1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election

{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election

| country = New Jersey

| flag_year = 1896

| type = Presidential

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1910 New Jersey gubernatorial election

| previous_year = 1910

| next_election = 1916 New Jersey gubernatorial election

| next_year = 1916

| election_date = November 4, 1913

| image1 = File:James Fairman Fielder 1.jpg

| image_size = 150x150px

| nominee1 = James Fairman Fielder

| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)

| popular_vote1 = 173,148

| percentage1 = 46.1%

| image2 = File:Edward C. Stokes.jpg

| nominee2 = Edward C. Stokes

| party2 = Republican Party (United States)

| popular_vote2 = 140,298

| percentage2 = 37.4%

| image3 = File:Everett Colby 001 (cropped).jpg

| nominee3 = Everett Colby

| party3 = Progressive

| popular_vote3 = 41,132

| percentage3 = 11.0%

| map_image = 1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election results map by county.svg

| map_size = 280px

| map_caption = County results
Fielder: {{legend0|#bdd3ff|30–40%}} {{legend0|#a5b0ff|40–50%}} {{legend0|#7996e2|50–60%}} {{legend0|#6674de|60–70%}}
Stokes: {{legend0|#ffc8cd|30–40%}} {{legend0|#ffb2b2|40–50%}} {{legend0|#e27f7f|50–60%}} {{legend0|#d75d5d|60–70%}}

| title = Governor

| before_election = Leon Rutherford Taylor (acting)

| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)

| after_election = James Fairman Fielder

| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)

}}

The 1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1913. Democratic acting Governor James Fairman Fielder, who resigned a week before the election so that he could succeed himself, defeated Republican former Governor Edward C. Stokes and Progressive former state senator Everett Colby.

The state's first-ever direct primary elections for governor were held on September 23,{{cite journal|title=Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey|year=1914|publisher=M.R. Dennis & Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/manualoflegislat1914mull/page/194|url-access=registration|page=194}} though the contests were largely uneventful. For the Democratic nomination, Fielder defeated former Trenton mayor Frank S. Katzenbach, making his third run for governor. Stokes easily topped a four-man field in the Republican Party, including former U.S. Representative Charles N. Fowler, whom he had defeated in the 1910 primary for U.S. Senate. The Progressive primary was closest, with Colby defeating Montclair industrialist Edmund Burke Osborne by 29 percent of the vote.

Democratic primary

=Candidates=

James Fairman Fielder, State Senator for Hudson County, President of the New Jersey Senate, and acting Governor{{cite news|title=HEAR 7 CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNORSHIP: Men Seeking Jersey Executive Office Meet on One Platform in Newark|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/09/05/100405405.html?pageNumber=10|page=10|date=5 Sep 1913|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=12 Jul 2022|url-access=subscription}}
Frank S. Katzenbach, former mayor of Trenton and candidate for governor in 1907 and 1910{{cite news|title=KATZENBACH A CANDIDATE: Ex-Mayor of Trenton Wants to Be Governor of New Jersey|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/02/12/100388558.html?pageNumber=24|page=24|date=12 Feb 1913|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=12 Jul 2022|url-access=subscription}}

==Withdrew==

H. Otto Wittpenn, mayor of Jersey City

=Candidates=

The Democratic nomination was hotly contested between two progressive candidates from Hudson County, acting Governor James Fairman Fielder and H. Otto Wittpenn, the mayor of Jersey City. Fielder prevailed by securing the endorsement of President (and former Governor) Woodrow Wilson on July 23, when President Wilson called on Wittpenn to unite the party behind Fielder, who had "backed [Wilson] so consistently, so intelligently, so frankly and honestly throughout my administration ... that I feel I would have no ground whatever upon which to oppose his candidacy."[https://web.archive.org/web/20070620160621/http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GFIEL.pdf Biography of James Fairman Fielder (PDF)], New Jersey State Library Wittpenn acquiesced and withdrew from the race.

Fielder, who thus had the support of Wilson and the party machine, easily defeated third-time candidate Frank S. Katzenbach in the September 23 primary.

=Results=

{{Election box begin no change|title=1913 Democratic gubernatorial primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = James Fairman Fielder (incumbent)

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 80,414

| percentage = 69.61%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Frank S. Katzenbach

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| votes = 35,115

| percentage = 30.39%

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 115,529

| percentage = 100.00%

}}

Republican primary

=Candidates=

Robert Carey, former Jersey City judge
Charles N. Fowler, former U.S. Representative from Elizabeth and candidate for U.S. Senate in 1910{{cite news|title=HERE'S FOWLER'S PLATFORM|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/05/30/100624794.html?pageNumber=7|page=7|date=30 May 1913|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=12 Jul 2022|url-access=subscription}}
Carlton B. Pierce, state senator from Union County
Edward C. Stokes, former governor of New Jersey and candidate for U.S. Senate in 1910

=Campaign=

Former U.S. Representative Charles N. Fowler ran on a progressive platform favoring a convention to redraw the state constitution and various electoral reforms, including the recall of all officers except judges, initiative, referendum, and making failure to vote in a primary a bar to voting in the general election.

=Results=

{{Election box begin no change|title=1916 Republican gubernatorial primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Edward C. Stokes

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 60,644

| percentage = 70.05%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Charles N. Fowler

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 10,571

| percentage = 12.21%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Robert Carey

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 10,336

| percentage = 11.92%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Carlton B. Pierce

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| votes = 5,022

| percentage = 5.80%

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 86,573

| percentage = 100.00%

}}

Progressive primary

=Candidates=

Everett Colby, former state senator from Essex County
Edmund Burke Osborne, Montclair art calendar industrialist{{cite book|title=Crossroads of Commerce: The Pennsylvania Railroad Calendar Art of Grif Teller|chapter=A Working Partner: The Osborne Company|pages=44–56|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6sZVp41FVOsC|last=Cupper|first=Dan|year=2003|isbn=9780811729031 }}

=Campaign=

On July 26, both candidates spoke in Ocean Grove at a mass meeting of the New Jersey Men's League for Women's Suffrage, along with George La Monte, Lillian Feickert, and Mina Van Winkle.{{cite news|title=NEW JERSEY MEN'S LEAGUE FOR WOMEN SUFFRAGE MASS MEETING AT THE OCEAN GROVE AUDITORIUM|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/142744562/|page=9 |newspaper=Asbury Park Press|date=25 July 1913|url-access=subscription|access-date=12 Jul 2022}}

Osborne originally requested that Colby tour the state with him, since both candidates were from Essex County, but Colby declined before acquiescing to a debate in Montclair on September 11. The debate was moved to Newark's Kreuger Auditorium at Osborne's request to accommodate a larger audience.{{cite news|title=Debate Lost to Montclair|date=6 Sep 1913|page=12|newspaper=The Montclair Times|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/515308631/|url-access=subscription|access-date=12 Jul 2022}}

=Results=

{{Election box begin no change|title=1916 Progressive gubernatorial primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Everett Colby

| party = Bull Moose Party|Progressive

| votes = 6,458

| percentage = 63.91%

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change

| candidate = Edmund Burke Osborne

| party = Bull Moose Party|Progressive

| votes = 3,647

| percentage = 36.09%

}}

{{Election box total no change

| votes = 10,105

| percentage = 100.00%

}}

General election

=Candidates=

John C. Butterworth (Socialist Labor)
Everett Colby, former state senator for Essex County (Progressive)
Daniel F. Dwyer (Independent)
James Fairman Fielder, state senator for Middlesex County, president of the New Jersey Senate, and acting governor (Democratic)
James G. Mason (Prohibition)
Edward C. Stokes, former governor of New Jersey (Republican)
James M. Reilly (Socialist)

=Results=

{{Election box begin | title=New Jersey gubernatorial election, 1913{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9CZECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1715 |title=Guide to U.S. Elections |date= 24 December 2015|isbn=9781483380353 |access-date=2016-01-25|last1=Kalb |first1=Deborah }}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

| party = Democratic Party (United States)

| candidate = James Fairman Fielder

| votes = 173,148

| percentage = 46.13%

| change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Republican Party (United States)

| candidate = Edward C. Stokes

| votes = 140,298

| percentage = 37.38%

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Bull Moose Party|Progressive

| candidate = Everett Colby

| votes = 41,132

| percentage = 10.96%

| change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Socialist Party of America

| candidate = James M. Reilly

| votes = 13,977

| percentage = 3.72%

| change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Prohibition Party

| candidate = James G. Mason

| votes = 3,427

| percentage = 0.91%

| change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Socialist Labor Party of America

| candidate = John C. Butterworth

| votes = 2,460

| percentage = 0.66%

| change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

| party = Independent politician

| candidate = Daniel F. Dwyer

| votes = 875

| percentage = 0.23%

| change =

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{{Election box hold with party link|

| winner = Democratic Party (United States)

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References

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