Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-29
OUACKENbUSH,
ORPEN AND DEY
ARE NOMINATED.
Louis Booz Nosed Out in the
Democratic Primary for
Freeholder; Wyckoff Wins

Middlesex county turned out strong
or both John w. Herbert, of Helmet
ia, and T. Frank Appleby. of Asbury
Park, two of the three Republican
congressional candidates in yester-
days primaries. the former carrying
the county by the scant margin OF
twenty-four votes over the latter.
Joseph NJ. Thompson. OF New Egypt,
the other congressional candidate on
the G.. o. p. ticket. was poor third.
his vote being only slightly more than
one half that OF Herbert.
Herbert's total vote in Middlesex
county was 6,013 and that Of Apple
by $3.50. Thompson polled S,lOO
votes in this county. Owing to the
fact that Middlesex is Herbert's
home county he was expected TO
carry it by a large majority. Il
looked. until the early hours this
morning, however. as though the
Asbury Park candidate was going to
win from the Helmetta man in his
own county as Appleby was goinS
strong throughout Middlesex. A
majority of about 1000 in New
Brunswick for Herbert was respons-
ible for his carrying the county.
In the Republican assembly race
in the county. Albert w. Appleby.
of Old Bridge, led his competitors.
He received 1853 votes as COM
pared to I,414 secured by Edward
J. Peterson, of Perth Amboy. his
nearest opponent. The third success
full candidate was Assemblyman G.
Raymond Lyons. of New Brunswick.
who polled 1928 votes. f1fty-seven
votes over the number secured by
William w. Stults, of Cranbury-
Although Charles Forman. of New
Brunswick, made a strong run in
many of the cities and towns. in
cluding Perth Amboy, he was showed
Brunswick, Woodbridge and Raritan
township, while South Amboy also
added to the big majority of Elmer
E. Wyckoff. also OF New Brunswick.
the successful candidate. Wyckoff
won by about $500 votes. the votes
being S.199 for Wyckoff and 5.59S
for Forman.
The only contest for county Office
on the Democratic ticket was that
for the freeholder nominations. the
| Republicans having one of their own
on an even larger scale. Out of the
twelve Republican candidates for
| freeholder William S. Dey. of South
| Amboy: Walter G. Quackenbush, OF
TINS city, ana j. FRED Orpen, OF New
Brunswick, were the three elected
| to run for the full term. Robert r.
Vandenburgh, of Prospect Plains,
had no opposition for the one year
term. Dey's vote in the county was
| S.0S2, that of Quackenbush was
| 5,S7S and that of Orpen 3,749.
Arthur X Hillpot, of Metuchen. was
| fourth with 3,671. while Frederick
| Gowan, of New Brunswick, was a
close fifth with 1864.
Edward F. Nugent. of South
| River, leading his nearest opponent
by 710 votes, was selected as one
of the three Democratic freehoidel
candidates out of the five candi-
dates. The other two successful
candidates were Patrick J. Fallon
of South Amboy. and DIR. E. Leor
1 Loblein, of New Brunswick. Loui:
| P. Booz. Jr., of this city, ran Lob
lein a close race, being defeated By
the small margin of fifteen votes
Nugent received 1928 votes in tht
county, Fallon polled 3.013 and
Loblein 2,911. Daniel J. Delaney
of South River, candidate for the
one year term as freeholder, was
/ unopposed.