New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-27
Wescott Losing U. S.
Senate Fight in
Early Returns.
FRELINGHUYSEN
AND EDGE AHEAD
Murphy and Colgate Prob
ably Lose in Repub-
IiCan Races.

The big surprise Of the New Jersey
primaries, which ended at Q o'clock
New jersey Democrats dealt with
President Wilson's candidate ior the
nomination for United States Senator,
John W. Wescott, Attorney General
of the State.
Judge Wescott, who twice put Mr..
Wilson in nomination for President,
ran against United States Senator
James L. MARITIME, who had fallen out
with President Wilson, his former
friend.
The instructions to the Wilson
Democrats were to move heaven and
earth. if necessary, to beat MARITIME.
Yet, with the entire Wilson machine
at work in his behalf, Judge Wescott
seemed to have lost, judging from the
returns from the first 325 Of the 1899
election districts in the state.
The returns from these districts -
about one-eighth of the entire state
gave MARITIME lead of $50 over the
Wilson candidate. The figures we're
MARITIME, 500; Wescott, 4,5l0.
Vote Unusually Heavy.
An unusually heavy gote for pri-
mary was cast in both parties. In the
Republican primaries State Senator
Walter f. Edge, of Atlantic City,
seemed TO have won the nomination
for Governor. the carly morning re-
turns indicating that he had beaten
Colonel Austen Colgate, the Jersey
City manufacturer, by about 1850.
This estimate was based on the re
turns from 522 out Of the 1893 dis
tricts in the state. The figures we're:
Edge, 2l,554; Colgate, 1891.
George l.. Record, the third csndi-
date in the race. while expected to be
last. made a surprisingly strong race
getting 6.214 votes in these districts.
Record, form er Progressive, ran on
local option and home rule plat
form.
In the United States Senate igh,
in the Republican primaries the returns
from the same number Of districts gave
Joseph s. Frelinghuysen, the wealthy
New York City insurance broker, 20,72O
votes, against 1896 for Franklin Muir
ply, the millionaire varnish manu-.
facturer and former Governor OF New
Jersey.
Frelinghuysen got the bulk of the
farmer vote, and took bigger slice
Of the city and town vote than the op
position thought he would. In Pssssic
with it's factories, where II was cr-
pec,ed Murphy would win easily. the
early returns indicated hc would be
beaten by four to three.
Eight Arrests In Jersey City.
The only trouble at the polls oc-
cured in Jersey City, where eight
democrats were arrested, charged with
illegal registration by rival factions
fighting there.
While there was no lack OF real
lighting among the Republicans, the
struggle was not marked b. the
rancor that prevailed in the rival
Democratic camps. This bitterness OF
feeling was largely the result OF the
Wilson Administration interference
in the United States Senate fight and
the injection of the hyphenste issue
into the struggle.
President Wilson's friends, it was
charged. were the covert hackers of
August VI. Bruggeman, a German
American. Of Hoboken, who, it was
said, could serve only one. purpose
that Of taking away some hyphenate
votes from United States Senator
MARITIME. who thought he had the
hyphenate vote corncred.
Bruggeman. who owns q burlesque
house in his home city. made strong
fight in the German-American centres
where Attorney General Wescott
Marines only real opponent. was dis.
liked. MARITIME had the Endorsement OF
German-American newspapers. An
other in the fight for Senator Mar
tines scalp was Frank VI. McDermit, q
Newark lawyer, who spent a good deal
Of his time in the last week complain
ing about his name on the ballot being
misspelled.