New-York tribune., 1922-11-08
Has
10000 Lead
For Senate
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thanks for the confidence they have
expressed in me and will endeavor in
all Of my acts to represent the people
/ Of the state as they should be repre-
sented in the United States Senate.
I The magnificent plurality given me by
| the people of my home county gives
! me great pleasure ] wish my friends
to know that I am very grateful"
Former Judge Siizer, who received
| the returns at his home at Metuchen,
said:
"The promise | made yesterday still
holds good, and intend to give the
| best that is in me to the service Of
the people of this state. | consider
this vote complete repudiation of
the national Administration and
vigorous protest against the hypocrisy
which has played so large part in
national legislation"
! Essex County went for Edwards, al
though normally Republican center.
Nutley, usually a strong Republican
town, returned majority for the Gov
ernor.
Hague Sees Big Margins
Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City
predicted at midnight that Edwards
| and Slzer would be returned by ma
jorities of between eighty and ninety
thousand.
81 doubt that the Republicans will
come to the Passaic River with ma
! jority," Hague said
| In spite Of prediction forecasts
there was little disorder in any of the
Jersey towns. Department of Justice
agents who it had been said would be
sent in large numbers to Newark to
watch certain districts where illegal
| influences were reported to be at work
were shifted at the last minute to
Jersey City. Two hundred and fifty
deputy marshals who had been held in
Newark were shifted to Hudson County
early in the morning.
Harry Linden, one Of the fourteen
men indicted last week for an alleged
rested in Newark by one of the Federal
agents who remained in that district.
Linden escaped the first raid and had
been in hiding since.
| Governor Edward I. Edwards, who is
contesting Senator Frelinghuysen's
seat in the upper house Of Congress,
voted in Jersey City late yesterday aft
| ernoon. He was accompanied to the
polls by bis wife and their son. Their
polling place was q machine shop at
7b5 Montgomery Avenue.
The large proportion of registered
voters who went to the polls was in
dicated by the vote in Governor Ed
wards's district, where there was
registration of 515 The Governors
party voted on ballots numbered 458,
459 and 400, and observers expressed
the opinion that the ward would cast
almost 100 per cent vote.
| A similar report was received from
other New Jersey cities and towns. The
| total registration in the state is 1,120,-
| 537, an increase Of 10000 votes over
the last registration.
| Next to the prohibition issue, which
| lined up Governor Edwards on the wet
side against Senator Frelinghuysen,
most issue was the public utility plank
in William N. Runyon's gubernatorial
platform. State Senator Runyon at the
beginning of the campaign insisted
upon a straight declaration of the
principle that holding and operating
public utility corporations should be
subject to the same control and regu-
lations.
Judge George S. Silzer, the Demo
meet this issue directly, but contented
himself with declaring for universal
| five-cent trolley fare. On the direct
| primary issue, also much to the front
during the campaign, both candidates
for the Governorship were agreed.
Hudson County Pivot
All candidates kept their eyes on
Hudson County, regarding it's 187,96O
voters as the pivotal point of the firht.
Here the battle ragged largely around
the personality of Mayor Frank Hague
Of Jersey City. The Republican speak
ers charged that there was an attempt
on the part of Mayor Hague to domi- |
nate the state through his strong ma
chine in Jersey City.
In the Congressional and Senatorial
campaigns the wet issue was in the
forefront, as in the gubernatorial fight. |
The Anti-Saloon League threw its
strength to chosen candidates in the
primaries, and again indorsed them in
the election campaign. There were in |
dividual Endorsements on both sides,
but the issue was broadly divided as
between Democra vets and Repub !
llcan drys, with Governor Edwards as
the outstanding figure on the moist
side.
In the lower house one Democratic
representative was renominated and
n,ne Of the eleven Republicans are
running again. The new candidates
are Mayor George N. Seger of Passaic. |
in the 7th District, and the Rev. War
rem P. Coon in the 9th District. Mr.. |
Coon, former army chaplain received