Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-07-16
Think G. 0. P.
WILL GAIN IN
CONGRESS FIGHT
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Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Trenton, July 16.-With a meet
! ing of the Democratic State Commit
tee set for next Wednesday In con-
| nection with shore dinner at
Prices, Pleasure Bay, rendered by
hartman Grosscup; and with
the Republican State Committee to
meet within the ne0t two or three
weeks, interest Is growing rapidly
/ in the New Jersey Congressional
campaign. At each Of these COM
mittee meetings, the congressional
fights will be given special considera-
tion.
| State House politicians are fgur-
| ing out the probable result OF the
congressional election in this state
in November. The present New Jer-
sey delegation in the house OF rep
resentatives at Washington COM
prises ten Democrats to two Repub-
licans, the latter being William J..
1 Browning in the First District, and
Dow H. Drukker in the Seventh Dis
trict Both these congressman will
| be candidates for reelection. The
new Seventh District comprises all
of Passaic county but the two north
erly townships.
The First and Second Districts In
South Jersey; the Fourth District,
comprising Mercer, Hunterdon and
Somerset, and the Seventh District
are normally Republican by safe
majority. Two years ago all OF them
but the First went Democratic in
the landslide for Wilson. This year
| conditions are widely different and
/ the Republicans claim they will car
| ry all Of them. Without a doubt
! the Progressive vote will show a
i great falling off In these districts
this year, as will be the case all
over the state, and this will aid the
| .epublicans. Not much Progressive
activity is being manifested In these
districts except in Cumberland, Mer-
Ger and Passatc counties. The oppo-
sition to President Wilson is strong
er than 1t was two years ago, the
Democratic administration at Wash
ington will be subjected to the usual
attack that every administration suf-
fers in the first congressional fight
after 1t goes into office.
These factors in the opinion OF po-
litical prophets at the State House,
seem to favor Republican victory
In these four districts. The Demo-
cratic leaders, however, refuse to
| concede this. They claim they will
hold the Second and Fourth Dis
tricts, and that with Sheriff Joseph
E. Nowrey, OF Camden, as a candi-
date against Browning, they will
even carry the First District.
The Third District, comprising
| Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex
Counties, the Sixth District, made up
of Bergen, Sussex and Warren, and
the northerly end of Passaic county
and the Eleventh and Twelfth Dis
tricts in Hudson county rather favor
the Democrats, and the State House
politicians are placing these districts
at present In the Democratic column.
This leaves the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth
and Tenth Districts as the real fight
Ing ground in the congressional cam
paign. The Fifth District includes
Morris and Union counties; the
Eighth District extends over a por-
tion of both Essex and Hudson coun-
| ties and the Ninth and Tenth Dis
tricts are wholly within Essex
county.
The Democratic pride in standing
by the President in his home state
| Will be one factor that will favor the
Democratic congressional candidates
all over the statee. This is likely
to be neutralized, however, by the
contest between the Fielder follow
ers and the Wfttpenn man In the
campaign this year for a vantage
ground in the fight for the governor
ship in 1916. In summing up the
present congressional situation the
State House politicians figure that
the Republicans will be able to in
crease their representation in con-
gress, although OF course, 1t cannot
be accurately stated just what this
increase will be.
The open primary for the choice of
the congressional candidates has
brought many candidates into the
field, insuring hot primary contests
all over the state. The list OF those
most mentioned for congressional
honors In the third district is as
follows:
acknowledgements Thorn
as ]. Scully. Republican, Joseph M.
Thompson of Ocean; Robert Carson,
of Middlesex, and w. w. Ramsay.
Of Monmouth. Former Attorney
General Edmund Wilson, of Mon
mouth, could have the united Re-
publican support on the district. but
he refuses to be a candidate. Pro-
gressive. former Sheriff Clarence e
T. Hetrick, of Monmouth.
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