Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-06-07
senator stevens Announces HIS
Candidacy for q Second Term

should be a candidate for denomination
for State Senator before the Republican
primaries In September, aud / have
decided to present my candidacy to the
members of the party for their consid-
Grafton.
1t is always fair to the electorate
that they know where the candidates
whom they are choosing stand, and l
shall be perfectly outspoken as to my
position.
In the past session of the legislature
/ have voted for the local option bills,
which give to--the people of each mu-
n~icipality the right to decide for them
selves the question of being a "wet" or
ssdryn locality on the sale of intoxica-
ting liquors.
In the last session of the Legislature
/ voted to let the people decide as to
whether they desired the New Jersey
Legislature to ratify the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors throughout the
Union, but the House of Assembly de-
cided not to concur In the matter, and
therefore, the people will not have a
chance to decide that matter until at
least another Legislature shall convene.
In order to know for what principle
they are voting when voting for me, l
that if I am nominated and
elected in November that l will vote
in the New Jersey Legislature for the
ratification of the proposed prohibition
amendment; upon this, as n ques-
ton I will stand or fall. Personally. /
would like to know the desires OF the
majority of the voters of the State upon
this proposition, but until that infor-
nation is known, I will stand for what
/ believe is morally right, and vote for
it's ratification.
Upon the subject of oma suffrage,
/ have twice voted In the Legislature
10 submit to the people of the State an
amendment to the Constitution allow
ing the women the ballot, and at the
special election in 1915, as a citizen, /
voted to give the women that right,
and if returned to the State Senate /
will again vote to submit such an
amendment.
In this war for the establishment
of a world democracy the New Jersey
Legislature and its Governor has back
ed up the President and the country by
passing all measures to send New Jer-
sey soldiers to the help of the Nation,
aud to protect the rights OF these SOL
diers and their families while away
fighting to uphold the honor of the
United States. 1t has been my pleas
ure to vote for all such measures, and /
will, If elected, continue to vote for and
aid the passage of every law which
will the better sid the United States
and New Jersey ia the prosecution
and winning of this righteous wal.
During the past five years all of the
state economy and efficiency la VS. have
been enacted whereby New JERSEYS
taxpayers have been saved hundreds
of thousands OF dollars In the cutting
off OF useless office holders and the a.
polishing of expensive commissions.
Fol these measures / have voted, and
I shall continue such a course if return
ed to Trenton by the good people of
Cape May County.
I have advocated and voted for laws
making good roads, but In the session
of 1916, [ earnestly fought and voted
against the Egan Road Bill, because
it did not give to Cape May County a
single mile of improved road, from the
fifteen million dollars proposed to be
expended under it, in spite of the fact
that we would have to pay our share
of tax on our county valuation. In the
session of 1917, l introduced the bill
repeating the Egan Road Law, and
the Legislature passed the bill; and
then l had put in the present Edge
Road Law, the routes, No. IA, which
gives Cape May County thirty-two
miles of improved road from Tucka-
hoe to Cape May City, and No. Is,
which connects cape May County
with Bridgeton, and under this law
Cape May county when the money is
expended, will get about n million
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
of road money. These figures are by
the estimates of the State Highway
Commission, created under the Edge
law. This money was due Cape May
county not only because of its thirty
nine millions of dollars of wealth, but
also, because of its standing In valua-
ton ahead of nine other counties in
the state, jumping these nine in values
since 1900.
In my Legislature career / have tried
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