Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-29
POLITICIANS WILL
CONVENE TUESDAY
Rival Forces Will Meet in
Trenton Next Week to Con-
fer on the Coming Campaign
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special TO the EVENING NEWS.
Trenton, Sept. 29.-The official
calls for the Republican and Demo-
cratic state conventions will be is
sued tomorrow by the respective
state chairmen convening these two
gatherings in this city next Tuesday
at noon, as provided by the Geran
election act. The notice of Republi-
can State Chairman Newton A. K.
Bugbee will call the convention of
the party to meet in the auditorium
of the Republican Club, on East
Hanover street State Treasurer Ed
ward E. Grosscup, chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, will
summon the Democratic convention
to assemble in Masonic temple, state
and Warren streets.
No notice of a Progressive state
convention had been issued by State
Chairman Hopkins, of Morristown,
up to noon today and Progressive
leaders at the state house said they
were not certain that their party
would hold a state meeting. AS the
Progressives failed to cast five per
cent of the vote for assembly last
fall, considering the state at large,
they are not a legal party this year
within the meaning of the Geran act,
and so, if they hold a convention at
all, It must be entirely unofficial, as
| are those of the Prohibitionists and
Socialists.
The Republican convention will be
composed of Senate President Edge.
of Atlaitic; Senators Read, of Cam
den; Colgate, of Essex; Gaunt, of
Gloucester; Hutchinson, of Mercer;
Rathbun, of Morris; Mathis, of
Ocean; Allen, of Salem; Smalley, of
Somerset, and Pierce, of Union; the
party candidates for the senate nom
mated at the primaries yesterday in
Burlington, Cape May, Hunterdon,
Middlesex, Passaic and Sussex coun-
ties; the sixty candidates for the as
sembly and the twenty-one members
of the state committee, one for each
county This will make ninety
seven delegates.
Governor Fielder will head the
delegates at the Democratic conven-
ton, the Geran act providing that
the party in power shall have the
governor as member of its state
convention. The other members of
the Democratic convention will be
the holdover senators, who are:
Hennessy, of Bergen; Ackley, of
Cumberland; Egan, of Hudson; Ack
erson, of Monmouth; and Barber, of
Warren. The party candidates nom
mated for the senate yesterday in
the six counties above named; the
sixty assembly nominees and the
twenty-one members of the state
committee. This convention will
have ninety-three delegates.
The chief work of each convention
will be the drafting and promulgat-
ing of the platform upon which will
be waged the campaign for the cleo
tion on November g Each platform
will outline the principles upon
which its party will stand in the fight
for control of the next legislature,
this control carrying with it the cleo
tion of a state treasurer next Feb
ruary.
Nothing can be learned in ad-
vance of course, as to what the plat
forms will contain, but it is prac-
tically certain that they will derive
their chief significance from their
bearing upon the big fight for Presi-
dent, United States senator and gov
ernOr next year. The Democratic
platform will give strong endorse
ment to the administration of Presi-
dent Wilson and Governor Fielder
and will declare for a second term
for the President.
Practically the same procedure will
be followed in both conventions.
They will be called to order by the
respective state chairman, temporary
organization will be effected and the
necessary committees will be ap-
pointed, the most important commit
tee in each case being the one on
resolutions, which will have the
preparation of the platform. After a
recess to permit the committees to
do their work, permanent officers
will be chosen and the committees
will report and the platforms will be
adopted.