The Penn's Grove record., 1916-07-28
FRIDAY, JULY IS, 1916
STATE L NEWS.
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80 ~" $780,
of the program will supplement the 9TH
er usual campaign efforts. AT the meet
ing last Saturday James r. Nugent, of
Newark, explained how the organization
of first voters clubs and the clubs of
naturalized citizens was handled in Essex
county with fine results. 1t was decid-
ed to follow a similar plan for the entire
State and the matter was referred to
Chairman Grosscup. Mr.. Grosscup will
|nnounce his plans in detail in a few
days. This part Of the campaign will
probably be worked out by j committee
to act as an auxiliary OF the State Com
mittee.
Frank B. jess, of Camden. a member
of the State Board of Faxes and Assess
ment, who four years ago was a strong
Progressive, declared today in favor of
the election of Charles T.. Hughes. He
thinks Justice Hughes should be salts
factory to any Republicans of progressive
principles and says the Progressives who
are opposing Hughes and insisting upon
Il third party ticket are making a mis-
take.
AT first l was not in favor of Justice
Hughes" Mr.. jess said, but as soon as
he was nominated he declared himself in
a way satisfactory to me, and l am going
to support him. l do not see why any
Progressive should oppose him. The
Progressive leaders declared last JAM
airy they would support any one who
was nominated by the Republicans who
was reasonably progressive. l think
Hughes meets that stand, and to be con-
sistent all Progressives should support
him.
Senators Edge and Colgate. Republi-
can candidates FOR Governor, having de
cline1 the invitation of George L. Rec
ord, their rival in the race, for a joint
debate on the campaign issues, including
local option. municipal ownership, etc,
Mr.. Record has written them asking that
they Join with him in a discussion of the
issues by letter. He says he has made
clear his position in favor of a local OPP
ton bill like the one passed by the Sem
ate last winter, and he asks the other
two candidates if either of them be nom
mated if he will favor such a bill, and if
elected if he will recommend it in his
inaugural address to the Legislature.
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While most Of the Mercer county Re
publicans are for Senator Edge for Gov
ernor, former A~sSemblyman Harvey s..
Moore, of Trenton, has come out for
Senator Colgate and declares that he
should be nominated.
Attorney General Wescott said today
he had not yet written the opinion to
Secretary of State Martin on the ques-
ton of the soldiers voting while on the
Mexican border. Press of business in his
office had prevented taking this matter
up.
There were many expressions of regret
at the State House yesterday and today
that Senator Ackerson, of Monmouth
county, was i'll of typhoid fever at Key
port. His wife and son are also i'll.
There is a general hope in State poIiti-
cal circles that it win not prove serious.
Senatxr Ackerson was the Democratic
leader in the Senate through the last
session.
State Chairman Grosscup and other
Democratic leaders yesterday afternoon
attended the funeral of the wife Of State
Commttteeman Charles f. Mcdonald at
her I3te home in Elizabethtown. Mrs.
Mcdonald died last Saturday night.
Reviewing the work of the consoidat-
ed state departments under the economy
and efficiency acts of 1915. after one year
of operation, the heads of the DEPART
ments declare that the government as far
as Shey are concerned has been much
more efficient than before the mergers
took place. The financial side is shown
by figures from the State Controllers
office. In 1914 before the consultations
took effect, the total appropriations of
the departments involved were 5000, S64.
In 8 l they were $G07. 327; in 1916 they
amounted to $41S.59S, and for 1917 they
are S5O9,40O. The consultations took
effect July l, 1915.
Senator Walter E. Edge, of Atlantic
City, who is a lieutenant colonel in the
National Guard, ordnance department.
and who offered his services to the State1
as soon as President Wilson called for
troops, has written Governor Fielder sug-
costing that a special session of the Leg
i%slature be called, if necessary, to give
the New Jersey soldiers on the Mexican
border the right to vote this fall.
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OF more than ordinary significance
and of far reaching effect viii be the con-
tests for the election of the nine State
Senators in this State this fall. In
their first year in the Senate the men
elected viii each have a vote at the Joint
session Of the Legislature for a State
Comptroller to succeed Edward I. Ed
wards, Democrat, salary $4,000 a year.
They will also be called upon to meet
the local option issue, which is likely to
become acute during the next two or
three years. In addition, the Senator's
elected this year will have to face the
m suffrage issue in the session of
1919, the last year of their term. 1t is
understood that the sufnagistS will
have another equal suffrage amendment
before the people for a vote in Novem-
Der, 1920, which is the earliest year it
can be taken up again under the consti-
tuition. 1t will be necessary to have the
amendment passed by the Legislatures
of 141 and 1000 hnfnra tho ,yo+or- 49,