The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-04-26
ONLY TITO NAMES
ON .NEW JERSEY BALLOT
Gen Wood and Sen. Johnson are For
merly Listed for Primary on
Tuesday---No Democrat
m the List.
on the List,

Trenton. y. j., April 26.--New Jer-
sey's presidential primaries will be held
next Tuesday. The Republican organ
iza,t ton has split on the Big -Four and
the battle is between United States
Senator Walter +. Edge and former
Governor u. G. Stokes, now chairman
Of the Republican state committee.
Senator Edge and United States Sen
ator Joseph s. Frelinghuysen are run
ming az Republican Big -Four candidates
pledged only to the choice OF the Re
publican voters as expressed at the pri-
maries, while Governor Stokes, togeth-
err with former United States Attor-
| ney General John w. Griggs of Pat
| erson, y. j., City Commissioner Ray
mond of Newark, and former Acting
Governor William H. Runyon of Plain
field. comprise aicket pledged to Gen
eral Leonard Wood for the presidential
| choice.
General Wood and United States
Senator Hiram w johnson are on the
ticket and the voters will be asked TO
express their preference between them
or the name of Hoover or anyone else
NAV be written on the ballot a. their
presidential choice The name of Unit
ed States Senator Warren G.. Harding
was placed by petition on the presi-
| Dental preference list, but at the last
minute Senator Harding withdrew 1t,
His name may also be written in on
! the ballots.
Besides the six candidates for TIE
Republican Big -Four mentioned there
are others, viz: Thomas r. Layden OF
Paterson and Mulford l.. Oorrothers
| and Isaac y. Nutter. both colored, are
running as unpledged Big Four Re
publican candidate, having entered the
! field because, they claim, the organi-
cation would not give their race a rep
/ resentative on the ticket.
No direct presidential preference VIII
be asked of the voters in the Democrat
/ ic primaries. There is no contest among
/ the Democrats for the Big Four and
all are pledged to Governor Edward
/. Edwards for president. The Demo
cratic delegstes-at-large include Gov.
ernor Edwards. nationally known wet
and James r. Nugent, the Essex eoun-
ty Democratic leader, who was can
didate for the gubernatorial nomina'
| tion against Edwards. Governor Ed
wards political lieutenant and sdvis'
err. Mayor Frank Hague OF Jersey Clty
and Mayor Frederick w. Donneiiy OF
/ Trenton, both declared vets. are the
remaining two delegates-at-laTge oil the
! Democrats.
There Is no name on the Democratic
urinary ballot for direct presidential
| choice There are numerous contests N
various districts in both parties. On
the Republican side in some districts
compIete Wood tickets have beer
plaeed In the field and there are alse
complete and partially complete John
son tickets.
There are four contests for dis-ric'
delegates in the Democratic primaries
In the first district comprising Camden
Gloucester and Salem counties, formei
Mayor Joseph 4. Nowrey OF oamder
i running against Democratic STATE
! Committeeman Edward W. keilehe'
and Rudolph s. Ayres, both favorable
10 Governor Edwards for The presi
deHtial nomination. Other Democrat
IL contests are in the third district
which covers Middlesex, Monmouth and
Ocean counties: the fourth district
composed of Mercer, Hunterdon ans
Somerset counties and the seventh dis
trict in Passaic county.
The polls OF the zoos election dis
tric4s OF the state open at 1880 in th'
afternoon and continue open until
o'clock in the evening, Eastern time
This means shat the northern anS
northeastern seaside counties which arr
observing daylight saving or New
York time" and in which the clock
have been advanced one hour, viii hay'
TO observe the old time or eastern
standard time.
Attorney General Thomas F. Nc
Gran. who fled New Jerseys cas-
against prohibition in the Unite'
states supreme court has made an In
formal ruling that the old time mus
be observed. The state laws, he SAID
requires that she polls must be opel
from 1880 p. m. to 2 P m. and a. New
Jersey has not adopted daylight saving
this time must be uniform al over tn
state. lie pointed out that All docu
nents filed with the s.ate are maIke'
I according 70 eastern standard time q
the state has ofiieislly no other TINE
ana therefore. there can be only -
eastern standard tine recognized ~ -