New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-02
NEU-JERSEY PROSPECTS.

Within the past week the Republican can
vass has made marked progress in New-Jersey.
| Few Democrats now hope for the defeat of the
| Republican candidate in any Congressional
| district ut present represented by a Republican
| But in both of the districts now Democratic,
| as in others throughout the State, there is
| found a considerable number of Democrats who
| decline to support their Congressional candi-
dates This is in part because the Democratic
candidates in the Hid, WITH and With Dis
tricts are all Objectionable Mr.. Ross because CT
his improper methods, and his conspicuous part
in raids upon the Treasury Mr.. Harris because
he lacks substance and fitness for Congressional
duties because he made himself the mere shadow
of MIR. Ross and beca use his nomination was
not fairly made and Mr. McAdOo because he is
conspicuously unfit, and represents merely
set of ward strikers" mainly of Irish origin.
in city not famed tor the virtue and purity
of its ward politicians. But there are broader
reasons which have an influence in all the dis
tricts, especially since the result OF the Ohio
election became known.
The practical business men and shrewd work
ingmen of New-Jersey are not disposed to place
the tariff and the finances under the control of
Democratic majority in Congress. A great
many strong Democrats have the same dread
that they felt during the Presidential CAM
paign of 1850; they know that their party can
not be trusted either to maintain or to revise
the tariff, or to uphold the National banking
system and the public credit. 1t is of little
avail to them to send upright and sensible rep
resentatives, of their own party, because the
ignorant or wrong headed representatives
fly flsarnf IN
its councils. They have sent sound hard
money man, like Mr. Hardenbergh, for exam
pie, and have seen him vote for Speaker nOm-
mated by Democratic caucus, thereby placing
the control of committees and of legislation in
the hands of the majority of Democrats.
That control, once secured has counted for far
more than NIr. Hardenbergh's vote. The food
gates of financial mischief have been opened,
and all the industries OF the country have been
placed in peril for two years, not by votes OF
Fuch members for dangerous measures. but by
their votes to give the control of leg station to
the Democratic majority.
New-Jersey is State that has very strong
and tender feeling for President Garfield. Its
honest voters have resented with intense In
dgnation the infamous frauds and forgerles
by which the electOral'vote Of the State was
stolen from him, and great many OF the lead
ing Democrats are to-day crushed down by
public knowledge of their active participation
in circulating those forgeries. The Republic
cans of the State were his warm friends In
the last Congress in which he was the leader of
the House, Messrs. G. M. Robson and John l..
Blake, now Republican candidates, served with
and steadfastly aided him. Mr.. w. w. Phelps,
another Republican candidate, was a warm
friend of the President, helped to nominate
him at Chicago and was ntrusted by him with
the Mission to Austria AS soon as the death
of President GARFIELD became known he re-
signed his office, and has thus had no part in any
controversies arising from the course OF the
present Administration. The other candi-
dates, and the whole body of Republicans in
that State, hold fast to the Republican princi-
pies which the late President so we'll repre-
sented, and have found no discord in their
ranks to impede their efforts for those princi-
ples. With hearty union, good candidates, and
principles which commend themselves to the
support of oil conservative and patriotic citi-
zens. the Republicans of New-Jersey have