently appointed
by the last named organization to rec
ommend mayoralty candidate has
arranged meeting for Friday night,
after which, it is declared on good au-
thority, that Mr.. Woolston will con-
sent to enter the race.
1t became known today that the
committee had conference with the
committee selected by the Citizens or
ganization to recommend INT" mayor
atty candidates last Monday night.
The representatives of the Citizens
body told the executive committee
members that Judge Mountain was
their choice, but the others merely re-
seiSee the announcement and did not
say that the jurist would be the choice
Of the executive committee.
II was with great difficulty that
: idge< Mountain was induced to run,
ftos9 affiliated with the Citizens or
gaIiization say. He repeatedly declared
he did not want the office and that
nothing could induce him to accept 1t.