The Penn's Grove record., 1916-05-26
FRIDAY, MAY 70, 1916
STATE CAPITAL NEWS.
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EDuuuEuL Nn1N Ut WILL uCANaN RNhAApA
Edge and win the nomination. Senator
Colgate's term would not end until next
year. There has also been som talk
that Senator Edge might resign for the
same reason, but he has made no state
ment to that effect as yet. His term ex-
pires this year, so. that his successor will
be elected next November in any event
1t is considered likely that Assemblyman
w. Give Crosby, of East Orange, viii
be the regular Republican candidate for
Senator to succeed Colgate. Former As
semblyman Emerson L. Richards will
be the Republican candidate to succeed
Senator Edge. The resignation of Sen
ator Colgate will make it necessary next
November to elect nine State Senators,
an unusually large number. The coun-
ties in which Senators will be chosen
are: Atlantic, Bergen, Camden, Ito
succeed Senator Read, who resigned to
become State Treasurer) Cumberland,
Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Morris and
Ocean. The election of Senators in Es-
sex and Hudson, the two largest coun-
ties in the State, will add to the import
ance of the campaign next fall.
Lost in the wilds of South Jersey.
That is what happened to an autofull of
Democratic chieftans, including men who
may be the next Governor and United
States Senator provided the followers
of Andrew jackson and Thomas Jeffer-
son can win the election next November.
1t was on the trip of II. Otto Wittpenn,
candidate for Governor; Attorney Cen
eral John w. Wescott, candidate for
TTp14oJ SAaHaz Cono+ov. C+,+o C1osv,,a.
Grosscup and others. from the Wittpenn
dinner at Penns Grove, Salem County.
The party left Penns Grove about mid
night with Chairman Grosscup as pilot,
and the objective port was the Gross
cup home at Wenonah, Gloucester
County.
After several hours of riding the
members of the party discovered they
had taken the wrong road and had cir
cled back on a road previously Travelled.
Then when they came to a road with an
end that ended in a sandy field, they
knew they were lost. Finally they got
their bearings. found the right highway
and reached Wenonah at 40 a. m.
1t was a dry dinner. As w. ]. Bryan
says, a man no longer has to be a social
dr1nker to prove he is a democrat. Judge
Wescott said at the dinner, he knew all
roads ed TO Penns Grove and none that
led away. No wonder the party got lost.
Governor Fielder and other State Of
icials have been parties to a plan to
keep the road system of New Jersey in
the grasp of the s%poilsmen, according to
an allegation made by Senator Gaunt,
Republican, of Gloucester County, in a
statement just issued by him on the
highway problem. Senator Gaunt out
lines four divisions into which the road
problem may be divided, designating
them as social, engineering, financial and
political. Referring to the political
side, Senator Gaunt says:
From the Governor down, appar-
entity only one thought has actuated
heir conduct. That has been to keep
the various road departments where
the spoilsmen can easily reach them,
and [ have no hestitancy in saying
that no one so well understands this
fact as those officials who have had to
do with the administration Of the
road affairs of the State
As to the financial side of the highway
problem, Senator Gaunt gives Essex and
Union counties credit for having more
nearly perfected road business methods
than any other county. He says that if
Essex and Union raao methods were
maintained throughout tie State, the an
nual road repair bill would be reduced
by at least $1,50O.0O0.
s. > + X
President Wilson and Governor Field
er will be New Jersey ~neighbors this
summer, provided the international COM
plications do not become so serious as to
demand that the President remain at his
post in Washington. If the President
shall get a vacation, he viii spend it at
Shadow Lawn" at Long Branch. while
Governor Fielder, as usual, will spend
his summer at the State cottage at Sea
Grit, known as "rhe Little White
House." The Governor will move to
Sea Girt next Tuesday. and while he
win spend most II his time there, he
viii be at the State Rouse on Tuesdays
and other times when necessary. The
arrival of President Wilson at Long
Branch and the length of his stay there
will depend upon conditions at Wash
ington.
Senator Charles O'Connor Hennessy.
of Bergen County, who has nearly re
covered from his recent Illness, has no
intention Of Withdrawing from the race
for the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor He has gone to Battle Greek,
Michigan, for a final reeuperation, and
before leaving. issued a statement deny
ing emphatieally the report that he would
withdraw. He SAYS he viii be back in
Jersey in a month ready to wage an act
i've campaign, and while he is absent his
friends win be campaigning for him.
MY chief effort in the campaign"
says Senator Hennessy. will be to try
10 make people think and talk not about
the customary political pifie, but to con
slider governmental policies for which
thousands of earnest citizens are now
contending, policies that may be made
to radically affect for the better the ma.
terial welfare Of all classes of our peo-
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Senator HeBnassy is making home rule
for m5nioiraEtiaS n oil oroc+iors nc