Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-18
MORROW SWEEPS STATE.
Plurality of $4,000 Seen; Wins Many
Dry Districts.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., June 1S.-With a
demonstration of strength which ex-
ceeded the hopes of his most optimistic
partisans, Dwight w. Morrow swept
New Jersey in yesterdays primary for
the Republican nomination as United
states senator with plurality of more
than $4,000.
With 223 districts of the States 1904
missing, the vote today was:
Morrow, 374,276; Franklin w Fort.
d09, l74: Joseph s. Frelinghuysen, AZ
09S. The poll for John A. Kelly, a
fourth contestant, was negligible.
:. MorroW also won the nomination for
the follr-month period remaining in
the unexpired term of Walter e. Edge.
now ambassador to France. Kelly was
his only opponent in that contest.
Ambassador to Mexico and member of
me American delegation to the London
Naval Conference, Mr.. Morrow appar-
emily was the beneficiary of a personal
appeal which wiped out whatever hooe
those interested in prohibition had for
a specific indication on that subject
In the primary.
Only the pluralities received by Presi-
dents Coolidge and Hoover in 1924 and
1873 exceeded the New Jersey plurality
given Morrow yesterday. The greatest
plurality ever registered in the State
was IN 1924 when Coolidge defeated
john W. Davis by 377,419 votes.
Simpson VIII Oppose Morrow.
Morrow will be opposed for election
next Fail by Alexander Simpson. wet
democrat, who was nominated for the
sl&-year term without opposition, and
for the unexpired term of former Sen
ator Walter E. Edge by Miss Thelma
Parkinson. the only Democratic candi-
date for that term.
Fort and Frelinghuysen conceded
Morrow's nomination a few hours after
the polls closed and early returns indi-
Gated an emphatic victory for the
Ambassador. Both sent kilograms con-
graduating him on his victory End
pledging their support in the Fall
election.
Returns indicated that Morrow had
carried many of the dry rural districts
from which Fort was expecting his
chief strength.
Balloting was light in the fore part
OF the day, but there was a rush to the
polling places before they closed at 8
pm, as commuters thronged home
from New York and Philadelphia.
Ambassador Morrow sat quietly in
his Englewood home reading Herodotus
while the votes indicating his victory
were being counted. He refused to COM
ment. saying he would wait until the
complete vote was tabulated.
However" he said smilingly, IT seem
to have carried my own ward"
He expressed great pride in the vote
given him by his neighbors In Engle-
wood.
Despite the overwhelming defeat of
Fort, DR.. James K. Shields. superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League said.
The Anti-Saloon League is still In the
Tight and we are there to stay. We
thought he would make a better show
ing than that"
Opened Campaign May IS.
Morrow opened his campaign May is
with an address in which he declared
that II elected he would be prepared to
vote for q resolution submitting to the
States a constitutional amendment
which would restore to the States the
power to determine their policy toward
the liquor traf1c, he said,
I look forward to the time when
the old leaders in the temperance
movement will appreciate that they