Contest of the Alleged Election of Erickson

Brown, C. C. J.

In the Republican primary election held in the fifty-fourth district of the seventh ward of Jersey City, Hudson county, Hew Jersey, on September 19th, 1939, Harry Erickson and James W. McCarthy, Jr., were the male candi*6dates and Elsa Gelbke and Anita McCarthy were the female candidates for election as members of the Republican county committee. Under the law but one male and one female could be elected, neither Harry Erickson nor James W. McCarthy, Jr., were declared elected as they received a tie vote. Elsa Gelbke was declared the successful female candidate. The petitioners…