Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-05
'EDWARDSELECTED,
GOVERNOROF N. J.
With only 1o Districts Missing
Wet" Candidate Leads Bug
IL, bee by 1915
LEGISLATURE. is REPUBLICAN

Nov. 5.--(By A. P.)l-State
a Senator Edward I Edwards, Democrat,
running on an avowedly ''wet" plat
\ form, was elected governor Of New Jcr-
sey yesterday ID d close contest with
< state COMPTROLLER Newton A. X, Bug
bee, his Republican opponent.
The yotey with only twenty districts
missing out Of 20t1 in the state. was
4 Edwards, 214.900; Bugbee, 201, ,1S5, a
plurality of 13, ,715 for Edwards
Ten of the missing districts are in
.lBergen county, normally Republican,
and it is expected that the final figures
will slightly reduce Edwards plurality
Cape May, Morris and Sussex counties
each reported one district missing at II
o'clock, Warren county had two dis
tficts unaccounted fors at that hour and
Gloucester five.
Prohibition was the big issue. Sena-
tor Edwards, who is president of the
First National Bank,pf Jersey City, and
formcr state controller, pledged him
self to fight ''by every lawful means"
y the enforcement Of prohibition in New
Jersey. In his campaign speeches be
argued that the state has the right TO
define for itself what constitutes intoxi-
eating liquor and he manner in which
Y the eighteenth amendment should be en-
forced. Mr.. Bugbee co1tended that the
Eighteenth amendment was the law of
the land and he pledged himself to en-
force it,
\ Zone System an Issue
The street railway question was an
important issue Senator Edwards op-
! bosed the trolley zoning system of fare
| allowed by the Utility Board, which is
lRepublican, aud he pledged himself to
fYwork for an elective board, while Mr.
Bugbee promised a Reorganization of the
I'Utility Board and urged valuation of
1 poration upon which to base rate fare.
Senator Edwards openly advocated
woman suffrage, while Mr.. Bugbee
y favored state referendum on the sub
ject g Me-
N Democratic leaders claimed today that
Bdwards's election was an endorse
inent of. the national administration, but
this claim was disputed by the Republi-
cans, who pointed to the election of a
Republican legislature. y, Republicans
elected fifteen Of, the twenty one sena
tors and thirty three of the sixty as
semblymen voted for. The election of
a Republican legislature is interpreted
by politicians, of both sides as meaning
that the women suffrage amendme' t will
not be ratified until state referendum
has been heldson the question.
4sSenator Edwards, hin statement is
I sued at his Headquarters in Jersey to-
day, expressed his appreciation for the
81 vote that he had received.
t.In my campaign he said, II stood
fiat footed on the platform and on the
Y issue. Now that 1 have been elected /
will do my utmost to carry out the
promises I have made. /. say now, as
have said during the campaign, that
B WILD my utmost to give the people
OF this state a business administration
= free from public service domination and
political control" "" t.,.
Hudson County Turned Tide
Il One Of the strange features of the
election was that Edwards carried only
Atiye Of the twenty zone counties, although
4 thc vote in many Of them was close
4 Hudson county, which gave Edwards q
| plurality of '35.51S, turned the tide in
his favor and assured his victory. He
r carried Essex by 5S17; Sussex, with
one district missing, by 1889; Union by
X 116, and Warren, with two districts
missing. by 1885,. In all Democratic
counties Edwards ran ahead of the
publican counties, Bugbee ran behind
The normal Rannblican vote.
y Bugbee made his host showing in At
lantici. and Camden, counties where his
plurality over Edwards was 1922 and
!. 3635 votes. respectively. Comptroller
s Bugbee lost his own precinct in Tren
ton byS-thirteen votes and the city BY
:. fifty nine. votes, His vote in his home
district was behind that of all three
!. Republican candidates for the assembly
Newark gave Edwards a plurality Of
\ 10,43t and Jersey City, his home, o
7 plurality of 1888 ..s
/ Returns from South eJrsey, which
IeSd and % Il was not St until @ after n m;dp;pb, d MN
\ that the Democratic strongholds re-
I duced the lead and finally, turned the
1. tide in Edwards s. favor. Ntss r