The Penn's Grove record., 1916-06-16
STATE CAPITOL NEWS
What The State Officials Are DOIna
What The Political Leader Are
Talking About.

IL DtbtAf u NEW
Jersey are settling down to watch the
progress Of a campaign for the Presi-
deney that IN several phases will be re-
m~afkable. Supreme Court Justice Chas.
Evans Hughes has been nominated nv
the Republicans and by the time this let
ter reaches its readers the Democrats
In their st. Louis convention will be
renominating Woodrow Wilson. 1t has
been recently said that with Wilson and
hughes as the opponents, it viii be a
campaign of brains instead Of noise. and
this Is the view generally taken BY the
politicians and others Of both parties
at the State House who have commented
on the tickets. Here is the way the
situation was outlined by a well known
politician at the Capitol today:
There will be no mud Singing in
this fight for the seat in the White
House. Both candidates are too high
class for that. The campaign will be on
a more digniied plane than probably anv
Of its predecessors. Hughes and Wilson
are each equipped intellectually to pre-
sent the issues of the campaign in a
clear and comprehensive manner. II
should be a campaign devoid Of much Of
the buncombe so frequently heard here
tofore. All this is fortunate in a cam
palgn that will have for one of its main
issues Americanism, with all this in
wolves of international complications"
As a matter of state pride. the cam
paign will be of peculiar interest to Jer-
seymen. President Wilson. although a
Southerner, is classed as a New Jersey
mar because of his long residence in the
state, while Justice Hughes got his
early education in this state. He lived
in Newark from 1869, when he was seven
years old, until 1874. and was graduated
from one of the Newark grammar
schools in 1873. Justice Hughes. faith
er, the Rev. David C. Hughes. a Bap-
fist clergyman. preached in the old Fifth
Baptist church, in Newark. In former
years while praeticing law in New York
City, Justice Hughes frequently visited
Newark and has many friends in that
city and vicinity.
The New Jersey delegation at Chicago
was very much to the fore in the con-
vention and its deliberations 1t was
the delegation from this state that pro-
posed the conference with the Progress
sives and after the delegation had de-
cided to make the proposal it was pre-
sented to the convention and adopted.
This led to the appointment of the Reg
nlar and Bull Moose committees that
tried, though Intellectually, to unite both
factions on the ticket. 1t was Delegate
Brennan, of Hudson county, who first
proposed the naming of the committees
and he introduced such a resolution in
the meeting of the New Jersey dslega-
ton. The move was one of the most
important of the whole convention week.
Also it was the vote of the Repub-
hcans from New Jersey that decided the
nomination of Justice Hughes on that
third ballot which settled the memorable
hight After the overnight adjournment
of the convention everything pointed to
the naming of Hughes, but as the third
ballot began there was intense interest
as to the outcome. As the roll call pro-
ceeded several delegations as well as
some individuals got onto the Hughes
~bandwagon, but when "New Jersey
was called by the secretary the jurist
still needed a few votes to decide the
question of his nomination. How would
Jersey vote? That was the mental
question asked by the thousands of peo-
pie in the Colosseum. Then David
Baird, who had defeated State Chairman
Bugbee for the chairmanshiip of the
delegation. rose. as hundreds of pencils
making the tally, were held in poise.
New Jersey casts 81 votes for
Hughes and l for Roosevelt" he re-
ported. That settled it. though. of
course. the rest of the vote had to be
taken.
The vote of the New Jersey delegates
on the three ballots was as follows:
First ballot-For Hughes: Baird.
Bugbee. Kean. Hires, Leuckel. Acker-
man, Redmond. Kelley, Robertson, Bren-
nan and Holden, u.
For Root-Ira Kip, Jr.. Fred Kip.
Gaunt. Johnson. Thompson. Hammond.
Pomeroy. Lewis, Doremus. Metcalf.
Raymond and Blair. -.
For Roosevelt-Lord. of Essex. and
Cozart, the negro delegate from Atlantic
county.
For Weeks-Knight.
For Fairbanks-Barbour
Second ballot-For Root: Ira Kip. Jr.,
Hammond and Metcalf. 8. For Gen.
Leonard Wood. l. For Chairman Hard
ing, 1. For Weeks, Knight, /. For
Roosevelt, Lord and Cozart, .. For
Fairbanks. 4. For Hughes. 16. Mayor
voted for Hughes.
Raymond. of Newark, voted for Gen.
Wood, and Doremus. of Newark, voted
for Chairman Harding, both votes being
merely complimentary.
On the third ballot. Lord, of Essex.
stuck TO Roosevelt. while all the Others
Senators Walter E. Edge, of Atlantic
City, and Austen Colgate, of Essex. at
tended the convention and looked active
~ after their respective booms for Gov
ernor.