Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-10-13
|EDGE To SPEAK
At BIC MEETING
First Mass Meeting of Repub-
Iican Campaign at the
High School Tonight
ALL CANDIDATES HERE
PickersgilI Is to Preside
Judge Wells Will Be an
Added Attraction

The first big local political mass
meeting of the 1924 campaign will
be held tonight in the high school
auditorium starting promptly at 8
o'clock, the Republicans having ar
ranged to have United States Sena-
tor Walter e. Edge present together
with all district, county and local
candidates.
Recorder Harold L. Pickersgill
will preside over tonight's meeting
which will be addressed by the same
state, district and county candidates
as will appear at Republican rally
to be staged in New Brunswick to-
night. Judge Harold B. Wells, of
Bordentown, will speak at both
meetings also.
Senator Edge opened his Middle
sex county campaign today, his
schedule calling for his addressing
voters at South Amboy, Sayreville
and Carteret before his appearance
at the Perth Amboy and New Bruns-
wick mass meetings tonight. The
senator arrived in New Brunswick
from Newark at 1880 o'clock this
afternoon and Immediately went to
a resta urant In Codwise avenue in
the factory district. There he mixed
with the employees, shook hands and
became better acquainted with the
men and women workers.
At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon
Senator Edge is scheduled to witness
the Columbus Day parade at South
Amboy and then speak at o'clock
at st. Mary's grove. Senator Edge
will be accompanied by about seven
ty-five New Brunswick Republicans
on his tour of the county and during
the afternoon Lieutenant underhill
will distribute from his airplane
Republican campaign literature.
The Sayre & Fisher brick works at
Sayreville will be the scene of SEN
ator Edges next meeting. the sched-
ule calling for his addressing the
factory workers at 4:45. The senior
United States senator will make an
early appearance in Carteret to-
night. speaking at Dalton's audito-
rum. Third street. at 1890.
Immediately after his Carteret ap-
pearance Senator Edge will go to
| this city. being the first speaker at
| the high school meeting. An hour
later he is scheduled to address the
New Brunswick voters, Judge Wells
will be the opening speaker at the
uled to make his address here at
| 9:15.
! Big Democratic Event
DIR. Margaret Sullivan, prominent
woman phsician of Jersey City. and
Mrs. e. G.. Bergen, a United States
district court stenographer of Glen
| Ridge, and city and county candi-
dates will be the speakers tonight
at big meeting of the Woman's
Democratic Club of this city and the
| Middlesex Democratic Club of Mid
dlesex county. The meeting will be
| held in the Democratic headquarters
| in Madison avenue. this city. at
o'clock. Mrs. Mabel Seggal of Metu-
chen, president of the county club,
will preside.
This will be one of the largest
women's meetings to be keld in the
city or county and arrangements
| have been going on for some time to
make it of special intere.& to the
Y women voters. Both DR.. Sullivan
and Mrs. Bergen are speakers of con-
siderable note and bring to the meet
| ing tonight message of special I'M
portance to the women voters.
Among the county candidates who
will be present and ape2k at tonignt's
meeting will be Bernard M. Cannon,
candidate for county clerk; DIR. VIII
liam E. Ramsay. candidate for state
senator, and Albert G.. Waters, candi-
date for mayor.