Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-16

1t is very important that every person of voting age
remember that tomorrow is the last chance to register for
the coming election. This is an important year. Ordinarily
it is considered an off election" Coming in the middle of
a presidential term people are not inclined to interest them
selves. In a sense, this year is no exception. This is shown
by the tremendous falling off in the registration in New
York state where there is a drop of 1914, OPS in New York
City alone.
But the situation is different in New Jersey. Here we
have a United States senator and a governor to elect as we'll
as important county and city candidates. There are some
important issues at stake and whether one likes the aver
age brand of politics that is served up these days or not, it
is the duty of evry self-respecting citizen to vote this year.
This applies particularly to the honest, law-abiding citizen
the one who is usually disguised and Indifferent.
The one big issue that looms up above everything else
now is the respect for law and order. This applies parti-
cularly to the United States senatorship. The reputation of
New Jersey is at stake. A governor who has deliberately
encouraged defiance of law by his attitude toward the con-
sttution and the enforcement ACT, seeks to be sent to the
United States senate, where, he says, he will make the hair
fly To have a man of the type of Governor Edwards rep
resenting New Jersey in the upper house of congress would
be a disgrace to every citizen. This issue alone, regardless
of anything else that may be at stake, should warrant every
person who is entitled to vote getting his or her name on the
poll books so as to be able to register a protest against hav-
ing such a man as Governor Edwards representing New
Jersey at Washington.
And it is going to take the vote of every respectable
citizen in the state to beat him. Behind the Edwards candi-
dacy is Frank Hague and the corrupt Hudson county politi-
cal machine which Hague dominates. Rest assured that
every crooked practice known to Hudson county will be re-
sorted to in an effort to pile up a majority for Edwards and
the rest of the Hague ticket. 1t has been the boast of Hague
and Edwards that Hudson county will give a Democratic ma
jority of 75,000-enough to over-balance all the rest of the
state. This means that Hudson county intends to dominate
New Jersey through the success of the Democratic ticket.
1t is up to the rest of the state to show Hudson that this can
not be done. But in order to do this it is necessary that
every voter registers in order to vote at the election.
In every municipality of $4,000 population or over each
voter must go to the polls in person and register. This has
to be done every year. Persons who voted at the primary
registered for the general election at that time, but those
who did not vote at the primary and who did not register in
person on the first registration day, must do so tomorrow or
else be barred from casting a ballot on election day.
Anyone, then, who has not yet registered should make
sure to do so tomorrow. The polls are open from 4 until 8
P. M. tomorrow. This is a duty that you owe to yourself as
a citizen and it is a duty that you owe to your state.