The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-14
FRIDAY, APRIL IA, 1916
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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II 10 understood that if District At
torney Davis is promoted to the Judge
shin, Assistant District Attorney Lyhcn'
of Paterson, will be named as DISTRICT
Attorney. United States Senator Wm'
Hughes. also of Paterson, is anxious 70
see Lynch get the District Attorneyshlp,
and so is supporting Davis for the APP
pointment as Judge. There are other
candidates, however. Congressman Arch
bald C. Hart, of the Sixth District, VINO
lives in Bergen county, is talked OF for
the place, and Congressman John j. Eag-
an. of the Eleventh District, is backing
George j. McEwan, of West Hoboken.
State labor leaders of this State are
fayoring the confirmation by the United
States Senate of the appointment Oh
Louis d. Brandeis by President Wilson
as Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, Former Assemblyman Arthur
A. Quinn, of Perth Amboy, president of
the State Federation of Labor, has writ
ten to President Wilson and the members
of the Senate Judiciary Committee at
Washington, urging confirmation of this
appointment. President Quinn com
mends President Wilson for making this
dDDOluI1culs III ACLNCA NhN
of the judiciary Committee, President
Quinn says:
1.-THE laboring people of the State of
New Jersey are very much interested in
the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis as
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
and would be pleased to see your honor
able body give its unanimous approval
to his appointment Mr.. Brandeis, by
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rights of the people were in question, has
convinced us that the highest tribunal in
the land is a fitting and just honor to
confer upon him.
The Republicans have a contest for al
ternate delegate-at-large and also pr1-
mary fights for district delegate in the
Second District in South Jersey n in
the Essex and Hudson County Districts.
The Democrats lave a primary contest
for delegate in the Sixth District but
practically lave no fights in any of the
other districts, the factions having got
ten pretty well together on the question
of delegates even in Essex and hudson
Count es.
1t is rumored that Dan Fellows Platt,
TIE OeIReu Guilty ncADCl W LhC 0SAAN
cratic State Committee, will retire from
that position next fall and that Congress
man Archibald G. Hart will succeed him.
The report could not be verified today,
as neither of them could be seen, but it
is shown that the situation in Bergen
county points somewhat to such a result.
Mr.. Platt has been noted for his indie
tendency, and he has frequently stood
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against some of the moves of the organ
ization Democrats of the county, claim
ing that machine methods were being
used. At the primary last September,
Congressman Hart defeated Platt in the
nomination of the county ticket. Plat
is a hard fighter, and even if he does re-
tire from the State Committee, it may
safely be predicted that he will continue
to battle in his county against party bos-
sism. He is well known all over the
State, having been a member of the
State Committee several years.
With the completion of the fling of the
nominations for delegates to the National
Conventions it is now known which dis
tricts will have contests at the primary
election on Tuesday, April 25, when the
delegates and alternate delegates will be
chosen by the two parties at the polls.
Neither the Democrats nor Republicans
have a contest for the big Four" or
the delegates-at-large. The four Re-
publican delegates-at-large, therefore,
will be the same as the slate selected by
the party leaders, namely: State Chair
man Newton A. K. Bugbee, of Trenton;
David Baird of Camden; Hamilton F.
Kean, of Elizabeth, brother of the late
United States Senator John Kear, anc
Ira a. Kip, Jr., of South Orange.
In the Democratic camp to-, the can
didates picked by the leaders viii be Sc
lected as delegates at-large without OPP
position. They are Governor James F.
Fielder, of Jersey City; United States
Senator William Hughes, of Paterson;
State Chairman Edward E. Grosscup, Of
Gloucester, and Congressman Thomas ].
Seully, of Middlesex.
The members of the Republican and
Democratic State Committees will be
chosen at the primaries next September,
the Geran act requiring that the rank
and file of each party shall name their
respective State committeeman at the
polls without the intervention of the lead
ers. Petitions are filed endorsing candi-
dates for the State Committee in the
same way that candidates are selected
for the Assembly, so that n member
of the party in the county has an op-
~portunity to run for the position.
Assembly Pierson, of Union county,
chairman of the Legislative Committee
to investigate municipal finances, stated
today that the Committee will resume its
work at a meeting to be held in Jersey
City on April q. The Committee was
continued by the last Legislature and
two more members were added to it. The
Legislature appropriated $1,000 for the
work. The Committee will continue the
investigation from where it ended last
December. 1t will probe school district
finances as well as town and county
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