The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-18
Votes THROWN AWAY.
How the Three Crank Tick
cts Fared All Over
the State.
MORE THAN wERTs' PLURALITY.
The Peoples Party Collapsed, But
the Prohibs Beat La Monte's
Record.
MORE THAN WERTS' PLURALITY.
Special to The .zerseu Ctr Nelus.

nearly 10000 votes cast In the last election
in this State that were not for either of
the old party candidates For the first
time in the political history of the State
there were five candidates for Governor
and two new parties entered the political
arena. They were the Socialistic-Lab
party and the Peoples party These new
factors wanted a test OF their strength
and 1t was made. but under unfavorable
circumstances. There were 2,s25 votes
cast for the candidates OF these two par
ties. The Peoples party made an open
fight and predictions were made that
they would poll fair vote, but they
were not In iJ with the SociaIisttc-La
folk. as the returns showed. The Social
istic-Labor party polIed 1915 votes 30 9l0
of the Peoples party.
WHERE DID IT COME FROMi
The question arises where this great
vote came from aud which of the old line
parties was the loser by it. At the time
the new parties filed their petitions in the
Office of the Secretary Of State. both had
over 1900 signatures, and the Peoples
party petition was signed by working
men in the upper part of the
State, with some signatures from
AtlaublC auQ GH1QQ6us 4u0
names indicated that the signers were
Americans and very few foreign names
were to be found. The farmers and the
farming districts were not represented In
the petition. The Socialistic Labor party.
with one or two exceptions. had all Ger
mans, principally from Hoboken, West
HLoab1oken, Jersey City Newark. Eliza
cate that it was more the Ger
man Socialistic Labor party than
the Socialistic Labor party. The Social
lists not only polled a larger vote than the
Peoples party, but were also represented
in every county In the State. In some
places their National ticket was not voted,
but in the upper part of the State they
apparently voted straight ticket all the
way through. The vote for Governor
showed that they were strongest In Hudson
County, where Keim received 1876 votes,
trif1e less than was given to Wing, the
S0cialistic Labor candidate for President
who received 4S4 One would scarcely
expect to find Socialists in Cape May,
Hunterdon county or Ocean, yet Keim
received votes in Cape May, 5 in Ocean
and 6 In Sussex. In Union county, where
the candidate. Joseph B. Ksim, resides.
and whore there are several SociRlisric
Associations, there were ISS poled for
him and in Passaic 2S9. Essex gave 204,
but on the petition filed there were 500
German names from Essex county aud
about the same from Roboken and West
Hoboken.
REPUBLICAN DODGE.
In Atlantic County kefn received 16;
Burlington, II; Camden, 81: Bergen. 81;
umberland. 25; Mercer, IL; Somerset, l;
Warren, 20; Salem, 9; Aunterdon, 20;
Middlesex. 49,; Monmouth. 10; Morris. 9;
Gloucester. 6. Candidate Keim, when be
was placed in nomination, in an inter-
yiofr Of fod hof ho h od fdaa nf hofn
elected. but the party on the advice
of the National Committee placed
a ticket in the field for the purpose
of solidifying their organization
and beginning a permanent
work Of organizing party. that he pre-
dicted, in five years would hold the bali
ance OF power. The l,Sl5 votes that he
Democratic party. There Is some sus-
picion that the ticket was placed in the
field in this State for political purpose.
This much is known; that many OF the
signatures on the petition, principally
those from Mercer and Essex counties,
were the signatures of Republicans and
some of them Republican workers.
PEOPLES PARTY FIASCo.
The vote of the Peoples party Is dtsap-
pointing to the members of the party, but
not surprise TO those who knew some-
what of the character Of the men who
made it up. Their test of strength shows
only 910 votes in the State: they expected
several thousand. They built the party
in this State upon what was left of the
Farmers Alliance movement, and their
candidate. Benjamin w. Bird, is now
Vice President of the State Farmers
Alliance. The party Is made up princi-
pally of men of peculiar ideas;
men with political hobbies and social
reform crochets. The convention that
placed Benjamin Bird in nonlin alton was
the greatest political matinee ever given
in Trenton. There was not 8 man in the
convention that had ever attended po-
Lit ical gathering before, and they had no
more idea how to proceed than lot of
sch oolboys. They were unable to raise
anP money tor literature, and they simply
depe nded upon the agitation in the meet
ings of the local Farmers Alliances. The
big gest vote Of the Peoples Party was
gi ven in Morris county, where Erastus E.
Potter ran for Congress on the ticket.
He had the most active canvass of any Of
the candidates and rolled mp 11S votes
Hudson comes next with 116. Essex fol-
lowed with 103; Hunterdon, which is the
home of their candidate, Bird, polIed only
6S votes; Cum berland. "a; Mercer, "A; Ber-
gen, IL; Atlantic, 25; Burlington, 81; Cam
den, 81; Cape May, 8; Ocean, IL; Union,
"a; Somerset, s. Sussex. 90; Warren, 61;
Salem, 13; Middlesex, 43; Monmouth, 20;
Passaic, 20; Gloucester, IL: Morris, IS;
The total vote of the Prohibition candi-
date, Kennedy. as returned to the Secre-
tary OF State, but not yet verified, is 7,743.
which is an increase oyer the vote of Ls-
Monte, three years ago He received
6.853. The three Independent movements
polled in the aggregate 9.96S votes, which
is greater by nearly 1900 than Judge
Werts' majority.