The Penn's Grove record., 1916-12-01
STATE CAPITOL NEWS
What The State Officials Are
Doing. What The Political
Leaders Are Talking
About

and Fairbanks, Republicans. for Presi-
dent and Vice-President over Wilson
and Marshall, Democrats, by a plurality
of 1884, as officially announced yester-
day afternoon by the State Board of
Canvassers. The Board canvassed the
entire vote of the State for Presidential
Electors, United States Senator, Cover
nor, Congressman, and the 100000
Egan State road bonding act.
The official vote for Presidential
Electors based on the average vote of
the IA. was certified to be as follows:
Republican. 26S.982; Democratic. 211.-
01S; Socialist, 10.405; Prohibition, g.
lS2; Socialist Labor, $50; Republican
plurality, 57.964
The work Of the Board showed that
the Presidential vote in Gloucester
county was as here submitted:
Hughes and Fairbanks, 1852; Wilson
and Marshall, 3745; plurality for Hughes
and Fairbanks. 1907.
This gives the total vote of the State
for all parties as 494,442, compared
with a total of 432.627 in 1912. an in
crease this year of 81, One Of the
striking features of the vote is that
Hughes this year got 34,737 more votes
that the combined vote of Taft and
Roosevelt in 1912. Four years ago New
Jersey gave Taft SS,S35 and Roosevelt.
1910. President Wilson's vote Of
211.O1S this rear is an increase of 81
129 over his vote in 1912, when he re-
ceived 17S,2S9. The Socialist vote for
President in this State this year was
only 10,405, as against 1901 four years
ago, a loss of 5,496 votes. The Prohi-
bition vote this year shows an increase
of 81. the vote being 3,1S2, compared
with PSI four years ago.
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The official canvas showed the vote
of the State for United States Senator
to be as follows: F~relinghuysen. Repub-
lican, 244,715; MARITIME. Democrat. 100
019; Doughty. Socialist. 1888: Bar
bour. Prohibition, IT'S: Katz, Socialist
Labor. 1,S26. Republican plurality. IA
696.
Gloucester county gave Frelinghuysen
1921 votes for United States Senator.
and 2,701 votes for MARITIME, or a plur-
ality of 1920 for Fre~linghuysen. The
scattering vote of this county on United
States Senator was: Doughty, 172; Bar
bour, 716; and Katz, %.
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The Assembly vote Of the State is al
ways important as it is made the basis
Of several factors in the election pro-
visions, such as what constitutes a legal
political party, who may vote at the
succeeding primary election, etc. The
State Canvassing Board certified that
the average Assembly vote on November
I was as follows: Republican. 240. 1901:
Democratic. 175.5SS: Prohibition. TO-
147; Socialist. 15,S67; Socialist-Labor
400. This gives a Republican plurality
of 65,013.
The Democrats carried Hudson by =
PSI for Assembly; Hunterdon by COS:
Monmouth by 666. and Warren by l.
945. giving them a total plurality in
those four counties of 10.S06. The Re
publicans carried the other II counties
by a combined plurality of 75.S19, Civ
ing them the net plurality of 65.013.
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The official canvass shows that State
Senator Walter E. Edge. Republican.
was elected Governor over T. Otto Witt
penn, Democrat, by the plurality of Co.
CAT. The official vote for Governor is
as follows:
Edge. Republican. 247. 343: Wittpenn.
Democrat. III 1896; Kraft, Socialist.
1900; Vaughan. Prohibition. 5.S73:
Butterworth. Socialist-Labor 1884.
The official vote for Governor in Glou-
cester county is shown by the State
Canvassers to be as follows:
Edge. Republican. 4.S2S; Wittpenn.
Democrat, 3,045; Kraft, Socialist, 1913;
Vaughan, Prohibition, 727; Butterworth.
Socialist-Labor. 46. This Prohibition
vote is the largest of any county in the
State.
This vote for Edge is the largest the
State has ever given for a Governor. The
next largest were the vote for Woodrow
Wilson for Governor in 1910, which was
233 .6S2, and for Edward c. Stokes in
1904 the year that Roosevelt was elect
ed President. This Stokes vote was
231.363. The Edge plurality of 69,647
is not a record. however, although it IS
the largest plurality this State has ever
given a Governor. in 1904 the plurality
of Stokes over Charles c. Black. Demo-
crat, now Supreme Court Justice. was
) 1.644. and in 1910 Wilson defeated
Vivian NJ. Lewis, his Republican OPP
/ pOhCAl De u llO1 AMY VI 1D.OoO. 4AtHt
are the nearest approach to the great
record made by Senator Edge. The
smallest plurality the State ever gave
for Governor was in 1880. when Ludlow,
Democrat. defeated Potts. Republican,
by the very slender overplus of COL
votes.
This is the seventh time since the
adoption of the State Constitution in
1874 that the election of President and
Governor have come together, this CO.
incidence happening in New Jersey ev-
cry twelve years. Only once before IN
these Presided ial- G~ubernatorial years
has the candidate for Governor ran
ahead of the Presidential nominee. In
1914 the Wigs elected Stratton Govern
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