The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-10-04
L REPUBLICAN, SCHHME.
No Effort TO be Made to
Elect Their Candidates
for County Offices.
THEY WANT THE LEGISLATURE.
The County Committee 10 Be Re-
duced for the sake Of
the Bosses.

~ many respects the election to be held
this fall Is peculiar and different from the
usual election OF county officers and
members Of the Legislature Generally
the charter election in the spring is the
Initiative step toward the fall election.
This year the reverse has happened. The
charter election last spring had no In
huence whatever on the present cam
paigD. But on the election next month
Will depend very much the programme
next spring.
ffIhe present campaign and the influ-
efces 1t will create will be largely felt In
determining who the candidates In the
spring will be. In every Assembly dis
trict today pledges are being made to
candidates for Assembly by candidates
fcr Freeholders next spring. The latter
office is much more profitable and
naturally Is the most sought. The can
d1tiRte for Assembly will, IL elected, 90
to Trenton pledged to support some par
ttcuiar seeker for the Office of Freeholder.
This candidate it is needless to
say is the favorite with the
It ie seen that BY working for the Assem-
bIYmAn the candidate is really working
only for himself. This condition did not
exist when both Assemblymen and Free
holders were elected in the fall. So much
for one popularity OF the present cam
paign.
NO EFFORT FOR COUNTY OFFICES.
Another, and popularity that it is
worth the while OF Democrats to watch.
Is the attitude Of the Republican party.
They Will not make the slightest attempt
TO elect q single county office. They
have already, as The SUNDAY MORNING
NEWS said on August 9 would be done,
refused to nominate candidate for
State Senator, claiming that the renegade
Democrat Stuhr is still Senator, and
no vacancy exists. 1t is not because they
believe this to be true, that Republicans
claim this, but because they hope that
Through some special dispensation Of
Providence Stuhr may after the fall
election regain the seat he usurped, and
It also saves the party the expense of a
tfuit1ess campaign to elect Senator.
The G. o. p. have become 30 utterly
hopeless Of electlng any county officer
this fall that when they hold their farce
of a convention they Will be compelled to
beg some owe to sacrifice himself to ac-
cept nomination for Director-at-Lnrg
and for Surrogate. In fact. if II were not
Tor keeping up the party organization, no
nominations would be made for these two
Offices.
on the face Of this statement il would
seem to the average man that the Re-
power to aid Democrats This IS BY no
means true. Whnrever else Republicans
may be they are not generally classed as
fools. They know that II they make no
effort to elect county ticket. Democrats
vii imagine mat they have sure thing
note. Hundreds will stay away from the
polls because they will not care to sacri-
Nee their time to vote when there Is not
practical opposition. It is this the Re-
publican leaders ACE hoping for. They
know they cannon elect county officers
them. They want the Legislature.
FALSE SECURITY.
If by making Democrats feel so secure
Of victory that full vote is not polled,
and ii Republicans concentrate all their
energies on three or four Assembly dis
elect four or five Assemblymen- Demo-
cratic candidates will be weakened be-
cause theybwill not have that earnest and
financial support they would have ii the
heads OF the ticket were compelled to
fight with every nerve for election In
the security OF the heads of the Demo-
Candidates candid for Assembly. Gen
eral Sewell and General Grubb
and the far distant William
Waiter Phelps will not permit Repnbli-
cans in this county to enter campaign
that shows probability Of success with
ont seeing that they are furnished with
the munitions of war. It Is easy to cal
culate how much money could be placed
into four or five of the weaker Demo-
cratic districts il no money worth men
tioning was used for the other Re-
publican candidates. And it is also q sad
truth that money has carried more than
one Assembly district in this county
This socaled Republican Constitutional
Convention which met September 20 and
will conclude October z, is a shrewd Ke-.
publican trick. The present Comfy
COMMITTEES is entirely too large for the
agents Of General Seweil or Minister
Grubb to control, and besides, it too
orcatly represents the people. These
bosses want the management Of the party
themselves. If the County Committee is
&c reduced in memb ership as to be con-
trolled absolutely BY the managers Of
the PARTY. then the machinery will work
without interruption or friction and the
faithful Republican can only obey orders
or cease to be Republican.