New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-26
Jersey Women
TO Swing First
Primary To-day
Campaigns at Newark and
Jersey City Close With
Fair Soapbox Orators,
Noise and Fist Fights
SIS Starters at Barrier
Hague Regime Expected To
Be Returned, but Defeat
of Cillen Is Predicted

'''hSS 1AoHi westerly OlTCEtlOn to-
day, accompanied perhaps by vol.
canic tremors that may. set local seis-
mographs to doing an unrestrained
shimmy. they need not be alarmed.
1t will be merely the municipalities
of Newark and Jersey City holding
their first primary elections. If symp-
toms displayed in both cities last night
are worth anything, to-day's elections
viii make the pastoral peasants of Jer-
sey forget that there ever was a dis
turbance called the World War. Those
who survive today's conflict will have
enough to remember.
The Newark primary seems to be a
sort of involved weight for age'
event in which there are no fewer than
thirty starters. Some are said to be
running for the exercise and are adj
mittedly selling matters.
Twenty-Five starters will be sent
away over the Jersey City track. with
Mayor Frank Hague entered to succeed
himself, running as an odds-on IA
vorite.
Each to Select Ten
From the ffty-fve candidates going
to the barrier to-day there will be ten
selected in each city to make the final
race on May 10 for the five commits
lsionerships to be filled. In other words.
each city elects five commissioners and
each will name ten candidates to- day
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Both Newark and Jersey City are under
the commission form of government.
When the five commissioners are
finally elected they select one of their
own number to act as Mayer, the post
usually going to the one who polled
the most votes.
To~day's primaries will be the first
held under the new primary law passed
by the last New Jersey Legislature
and, incidentally, it will be the first
time that the women of the state have
participated in such an event
And the women are participating. II |
has been said that the Jersey house
wife could take her politics or leave it /
alone. In the present uDroar she is
taking it with large dash of tabasco
on the side.
Enthusiastic Campaigners
Women of both cities seem to be
about equally divided on the questions
at issue. They campaigned yesterday
with an enthusiasm that was rather
amazing to an alien from over the river
They gesticulated impressively on
street corners, denounced or praised, as
the case might be, from the ends of |
upturned soap boxes and delivered !
salvos of impassioned oratory from the
rear ends of highly decorated trucks.
The women appear to have dragged |
all sorts of odd issues into the cam
palgn. A stout but exceedingly force /
tul lady who was holding forth in the
shadow of City Hall, Jersey City, yes
terday wound up her exhortation by
pointing dramatically to the big drab
structure.
And now, my friends" she shouted.
II ask you to take one look at them
windows in City Hall. Have they been
washed since that man Hague became
Mayor? They have not! Vote for
James A. Hamill and clean windows!"
With more than 100000 registrations
recorded in Jersey City, which is said
10 be almost q record, politicians ad-
united last night that the result of TO-
days primary election would be de-
>->A~V ~ eiAC WOIllSN. In DOtn ClClGS
veteran party leaders readily confessed
that the situation, due to the women's
vote, mad passed beyond their control,
ana that no dependence could be placed
on the political machines that worked
so smoothly in other years.
| Two Times To Be Used
The Jersey City primaries will be
held from a. m. to p. M, DAYLIGHT
saving time, while in Newark the same
hours will maintain, except that East
ern standard time will be adopted. the
authorities there holding that daylight
saving IS not recognized by any state
any primary held under state law.
The Jersey City commissionership
to be filled on May 10 and for which
two sets of candidates will be named
to-day are now held by Mayor Frank
Hague, James F. Cannon ir, A. Harry
Moore, John Bentley and Michael /.
Fagen, all of whom are candidates for
another term of four years.
~. Tag pd ninistration has been
IN once. tor eight years and the pre-
vailing impression in Jersey City yes
terday appeared to be that it would be
returned on May 10. There seemed to
be no doubt whatever that the five
officials would be among the success
full ten In to-day's primary fight
Campaigns on Clutches
The Hague regime is Democratic.
and is opposed by two organized par
ties, the rest of the field running un-
attached. The Citizens Fusion ticket,
headed by Edward Cahill, is generally
looked upon as the one to give the
Hague combination the hardest fight
to-day. Running with Cahill are Wal
ter G. German, August Ziegner George
t. Vickers and J. Arthur O'Toole, a
veteran of the World War who was Sc
verely wounded AID who has been do
ing his campa igning on crutches
O'Toole and Cahill, the latter for
mer Boulevard Commissioner, are
Democrats, while the others are Re-
publicans.
The third organization in the field
is the Clean Government party led by
James A. Hamill, a former Congress
man, who until recently was a staunch
supporter Of the Hague administration
The Jersey City campaign closed last
night in spectacular swirl of torch
light parades, tumultuous Mess meet
ings and belligerent debatd@en street
corners. Heated words ledssto hefty
blows in many quarters and the police
we're kept on the jump. At midnight
The Honest Ballot League sent up huge
lighted balloons with red flares and
bombs attached for the purpose, it was
said, of reminding the voters of the
luty expected of them to-day