The Penn's Grove record., 1916-02-18
STATE ARENA FOR
WAR OF POLITICS
New Jersey Will Hold National
Attention During Campaign
MANY IMPORTANT CONTESTS
Governor and U. S. Senator Will Be
EIected-Long Branch a Mecca for
Democrats-Prominent Men
Announced as Candidates.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-The gaze of the nation
will be on New Jersey during the COM
ident Wilson spending the Summer at
Shadow Lawn" in Long Branch, New
Jersey will be the Mecca for the DEM
ocrats of the country. The State will
also furnish a political side show in
the campaigns for Governor and Unit
ed States Senator. In fact New Jer-
sey will be one of the main b~attlefields
of the nation.
Already the Democrats and Repub-
licans are %whooping it up for their
favorite candidates. Few bills are be-
ing put through the Legislature and
the season will be short. The law
makers are hurrying things along so
that they can go home and get ready
for the coming primary campaign and
later for the election campaign.
The first real skirmish will come in
the primaries to elect delegates to the
national conventions. Under the
present law these primaries are held
I'll III lOuAIA uSOudJ III may. lACIG
has been considerable objection to the
date, because the conventions and the
primaries come too close together. To
remedy this there is now in the Legis-
lature a bill providing for the ] gliding
of the primaries on April 25.
Expecting hat there will be much
bitterness in the campaign for nomi-
nations in the September primaries
the party leaders hope to confine the
differences to the primary battle and
have all of the factions get together
for the November election. Special
efforts will be made to have harmony
in the contests for President, Cover
There will be contests for minor Of
fees that will have a bearing on the
three important Offices, but the diff
culties will be smoothed out for the
sake of harmony all along the line.
Already men prominent in both the
Republican and Democratic parties
have announced themselves as candi-
dates for the principal Offices. More
than a month ago Ex-Governor Frank
lin Murphy of Newark announced that
he was a Republican candidate for
United States Senator. At the same
time State Senator Austin Colgate of
Essex County announced his candi-
dacy for Governor in the same party.
Then came the announcement of AS
semblyman Carlton Godfrey of Allan
tic County that he would run for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
Added to these came the name of
State Senator Walter E. Edge of At
lantic, who issued a platform in which
he said the State needed a business
manager.
The latest entrant in the race for
the Republican nomination for United
States Senator is ex-State Senator Jo-
seph S.. Frelinghuysen of Somerset
County. He has issued a platform
which places him among the progress
sive Republicans. He stands for a
mild form of preparedness, a tariff
commission, a merchant marine, and
for Federal aid for the farming in
terest.
While it is we'll known among his
friends that he will be a prominent
Republican candidate for United
States Senator, Ex-Governor Edward
C Stokes has not yet declared himself.
But it is so certain that he will be a
candidate that he is being talked of
as though he were now in the field.
So far no prominent Democrat has
announced his candidacy to succeed
United States Senator James E. Mar
tine, who is now finishing his term as
senior Senator. That Senator MARITIME
will again be a candidate S a f regone
conclusion among the Democratic lead
ers in New Jersey. Who else among
New Jerseys Democracy may enter
the Senatorship race has so for not
been made known. Naval Officer H.
Otto Wittpenn has been mentioned,
but he told a delegation from Bergen
County that if he became a candidate
it would be for Governor and nothing
else.
State Treasurer Edward E. Gross.
cup. whose term of office will expire
the middle of March, announced early
last veal that he expected to be a
Democratic candidate for Governor
this year. While he has not made
any definite announcement recently re
garding his position, Democrats ex
pect to hear Mr.. Grosscup speak his
mind at any time.
Political conferences will be the
daily order of events during the
coming summer in the life of New
Jersey along the coast.
Veterans Hit Trail.
1t was an inspiring sight witnessed
by the $4,000 persons in the Sunday
tabernacle. To the strains of martha
music. answering the plea of the siren
uous evangelist, wearing the uniforms
they have honored and the hats the,
wore in the campaigns between 81 ant