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press their views on the question.
The Commission is composed of Leon
Albeit, Jr., of Jersey City; Edward f..
Mercy, of Paterson, and Francis A.
Stranger. of Bridgeton. They say they
hope to be able to get information from
the hearings that will enable them to
draft a bill which, if enacted into law,
will give all the municipalities in the state
the maximum of home rule and viii re-
duce the amount of municipal legislation
at least one-third.
Twelve investigations were authoriz-
ed by the Legislature which recently ad-
journed, and will be conducted during
the coming summer and fall. The prob
es will cover a wide range of subjects,
from the cranberry industry to military
training in the high schools. Eleven
separate commissions are authorized,
and the appropriations for their work
aggregate $33,500. Here are the sub
jects to be covered by the investigations:
Revising and c~odifying the election laws;
revising and bringing up to date the con
piled statutes; continuation of the in
v~estigation of municipal finances; the
question of acquiring toll roads and toll
bridges within the state; probe of the
working of the civil service law and al
legged violations thereof; the question of
acquiring and freeing the bridges over
the Delaware River, this to be taken up
Jointly with Pennsylvania, each state
having appropriated 100000 therefor;
military training in the high schools;
continuation Of the work of the State
Economy and Efficiency Commission; re-
vision of the laws on municipal home
rule and to draft a new law on this sub
Ject; investigation of the pound net in
dustry along the coast; investigation of
the care of the mental detectives.
While there has been almost a COM
plete cessation of talk of former Judge
Robert Carey, of Jersey City, as a Re-
publican candidate for Governor, he re-
fuses to state that he will not be a can
didate.
The primary is a long way off" he
said today, and / may get in the race
yet. 1 believe Wittpenn will have the
united support of the Hudson County
Democrats, and l believe / could carry
Hudson with Wittpenn as my opponent.
To have both the Republican and Dem
ocratic candidates for Congress in the
Fourth District come from Somerset
County would be a distinct novelty for
the District. Prosecutor Azariah N.
Beekman, who is a former Speaker of
the Assembly, formally announces that
ne viii consent to seek the Democratic
Congressional nomination, and there is
some talk of Assemblyman Ogden II.
Hammond, also of Somerset, as the Re
publican candidate. The District includes
Mercer, Hdnterdon and Somerset Coun-
ties, and for many years the Congress-
men have come from Mercer County.
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Mayor Raymond, Republican OF New
ark, who campaigned for the Mayoralty
and won as an Independent, is now a can
didate for delegate to the Re1nblican
National Convention in the Ninth Dis
trict and is running as a regular with the
backing of Alfred n. Dalrymple the reg
ular Republican leader.
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German-American Democrats, who are
moi in sympathy with President Wilson
because of his war policy, were disap-
pointed at the primary election yesterday
that their ballot gave them no space to
mark their preference for any candidate
for President save Woodrow Wilson.
This was because the petition for the en-
dorsement of the President for r~e-elec-
ton was the only one filed with the Sec
rotary of State, and consequently the
Presidents name was the only one plac-
ed on the primary ballots in the Presi-
dental preference column. 1t is under
stood that some of the anti-Wilson Dem
ocrats crossed of the Presidents name
and wrote in other names. Some claim
that IN such cases the ballots would be
adjudged marked ballots and would be
thrown out if the matter were pressed.
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The charge of 'insidious lobbying"
made against the Manufacturers Asso-
cation by labor leaders and others, is
strongly resented and denied in a state
ment issued by ]. Phillip Bird, president
of the Association. 1t was claimed that
the lobbying of the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION defeated the Colgate workmen's
compensation bills. President Bird de-
clares that a canvass showed that prac-
tically all of the manufacturers were o.
posed to any change in the compensa-
ton laws, but only legitimate means were
used in opposing them in the Legislature.
Former Assemblyman Randolph Per
kins, Republican, now a candidate for
State Senator in Bergen County, has es-
poused local option and is waging his
campaign on this question. 81 am abso-
lutely and unqualifedly for local option"
he says in a formal statement. Bergen
County has three local option Assembly
men in the last House. The stand of ex-
Assemblyman Perkins will be used by the
local optionists to aid their cause.
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The campaign leaders for H. Otto
Wittpenn, the chief candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor,
are busy organizing the several counties
in behalf of the Hudson County man.
Naval Officer Wittpenn is giving his per-
sonal attention to this campaigning.
Camden, Cape May and Mercer Coun-
ties have already been organized, and
the other counties are to be got into
as rapidly az possible.