Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-10
POLITICIANS SHINE
AT GRANGERS' PICNIC;
JERSEY STARS THERE
Democrats Have Their Day at
Pitman Gathering-Wittpenn
and Frelinghuysen
Present
MANY SPEECHES MADE

P1TMAN. N. j., Aug. 1O.-A number of
political celebrities Of New Jersey came to
| Alcyon Park today for politicians day" at
| the big picnic of the Gloucester County
| Changers.
H. Otto wittpenn, of Jersey City. Demo-
| cratic candidate for Governor, and former
Senator Joseph II. Frelinghuysen. of Plain
| Held, president Of the New Jersey State
Board of Agriculture and candidate for
| the Republican nomination for United
| States Senator, led the field of politicians,
| large and small, who came to meet the
| grangers.
Democratic State Chairman Edward II.
| Grosscup. whose home is at wenonah, In
| this county, plloted Wittpenn to the picnic
| grounds. Senator George w. F. Gaunt OF
Mullica HILL master of the New Jersey
State Grange and chairman of the county
Picnic Committee had Senator Freling-
huysen in tow and presented him as one of
the speakers at what was scheduled as n
mass-meetfng for the discussion of purely
agricultural subjects.
Congressman William X Browning. Re.
publican, is expected here later in the day
from Camden to look after his political
fences as he will have to come up before the
voters of the First Congressional District in
his campaign for reelection again this fall.
The candidate who is being most strongly
doomed for the Democratic congressional
nomination is Charles r. Bacon, of Haddon-
field, secretary of the New Jersey Tunnel
and Bridge Commission, which Is booming
the project for the erection of bridge
across the Delaware River between Camden
and Philadelphia.
Politicians were by no means the sole at.
traction at the picnic grounds Farmers
and their families began to arrive early in
order to get the choice places in the groves
for parking their automobiles and horse
drawn rigs, there being decided shrnkage
in the number of the latter, as a large ma
jority of the grangers turned out In their
own automobiles. Some of the farmers
drove their large motortrucks but instead
Of cartihg along farm produce they packed
them full of neighbors and their families
and brought them along for the days out
ing. At noon sumptuous farm dinners were
spread in every available nook in and
around the park.
The army OF pleasure seekers put in this
morning visiting the exhibition buildings
and inspecting the exhibits of machinery
and farm produce Many new models in
labor-saving devices for the farm are being
displayed this year, but the farmers are
showing most interest in motors for busi-
ness and pleasure
With potatoes SO a barrel at the shipping
stations, this being the highest price the
tubers have reached in the last three or
four years, the grangers could afford today
to take more than one look at the tempting
array of new models of motorcars which are
shown along Machinery Row" This is
also a money year. for tomatoes and other
farm crops and the automobile and ma
chinery agents know that the farmers are
good spenders when they've got the ready
cash.
The South Jersey Farmers Exchange, a
cooperative organization which operates
nearly score OF buying stations in the
potato belt. has an attractive exhibit of
potatoes and other produce in the grangers'
building. In this building the various
oranges of the county also have varied
exhibit OF prize fruits and vegetables rum
ming anywhere from fresh Strawberries OF
the everbearing variety to big peaches and
still bigger watermelons and pumpkins,
The park began to NIL up rapidly with
throngs OF pleasure seekers around noon
today.