The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22
VICTORY FOR EDGE
+. Is JERSEY OUTLOOK
Republicans Also Expected to
Maintain Their Strength
in Congress.
CAMPAIGN rs sCRAPPY
Professional Politicians Are at
White Heat, but Voters
Are Calm. .

New Jerseys statewide primaries viii
take place Tuesday. Party candidates
are to Be chosen for United States sena-
cor e full ana . short term). = full dels-
cation to Congress, several State Sens-
tors. sixty members Of the Assembly and
. raft Of county and municipal officers.
Interest in the campaign has been at
white heat among tho candidates. pro-
fsssional politicians ana their followers.
According to Admissions made by per-
fectly frank politicians. tho voters
haven't been very much excited. and II
has been hard work 70 set them TO take
moro than passing notice Of the party
scraps, factionai rows and mud Singing
in several Of the twenty-ons counties in
the State.
II il generally admitted that me
voters minds have been too occupied
with the more serious thoughts pertain
Eng to the war to bother about the things
that have been worrying the politicians.
Again. IL lie conceded that Jersey folk
have been surfeited with political rows
and scrimmages which accompany open
primaries" and It Is beginning to be
rather hard for them to take the prima-
Yies seriously. especially as they are sup
posed to whoop'er UP again in the regu-
lar campaign between the closing OF the
primaries and the opening Of the regular
polls on election day.
what the Expectations Are.
Although both the Republican and the
Democratic parties arc torn with dissen-
aions IN a number Of counties, there are
many reasons for believing that the man
who gets the Republican nomination for
United States Senator. long term, will
be elected TO that office. 1t is also ex-
pected that there viii be no falling on
In the next Republican delegation that
goes to Congress as New Jerseys
Representatives.
OF the three Republican candidates for
the Senatorial nomination, Gov. Walter
r. Edge, the wiseacres say. has the best
chance Of winning. IEs opponents are
ex-Congressman Edward W. Gray Of Es-
sex and George L. Record OF Hudson.
Gray. who 10 akains1 woman suffrage
and tho national prohibition amendment,
will poll his heaviest vote On the popu-
1ous counties OF Essex and Hudson
where the followers Of Col. Austen Col
gate are the strongest and saloons and
brewerles are most numerous.
Col. Colgate was a candidate for Sena-
torial honors for many months. and
after he Withdrew he issued q statement
In which he charged Gov. Edge with
building up a machine to bring about his
own nomination for Senator
Mr. Gray has bitterly attacked Gov.
Edge with much regularity during the
primary campaign. and the Governor
has been kept busy answering him. The
fact that Mr.. Edge has the prestige OF
being Governor who has accomplished
q good deal. and the fact that a ma
5ority Of the county organizations are
with him gives Mr.. Edges hackers rea-
sonablc justification for believing the
Governor will win in a walk"
Most Interesting Campaign.
BY far the most interesting cam
pa Ign put up by any candidate for noml-
nation for any Office. either Republican
or Democratic, has been made by George
l.. Record, one Of the pioneers In the
progressive movement, and long chief
Of the radical wing Of the G. o. p. Mr.
Recore probably has talked to as many
voters as all the rest Of the Senatorial
candidates Of both parties put together
He has made the round Of all the
counties twice. speaking in tent which
he has carried with him from town to
town. He has talked woman suffrage,
single tax, national prohibition. public
ownership Of coal mines, railroads and
all public utilities and making the rich
pay the larger share of the cost Of the
war
He has been seriously listened to
nightly by crowds for three months and
. half and his political enemies say !,
would be nonsense to insist that Record
will not get bigger vote next Tuesday
than he has ever received in his previ.
Gus campaigns for nominations. In 1916
when Record ran for Governor he re.
ceived a total vote of 2S,ss6, as agains,
1922 for Walter Z. Edge. and 1881
for Col. Colgate. The eyes Of the regu.
lars are turned toward Record and what
they call his Up. T. Barnum circus tent -
Democratic Candidates.
Democrats have been scrapping al.
most as vigorously. II not as vciously
as the Republicans in the contest for
the United States Senator nomina tion
for the full term. The candidates are
Charles OConnor Hennessy of Bergen
who long has had the reputation of be-
ing the kingpin OF Democratic progress
sives; George NJ. Lamonte. former State
Commissioner Of Banking and Insur-
ance: Assemblyman Alexander Simpson
of Hudson and Frank NJ. McDermit OF
Essex.
James r. Nugent Of Newark and his
followers are generally understood to be
willing TO bet that Lamonte will capture
the nomination. Lamonte has made nc
speeches and issued no statements. tax.
ing the attitude he is too busy with his
war work activities to conduct a cam
paign. Hennessy. who has always done
things in an aggressive way, has made
spirited campaign. More talk favor.
able to Hennessy is heard. particularly
in the northern counties, than for any
of the other Democratic candidates for
this nomination. Ex-Governor James r
Fielder Is one Of the many prominen,
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