Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-11-16
REPUBLICANS
At STATE HOUSE
A Gathering of Politicians
From All Over State.
MUCH GOSSIP.
Republicans in Full Control of
State Admiuistrati on Meet
at Trenton.

Republicans from all over New Ter
sey were yesterday at the State House
and weekly conference concernino
the makeup of the next legislature
and the filling of important offices
Both u. S. Senator-elect Joseph
frellnghuySen and Goyernor-elect
walter Edge were present. Both have
peen spending few days hunting.
but each came away from the upland
nelds sufficiently long enough to ioin
the conferences at the State Capitol.
, Public jobs are already stirring
| some OF the faithful and there is con-
siderable gossip even thus early as
/ to the manner in which the next Leg
islature will be organized Predic-
tons are being made as to the prob
able president of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House. Only III
names of Senator George w. f. Gaunt
OF Gloucester county, has been men
! toned thus far in connection with the
senate presidency and that of Sena-
tor Thomas F. McCran, of Passaic
county, is being put forward as the
floor leader of the majority in the nm
per branchs sof the law-making body
of the State. This, it is said. will
put McCran in line for the Senate
presidency and will make him a logi-
cal candidate for the Republican nom
ination for Governor three years from
now.
There are already half a dozen
names being mentioned for the House
speakership, but it is too early to
make pick with any degree of GER
tainty. Essex will have a candidate
in the person of Assemblyman Ed,
ward Schoen, Notwithstanding the
fact that that county had the speak er-
ship last winter. 1t returned such a
tremendous Republican majority that
! year that its representatives will feel
justified in asking for almost any
thing they desire at the hands of the
, lower branch members. They may
get it, too. There will have to be &
lot of preliminary jockeying, how,
ever before that phase of the organi-
cation of the Legislature is settled.
1t will depend rather more than will
the organization of the Senate upon
other matters of patronage and at the
several conferences that will be ne
cessary there will probably be no end
of sharp battles.
Big State positions that will have
to be filed by Governor Edge are al
ready attracting attention, especially
those of State comptroller and State
treasurer, which may be made the
cause of some changing about of the
present condition and may involve
State Treasurer William IT, Read, of
Camden, and Newton A. X. Bugbee. of
Trenton, chairman of the Republican
State Committee. There is long list
of other Offices, some of them almost
as good, and the present indications
are that there will be a host of pa
triots willing to serve the State for
each position that has to be filled by
the incoming Governor. These will
not bother him, however, but will q
taken care of as they become neces-
sary and will be handled in a manner
calculated to give the best results to
the State and its important business.
There will be fifteen Republican
members of the Senate, as against six
Democrats, and they will be in COM
plete harmony of the doings of that
body Hudson county is the only one
that elected a Democratic Senato~
last Tuesday. There are Democratic
hold over Senators from Hunterdon,
Middlesex, Monmouth, Sussex and
Warren counties. On Tuesday the
Republicans elected Senators in At
lantic, Bergen, Camden, Cumberland,
Essex, Mercer, Morris and Ocean
counties, and there are Republican
hold-over Senators from Burlington.
Cape May, Gloucester, Passaic, Salem
Somerset, and Union counties.
In the House of Assembly there
will be forty-four Republican men,
bers and sixteen Democrats. The