Prior to the 1899 merger with Camden, the town of Stockton, which comprised of what is know known as Cramer Hill and East Camden, had a very active, to put it mildly, political scene. After the merger, Cramer Hill became Camden's Eleventh Ward, while East Camden became the Twelfth Ward. Jacob "Jake" Schiller was one of the leading Republicans of the 1890s Stockton-era and remained a force in East Camden Republican politics through the mid-1920s.

The 1906 Camden City Directory shows the Twelfth Ward Republican Club at 2508 Federal Street. Their also was another Republican group, the East End Republican Club at 3336 Westfield Avenue, in that year. This group was gone by 1914.

The 1914 Camden City Directory reveals that the Twelfth Ward Republican Club had moved to 2311 Federal Street. By 1924 another move had taken place, to William Penn Hall, 300 North 27th Street, where it would remain through at least the summer of 1933.  By 1936 the club had reorganized and was then called the East End Republican Club, and was still active and operating at that address as late as 1947, according to the City Directory for that year. The club did operate for a time at 2709 Westfield Avenue around 1938, however. The club is not listed in the 1956 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory, however.

Camden Courier-Post * June 8, 1932

G. O. P. WOMEN TO MEET

The monthly social session of the Women's Auxiliary of the Twelfth Ward Republican Club will be held on Monday evening at the headquarters, 300 North Twenty-seventh Street. Mrs. Mercy Bolton is arranging a surprise program for the evening. Refreshments will be served. 

Camden Courier-Post
June 10, 1933

G. O. P. Club to Take Outing to Shore

The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Twelfth Ward Republican Club will hold its annual outing to Atlantic City tomorrow. Buses will leave the clubhouse, 300 North Twenty-seventh Street, promptly at eight o'clock in the morning. 

Camden Courier-Post
June 26, 1933

The Ladies Auxiliary to the East End Republican League, 300 North Twenty-seventh Street, will hold its regular business meeting on Monday night. Mrs. Reba Raymore will preside and Mrs. Bertha Clayton, outing fund chairman, will be in charge of social arrangements.

Camden Courier-Post
February 5, 1936

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1936

Kenneth Smul1en, physical director at the Camden Y. M. C. A. will be the guest speaker at the meeting of the Twelfth Ward Republican Club, 2709 Westfield Avenue, tonight. His topic will be "Keeping Fit" and the public is invited to hear the lecture. 

Camden Courier-Post
February 1, 1938

Camden Courier-Post * February 10, 1938

The overwhelming vote Camden county gave Senator Lester H, Clee last November proves "beyond a doubt" that Camden county will support Republican candidates "when they are qualified to hold office," Alfred E. Driscoll, Haddonfield commissioner, declared Tuesday.

Addressing members of the Twelfth Ward Republican Club, at 2709 Westfield Avenue, Driscoll said the vote for Clee "demonstrated conclusively that Camden county is Republican-minded."

"If we offer candidates qualified for the offices they seek," Driscoll said, "they will be elected. Voters quite rightly are thinking nowadays of a candidate's qualification for office. If the candidate is the man or woman for the job, the people will elect him.

"There was a time when a one-man endorsement of a candidate was all that was necessary. That day is gone and with it went one-man domination of the Republican party in Camden county. The so-called political leaders who boast they carry their districts 'in the bag' are equally passe.

"The Republican party In Camden county is definitely on its way to the greatest strength it ever had. The 'come-back', if you want to call it that, was made because our people are thinking as they vote."

Driscoll also expressed the opinion that anytime a common enemy threatens the United States, its people as a nation will toss overboard any "isms" they may have prescribed to and rush to the defense of the country.

"The freedom and liberty guaranteed by our Constitution," he said, "are too firmly implanted to be set aside. There is a lot of talk about 'communism' and 'fascism' but if either of them ever become a real threat, the vast majority of our citizens will rise up to defeat them."

Camden Courier-Post
July 26, 1941