The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-08
FRUITS OF VICTORY,
The Republican Party in
Hudson Horribly Tan
gled Up.
KNIVES UP EVERY SLEEVE
Jersey city's Vote the Cause
and Everyone Shrieks
''You Did It."
ALL RAGE AGAINST WOOLLEY
One Crowd Blame Wanser and
Others Sheer at
Toffey.
M'EWAN,s MAYORALTY BOOM

Jersey City is again Democratic and
the Republican candidates for Mayor will
not be so numerous in the G. o. P. as
they were a week ago." remarked well
known Democrat, exultingly, to a Re-
publican leader last evening. as the two
stood in front of the City Hall.
"Boshr' retorted the other: "the issues
in e local campaign will be entirely diff
ferent from what they were in the battle
for Governor, and taxpayers will show
by their votes that they believe in Re-
publican local government"
.sWait and see," commented the Demo-
crat, and as if to prevent further con-
versation the Republican walked away
and reporter for 1.-THE Jersey City
News" who had overheard the remarks
quoted, asked the Democrat what he
meant by them.
Simply this he answered. tThere
are at least a half dozen Republicans
who. until Tuesday night. believed that
a Republican candidate for Mayor would
have cinch at the election to choose
a successor to Mayor WanserS The
three most prominent men are Mayor
Wanser himself, Congressman Thomas
McEwan, Jr.. and George f. Perkins.
The next candidate for the Office of
Mayor that the Republicans will nomi-
nate will probably be one of these three
men. Mayor Wanser has not, so far as
I know, told human being that he
would like a second term On the con-
trary, he has repeatedly said he did
not desire one. He said the same thing,
however, when nominated before, yet he
was induced to accept the nomination.
His friends are a unit now in saying
that he must be a candidate once more.
PERKINS HAS A CLAIM.
George F. Perkins," continued the
on the party and his hackers have always
asserted that he was counted out for
the benefit of Orestes Cleveland when
he was candidate a few years ago.
d congressman AlCEWdu 1i1CAuo POihl "
his great plurality in Jersey City last
fall and say that he could be elected
easier than any other Republican, be-
cause there is nothing in his public or
private character that can be attacked.
''These three men must have been
greatly disappointed at the result on
Tuesday in this city. They have reason
to be and so has every Republican. The
city gave Chancellor McGill about $500
plurality and gave unprecedented
plurality for State Senator and the eleven
successful Assembly candidates. What
is more, the party carried seven out of
the twelve gerrymandered wards. What
caused this great change and who is re-
eponsible for it?'
A SORRY PLIGHT.
The question thus put by a local DEM
ocrat is one which the Republicans them
selves are trying to solve. The party is
in bad way here, and everyone in it
who aspires to be thought leader or
who has an office is striving to throw
the blame of the defeat on someone else.
The party was left ON Wednesday
morning in dreadfully bad shape local
ly 1t not only contributed nothing to
the election of Mr.. Griggs, it did not
even elect a single Assemblyman. AS an
organization it cannot go to Trenton
next winter and demand any patronage.
It cannot demand single office from
the Legislature. for it is not represented
there Had the leaders kept the plural
ity down to the 1900 ordered by the Re
publican State Committee, it would have
been something, or if they had elected
one or two Assemblynen it would have
some weight, but as 1t is they have not
a single peg to hang their hats on, unless
1t may be the forgiving spirit of John W.
Griggs, and his desire to aid Garrett
Hobart's schemes to secure the Vive
Presidential nomination next fall. This
consideration may be sufficient to cause
Mr. Griggs to give Hudso's Republican
Leaders some recognition
THROWING MUD.
This condition of affairs is very unsat-
isfactory to the local bosses of the Re-
publican party. and each is apparently
engaged just now in throwing the blame
Of tina defeat on the others
Mayer wanser and sheriff Toffey have
not taken any part in the undignified
su,,abb.e but their adherents are throw
fax lots CT mud They are all howling,
s.rhau 4rt ths man., and retorting,
'sFou'rp another
rhs opponents Of Mayer Warssr say
Ire city Hall ard the water contract did
Il And some II .hsm say the Mayor has