Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-23
ND CHAIRMAN
IS SELECTED
Resignation of Chairman
Hayes is Accepted at Meet
ing of Co. Democrats
TooLAN NOT IN RACE
Committees Are Appointed
for Coming Campaign,
Which Was Discussed

NEW BRUNSWICK, July 2s. =
AS predicted in the Evening
News on Saturday no one was
elected by the Middlesex County
Democratic Committee at the meet
ing held in their headquarters here
on Saturday as county chairman to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation of Edmund A. Hayes. The
hopes Of the committee had been
pinned on Assistant Prosecutor John
q. Toolan for this appointment, but
these were shattered when on Sat-
urday Mr.. Toolan in a statement to
the Evening News declared that he
would not be a candidate for the
office.
The resignation of Mr.. Hayes was
tended by him at the meeting and
was accepted. Some days previous
TO the meeting. in announcing that
he would resign as county chairman,
Mr.. Hayes gave as his reasons that
his personal business would not al
low him to further continue as
chairman OF the committee.
Besides discussing the politica,
a number of subcommittee tc
carry out various detail work.
Among these was a committee 4.
nominate a chairman to fill the va
eancy caused by the resignation OF
Mr.. Hayes. This committee which
will be known as the nominating
committee consists of the following
members:
C. R. Wyekoff, Cranbury; Mrs
Edward Helback. East Brunswick
township; Miss Margaret McNama-
ra, Highland Park: Richard Barn
well, Highland Park; Otto T. Hosen-
vinge, Metuchen; Mrs. Howard
Booream, Milltown: Frank A. Cos
grove, New Brunswick; John J. Cur
ran, New Brunswick: Thomas
Quinn, Carteret; Michael Welsh,
South Amboy; Mrs. Catherine
Schaeffer, Sayreville; Alonzo c. VII
nant, South River; Maurice Doni-
gan, Woodbridge; J. F. REILLY,
Perth Anlboy; J. E. Kelly, Perth
Amboy, and Frank McNamee
Plainsboro.
The following committee was ap-
pointed on bylaws:
Andrew kirkpatrick. Highland
Park; Harry Raymond. Metuchen;
Mrs. Loretta Campbell, Middlesex
Borough: James Hefferty. New
Brunswick; Martin j. O'Hara
Raritan township: Edwin Casey
Carteret: Miss Madge Mahoney
South Amboy; Andrew Ely, Dayton
Thomas Cody. Woodbridge. and
James J. Carroll, Perth Amboy.
The following Were appointed 3
reception committee to act at Sea
Girt next Friday. which will be Mid
dlesex county day at the famous
summer home of the governors OF
this state:
A. J. Gebhardt, Highland Park;
Mrs. Otto Seggel, Metuchen; f.
Stahlin, New Brunswick: Mrs. Viola
Kinney. New Brunswick; Bernard
O'Hara. Raritan township; Charles
M. Kelly. Piscataway township
Charles Frederick, Raritan town
ship; Bernard J. German, Sayreyille;
John Connors, South Amboy;
Charles Kenney, Woodbridge; Ed
gar L. Francis, Perth Amboy: Mrs
Jennie Coughlin, South Amboy;
James H. Logan, Dunellen; Miss
Jane Rodgers, Highland Park; An
drew York, Helmetta; William Loc-
kerson. Jamesburg; William Artell
Madison township: Nathan Rohus
Metuchen; Charles Crabiel, Mill
town; John l.. Lynch, New Bruins
wick; James Erwin, New Bruins
wick; John J. Kinney, New Bruins
wick; Mrs. Mary Albert, New Bruins
wick: John ]. Curran. New Bruins
wick: Mrs. May 1. Smith, Raritan
township; Mrs. Alga Adams, Car
teret: Mrs. Sarah Nicholas, Sayre-
Vile: Miss Nance Morgan, Wood
bridge, and Matthew Smith, of Perth
Anboy.
The speakers at the meeting were:
Joseph Fitzpatrick. state organizer;
Mrs. Otto Seggel, of Metuchen, vice
county chairman. and City Attorney
Thomas H. Haggerty.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick in the course OF
his talk said that the Democrats
will make every effort this year to
elect a Democratic assembly ticket
and pointed out that during the last
campaign too much attention was
paid to the senator and governor
and this resulted in the failure to
have a Democratic assembly to back
them up.
IF Middlesex county returns
show the election of three Demo
cratic Assemblymen, the House OF
Assembly in 1924 will surely be
Democratic" he said.
Mrs. L. K Riggs and Mrs. Otto
+. Seggel urged the women to at
tend the state Democratic women's
convention to be held September
and af Shf1fx Park