The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-09-28
WIlSOACANDIDATE.
BADLY BEATEN IN
new JERSEY
MARITIME Defeats WHSCOtt in DEM
OCratiC Primary By Biz Majority
WINNER OPPOSED PRESIDENT
Is Anti-British and Says He "ls Tired
of Going to the White House
for Orders"

New York, Sept. presidents
Wilson's own state has defeated for
the Democratic Senatorial nomination
in the New Jersey primaries the man
who twice put MIR. Wilson in nomina-
ton for the Presidency at Democratic
conventions, and has nominated over
him by plurality which stood at mid
night 21,139 votes a man who came
into prominence by anti-Brtish utter
ances and activities, and by declaring
that he was tired of going to the
White House fer orders
1t was in this Democratic Senatorial
primary, in the denomination OF Sena-
tor James f. MARITIME over Attorney
General John w. Wescott, that the
German-American vote made itself
felt most vigorously. Marines plur-
ality in the State was 21,139, with near
ly a fourth of the election districts
missing, and he ran up 10000 of this
in Hudson County. where the large
German-American population of Ho-
Doken and of Jersey City appears to
have cast its vote solidly for him.
The German-American interest was
felt, too, in the Republican &uberna-
tCrial contest, where Walter Il. Edge
Of Atlantic City won over Austen Col
gate of Newark by plurality which,
with 1879 of the 1898 election districts
missing, amounted to 2,743 George
l.. Record was a bare third Early re-
ports owing to an error in tabulating
the vote OF Essex County, Colgates
home, gave Edge much larger mar
gin, but the final figures showed that
Colgate had carried his home county
by l0000--a plurality inadequate,
however. to overcome the general
trend toward Edge in the rest OF the
State.
Colgate was opposed by Major Carl
Lentz, German-American leader, and
German-American influence in general
was against him.
There was no contest for the Demo
cratic Gubernatorial nomination.
which went to II. Otto Wittpenn, Ma
val officer OF the Port OF New York
and a Wilson supporter. But in Hud-
son County a Wittpenn candidate for
Surrogate was defeated by James +.
Norton by a plurality of about 4.5O0
and Senator MaItine's enormous plur-
ality in Hudson County is regarded
either as a failure of the Wittpenn in
terests adequately to support the VIII
son Senatorial candidate or Fremont
tion of notable weakness for Witt
penn's candidacy in November.
The Republican Senatorial nomina-
tion went to Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
over former Governor Franklin Muir
ply by majority which had reached
5,li2, with 139 districts still missing.
This was a surprise to observers who
had expected that the machine sup
port OF Murphy would give him the
upper hand. There were other ele-
ments in the fight against Freling-
huysen; he was opposed as non
resident. whose business and whose
winter home were in New York, who
lived in New Jersey only during the
GUNNER months. and he was fought
by automobile owners of the State.
who resented his activities against
them in the State Senate. But in
spite of this he won handily over Muir
ply. whose home county Essex. gave
him only 1861 plurality, figure much
lower than had been expected.