Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-03-29
EXPECT HIRAM
JOHNSON WILL
SPEAK IN N. Y.
81 aporters of California Sem
4 ator for President Plan
Strenuous Campaign
FULL TICKET PREPARED
Several Johnson Delegates of
Four Years Ago Are Now
Seeking reelection
BY LEO j. MANNING
(Twnton Correspondent of The
Perth Amboy Evening News.)

(Trenton Correspondent or Inc
Perth Amboy Evening News.)
TRENTON, March 29.-The Re-
decide at the April primaries VIII Il
er they favor Calvin Coolidge or
Hiram johnson for the nomination
which the Cleveland nation con-
vention shall be called upon to make
this summer. All the gossip about
the johnson managers in New Jer-
sey letting the states endorsement go
by default to Coolidge by failing to
put a set of candidates for delegates
and alternates in the field proved
unfounded when william p. Verdon
stalked into the office of the Sec. e.
1 tary of State here yesterday and laid
Gs6wn petitions putting the Califor-
la Senator's name on the New Jer-
key primary ballot and naming can
didates for the big Seven dele
gates-at- Large and alternates, as well
as a compl te set of aspirants to go
to the convention from each of the
twelve districts in the state. In all
Verdon filed sixty-two petitions
-Four years ago the New Jersey
delegation to the Chicago convention
Included eleven men who voted for
Hiram. Nine of these had been his
candidates at the primary and were
chosen General Woods supporters.
The other two were from the fourth
district, Mercer, Somerset and Hunt
erdon. which endorsed the senator's
candidacv and the two delegates. al
though not his men. felt they should
vote as the sentiment of the district
had been expressed and so joined
the other nine. With but two ex-
( ceptions the original nine are again
In the field, including Verdon him.
self in the eleventh district, part
OF Hudson.
Mulford L. Ballard, of Newark,
VIII, as a Johnson delegate-at-l sc
candidate four years ago carrried all
hut Atlantic and Cal.-den counties, is
.-.egain in the field for n place to rep
esent the state at large. Another
IA the ~Big Seven" candidates Tor
johnson is Mrs. Margaret b. Laird,
of Newark, who served as member
of the Assembly in 1921 and 1922,
being one of the two women who
had the distinction of first repre-
senting their sex in the state legisla-
lure. Former District Court Judge
Raymond Tiffany, of Weelawken, IS
also on the slate, as are Mayor
Thomas L. Smith, of Keyport; Olaf
p. Hansen, of Paterson: Mrs. Sus-
anna Lewis, head of the state or
ganization of tie Daughters of
Liberty and who lives in Trenton,
and Winfield f. Co art, c' Atlantic
City. The latter is colored Repub-
lican leader in the shore municipal
ity and he was added to offset the
fact that the organization "r'owd
have included in their list of seven
DR. George Cannon. of Jerscy City,
negro Republican.
The alternate candidates for these
places are George r. Hunt, of Ruth
erford, business man; Peter j.
Lydecker, prominent G. A. r. man,
of Paterson; DR.. Samuel A. Parte-
low, retired army surgeon, of
Orange: George A. Celia, young
Trenton lawyer; Deputy City Com
missioner Frank b. Anderson, of
camden: Charles v. Finch. of Jer-
fey City, former representative of
hudson county on the Republican
3tate Committee, and who was elect
sd as a Johnson delegate to the 1920
convention from the twelfth district.
The seventh name also shows the
strategy of the Johnson managers in
their endeavor to corral the colored
vote in the coming primary. Where
as the Coolidge people have placed
the name OF DIR. Walter G.. Alexan-
der. of Orange, the first colored man
aver to sit in the legislature, on
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