Cape May County Times, 22 September 1922 IIIF issue link — Page 7

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To the VOTERS of CAPE MAY COUNTY t Most of the rank and file of the Republican party of Cape May County have long since been "fed up" on the management of the affairs of that organization of a fev men who have been for years on the public pay roll. It is the custom of the County Clerk to choose • the candidates and then bring together the Mayor of Ocean City and the Chairman of the Executive Cosmittee and acquaint them with his choice. 0 1 The workers are then notified of the slate and then told to get busy* This brings to you 'hand picked* Candidates of the first degree from which you have had no escape until now. September 26th, Primary Election, is your day. Furthermore, if any of these same “hand picked* * Candidates fails to receive the nomination this “one man machine**, then throws its influence over to the Jemocrats. As we all well remember last year, when every effort was made by it to elect a Democratic Senator, because of the defeat of the ‘‘hand picked** Candidate at the Primary Election. « That such tactics do not meet with the approval of t publican voters was proven by the result? of the General Election, when Senator Wm. H. Bright was elected in spite of the fact that the “one man machine** well greased and oiled, with full speed ahead, openly supported the Democratic nosdnee. Real, live, energetic business men from every part of the County, tiring of these methods, called meetings; had representatives from every section and after many, many hours of painstaking labor adopted as their Candidates the men best fitted for their respective office. The candidates so drafted to this great cause by representative citizens from all parte of our dearly beloved Cape May County are not 'hand picked* but real two-fisted people, not dominated by any faction, political boss or tryanny rule and will v not take orders from any political boss,*but will conduct their office in a good, clean, economical and businesslike manner, free from all influence. If you are opposed to 'one man rule* and opposed to 'hand picked' Candidates and went men who have been selected by the people of the County and want the County to take its place and rank in the State where it should be. Join the mighty army’of thinkers that will stamp out 'one man rule' an<* allow each man and woman a chance to express their opinion at the Primary Election and make it a direct primary by the people as is the intention of the law, by voting for the following Candidates at the Primary Election to be held on September 26th, from 7 A. M. to e P. M.

Yours For a Clean Up,

Signed: FOR ASSEMBLY Ralph T. Steven* Cape May FOR SHERIFF George A. Redding North Wildwood FOR SURROGATE Richard W. Ro*enbaum Avalon FOR FREEHOLDER. 3 YEARS Henry E. Cree Ocean Gty

FOR FREEHOLDER, 2 YEARS Peter L. Peterson North Wildwood FOR FREEHOLDER, 1 YEAR Charles E. Foster , South Seaville STATE COMMITTEE Charles C. Bohm Lower Township Miss Mabel Clay Beesley’s Point