Evening star., 1936-05-20
.LANDON DEFEATS
bORAH IN JERSEY;
HOFFMAN VICTOR
KanSan Nearly Al Ahead
of Rival in State Pri-
mary Vote.
ROOSEVELT Is ASSURED
ALL PARTY DELEGATES
Fort Loses to Governor in Fight
Based on Hauptmann Case
Activities.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Gov. Alf NJ. Landon of Kansas to-
day STANDS step higher on the lad
der leading to the Republican presi-
Dental nomination as a result of the
New Jersey primary.
The Kansas Governor ran YESTERDAY
in that primary against Senator VIII
liam E. Borah of Idaho, and defeated
the veteran Senator nearly to !. The
result was expected. Landon had the
backing Of the Republican State or.
ganization, practically solidly.
The Jersey primary will give Ian.
don at least 28 more votes on the first
ballot in the Republican National Con-
vention, and perhaps 80. He won all
four of the delegates at large and Ger.
tainly "a Of the % district delegates.
The other four delegates elected ran
unpledged. Whether they will be guided
by the results of the Statewide pri.
mary vote in favor of Landon remains
to be seen.
Hoffman Defeats Fort.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman has been
elected a delegate at large to the Re-
publican convention over former Rep
resentative Franklin Fort, on the face
OF the returns. Fort challenged Hoff-
man on the ground that the Cow
errors activities in the Bruno Haupt.
mann case were discreditable to his
State.
President Roosevelt was assured the
support of the entire New Jersey dele
cation at the Democratic National
Convention. A slate Of 81 delegates
with half a vote each pledged to him
was elected.
Col. Henry Breckenridge, anti
Roosevelt Democrat, sole entry into
the Democratic presidential preference
primary, rolled up 2907S votes in
2,S77 out of 3,578 election districts in
the State. His vote may run to 35,-
900, and is entirely a protest vote
against President Roosevelt on the
part of Democrats in New Jersey.
In the same number Of districts
Landon had 247,88l to 64,45I for
Borah.
Only Florida Primary Remains.
New Jerseys was the last of the
presidential preference primary elec-
tions except for a Democratic primary
in Florida on June 2.
The contest made by Fort against
Gov. Hoffman, based on the Bruno
Hauptmann case, aroused tremendous
interest in New Jersey. The latest re-
turns, according to Associated Press
dispatches, showed Hoffman in fourth
place on the slate of four delegates
at large and Fort in fifth place.
The vote stood: Edge, 253.666:
Duf1eld, 237,3l5; Conklin. 223,074;
Hoffman, 2l4,628; Fort, Ill, $40
During the primary campaign Fort
charged that Hoffman's activities in
the Hauptmann case had dragged
Jersey justice into the mire." Hoff-
inan was one of the slate of delegates
at-large selected by the Republican
organization and Fort was an inde-
pendent, eleventh-hour entry into the
primary fight. So bitter was the fight
that Hoffman's running mates for
delegates-at-large, Walter E. Edge,
Edward w. Dufield and Edna B. Conk-
lin, national committeewoman. kept
out Of the contest and even went so
far as not to appear in meetings with
Hoffman.
BULLET" Votes Charged.
Charges are made by Forts mana
ger, o. D. Keep, that Hoffman and
Frank Hague, Democratic boes, had
made a deal whereby $4,000 Demo-
cratic bullet" votes we're to be de-
livered to the Governor, many of them
in Hudson County, Democratic strong
hold. A bullet" vote is cast when a
voter marks his ballot for only one
candidate when four, as in this case.
are to be elected
Senator Warren G. Barbour. Re-
publican, was renominated in the
Jersey primary. His opponent prob
ably will be William H. Smathers, the
candidate of the Democratic organiza-
| ton.
The returns so far recorded indi-
cate that all of the sitting members
of the House have been renominated,
10 Republicans and Democrats.