The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-07
STATE CAPITOL NEWS
What The State Officials Are DOiDO.
What The Political Leader Are
Talking About.

erection on tuesday. April %. have been
completed by the officers in the Election
division Of the office Of the Secretary Of
state and By the county clerks through
out the state. The election. which VIII
decide the choice Of delegates and lele-
gates-at-large as well as the district deI-
egates and ~alternates, will take place
from l to 8 o'clock p. IL. on the day
mentioned. 1t viii be conducted bv rhe
regular election officers, and the election
act, as amended by the law enacted by
the last Legislature over the veto Of
Governor Fielder, provides that it shall
De held AS near as may be in the man
ner now required by law for the conduct
Of the annual primary elections in Sep
TENDER of each year.
The time for filing petitions for NOM
nation as delegates or alternates exuir-
ed last Saturday. BY Saturday of this
week each County Clerk must forward
70 the clerk of each municipality in his
county, a statement of the persons whose
names are to be printed on the primary
ticket Of each party, as certified to him
or filed with him. The municipal clerks
are required to haYe the ballots printed.
The form of the ballots for this elee-
ton is regulated by section 40 of the
Geran act, and, therefore, they will be
substantially in the same form as the
ballots for the regular September cleo
tons. Candidates for delegates or al
Ternates may be grouped together on the
ballot, that is bracketed, if they SO de-
sire, thus giving any faction the advan-
tage of having its particular candidates
stand together.
There is much interest in just who are
eligible to vote on April %. Section %
Of the Geran act settles this, as follows.
Every voter whose name shall appear
on the poll book of the last preceding
general election in the election district
IN which he offers to vote, or who has
been registered by affidavit as herein
after provided. shall be entitled to vote
n the primary of his political party held
under this act for the election Of dele
gates and alternates to national eonven-
tons. No person shall be allowed to
vote at said primary unless his name an
pears on said poll book. or unless he has
been registered by affidavit as hereinafter
provided; nor shall any voter be allowed
TO vote in the primary of one political
party, if his name appears in the pri-
mary book of the other political party as
made up at the last preceding election in
said district.
Section % provides further: ANY
voter qualified to vote at the general
election in this state, who did not vote
at the general election in this state, who
did not vote at the general election pre-
cedlng any primary election for the Sc
lection of delegates to national conven-
lions, may register for said primary cleo
ton, and be entitled to vote thereat, BY
filing with the clerk of this municipality,
at least ten days prior to the date of the
primary an affidavit in the form now re-
quired by law for registering voters for
any general election"
State political leaders are looking for
ward TO the presidential primary cleo
ton as a test of the strength of Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, and in this phase the
election viii have unusual interest
Roosevelt candidates for delegate to the
Chicago Republican convention are run
ming in the Second, Ninth and Tenth Con
gressional Districts, and the State House
politicians say that by watching the
political barometer in the districts nam
ed on April p they will get a good idea
of Gthe extent of Roosevelt sentiment.
Some even predict that this test OF the
Roosevelt strength may aid in determining
whether Roosevelt or Supreme Court
Justice Hughes viii be nominated at Chi
cago.
The last chapter of the Legislature {
1916 was completed yesterday afternoon
when Governor disposed of the three
bills remaining in his hands. He signed
the regular annual and the supplemental
appropriation bills. after vetoing three
items therein. He disapproved an addi-
tional pay of $500 to Gardner Colby,
chief examiner and secretary Of the Civil
Service Commission besides his regular
salary of $1,000; an appropriation of s.
900 in the supplemental bill For the work
of the Joint Highway Committees in con
Quoting a state road probe, and $1,000
in the annual bin for the same purpose.
The Colby appropriation was vetoed be-
cause the Governor does not approve #
double pay in this manner. The road
probe amounts were cut from the bills
because he vetoed last week the Joint
resolution providing for the investigation
and coditication of the highway laws upon
the ground that it continued the work in
the hands of some of those who under
took it last year and who only submitted
partisan bills To the Legislature as the re-
suit.
The total amounts in the appropria-
tons bills are: Annual, S7.970,255; sup
Elemental, S4S0.911.
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Senate President Gaunt, Republican.
of Gloucester County, yesterday after
noon issued a statement regarding the
Governors veto Of the joint resolution
for the road law investigation. He said
in part:
Il had hoped that the solution of the
good roads system would be accomplish
ed without further display of partisan-
ship and of worse traits. Our roads are
in far too serious a condition to allow the
law to remain as it is. 1t seems, how
ever, that the Governor thinks otherwise.
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