Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
OF RUNYOA
IN n. J. QUESTIONED
Organization Leaders Raise
Constitutional Issue in Guber-
material Campaign
MOVE FOR N. A. K. BUGBEE

Republican organization leaders in
New Jersey, supporting Newton A. K.
Bugbee, state comptroller, for governor
against the field, this week raised a
highly complicated question concerning
the legal status of Governor Runyon
in his campaign to succeed himself.
The issue is constitutional.
While Mr.. Runyon never has re-
signed as senator for Union county he
claims to be governor in every sense
Of the term.
New jerseys constitution declares
that a governor of the state shall not
succeed himself, and Bugbee campaign
managers are declaring that Governor
Runyon morally is transgressing the
spirit Of that prohibition.
Jerseys political history disclose'
that both Foster NJ. Voorhees, and
Foster NJ. Fielder, who were advanced
from acting governor to full terms in
the past, relinquished their senatorial
honors in advance Of the primaries
Governor Runyon has not done so. II
he should be nominated at the pri-
maries September, % there would be a
vacancy in the Senate from Union
county. If he loses in the primary
fight without having relinquished the
senatorship in the meantime he will be
in a position to resume his seat in the
Senate.
Loss in Favor Claimed
1t is said by some politicians that
Governor Runyon lost length in the
gubernatorial sweepstake when he de-
clined the appeal for special session
of the Legislature to put teeth in
the jobs for soldiers act.
The elimination of the state Anti
Saloon League as factor in the primary
fight, also, it is maintained, has weak
cned the governors case.
Otherwise conditions throughout tn,
state have undergone little change Ii
passaic, where Sheriff McCutcheon il
for the governor, he will have to figh
virtually the whole of the county or
ganizatiOn. The raising of the RunyoI
issue there, Furthermore, has driven
large unattached following to Mr.. Bug
bee, since Passaic is even more uncOm
| promisingly "wet" than either Hudson
or Essex.
Senator Bright. of Cape May. is SAT-
to be the only one of the twenty on
members of the Senate who support
Mr.. Runyon.
In Burlington both of the G. o. P
factions turned out this week to Civ
Bugbee cordial greetings.
/ Insurgents Active
Large red, white and blue posters
bidding jerseys electorate vote fo
Thomas H. Raymond, the liberal guber
material aspirant from Essex. mad
their appearance this week in Atlanti
county. One of the first was posted O
the hotel Of Louis Kuehnle, whose in
surgent followers are expected to be fc
Raymond because the REGULARS"
Atlantic are supporting Bugbee.
7 Senator Edwards, of Hudson. con
tinues to gain strength in the Demo
cratic paddock. The Edwards Hagu
combination, determined to not on
smash the gubernatorial hopes of Jam,
NQEent, of Essex, but to eliminate hi
aF the same time as state leadersh
: factor, this week carried out the
, threat to fight Mr.. Nugent in his hon
county. A complete anti-Nugent cour
ty ticket, headed by Thomas A. Kenn
of Newark, for surrogate, has bee
agreed upon.
Former Assemblyman Salus, of A
lantic, this week denied that he hi
abandoned the Raymond campais
management in South Jersey. 1t is I
secret, however. that Mr.. Salus is mo
: concerned for the success of the ant
organization local ticket in the sho
bailiwick than the nomination of NJ
RAYMOND