The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-29
POLITICS HOT IN
NEW JERSEY NOW
Outstanding Issue in Sen
ator and Governor Races
Is Beer or No Beer
ROAD BONDS IN ISSUE
Republicans Favor Huge I'M
provement Program;
Democrats Oppose

NEWARK. y. J.-Will II be Ec-
wards or Frelinghuysen? WIN It
10 Runyon or silzer? which Of the
two first named will bo elected
United states senator by New Jersey
voters on November z? VIA Runyon
or silzcr be made governor? These
arc the questions which New Jersey
politicians are pondering just now.
The answer cannot be agreed upon
By any considerable group OF per.
Ions. The contest will be a close
one.
Just before the primaries it looked
as II George l. Record might de-
feat Senator Frellnghuysen. But
what the democrats had hoped for.
democratic ballots marked with a
cross for Record in large numbers
an over the state and put into the
republican boxes. because there was
no senatorial candidate other than
Governor Edwards running on the
democratic ticket, did not material
ize. The republican primary was a
big affair. Record polled about TO-
600 votes, but Senator Frelinghuy-
sen walked away with the nomina-
ton. He defeated Record by about
101 600 votes. This success has put
hew hope into the republican camp.
The Edwards management. the
Hague following chiefly, claims
however, that they can come out of
Hudson county with 10000 majority
for Governor Edwards on election
day but this to most Independent
voters and to all republicans sounds
merely like a boast.
Defeat Surprises Hague.
Frankly the Hague crowd-"the
Tammany crowd OF New Jersey
has not recovered fully from It's as
constituent over the defeat OF Re-
cord. They counted upon him to
win. and II he had. Governor Ed
wards would have been elected.
Record is too radical to win old
line republican voters to his cause;
hence his defent.
Last year Hudson county went
democratic by 46,665. but there are
at this time about 1900 fewer reg
istered voters than there were on
the poll books a year ago. There
Is only one more date upon which
voters can register, A safer pre-
dlction for Hudson county's major
ity would seem to be about half OF
$4,000.
Republicans claim that with only
two or three of the other counties
Warren. Hunterdon. perhaps Sus-
sex--givng democratic majorities---
and these will at best give only small
ones--Senator Frelinghuysen can be
elected; that his majorities In Essex,
Bergen, Union, Passaic and in south
and middle New Jersey will give
him a second term.
Hope for Wet Votes Again.
After all Is said and done. the wet
and dry Observation-Disclosures wet.
Frelinghuysen dry---will be the big
question TO be settled Mt the polls,
II the democrats can make this the
issue. The governor won on this
three years ago, His hackers be-
lleve that he can again, and appar-
emily are going 10 pay but little at
tention TO other questions. So far
Governor Edwards has not de-
clared himself upon any national
issues. He is being prodded by re-
publican speakers TO do so, in order
that other questions than booze or
no booze will be injected into the
campaign,
Both former Senator william n.
Runyon OF Union county and Circuit
Court judge George $. Silzer Of
Nlddlesex county ran unopposed for
the governorship at the primaries.
Both are lawyers, both natives Of
New Jersey, and have grown to mid
die life within few miles OF each
other. Both have served In the
state senate. Judge SilZer. running
on the democratic ticket, was prose-
cutor. appointed by Governor Wood
row Wilson, for Mlddlesex county.
His big handicap will now be the
by Frank Hague.
Senator Runyon narrowly missed
the nomination for governor three
years ago. and friends all over the
state have from that time been