The Penn's Grove record., 1916-05-19
FRIDAY, A 10, 1916
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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to the plan to have Mr.. Wescott nomin-
ate the President for a second term at
the st. Louis convention, has smoothed
out a troublesome wrinkle on the Demo-
cratic surface. When the State Commit
tee at Trenton asked the Governor to
make the nominating speech, they did
not know the President had already re-
quested Mr.. Wescott to act. Now the
matter is all harmonized and the Presi-
lent will be re-nominated by the Attor-
ney General, who performed the same
duty four years ago at Baltimore.
The figures in the official canvass of
the returns of the Presidential primary
for delegates on April 20, as announced
by Secretary of State Martin, vary but
slightly from those given in this letter
last week, the change being caused by
the addition Of the returns from Warren
County. Here are the official returns of
the vote: Democratic-Choice of Wilson
for President, 25,407; delegates-at-large,
Governor Fielder, 2S,527; State Chair
man Grosscup, 2S,073; Senator Hughes,
2S,140; Congressman Scully, 27,975.
Republican-Choice for President,
Roosevelt, 1866; Hughes, 1888; Root, 81;
Henry Ford 81. Delegates-at-Large-
Baird, 41,367; State Chairman Bugbee,
41,051; Kean, 41,275; Kip, 40,927.
The investigation into the question of
the wisdom of military training in the
high schools of the state as a prepared
ness measure, will be begun on May %, by
the special committee of the Legislature
appointed to probe the subject. The COM
mittee has elected Assemblyman Oliphant
of Mercer County, chairman, and Major
Winfield s. Price, of Trenton, as the Off
Ger to approve all acquisitions. The COM
mittee has an appropriation of $1,000.
The other members are Senator William
W. Smalley, of Somerset County; DR..
Henry Snyder, superintendent of the
schools of Jersey City, and Don @. Bliss,
superintendent of the schools of Mont
clair. On May % the committee will sit
in Trenton and following that will hold
meetings in Newark, Jersey City, and
Camden on dates to be announced later.
The Commission authorized by the last
Legislature to revise the corporation
laws of the state organized at the State
House yesterday, by electing Senator
Charles A. Rathbun, of Morris County,
CHAIRMAN, and AsSemblyman Edmund b.
Randall, of Passaic, secretary. L will
take up its work at once. The other
members are Senators Hutchinson, of
Mercer, and Florence, of Middlesex, and
Assemblymen Godfrey. of Atlantic. and
Hates, of Camden. Senator Florence is
the only Democrat on the Commission.
The Commission will report to the next
Legislature and being controlled by the
Republicans, it is reported that it may
recommend the repeal of the "Seven sis
ters" corporation avs passed while Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson was Governor of
this state and expressly advocated by him,
or at least the modification of some of
the drastic features of those laws. The
Republicans claim these statutes have
driven many corporations away from
New Jersey without curbing monopoly
which claim is denied by the Democrats.
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New Jersey ~suffragist leaders are plan
ming to attend the suffragist convention
in Chicago at the time of the meeting of
the Republican National Convention. One
of the features of the women's conven-
ton will be a big street parade. in which
Eastern delegations, including New Jer-
sey, will take part.