The Penn's Grove record., 1915-09-24
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1915
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.

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being 1.S23. 140. compared with 1,616,S20
in 1910. or an increase of 206,321. The
counties which this includes are Atlantic,
Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May,
Cumberland, Essex, Gloucester, Hunter
don, Mercer Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic,
Somerset and Warren.
The many primary candidates in some
of the larger counties have produced an
other crop of extremely large primary
ballots. The Hudson county ballot is as
large as a newspaper page, the Essex
county ballot is unusually large and the
Passaic county ballot is 3 feet, 6 inches
long. If the constitutional amendment
for the election of Assembly by districts
is adopted, it will work to reduce these
monstrous ballots. 1t is the twelve As
sembly candidates for the several fac
lions in Essex and Hudson, and the five
candidates in Passaic that make those
ballots so large.
Secretary of State Thomas B. Martin.
one of the anti Wittpenn leaders of Hud-
son county, has accepted three challenges
to debate the issues of his county. His
challengers are Assembly candidates Har-
ry Kuhlke, Alexander Simpson and Sen
ator Charles NJ. Egan, all Wfttpenn men.
In the opinion of ex-State Assessor
George L. Record, the Progressiye-Re-
publican primary ticket in Hudson coun-
ty will win next Tuesday. He says:
THE Progressives in Hudson cast
about 5000 ballots at the primaries last
year, and the regular Republicans, about
5000. This year we are working within
the Republican party, and that will give
us an advantage. Besides that, the reg
ular Republican faction headed by ex-
Secretary of State Dickinson and the
faction led by former County Clerk John
Rotterdam, who last year worked togeth-
er. are now fighting each other. All the
Dickinson men will vote for our ticket,
and l think we have a good show to win"
Some of the leaders of the Associated
Automobile Clubs of New Jersey are
working in favor of a statewide tax for
the maintenance of a good road system,
and are advocating that a tax of one-half
a mill be levied for this purpose. Hor-
ace A. Bonnell, chairman of the Good
Roads Committee, of the Association, is
campaigning in behalf of such a state
wide tax. He says it is needed, because
New Jersey is falling behind in improved
highways, and he claims it would not be
felt any more than the present school
tax.
E~x-Chancellor William J.. Magic, OF
Elizabeth, through the Mems Ant SUI.
frage League of New Jersey, has issued Z
statement against the adoption Of the
Women's Suffrage Amendment. TIE for
mer Chancellor has been opposing equal
suffrage all through this campaign and
also fought it when the resolution was
pending in the Legislature, he says, IL
part:
"If I could perceive plain benefit to
the government by admitting women to
the franchise, / think l should still op-
pose it because / believe that it will be
injurious to the race"
.
The registration throughout the state
on the first day was about what might
have been expected for an "off'' year
In some sections it fell below that of lasl
year, while in other parts of the ate
there was an increase. More than 1900
voters registered in Jersey City. IN
Newark il was about normal. In ITen
ton there was an increase over last year.
and in Atlantic City there was a decrease
of about a thousand. This gives an idea
of how the registration ran.
Betting on the result of the primary
EaC a1rool- MI
if Kinkead, the anti Wittpenn Demo
cratic leader of Hudson county, has be,
$1,000 that a majority of the anti Witt
penn freebooter candidates will be nom
mated. and the bet has been covered By
Thomas F. Meaney, Jr., a Wittrenn
man.
The ten members of the present Re
publican Assembly delegation from Es-
sex county who are seeking denomination
declare that attempts are being made to
misrepresent their stand on the question.
of the proposed constitutional amend
for the election of Assemblymen BY
districts. All of the ten have benz en-
by the Essex County Repr blican
for reelection. They claim
that they are not unalterably opposed to
such an amendment, but will approve the
provided it gives Essex county
the representation to which it is justly
1t is interesting to the smaller
counties to study this statement. be
aus if it were to be put into effect, the
counties would have their As
representation reduced. For in
stance, they point out in the statement
Burlington, Atlantic, Cape May,
Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Dc
can, Salem. Camden and Sussex counties
had in 1910, a population 10000 less
than Essex county, and yet had 10 rep
resentatives in the Assembly, as against
- for Essex, and outnumbered Essex in
Senatorial representation 13 to /.
The Court of Errors and Appeals has
resumed its weekly conferences, following
the summer vacation period. At these
conferences the Court considers cases
that have been argued before it in readi-