Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-24
TREND IN IN,
POLITICS ARE
Said OBSCURE
Usually G. o. p, Dems
Are Making Strong
Bid For Votes In
Cleveland's Home

NI"Akk, ~. j.. Oct. 24.-Birth-
80 u 1rover Cleveland. this state
.vm which Woodrow Wilson was
hheu 10 Washington. has gone re-
seah Tor a generation against ev-
~ otner presidential candidate save
native and its adopted son. Even
"iIson failed to carry New Jersey
"nsh ne ran for the second term.
ailred r. Smith. although neither
natlIe Jerseymsn nor adopted. Il q
helghoor. In his domain thoussnds
o. Jersey commuters spend their
working hours
Near to him ere the thickly popu-
Iated sections Of New Jersey. Near
sSt Is Hudson county in which
mayor Frank Hague. or Jersey City.
nsa three times mustered enough
oemocratic voters TO defeat the re-
Iainder OF the state and assist
eemocrstic governors 70 office.
from Smith. in miles and
I'm politics, arc the counties CT south
jersey.
Name Governor Too
but there is opposition in the
near country IS we'll as in the far.
Inc Hague machine in addition to
Organizing against a Coolidge state
plurality Of 3T7,4i9. is on the de-
iensiVe against a republican In
~Nestigating commission. This com
mission after a long series or hear
ihgs. i~nstlgated laws which republi-
cans asserted would end what the
termed the political crimes in Hud-
son county. There has been talk
Of asking the courts to pass upon
these new measures.
This Is a gu~bernatorial as we'll a.
q presidential year in New Jersey.
The republicans have not had a
governor for nine years. In his
power of appointing judges. prose-
cutting attorneys and many other Of
ficers. the chief executive Of this
state IS a governor among COVER
nors. The republicans want this
patronage and the man against
whom they are directing their at
tack is Hague, who is not only =
Jersey mayor. but also a friend OF
Smiths and a vice chairman of the
democratic national committee.
State il Dry
The governors term Is for three
years. Hague elected his men in the
off years. When gubernatorial and
presidential elections conceded in
1916, the vote was heavier than in
the off years and the republicans
won. The vote in prospect for
November 6 is the heaviest Of
twentieth century New Jersey.
For all its wet democratic gov
srnors. New Jersey also is a state
Of dry republican legislatures.
Overwhelming republican. and 50
dry that a declaration Of the re-
publican platform for = prohibition
referendum was ignored last year.
In the United States senate. New
Jersey is represented by two out
standing vets. One Is a democrat
= and the other a republican. Edward
> I. Edwards. the former. is running
for reelection. Walter +. Edge, the
latter. was one OF the early endorsers
Of Herbert Hoover. yet in the re-
publican primaries Edges candidate
10 oppose Edwards YVES defeated.
Dust Election Boss
This is hard fought ground for
ell republican claims that a united
party with Hoover at the head OF the
ticket can repeat the success Of four
wear ago, and for all the democratic
assertions that Smiths stand on pro-
hibition. his career as governor Of
the n~eighboring Empire state. and
his appeal 70 many classes OF voters
will upset a precedent. Both candi-
dates have ~csmpaigned in New Jer-
sey and both arc expected 70 return
before election day.
Republicans are balancing the
rural and suburban sections against
the vote OF Hudson county and the
cities. In Hudson county. a super
intendent Of elections was forced
out OF office by the legislature on
IRE ground that he had failed to
.--l A. -s+vakfln His ~emrrpENnF
has been questioning up TO p per
cert Of the names on registry lists.
In parts of the state the demo
Gratis are better organized than IN
wears. Hague has enemies within
his " ranks. With one or two
~sxceptions every important paper IN
the state is attacking Hagueism.
Some argue that the attacks viii
hurt Smith, others that this opposi-
ZION 70 the leader will bring out q
record vote of confidence.
c.. o. r. Goes Dem.
The cities outside Of Hudson
~ with their expected heavy vote
for Smith are handicapped by subur-
ban and rural communities Of repub-
I;rans. Franklin W. Fort, secretary
~ the republican national committee,
represents, in the house OF repre-
sentstives, . dry suburban district
Rut that district is next door 70
Newark in which a heavy wet demo-
crstic vote il conceded. Many OF
Forts constituents earn their living
dsv BY day in Governor Smiths own
tate. The far country OF New Jer-
sev. the southern counties, hes been
republican for years.
There have been no outstanding
AFFECTIONS from the democratic cause
hut the republicans have lost Ozal
u McCarter. president o. a large
New Jersey bank and brother OF the
-.as;dent of the Public Service utility
companies. John II. Stamler. NeNark
h.rter. and Edward W. Gray, former
representative in congress. Last
snrinr Gray sought nomination as