The Penn's Grove record., 1916-10-06
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1916
State News
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1.-THE issues of the campaign" it de-
clares, surrounds a clearly defined de-
mand on the part of the people of the
State for the introduction Of common
sense business principles in conducting
the affairs of the State"
The platform praises the enactment
of the economy and efficiency laws; the
law creating a State purchasing depart
ment, which the Republicans claim will
save 100000 the first year; and the
law for a State budget system, (which
for the first time will enable the people
to know in advance the items of State
expense. These measures are referred
to as the result of the active leadership
in the Senate of the candidate for Gov
ernor. Walter e. Edge.
Credit for State financial reform is
claimed for the Republicans so that in
stead of a deficit of 100000 as two
years ago, there is a clear balance of
81, 100000.
The chief pledges of the Republican
platform are: Passage of avn making
the Governor the actual business man
ager of the State; more business-like
methods of administering the tax laws;
increase in the facilities for training
school teachers; extension of industrial
and agricultural education; construction
and maintenance of the main highways
of the State by the State under a patrol
system; the enactment of a law increas-
ing from two to five per cent the taxes
upon the gross receipts of telephone,
telegraph, water, electric light and gas
companies, bringing the State an addi-
tional $1,000,0O0 annually; laws giving
farmers more easy access to the mar
kets: extension of inland waterways;
maintenance of the State civil service
laws; strengthening of the avs for the
protection of the laboring classes; abol-
ition of all toll bridges; simplifcation Of
the election laws, without impairing the
safety or honesty of the ballot.
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Edmund B. osborne, of Essex, and
other Record delegates, endeavored to
get local option, single tax and other
planks embodying their ideas into the
platform, but failed except in one in
stance. The plank increasing to FIVE
per cent the tax on public utility cor
porations was proposed by Osborne and
was adopted.
The Republican Presidential electors
chosen were: At-large, Col. Austen Col
gate. of Essex, and F. Wayland Aver,
of Camden; First District: Norman
Gray, of Gloucester; Second District:
Wallace Armstrong, of Cape May; Third
District: Lewis F. Thompson, of Mon
mouth; Fourth District, Moses Taylor
Pyne, of Princeton; Fifth District: Rich
are H. Williams. of Morris; Sixth Dis
trict: Daniel Pomeroy, of Bergen; Sew
enth District: Peter Quackenbush, of
Paterson; Eighth District: Dewitt Van
Buskirk, of Bayonne; Ninth District:
Manton b. Metcalf. of Orange; Tenth
District: W. /. Lincoln Adams, of Mont
clair; Eleventh District: George L. Rec
ord, of Jersey City; Twelfth District:
George Warren, of Jersey City.
More than 100000 was spent by the
Democratic and Republican candidates
for United States Senator and Governor
in their primary campaigns, as shown by
their sworn statements filed with Secre-
tary of State Martin under the corrupt
practices act. Here are the amounts
expended by the Senatorial candidates:
James MARITIME, $3.50; John ". Wes-
colt. 81 ,S41; Frank McDermit, $1,000;
Franklin Murphy, $12,O57; Joseph s.
~Frelinhuysen, $12.103.
The expenses of the candidates for
Governor were as follows: Fl. Otto
Wittpenn, $7,151; Walter f. Edge, $21,
90S; Col. Austen Colgate. $25.957: Geo.
L.. Record, $19.965.
The State Committees of the two big
parties. as elected at the primaries last
week, met here yesterday and organized
for the ensuing three years. The Dem
Ocratic State Committee unanimously re-
elected the entire staff of old officers, as
follows: Chairman, Edward z. Gross
cup. of Gloucester; vice chairman, Sher-
iff Eugene F. Kinkead, of Hudson; sec
rotary, William L. Dill, of Paterson;
treasurer, Gen. Dennis f. Collins, Of
Elizabeth. Practically all the old mem
bers who have seen years of service on
the committee were reelected.
The officers chosen by the Republican
State Committee were: Chairman, New
ton A. X. Bugbee, reelected; vice-chair-
man. George F.. Wright. of Paterson, to
succeed Edmund w. Wakelee, of Ber-
gym ~ lbuStI d ultI1DCT u Lue COmnll-
teen; secretary, William H. Albright, of
Gloucester, to succeed John /. Blair
Kelley, of Warren, also retired from the
committee; treasurer, Benedict Prieth,
of Essex, reelected.
The Republican Committee included
several new members who were elected
last week. Alfred Gramlich, Record Re-
publican, to succeed Mr.. Wakelee, an
organization man, in Bergen; Ira A.
Kip, Jr., in Essex, to succeed former
Mayor Henry NJ. Boremus, of Newark;
Charles V. Finch, Verdon Republican, in
Hudson, to succeed the late George W.
Decker, deceased; William P. Bowman,
in Somerset, to succeed Joseph S. Ere
hnghuysen, and Arthur G. Taylor, in
Warren, to succeed John I. Blair Kelley.
Former Governor f. C. Stokes, David
Baird. of Camden; former State Treas
urer Daniel s. Voorhees,, of Morris; G.
Asa Francis, of Monmouth; George F.
Wright, of Passaic, and some of the