St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-15
JERSEY FOR Grover.
The State Is Surely Demo-
cratic by at Least 10000
Plurality.
Chairman McDermott Thinks
It May Give Grover Is, 900
More Than Ben.
The Outlook in the Tight
Little State the Best in
Twenty Yesrs.
Republicans Simply Trying
to Pull in Their Candi-
date for Governor.
Special to the GLOBE.

date for Governor.
Special to the GLOBE.
TRENTON, n. j.. Oct. 14.-The habit
of claiming that New Jersey will 60 Re
publican at presidential elections has
become almost habitual with Repub-
lican managers. Without rhyme or
reason. the assertion is made with each
successive campaign. This year the
claim is being made with unusual
vigOr. Emphatic statements are pub
IIshed 10 this effect. and unqueStionably
earnest efforts are on foot TO alter the
customary result. There isn't the
slightest danger, and Democrats who
read the stories atloat need have no
fears. New Jersey is as steadily and
surely Democratic as Texas or Georgia
or Arkansas, she has not wavered in
her allegiance in forty years,
with the single exception of 1872,
and then there was break throughout
the country. Her majorities for Demo-
cratic candidates have fluctuated, it is
true, hut they have always been ample.
In 1880 the margin was more narrow
than at any previous period. Hancock'S
plurality was only 2,0l0 But since then
the increase has been large and very
satisfactory. Cleveland had 1857 more
votes than Blaine in 1884, and lie dis
tanced Harri son in 1888 by 7,149 This
year there is every reason for believing
that Cleveland will come out ahead
with a plurality of nearly 10000. Re-
publican claims this year are based on
false assumptions. They point to the
fact that frauds at the polls wrere de-
tected
In Hudson County
and that the conviction and imprson-
ment of the criminals will materially de-
crease the Democratic vote. They neg
lect TO state that the conviction and in
fiction of sentence were the work of a
Democratic prosecutor and Democratic
Judge, and that among the condemned
were several Republicans. The Hudson
county frauds are as heartily repudiated
by Democrats as by Republicans, and it
is all open question whether proportion
ately, and in the long run, one party
did not benefit as much as the other
from the stuffing of the boxes. Conced-
ing, however. that votes were cast in
past years for Democratic candidates in
Jersey City that we're illegal, the gen
eral Democratic vote is not changed.
Republican claimants neglect to remark
tLt for some years great many
Democrats in Hudson county, dis
gusted at the action of the party lead
ers, have voted the Republican ticket.
The wedding out corruption and the
punishment of the criminals by Demo
cratic officials have restored this ele-
ment to the ranks, and they will vote
solidly for Cleveland. While it may be
rather rash 10 say that the returning
voters Will offset the fraudulent votes of
other years, the result will probably
show this 10 be nearly the case. Then
the Republican claimants willfully over
look another very important factor.
Since Blaine ran eight years ago, the
detection of Republicans has been con-
slant and in many localities remarkable.
1t was estimated that there were at least
thousand mugwumpS in 1854 and more
than double that number in 1888. Dur
ing the past year the organization of In
dependent Republican clubs has been
surprising. There are
Nearly One Hundred
of them in the state. and they contain
thousands of voters. The secretary of
one of the leading clubs is authority for
the statement that the Independent vote
for Cleveland will touch 10000 next
month. 1t is not at ali to be wondered
at that, with the knowledge of this fact.
Chairman McDermott of the Democratic
State committee should predict as he
did last week, that CleveIand's plurality
will be $1,000 i'll New Jersey. Nobody
deniaS thEi 1nfhOritU nf rho Now
Republicans in this canvass. They
never displayed more energy. They
are conducting pictorial rather
than practical campaign. They
Put out banners by day and put up
rockets by night and their parades
are plentiful and pleasing. These
features are not capturing votes. how
ever. They are bringing prominent
speakers, from Mckinley down, into the
state, and are sending out tons of cam
paign literature. Yet the changes of
political faith so far recorded are four to
one in favor Of the Democrats. 1t must
also be recOliected that the bulk of the
work is on behalf of the state ticket.
The Republican candidate for governor,
Join kean Jr.. is a young man of am
bition and push. He has 4 big fortune
behind him, and boast that he Will
spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
to be elected. The stale committee is
In his charge. 1t is literally. almost
lavishly, provided with funds, but all
tie money is used TO promote Kean's
chances. The
National Ticket
receives considerable benefit from the
outlay of course, but there isn't any
question that Harrison will be sacrificed
whenever necessary in order TO obtain
votes for Kean. 1t is perhaps unfortu-
nate-that Judge George L. Werts, the
Democratic nominee for governor, re-
fuses to take an active part in the cam
paign and will make no speeches, but
all the same his election is assured.
Judge WertS Is one of the most popular
men in the state, aud his long public
service in the senate and his sterling in
tegrity will give him the regular party
vote. Kean and his money, coupled
with parades and pyrotechpics, will
stand no show. So far as the national Re
publican committee is concerned, it
will endeayor to carry New Jersey by
corrupt means. David Martin, the
Philadelphia importation, will look after
Hudson county and have unlimited
Doodle at his command. Thomas v.
Cooper. another practical Pennsylvania
politician, will try the force OF barrels
of Doodle III and around Camden. The
efforts of these rascals will prove fruit
less. They are being closely watched,
and can make no perceptible iDrQads.
Quay tried the same metuods In New