The Penn's Grove record., 1916-10-20

tne secretary Oh state ana mas Obtained
a New Jersey charter. Its object is to es-
tablish an alliance among the nations of
the earth for the enforced submission of
all international questions or a judicial
tribunal for settlement, instead of resort
ing to arms. Among the other managers
of the League are: Alton B. Parker,
Democratic candidate for President in
1904 Thomas Taggart, of Indiana;
John G. Hibben, president of Princeton
University John Hays Hammond, and
others as prominent.
A~semblyman George II. Dalrymple, of
Passaic County, who is seeking reelection
on the Republican ticket, announces that
if elected he will be a candidate for Speak
er. He was talked of for Speaker last
year, but nothing came of it. Friends of
Assemblyman Runyon, of Union County,
who was bowled out of the Speakership
race last winter by the combination of Da-
vid Baird, of Camden, with the Essex
Republican organization, are insisting
that he should be the next Speaker if the
e.. .. Z. controls the House. Assembly
man Oliphant, of Mercer, is also a can
didate, SO it begins to look as though the
Speakership fight in the Republican ranks
will be quite lively.
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Friends of Col. Austen Colgate, who
was defeated for the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor, have already started
a boom for him as the Gubernatorial nom
inee in 1919. 1t is said, also, that Sem
ator Thomas T. McCran, of Passaic
County, who is a strong anti-local OPP
ZIONIST, will seek the nomination for Gov
ernor.
Republican State Chairman Bugbee
claims 10000 names are on the registry
in Hudson County that don't legally be-
long there. These suspicious names. he
alleges, are in South Hudson and the Bay
onne section. He also asserts that the
claim of the Democrats that they will
carry Hudson by 10000 majority is far
from the mark.
Strong protest is made by Samuel
Craig Cowart, of Monmouth County.
who was defeated for the Republican
nomination for Congress in the Third
District, against county committees en-
dorsing candidates in advance of the pri-
maries. He declares that if county com
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they defeat the chief purpose of the direct
primary act. Mr.. Cowart also raps the
use of money at elections.
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Claiming that the petition filed for
Harry Vaughan as the candidate of the
local option party for Governor, was not
hled in good faith, and intimating that
1t was the work of Democrats, Assembly
man James Hammond, Republican local
option candidate for Senator in Mercer
County, yesterday filed a protest with
Secretary of State Martin asking that
the petition be thrown out. Assemblyman
Hammond says he is certain the Local
Optlonists did not place Vaughan in nom
%lnation, and charges that 80 per cent. of
the slgners of the nominating petition
are opponents of local option. 1t is his
theory that the Democrats had the peti-
ton hled in the hope that it would lead
many Local Optionists in the Republican
party who had supported Record at the
primaries, to desert Edge and vote for
vaughan, thereby helping Wittpenn. The
petition states that most of the names
thereon were written by the same hand.
As Record and the other home rule lead
ers are supporting Edge, the Republicans
claim the filing Of the petition may act as
a boomerang.
Ihe charge of Hammond does not seem
to be borne out by the petition itself.
to it is the affidavit of Vaughan
accepting the nomination and naming
himself as his campaign committee, show
ing that he had full knowledge of the
and participated in the plan. Sec
rotary of State Martin has aotifed
Vaughan of the protest of Hammond.
The State Association of Democratic
Lawyers, which is aiding the campaign
the election of the Democratic nat
lonal and state tickets, has announced
the appointment of a vice president for
each equity in the state. This vice presi-
dent in each county will cooperate with
the County Committee, working p%articu-
larry among professional men to enlist
them for Wilson, Marshall, MARITIME and
Wlttpenn. The vice president for Glou-
cester County is Joseph J. Summerill, of
Woodbury..
Holding that the Socialist party and
Mr.. Benson, its candidate for President.
taken a stand on the question of
natloal preparedness, in direct conflict
the principles of Socialism, Martin
voorhees,, one of the Socialist Party
leaders of Mercer County, has abandoned
that party and declares that he will vote
The Republican ticket. He says he has
to the belief that the Socialist idea
an International cooperative common
wealth will not be realized.
The Democratic State Committee to-
day announced another list of Democrats
OF national reputation who will campaign
IN this state. Among them are: Francis
). Heaney, of San Francisco, who as Lis
trlct Attorney, cleaned up that city and
sent Mayor Schmidt to Jail; former Con-
Martin w. Littleton, of New
York City, who defended Harry X. Thaw
and obtained his freedom. and Matthew
Hale, of Massachusetts, chairman of the
National Progressive Committee. Hean-
ey will speak in Burlington, Littleton in
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