Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-04-29
Rice Gets But 50 Votes in rs
Out of 81 Districts in Ocean,
Making Him Low in Race

Although complete returns had not
lyet been received from Ocean county
up till an early hour this afternoon,
Monmouth and Midilesex counties
final results were knownn making II
possible TO judge the results in tho
third congressional district. Hiram
w. Johnson won out in both Middle
sex and Monmouth counties and was
leading In ocean. Despite the fact
that Bernard NJ. Cannon Democratic
candidate for district delegate ran 200
| votes behind Senator Thomas Brown
land 100 votes being Mcivin A. Rice
/ in Monmouth county, his big lead in
Middlesex county made il impossible
/ for him to be overtaken.
All three counties gave William NJ.
| Thompson and William II. Kline, the
| Johnson Republican candidates for
| district delegates, the biggest votes.
| ferd Garretson, OF this city. and
Lewis s. Thompson. of Red Bank.
the unpledSed delegates, being next
! in order
The complete Monpssuth county
returns follow: Johnson. 275s; Wood,
/ 1866; Stokes. 1919; Runyon. 1895:
Griggs, 1906: Raymond. S21: Edge,
] 3i22: Frelinghuysen. 3191; Ballard.
20S7; Layden. 206s: Nutter. AS;
! Corrothers, 315: Garretson, 1899; L.
$. Thompson, 1869; Kline, 1868: w
Vi.
Brown, 1162; Cannon, 4e0: Rice,
1888.
Twenty-Five out of thiriy-four dis
tricts in Ocean county gave tho fol-
lowing results: Johnson. 493: Wood.
454: Stokes. 401; Rdnyon, 42S;
Griggs. Sell Raymond, 235: Edge.
/ 633; F'relinghuysen. 66t; Ballard.
F 3S2; Layden, S7S; Nutter, So; Cor
rothers. ca; Garretson, S0A: /. $.
Thompson, 290; Kline. 1858; w. NJ.
| Thompson, 365: Rose, 34i; Brown,
1sS; Cannon. 60; Rice. 60
With nine districts in Ocean county
still to be heard from William ".
Thompson led the ticket of Rcpubli-
can candidates for diatrict delegates
with 5.120 votes. William III. Kline,
the other Johnson candidate, is sec
ond with 4.s70 and Fcrd Garretson
third with 1851. Lewis $. Thompson
secured 3.73S and David G. Rose. L.
i9S3. William Thompson carried all
three counties while Klino vas sec
n Middlesex and II in similar
position in Ocean. In Monmouth
! Lewis s. Thompson defeated Kline
for second place honors by one vote.
! Senator Thomas Brown carried the
third district, according to the returns
received thus far, having a total OF
1905 votes while Bernard NJ. Cannon.
the other Perth Amboy Democratic
candidate for district delegate was
second with 3.076, n difference OF 229
votes. Melvin A. Rice Is more than
i 1000 votes behind Brown and about
500 behind Cannon. his total vote IN
the district being 22S5. Gannons elee-
tion can be attributed to his popu-
larity in Mlddlesex where he piled up
q 500 lead over Brown and almost
1000 over Rice. Brown, however,
polled the high vote in Monmouth
county where he led Cannon by more
votes than was the opposite case III
tMiddlesex, Brown securing 500 more
than Cannon. In Ocean also Brown
has received Two to every vote gissf
Cannon.
johnson was leading Wood In the
third district by 5000 votes with the
Ocean county report still minus nine
districts the total vote for the Cali
fornia senator being 6,66GS az COM
pared with 3.57s for General Leon
ard Wood Although Johnson de-
ated Wo6d in Middlesex county by
almost 1000 votes and carried Mon
mouth by about 1.10e the two are
more evenly grouped In Ocean where
Johnson's lead Is only thirty-nine-
Monmouth county gave Johnson 2,75S
and Wood 1866 while in Ocean
county the incomplete returns show
Z johnson to have 493 and Wood 4b4
Senator JOS S. Frelnighuysen, Sen
ator Walter Il. Edge. Mulford j.. Bal
lard and Thomas r.. Layden are the
delegiatcs-at- large selected by the Re-
publicans OF the third district Al
though nine more districts in Ocean
county are still to be heard from
these results will not change the
above order In the district. as 2
whole the vote was: Frelinghuyser
7763; Edge. 1921; Ballard. 5,2S5
I.ayden 5.201: Runyon. 3.54lf stokes
9.492: Griggs, 2,S29: Raymond. 2'Oo5;
Nutter 953: Corrothers. S43-
The complete dclegate-at-large re-
turns from Monmouth county are
Stokes, 1919; Runyon, 1895; Griggs
1906; Raymond. S2l; Edge. BIZ
Trelinghuysen, 3191: Ballard, 2,OS7
Layden. 2,0GS; Nutter, 41S; corro-
Tiers. 315. Twenty districts n
ocean county give stokes. 4Ol; Run
yon, 428; Grggs. S21; Raymond. 23I
Edge, 633; Frelinghuysen, 664; Bal
lard. 3S2: Layden, 375; Nutter. SS'
Corrothers 67.