Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-02-25
NOOPPOS|T|ON
At ELECTION
Woodbridge Politicians Organize
Against Woman Candidate
MANY WOMEN FAIL TO VOTE
Preserves" Are Gathered to
Vote Down Woman Candi-
date, Who Fails to Run
By Special Correspondent.

By Special Correspondent
WOODBRIDGE, Feb. 25.-Elabor-
ate plans and preparations by the po-
litical leaders of both the Republisan
and Democratic parties to prevent
the election of a woman to the Wood
bridge township school board yester-
day were apparently for naught as
lpo woman candidate appeared in the
f1ieid when the list of nominees was
made public. The Woodbridge Wom-
ans Club had discussed having can
didate in the election but when it
was learned, three or four days be-
fore the election, that the men in
both parties were combining to bring
out reserve vote to defeat such
"a candidate, 1t was decided not to
have woman candidate The men,
comprising the opposition, however,
did not. learn of the dicision of the
women's candidate to withdraw and
yesterday the "lieutenants" had their
"shock-troops" all lined up ready to
use them in case of an emergency.
The emergency, however did not ma
terialize and all of the planning and
work of the leaders appeared to have
been done for nothing.
The election in itself, which was
the annual district school election
and held in the Barron Avenue high
school, was quietly conducted, the
three candidates being elected by the
following votes: M. p. Dunigan, 1O2;
B. B. Walling, 102, and l.. e. Meyer,
101. The terms of Mr.. Dunigan, Mr..
Walling and A. II. Stevenson expired,
the first two running for reelection
on the ticket There was no opposi-
ton to these candidates.
The call for the meeting was read
by the district clerk at o'clock, T.
+. DUNCAN being chosen chairman,
w. A. Gillian secretary and Fl. c.
Turner, Wesley Liddle, John Concan-
non and w. ID. Hoy tellers.
Several weeks ago the Woodbridge
Woman's Club decided to have a
candidate in the election for member
Of the school board. Several of the
members were approached with the
request that they represent the women
as a candidate. Mrs. A. l.. Huber
consented to run for the office.
AS soon as the action of the wom-
en- had reached the ears of leaders
of both political parties in the town
ship the work Of getting together
enough votes to defeat the woman's
candidate was started by specially
deputized ''lieutenants" who rounded
up what they believed would be a
sufficient number of votes to ''snow
under" the women's candidate.
centrated action which was being
started to defeat her and at a meeting
of the Woman's Club few days ago
it was decided to withdraw their
candidate. In order to show the in
terest of the Noman's Club in the
school affairs, however, the desire was
expressed to have all of the Directors
of the club come out on election night
and vote for the appropriations. but
not for the candidates.
The Club decided that by this
method it could show it's desire to
back the present School Board and
particularly in the matter of increas-
ing the teachers salaries. Instead
of all of the directors of the club
voting, however, only three directors,
the president and two members cast
ballots last night. The women voting
We're: Mrs. E. III. Boynton, president:
Mrs. c. A. DeRussy. Mrs. J. H. Thayer
Martin. Mrs. Henry Van Bremmen.
Mrs. A. F. Randolph and Miss Mittie
Randolph.
1t is reported that when Mrs. HUI
ber's name had been mentioned as a
candidate for election, she had been
told not only that the two big party
leaders would oppose her. but also
We're not working for the election of
a woman to the board as hard as they
should If they expected success or
proposed to make a close fight.
AS the politicians in both parties
learned last night that no woman
candidate had been entered the
"lieutenants" were ordered not to use
their reserves in the election, the
lack of any contests making these ad-
ditional votes unnecessary.
Fourteen voters from Fords arrived
just one and half minute late and
could not cast their votes.
Some of the supporters of the wom
en- in this affair were indignant to-
day over the poor showing made by
the Directors. all of whom had been
expected to cast vote for the APP
preparations, and also because of the
failure to work in the interest of
their candidate before she had de-
cfded to withdraw a few days before
the election. Some of the citizens who
are among the indignant have point |
ed to the Clubs motto of loyalty |
and service" and ask what has be- !
come of the loyalty and where is the !
service" ?"
The Board of Education was di- !
vided on the question, which has been !
agitated by the Woman's Club, of hav- |
ing a woman member elected to the .
board, some being outspoken in their
sentiment as favoring it while others
were equahy outSpoheA III opposins
it.
Although only 107 votes were cast
last night 1t is understood that If
the women had had a candidate in
the field about 200 more votes Of the
antagonistic variety would have been
used.
The following appropriations were
carried without a dissenting vote. /
building and repairing school houses,
$4,000; current expenses, $150,000:-I
manual training. $4,000.
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