Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-27
WATCH YOUR
STEP" POLICY
Keep Faith With People, Stokes
Urges Republicans

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TRENTON, Sept. 27.-The Repub-
lican state leaders are going very care
fully in the matter OF preparing the
platform which Is to be adopted It
the state convention to be held here
next week. This is indicated by the
conference here yesterday, the one for
today and the two additional scheduled
for Monday, and by the time the con-
.vention opens every n of the ninety
mine delegates opinions as to what
the document should contain will have
been obtained. This is apparent by the
pre-convention conferences which
started yesterday, at the call of State
Chairman Stokes, and will continue
until ext Tuesday, the date of the
convention.
The leaders evidently realize that
this Is q peculiar year in Jersey politics
and with a governor to be elected the
watchword in building q platform
must be watch Your Step"
Following yesterdays conference
of the State Committeeman, the
ty chairman, with Candidate Bugbee
n State Chairman Stokes, today a
number of hold-over Senators and
candidates for the Senate and assem-
bly, are expected to confer here with
Mr.. Stokes on the platform planks
and the general campaign plans. Mon
day more of the candidates, who are
not present today, will meet for con-
ference purposes. 1t is all part of MT.
Stokes program to whip the party in
to fighting shape for the battle from
now until November to elect Bugbee,
and a Republican Legislature and in
~cidentally the smaller county stakes
throughout the States.
Keep faith with the people" Is
the slogan Mr.. Stokes gave today's
and yesterdays conference OF Repub-
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Roosevelt cry and the State Chairman
is intoxicating it in his New Jersey
, party colleagues. That there will be
a plank on the question of an in
dependent appraisal or valuation of
the property of the Public Service
Corporation as outlined in the pri-
mary campaign is very likely, es-
pecially as it was advocated by Mr..
Stokes. 1t is apparent from a few
remarks dropped by Mr.. Bugbee yes
terday that he does not anticipate
easy sailing for his plank on the
1 utility question.
1t seems to be definitely assured
, that there will be no plank in the
platform on the liquor issue. The
leaders take the position that the
'drys" having failed to win at the
primaries, the people have spoken
and there is no need for action in this
direction. Furthermore, both MesSrS
Bugbee and Runyon having taken the
attitude in the primary campaign
that Prohibition being an accomplish.
ed fact, 1t is no longer an issue in TIT
State, and when 1t comes to a question
of enforcing it, one leader summed /
up as follows: THE Republican Part!
has always stood for the enforcement
of the law"
Among those invited for yesterday
and today's conferences were the fol-
lowing prominent State leaders: Uni
ted States Senators Walter Il. Edge
and Joseph s. Frelinghuysen, Acting
Governor William N. Runyon, Assem-
blyman William A. Blair, Atlantic
City; Congressman Isaac Bacharach
Atlantic City; Senator William b
Mackay of Bergen; Assemblyman En-
met Roberts of Burlington; Former
Senator Baird, County Clerk Franz
Paterson, State Treasurer William I
Read and Senator Joshua G. Haines
all of Camden County; Henry 2
Thorn of Medford, Daniel E. Pomeroy
Englewood; Carl Hildreth, Cape MAY
County; Senatorial Candidate Firmar
M. Reeves of Cumberland, Senator
}Charles C. Pilgrim. Newark; Former
Judge B. +. Jones, Newark; Sheriff
Jack" Flavell, Newark; Assemble
Nominee George s.. Hobart. Newark
Senator Sturgess, Gloucester; Senat'
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~cester; Prosecutor Pierre p. Garven
Bayonne; Former Judge Robert e
Carey. Jersey City.
Senatorial Nominee John z. Gill
, Mercer; Prosecutor A. Dayton Oliphan
Mercer; Frederick G. Schneider. New
Brunswick; Assemblyman Dallas G
Young, Monmouth; County Clerk 10
hseph McDermott of Monmouth; p
Bertram Mott, Morristown; Thoma!
il. Hillery, Morris; Senatorial Nomine'
Harry T. Hageman, Ocean; Attorne,
General Thomas f. McCran, Passaic
Senator Albin Smith, Passaic; William
sP. Burke, Passaic; Senator Collins B
Allen, Salem; Lucius e. Hires, Salem
w. p. Bowmen, Somerset; Senator
Clarence e. Case of Somerset; Nation
al Committeeman Hamilton F. Kean
Union; Charles N. Codding, Surrogate
of Union; John 1. Blair Riley, Phillis
burg; John j. Stanton, Sussex; Mayo,
Louis f. Dodd, Montclair; DR.. Charlie
Hespe, Jersey City.