The New York herald., 1921-11-09
JERSEY REPUBLICAN
With MAJORITY CUT
Drift TO Anti-ProhibitiOn
Democratic Candidates in
Essex County.
MRS. VAN NESS BEATEN
Sponsor in Assembly OF En-
+ f0rcement Act Runs Be-
hind Ticket.
HUDSON WON BY VETS
Liquor Issue Clearly Defined,
! With G.. O. p. Taking the
Dry Side.
HUDSON WON BY VETS

Special Despatch 10 THE NEw YORK FiBaALp.
TRENTON, Nov S.--Partial election
returns tonight indicated a RepubIi-
can victory in New Jersey by majori-
ties greatly reduced from those in the
landslide OF year ago. This was due
in part to an unusually light vote in
most of the counties, indicating a lack
Of interest, traceable to the fact that
the legislative ticket alone was to be
voted for. except where purely local
offices were to be filed.
With the wet and dry issue clearly
defined. the Democratic candidates
supporting the wet side. strong DEM
ocratic drift was evident IN early re-
turns from Essex county. n. ].
Returns i'm Newark
IN Newark 210 out OF 225 election
districts gave the Democratic ticket
total OF 23,545 against 1929 for the
Republicans. while fifty-eight out 19e
districts in the county outside OF New
ark gave the Republicans 6.s27 and the
Democrats $500. The Republican lead
ers admitted that the Democrats pad
carried the city of Newark, but they de-.
ciared that II the proportion OF votes
in the county keeps up the same as in
the early returns, they will elect their
county ticket
Mrs. Jennie C. Van Ness, running for
reelection as member of the Assembly,
was about 1000 behind the rest of the
Republican ticket early this morning,
and her defeat was indicated. Mrs. Van
Ness was the sponsor Of the New Jersey
prohibition enforcement law, and the
li.eral Republicans apparently scratched
her and voted for her Democratic oppo-
nent. Mrs. Margaret Il. Laird, another
Republican member OF the Assembly
from Essex who voted for the bill, was
also running behind her ticket, bot not
so far behind as Mrs Van Ness. The
vets seem also to have beaten George 8.
Hobart, who supported the bill.
In Hudson county, with one-third of
the votes reported by midnight, the
Democratic majority on the vote for As.
sembly was estimated at $4,000. This
margin held also for Freeholder. Coroner
and Surrogate. Jersey City voted 2 to /
in favor of q municipal gas and electric
light plant. Mrs4 Catherine Brown OF
Jersey City was elected to the Assembly,
and Is the first woman Democratic AS
semblyman in the county.
OF the seven State Senators elected
to-day. four are apparently Republicans
and three Democrats or the fourteen
holdover Senator'S. eleven are Republi-
cans and three Democrats, giving the
Republicans an apparent majority Of
fifteen to six I'm the new Senate. The
Senators elected to-day are /: Burlington.
Emmer Roberts, Rep. Cape May, Will
lam Fl. Bright, Rep. Gloucester. Hor-
ace \. FODDER, Rep. Hunterdon. David
II. Agans, Dem. AIiddlesex. Fred W.
Devoe, Dem. Passaic, Albin Smith,
Rep: Sussex, Henry II. Kays, Dem.
The closest Senate contests were in
Cape May, where Senator Bright was
pltted against Major E o. Howell. Jr.,
an overseas veteran. and in Hunterdon
and Middlesex
Republican control of the next Assem-
bly, seemed certain from the earlier re-
turns, the size OF the Republican ma
5orfty depending upon the doubtful re-
suit in Essex county. where the wet"
Democrats, particularly In Newark, were
supported by thousands of Republicans.
Outside of Newark, however, the tables
were partly turned, the dry Republi-
cans receiving a measure of Democratic