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By David Dayton McKean
After Edge, however, Hague elected three Democratic governors
in succession: Edwards, Silzer, and Moore. He was
gradually filling courts, boards, and commissions with his
men, appointed by his governors, and of course he wished to
continue the process. In 1928 he was especially eager to elect
a Democratic governor, because Robert Carey of Jersey City,
who was then one of his sharpest critics, wanted to be the
Republican candidate; Carey, had he been nominated and
elected, might have been fatal to the organization. There
was another special reason why Hague wanted a Democratic
governor to carry New Jersey: he wanted to do all he could
for Alfred E. Smith. The man who had risen from the Horseshoe
Section was an intense admirer of the man who had risen
from the sidewalks of New York.
To accomplish all these purposes he looked about for the
weakest among the candidates in the Republican primary,
and he hit upon Morgan F. Larson, an undistinguished state
senator from Middlesex County. The Democratic boss determined to obtain for Larson the Republican nomination for
governor.
On primary day the Democrats of Hudson County turned
out to vote in the usual well-drilled battalions, but not all of
them voted in the Democratic primary. When the Case Com
mittee finished their investigation of that election they
reported:
The evidence showed that approximately twenty-two
thousand Democrats voted in the Republican primary .... (Case Committee Report, Senate Journal, 19;9, p. 1099.)
This Web version, edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
Forty-eight Democratic election officers, functioning as such
in the May, 1928, primary election, voted in the Republican
primary with the acquiescence, if not the connivance, of the
Republican Board members in the districts in which they
were serving. Nine voters who had filed applications for
appointment as Democratic election officers at the May, 1928
primary, voted in the Republican primary. Twenty-seven
Jersey City members of the Hudson County Democratic
County Committee voted in the Republican primary. More
than one thousand Democrats who signed Democratic nominating
petitions for the May, 1928, primary, in which they
declared themselves Democrats, voted in the Republican
boxes in that primary. These likewise are clear violations of
the election law....
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