Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-10-06
STATE DEMOCRATIC WOMEN DEFEAT "WETS";;
G.0.P.IS DRY; Leon and HERBERT ELECTORS
Edwards Administration At.
tackled by G. 0. P. in Con.
vention for Liquor Viola.
tionS in New Jersey.
HIGHWAYS ALSO ISSUE
Everything Cut and Dried for
Session and Platform is
Adopted Without a Hitch.
BY Special Correspondent.

BY Special Correspondent.
TRENTON, Oct. 6-With every.
thing cut and dried. the Republican
state convention yesterday nominate
ed fourteen Presidential electors.
adopted a platform calling for the
upholding of the prohibition amend-
ment and the enforcement act and
condemning Governor Edwards ac-
tion In removing the former State
Highway Board, and listened to a
denunciation of the state adminis-
tration by Senate President Case, of
somerset, and another respecting
the national administration by Jo-
seph scott, OF California. The lat
ter appeared on behalf of the Re-
publican national committee.
Inc only ripple on the floor OF
the convention, which was attended
by all the party leaders from United
y, states Senators t'relinghuysen and
Edge down, came when Mrs. Lillian
Il. Feickert, of Plainfield, declined to
run as an elector-at-large. She was
dominated by Charles +. Codding or
| Union, but refused on the ground
that the state constitution specifies
male electors" and feared she
might Jeopardize the party's elec-
toral ticket in this state, especially
IL her right to a place on it was
contested. She made a clever speech
remarking: I'VE do not care this
year for ornamental positions in poll
ltics. What we want Is equal repre-.
sentation IN the organization"
Name Colgate and Herbert.
Col. Austen Colgate of Essex.
and John w. Herbert, of Middlesex.
chairman Of the former State High.
way commission, were picked as dell
egates. Senator Blanchard White Of
burlington, nominated Charles A.
convention selected Colgate and
! Herbert
Following are the electors picked
by the convention for each of the
Twelve congressional districts: First.
former Speaker of the House Da-
vid .. Watkins, Gloucester; second.
former Senator Lewis L. Stevens.
Cape May; third, Albert Leon, Pertf,
Amboy; fourth. Professor Henry ID.
thompson, Mercer; fifth, William b.
Boulton, Morristown; sixth, Theo.
dore Boettger, Hackensack; seventh
fHenry Myers. Passaic: eight, VIII
liam j. Davis, Harrison; NINTH.
George L. Halsey, East Oranges:
tenth. Mayor Lewis f. Dodd, Mont
clair; eleventh. Paul Seglie, West
Hoboken; twelfth, George c. War
rem, Jf., Jersey CITY. Il
On the question of the league \
nations, the following was adopted .E
we commend the United Statess
senate for its courageous stand for
american rights and for its success
ful protest against the proposed
sacrifice of American interests, and
or control over our domestic affairs.
I I'VE especially commend our
representatives In the United States
senate. Honorable Joseph S. F'rel-
lnghuysen and Honorable Walter r.
Edge. for their constructive legisla-
tive policy for the common good.''
Under the head of law enforce
ment the platform. which was
drafted at a conference of Republi.
can leaders Monday night. reads as
follows:
To Enforce Constitution
I'VE pledge ourselves to uphold
and enforce the constitution of the
laws of the United States. and of
the state of New Jersey. In the lam
guage of the United States supreme
court the eighteenth amendment is
operative throughout the entire ter
ritoried limits of the United States
and it binds all legislative bodies.
courts. public officers and individ.
uals within those limits
I'VE believe that the will of the
people as expressed in lawful man
ner, through the government of the
United States. must be supreme.
AS stated by our candidate for
president There can be no differ
ence of opinion about honest law
enforcement. Neither government
nor party can afford to cheat the
American people,
we declare the policy of our
party to be for the impartial en-.
forcement of the eighteenth amend.
ment and the laws relating thereto.
"The law of the land must be obs
served or orderly government
ceases"
The speech of Senate President
case. of Somerset. in accepting the
Craftsmanship of the convention was
most spirited and ran in part as fol-
lows:
Il wonder if Governor Edwards
VIII keep his promises. Is the state
of New Jersey as wet as the Allan
tic ocean? It's nearly so if that is
any satisfaction to the man who has
been at the head of the state gov
, ernment for nearly year under
laws which said the state should be
, dry. It's up to the governor to see
. that the law is obeyed. There are
enough laws in the state of New
Jersey to put every man behind the
} bars who has participated in the
saturnalia of drunkenness in our
l cities. towns and villages. 1t is for
the Democratic governor to see that
the laws are obeyed or give the job
to somebody else.
Removed Without Hearing
When Governor Edwards was
making his campaign the word was
, passed out that he was going 10 re-
move the Highway Commission
from office, but after the Legislature
opened the word from the COVER
, nor's Office was that no board would
be removed without a hearing. Yet
: early in July, when the Legislature
was i'm recess, he removed the COM
mission. 1t was the rankest move
by a governor in my knowledge of
state affairs.
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