davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-11

-AF er-E 80.
The Young Counties Elected Werts.
%" One feature of the State election is
Z particularly worthy of attention. 1t
is the way the counties which sup
@pertedzE f. G. Young for the guber-
material nomination did their duty by
Judge Werts. 1t was they, in fact,
that elected the Judge.
aS The counties in which the Young
boom was strongest were Hudson,
Monmouth, Middlesex and Hunter
don. Let us look at the majorities in
@ these counties. Hudson, MI. Young's
= W county. gives over 5000 plurality
for the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. Surely that is a pretty good
showing for the county that some OF
th~ea'leaders" thought it good to sheer
at when the contest for the nomina-
ton was in progress.
Then there was Middlesex county.
Mr.. Miles Ross headquarters. Some
20 Of the inspired Democratic papers of
New York, notably the San, have
n thought it wise to wage a war of
cowardly innuendo upon Mr.. Ross
right through the campaign. Perhaps
d when he looks at the /, ZOO majority
that Middlesex contributes to Judge
9@Werts' success, the Editor of the San
will feel slightly ashamed of his dia-
tribes. Another victim of the Sums
rancor was ex-Congressman Pidcock.
I Several bitterly scurrilous articles
were directed against him at the open
> ing of the fight. Now Mr.. Pidcock's
Z county, Hunterdon, comes to the
front with a majority of 1900 for
Judge Werts.
There is Monmouth, too, Senator
@Blodgett's county. 1t contributes 900
to the victory. Bergen, which largely
favored Mr.. Young. gives 700.
In contrast, itmay be well to glance
at the figures of some Of the Werts'
differentiation strongholds. Take
Essex, for instance. For a county of
that size, its contribution to Judge
Werts' majority appears to be hardly
pro rata. Mr.. James Waterworks
Smith, Jr.'s, Iieutenants seem to have
been very much bent on electing a
% County Clerk.
a0I When all the official figures are in,
II this comparison of counties may be
fruitful in interest. The table of
1~tnajorities, a. at present made up,
shows that Judge Werts got about
1880 of majorities in Young counties
. out of a total of about 1880, while
all Essex gave him was LOO.