Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-11-14
NEW Jersey.

This State is entitled to fpe members in the
House of Representatives of the United States
At the late election, Gov. Pennington gave the GER
tifcate of election to the Wing candidates; but the
Locos declare that il is their intention to contest
the seats. The reason that so much anxiety is ma
infested by the Vanites to keep out the Wing mem
bers-though entitled to their seats by every prin-
cipIe Of Law and rights that IL viH haze an i'm
portant bearing upon the election for Speaker
So determined are they that a WING shall not fill
the Speakers chair, and consequently Committees
be appointed that will honestly examine into the
misdeeds of The Observation-Disclosures some of their
supporters call for a demonstration, at the Capitol,
such as disgraced the meeting of the Penns, lvania
Legislature. last December.
But, lest mere threats should not have sufficient
force, they resorted to a more becoming method OF
proving their claim to the seats-to wit: by an at
tempt to prove that the popular vote of New Jersey
is with the ADMINISTRATION and therefore that the
Wings ought TO back out. Unfortunately for their
ma,he matical ingenuity, the data were all mad
Missile. The fact of their candidates not accep-
ting a proposition made to them by the Wings, TO
REFER THE WHOLE DISPUTE BACK TO THE PEOPLE,
is ample proof that they feared and dreaded the
Judgment of the People and is an all-suficient re-
futation of their assertions.
But this is not all: Although the Wings have a
majority in both branches of the Legislature, the
vanites again throw themselves upon the popular
vote for proof of their ascendency. Let us exam
=. u;,h ,ba ALL Of Tho Navy I.rsay State Jourpal.
thi, last refuge. In 1888, the numbor of votes
polled was sc, SO3 in 1889, 47,75l falling offthis
year, 9,052. The Wing vote in 1888, was 1892
the Loco vote this year, is 81 1877.
Two things are proved by this LIST. that about
one sixth of the voters did not come out this year
and end, that the Loco vote falls short of the Wing
vote, in the State, more than 3 500. We perceive,
then, that the last election is no evidence of the
strength of parties in New Jersey. II, however
$500 of the 5000 unpoled votes had been Van
Buren,, then the strength Of the two parties would
be demonstrated but it appears that the Loco fall
ing off is only 3,500-leaving the number of Wings
who did not participate in the contest, 5 500: thus
exhibiting a difference of 1000 in favor of the
Wings; and clearly undermining the seeming nu
merical superiority of our opponents.
Previous to the election, the Vanites asserted
that it was merely a Z" State election" %Supposins
it to be such, the Journal informs us that the Wing,
went into it as a State election. They made NJ
ticket in Sussex, Warren, or flunterdon and yer,
much relaxed their excrtions in Essex, Gloucester
Burlington, and Cape May. They directed thei
efforts only towards vanquishing their opponent
and carrying the State. They succeeded triumph
an,ly, and with increased success. Vain is il nov
for the Van Buren, party to retiact their own delhi
erate avowals-to eat their own words, and insis
that il is not "a mere State ~election;' and attemp
to break their fall, and bolster up the claims o
their Congressional claimants, by appealing to
tribunal to which they had said, under their owl
signatures, they ,coud net appeal"