The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-29
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 20 1916
State News
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campaign had all been raised.
The Republicans will spend $4,000 in
a publicity campaign and $4,000 more
through their speakers bureau. The
bulk of the advertising will be done
through the daily and weekly newspap-
ers, Mr.. Bugbee said.
Several notable Republican leaders
will be brought into this State to speak,
besides Charles e. Hughes, the Presi-
Dental candidate. Hughes will tour the
State OIL October 8, speaking at Newark,
New Brunswick, Camden and Other
points. On October 25 he will speak
in the Ocean Grove auditorium, at Red
Bank and in Bergen county. An eff
fort is also being made to get him to
speak at Penns Grove on October 10.
Former President Taft and James Hays
Hammond win speak in the State on
October 4.
The Presidential Electors of the two
parties, fourteen in number in each case,
will be elected at the respective State
Conventions next Tuesday. The Prohi-
bition party filed with Secretary of
State Martin yesterday a petition nom
mating their Presidential Electors, this
being the method they have to follow as
they do not poll enough votes to hold
a Geran act State Convention. Those
nominated are as follows:
Theodore 7. Crane, of Mt. Tabor;
Robert Bruce Crowell and James Gil
bert Mason, of Metuchen; Grafton E.
Day, of Collingswood; Charles G. Demp-
sey, of Westville; Harry NJ. Dutt, of
Ridgefield Park; Alfred III. Edgerley, of
Bloomfield; Silvanus Gordon, of Sar-
geantville; William L. Jones, James
Parker and Ulysses S. Knox, of Jersey
City; James G. Patton, of Paterson;
Stephen d. Riddle, of West Orange, and
Augustus ]. Smith, of Ocean City.
The Prohibition candidate for Cover
nor is Harry Vaughn, of Morristown,
and for United States Senator, Living
ston Barbour, of New Brunswick.
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big Thursday at the Interstate
Fair tomorrow, known far and wide as
politicians day, will rave as its chief
attraction former Justice Charles E.
Hughes, Republican candidate for Presl-
dent. President Wilson will not be
abel to attend the fair. The reception
committee to meet ex-Justice Hughes
and escort him to the fair grounds is
composed of former Governor Edward
C. Stokes, Ferdinand ". Roebling, one
of the heads of the John A. Roebling's
Sons Company; former Assemblyman
George W. Adams, a labor leader; ex-
Police COMMISSIONS Frank III. Hutch
ms, national yice-president of the Pot
ters' Union; former Senator Jonathan
II. Blackwell, president of the Fair, and
Mahlon r. Margerum, it's secretary.
All are of Trenton and all are Republi-
cans except ex-senator Blackwell. State
Chairman Newton A. K. Bugbee will ac-
company Candidate Hughes to Trenton.
after having made all the arrangements
in New York City for the trip. Hughes
will speak in front of the big grand
stand tomorrow morning.
Governor James +. Fielder and Naval
Officer HI. Otto Wittpenn, candidate for
Governor, will head the delegation of
Democratic leaders at the fair. Mr..
Wittpenn is also at the fair today greet
ing voters at the Democratic headquar-
ters on the fair grounds and meeting
hundreds of farmers. today being farm
ers' day.
Practically all of the candidates Of
both parties will be on the fair grounds
tomorrow, and it will be one of the
and most brilliant gatherings of
statesmen and would-be statesmen in the
history of the State.
The munition workers in New Jersey
present a new and interesting factor in
the election this year. There are sew
eral thousand of them who have been
imported into the State to aid in the
manufacture of ammunition for the Eur
opean powers at war, and thousands
of them have been here more than one
year, so they will be able to vote. The
situation is emphasized by the fact that
most of them are in the smaller coun-
ties, where this largely augmented vote
will mean much. For example, it is es-
timated that there are FIVE or six thous-
and of these new voters in Salem coun-
ty, where normally the vote is compare
lively small, and this viii present a fac
tor that may swing the election in that
county in either party.
The number of these new voters is
net known, but it is estimated all the
way from 10000 to 10000 in the whole
State. Both parties are making special
plans to win these votes. Both State
Chairman Bugbee, of the Republicans
and Grosscup, of the Democrats, have
given the situation careful attention, and
the committees have prepared to meet
it.
The report Of the State Department
of Health for August, just issued, shows
that there were 2,114 cases of infanfile
paralysis during the month, and 597 res
adent deaths and IA nonresident deaths
from the dread disease. This is a big
Increase over July, when there we're
$40 cases and 178 deaths. The State
Board Of Health thinks the epidemic is
now waning and that the morbidity and
mortality rates for September win show
a considerable decrease.