Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-11-04
ALLEN To LEAD
STATE SENATE
HershfieId to be Speaker of
the Next House According
to Present Outlook.
BY Special Correspondent.

IREINION, NOV. 4-1t is prODaDle
that Senator Collins B. Allen, of
Salem, and Assemblyman Henry G.
Hershfield. of Passaic, will respec-
lively be the next senate president
and speaker of the House, according
to the calculations here on the or
ganization of the 1921 legislature
based on the election returns of
Tuesday. With the legislature
strongly Republican in both branch
es. that party will control its Or
ganization. Allen and Hershfield
are picked for the places on the ros-
strum in each branch because they
are known to be candidates for the
honors and are the logical choices,
having been floor leaders of their
party in the senate and assembly
during the 1920 session.
Although fight may develop over
| the senate presidency and the speak
ership, 1t is believed that both Allen
ard Hershfeld have the inside
tracks for places. Probably there
will be sterner contest for the
floor leadership of the Republicans
In each House. Just at this time
Senator William B. Mackay of Ber-
gen, is a candidate for the leader
ship. He was at the state house
matter expressed the opinion that
Allen for president and himself for
leader would be the plan of his Re-
publican colleagues. However, the
independents in the senate majority,
like Runyon, of Union, and Whitney,
OF Morris, who in 1919 led a revolt
which put Runyon finally in the
presidents chair and made him act
ing governor, may have some little
plan of organization up their
sleeves Runyon has just been re-
elcted for three year term as the
representative from Union county
and is regarded just now as a poten-
iial candidate for governor two years
hence. Bright. OF Cape May, is an
other of the old independent group.
who may stir up something in oppo-
sition to the Allen-Mackay combi-
nation.
Mackay is nursing a gubernatorial
boom himself. lie was reelected
state senator in Bergen county last
year by 1000 plurality in a Demo-
! cratic year in New Jersey His am
bition is to be leader next winter
which would make him the logical
choice for senate president in 1922,
the year the next governor is elected
A feature of the political COM
plexion o fthe next senate is that it.
will marx the fifth straight year that
the upper branch of the legislature
has stood Republican fifteen ana
Democrats six. Since 1917 that has
been the ratio Of party strength in
| the senate
With a colored man, a minister.
| two women included i'm the menf-
bership of the next House. the per-
sonnel of the lower branch of the
1921 legislature promise some inter-
esting situations. The Essex dele
cation has provided the colored man
in the person of DEW. G. Alexan-
der. the first of his race ever to be
so honored by the voters of New
Jersey He is dry" SO is Mrs.
kJennie G. Van Ness, also of the Es-
sex delegation. Mrs. -et B.
Laird, the other woman member
| from Essex, is listed AS dry" and
unlike her woman colleague, is
classed as anti-organization. The
remaining nine members of the Es-
sex representation just elected are
men, with the exception possibly of
one all being "drys" The entire
delegation is Republican. The min
lister elected is the Rev. Lincoln r..
Moore. Republican. who comes
down from Democratic Hunterdon
county, once rock k-ribbed" in it's
party affiliations. but now far afield.