The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-14
STATE NEWS.
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erman; former County Chairman Frank
Smith, who is now Register, and Mayor
Victor Mravlag, of Elizabeth, the Union
County Republicans have just given an
enthusiastic reception to Senator Walter
h. Edge, of Atlantic county, in his tour
for the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor. Judge William Newcorn, of
Plainfield, the county chairman, said it
was not customary for the County Com
mittee to side with any one candidate,
but personally he favored Senator Edge.
Many of those present regarded the
meeting and its result as an endorse
ment of Edges candidacy.
Several New Jersey women have a
part in the Women's Alliance organized
to aid the campaign to make Charles
e. Hughes president. Mrs. Everett
Colby, wife of the former Senator and
Bull Moose leader, is on the executive
committee. Among the other well
known women of this State included are
Mrs. George 7. Vickers, wife of the as
sistant prosecutor of Hudson county:
Mrs. Marshall VanWinkle, of Jersey
City, and Mrs. Frank A. Pattison, of
Colonia.
City, stands pat on his statement that
ne VIII seek the nomination for Senator
in Atlantic county on an independent
ticket, South Jersey will see one of the
hottest Senatorial fights in its history
owing to the situation which has brought
about this determination of Riddle. Ex-
Mayor Riddle is wealthy and is one of
the most radical supporters of wide-open
Sunday librality in the State. On the
open Sunday issue he was defeated for
reelection as Mayor of Atlantic City
last spring. Senator Edge, of Atlantic.
now the candidate for Governor on the
Republican ticket, opposed Riddle in the
Mayorality fight. Now Riddle is not
only planning to run for Senator. but
IS also starting to fight Edge followers
all along the line, which means his oppo-
sitlon to the regular Republican organi-
cation. With Riddle a candidate for
Senator, he will oppose former Assemb-
lyman Emerson L. Richards, who will be
the regular Republican candidate for
Senator. Riddle says he will SUPPORT
Senator Austen Colgate. for Governor.
which will bring him into sharp contest
with the Edge men. Then it is said that
former City Solicitor Theodore Schimpf.
who supported Riddle for Mayor. will
run for Congress on the Riddle ticket
against Congressman Isaac Bacbarach.
who will seek reelection as the regular
Republican candidate. 1t can readily be
seen that if this program goes through
the campaign in Atlantic will be a hot
one.
Senator Edge and his friends claim
that the Riddle fight will not make any
serious inroads in the Edge support,
and hat is the general opinion at the
State House.
Under call of State Chairman Bugbee.
Ihe presidents and secretaries of all the
republican Clubs of the State will meet
at the Republican Club in this city next
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock to or
ganize a working unit of club representa-
tlves, prepare for getting all the clubs
ready for vigorous work and Law plans
Tor an aggressive party fight to be
launched at once. Chairman Bugbee
says there are ia active clubs in the
state, with about 100 more that are
more or less inactive, their total mem
oership including approximately 100000
Republican voters. Discussing the meet
ing, he declared:
1T is our purpose to make all these
clubs active and to enlist the 100000
Republicans in a determined combat for
the whole party ticket. Our aim is to
have all these clubs working in unison
along the most effective lines, avoiding
duplication of effort, in order that ev-
cry stroke may count"
Fully alive to the situation that New
Jersey, the home State of the Democrat
lc candidate for President, will be one
of the chief battle grounds, the Republi-
can leaders are preparing for one of the
greatest campaigns in their history. Mr..
Bugbee states that the State Committee
has been promised by the Republican
National Committee that several of the
biggest speakers in the party ranks in
the country will assist in the fight here.
Senator John A. Ackley. Democrat Of
Cumberland county, whose term expires
this year, has started a boom for the
nomination of former Deputy State
State Treasurer John S. Ware, of
Bridgeton, as the Democratic candidate
for Senator this fall. Mr.. Ackley will
not seek reelection. Cumberland coun-
ty normally is Republican, but Ackley
thinks hat Mr.. Ware can be elected
and continue the county in the Demo-
cratic column on Senator of he is nom
Ex-senator Ackley proposes as
the slogan for the Cumberland county
Democrats: with Wilson, Wittpenn.
Wescott and Ware we will win"
Mr.. Ware is treasurer of the Cum
Trust Company, is interested IN
farming in a practical way and was
deputy state treasurer under Edward r.
Grosscup.