Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-07

REPUBLICAN,;
SOME LOSSES
House to be Republican,
Case Wins in Somerset and.
Stevens in Monmouth

NEWARK. Nov. IA Republican
legislature in New Jersey in 1924
was assured by the voters in yes
terday's election and the appeal of
Governor Silzer for a sympathetic
Democratic assembly was denied as
returns showed only slight gains ;9r
the Democratic party. With half of
Essex county, admitted as the pos
sible victory ground of the Demo-
Gratis, showing the lowest Repuhli-
can candidates vote to be 1000
above the highest Democrat. the Re-
publicans were claiming victory.
Returns collected up to an early
hour this morning indicated that the
Democrats failed to cut the Repub-
lican majority in the upper-House.
Senatorial elections were held in
eight counties and with but one ex-
ception, a Republican was chosen.
Senator Barber, of Warren, the only
member of the senate minority
whose term expired this year was
returned by a comfortable Margin
over his Republican rival.
Senators Stevens, of Monmouth.
Pierson of Union and case of SOM
erset, also were reelected. Cover
nor Silzer, personally invaded the
Home counties of these candidates
and urged their defeat.
The 1924 senate will have seven
teen Republican members and four
Democratic, the same as existed in
the last legislative session.
Outside of Essex county the Dem
ocrats had gained only two assem-
blymen. making he makeup of the
assembly AZ Republicans and Is
Democrats. Political observers saw
possibility of the Democrats gaining
one or two assemblymen in Essex
when the final count was collected.
In spite of the fact that Cover
nor Silzer attacked the records of
Assemblymen Harold Hoffman and
Thomas L. Hanson in Middlesex his
home county, the early returns in
dicated their reelection +. p.
Pearse. secretary to the governor,
issued eleventh-hour statements urg-
ing the defeat of the Middlesex can
didates, who were up for reelection
but in spite of the fact that the "big
guns" were trained upon them, both
Hoffman and Hanson appeared safely
elected this morning. 1t is likely that
f. W. DeVoe. Middlesex Democrat,
will be the third of the Middlesex
dtlt5dLlOn III Liit Idoll ltB lSidlu K
In Atlantic County Corio and Sir
acusa, Republicans, easily defeat
ed their Democratic opponents for
assembly, while Ocean county elect
ed a woman, Mrs. Lila Thompson, to
serve in the lower House.
In Gloucester county Francis b
Davis Republican, was elected to
the state senate by 5000 votes, and
Republican Assemblyman John b.
Stratton was reelected by 5000
votes.
With only one district missing in
Sussex county, Democratic Assem-
blyman Vaughan was conceded re-
elected with a majority of 600. Nor
ris county reelected Republican As
semblyman David +. Barkm / with
a majority of 1000 over the Demo-
cratic candidate, Fred w. Balm
In Somerset county the Republi-
can assembly candidate, Kipsey,
seemed likely although the vote was
close. In Burlington county Assem-
blyman Powell had S,797 against
Van TESTERS '3,579 in 62 out of 81
districts. ALI Republican assembly
candidates led in Union county. In
Monmouth county Assemblymen Sex
smith and Campbell were reelected
by large pluralities. and in Bergen
county Republican assembly eandi-
dates were running ahead by two
to one vote.
Hudson county was expected early
to have given the entire Democratic
ticket a clean sweep, the returns
throughout the county showing a
two-thirds lead over the Republi-
cans. Jersy Citys Democratic plur-
ality was about $4,000. One district
in Jersey City gave the Democrats
500 votes and the Republicans one
vote.
The two new Democratic assem-
blymen were elected in Mercer
Cot which returned a full Demo-
cratic delegation of three members.
Assemblyman Marshall being re-
elected.
Morris Count ---bere literature
had been distributed charging the
entire Republican county ticket with
being members Of the Ku Klux
Klan felt a reaction in a larger
vote than was expected, and re-elect-
ed Assemblyman Barkman, Republi-
can.