Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-04-14
STATE POLITICS
STIR TRENTON
Essex County Republican Com
mittee to Give Dinner for
RAYMOND Tomorrow Night
Ru sp.otnI co,rcsrordcnt

By Special Cor res pOndeWt
TRENTON, April 14:-Plans for
the waging OF one Of the most active
campaigns in the history of the party
will be discussed here tomorrow at a
luncheon which Charles +. Mcdonald.
chairman of the Democratic State
Committee, has planned for the men,
bers Of the committee. Invitations
have been sent by the state chairman
to each of the t~wenty-one county
representatives and also TO Robert s.
Hudspeth. of Jersey City, the men,
Der OF the National Committee from
this state.
The luncheon will be held at one
o'clock in tho afternoon in the Hotel
Sterling. this city. The night for the
governorship which will be decided at
the polls next November, is now
looming up. and IL is anticipated that
this will form one of the chief topics
of discussion. Reports will be heard
from the various county representa-
tives on the State Committee as TO
the chances for Democratic success
in their respective bailiwicks.
Because OF the fast that no less
than ten state senators will be chosen
at next falls election. IL Is a~nticipat-
ed that this phase Of the coming cam
paign will also come ! n for much
consideration. This unusua number
of seats in the upper branch of the
legislature to be filed in 1913 comes
about through the regular expiration
of terms. INC the retirement OF pres
ent members of the senate because OF
appointments to various positions OF
public trust
With practically half the senate to
be elected this fall, the Democrats
wHli make a determined effort to land
enough of these seats to capture con-
troll of the upper house for next win
ter, They have been out of power
there since the legislature OF 1914. In
the next senate there will be seven
Republican and four Democratic
holdovers, and 1t requires a total of
eleven to control. Democrats expect
10 elect successors to Senators Ed
wards in Hudson and Ackerson In
Monmouth. which would give them
nix. This means that they Will have
to capture five Of the eight remaining
seats to be filed, which Is no small
task, especially when 1t Is considered
that most of these eight counties
where the places must be won TO gain
senate ascendency are more or less
Republican strongholds.
Neither Republicans nor Demo-
Gratis having had control in years
assembly, both sides will make a de-
termined effort to capture IL next
fall. The state comptrollership Is also
at stake In the 1919 election. inas-
much as the term of the encumbent
Newton A. X. Bugbee. the leading
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for governor. will expire next
January. The party that controls tho
legislature on joint ballot will cap
ture this plum for three years at
5000 n year.
Al this writing there are two can
didates for the Republican nominal
fion for governor, Mr.. Bugbee n
CITY Commissioner Thomas L. Ray
mond, of Newark. The same sitna-
ton prevails on the Democratic side.
state Senator Edward I. Edwards, or
Hudson county. and CONGRESSMAN
Thomas J.. Scully. of the Third Dis
frict. being the rivals. More entrants
are expected in the Republican con-
test. and 1t is not unlikely thag one
or two more Democrats may zQin
oEst' s-tnd ecuiiy.