New Britain herald., 1928-05-16
HOOVER AND SMITH
 AGAIN VICTORIOUS
Capture New Jerseys Delegates
 to Convention

Newark. N. J., May Is R-Her- bert Hoover and Governor Al Smith won New Jerseys delegates to na- ,ional political conventions in yes terday's bailoting, the Smith by the mere fo-mality of an election and the Hoover by defeating Lowden delegates in three districts. Six Of the sl republican delegates are pledged to Coolidge first choice Hoover second" The others are out and out Hoover. Hoover alone was entered in the presidential prefer ence vote.
 By the election Governor Smith gaind oS votes, as New Jersey dem ocrats are entitled in their conven- ton to half a vote for each of eight delegat tes- large and full vote for each Of o4 district delegates. The democrats had only two contests on their hands and they were personal hghts.
 United States Senator Edward l. Edwards, democrat, was renoninat- cd without opposition, while Hamil- ton F. kean. former national con- lnitteeman, had lead of nearly 10000 Tn the republican senatorial ballots when returns from approNi- mately half the state had been tab ulated.
 The nomination of both repub- lican candidates for both United states senator and governor was at- tended by charges that democrats in Jersey City and the territory of Mayor Frank Hague, had voted in the republican primaries for jcnndi- dates expected to favor the demo- cratic organization. Hague is lead Q. of the state dem ocracy a vice chairman of the national committee, and prominent in the Smith move nent.
 Morgan r. Larson, state senator who carried the Hague territory apparently had won the republican gubernatorial nomination with ,65,- ols votes in 1927 Of the states g. al7 precincts.
 His closest opponent was Roher' Carey, of Jersey City. who had bas- ed his campaign on attacks upon the Hague machine, and who boiled 4o,99o votes in the same territory.
 J. Henry Harrison. former state senator, received 21.967 in the same incomplete returns and later figures could change the outcome.
 Tho democrats named William L. Dill, state motor vehicle commis- sioner as their gubernatorial candi- date, without a contest. The vote in the republican senatorial contest in l.449 precincts was:
 Edward C. Stokes, 54,20o; Kean 5a,lS2; former United States sena, tor Joseph s. Frelinghuysen, 4s.' 7s5: Gray. 1869: Feickert, 9,s2l.
 Carey, who was the first to fil' the charges of illegal voting witt the attorney general. was soon fol lcwed by Kean and Frelinghuysen all declaring the primaries were de bauched" by Hague, who had passed the word along to the democrats tt vote for Stokes and Larson. Attor ney General Kaltzenbach replied AIlU . IS4uthL lcl cPNNiiS 'iD'@ t.ons.
 Carey asserted mo more viciou: crime has ever been attempted against the purity of the ballot boz in this state. Probably 3o,00o vote' have been cast fraudulently.
 Tho many-sided and bitter cam paigns for the republican senatorla and gubernatorial nominations ob seured many other contests.
 Representatives George Seeger republican of the seventh district and Harold Hoffman, republican, 0 the third district. won renomlnatlon Other members of the New Jerse, delegation in the house Of represen tatives were named for secont term without contest.
 The sole Dawes delegate in Ne" Jersey. George E. Bates, negro "h' contested the republican Hoove1 slate for delegate large, was over Whelmed.