The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-22

SOLID FOR GRIGGS.
He Has Three Counties and
Is Inclined to Put
on Airs.
SOUTH JERSEY BADLY MIXED
E. F. c. Young Positively Declines
to Be Candidate for the
Nomination.
sneetn1 TO the Jersep c:tg Ne,rs.

SDfe9Ht 10 JilS JeFsty LtD 4Ncos-
TRENTON, July %. 1S95.-There is no
summer vacation for the GubernatoI1al
aspirants No matter how the mercury
slides up and down the tube the cam
paign keeps getting warmer and more
Interesting. It is still an open flght Tor
anybody. There are four candidates IN
the field whose candidacy has been fof-
mally announced. They are senator
VOORHEES, of Union, ex-Congressnlan
john Kean of Union, ex-senator
John w Griggs of Passaic, and senator
Maurice Rogers of Camden
Franklin Murphy. the State chairman
has not said whether he is a candidate
or not 1t is. however. taken for grant
ed. because he was before the last con-
vention and has been natural 'candl-
date during the past three years.
Colonel John j. Toney is in doubt
whether he viii be candidate. but the
young Republicans of Hudson are con-
tfnually booming him, and are actually
securing delegates outside of the county
Ex-Congressman George Hires has been
placed in nomination by his friends, but
he has neither declined the honor nor
accepted it: but every South Jerseyman
speaks about the Salem statesman as
South Jerseys man.
SOLID FOR GRIGGS.
There is one block of counties that can
be regarded as being solid for one man.
They are Passaic. Bergen and Sussex,
which will go for ex-senator John w.
Griggs He has a scattered following
IL. nearly every county from Mercer to
the State line. John Kean IS not sure Of
his own county yet, Senator Foster Voor-
hees is contesting every inch of ground
with him. The fight is progressing
good naturedly. and it is the desire of
the two principals to have the people
decide between the men at the primar-
posed to make the contest personal in
the interest of Senator VOORHEES, as
against John Kean, has cooled off and
there are less biting things being said.
1t is still very close fight. with Kean
perhaps trif1e ahead in Plainfieid and
Elizabeth. but voorhees, has the lead in
Middlesex county. although Voorhees,
and Griggs both claim friends there.
There are number of Republicans in
Middlesex who claim that the county
VIII be ungrateful to John Kean.
If it does not support him this year be
cause Of his continued kindness to the
poets to get a majority of the delegates
IN Ln Essex county; this is after Elias S.
The Essex delegation is then likely to
drift bit. There are lots of Kean men
in Essex county. but Carl Lentz has
made a compact to deliver the entire
Trenton: but the conditions are so well
known that Kean delegates may be
are likely to be benefited by these condi-
Iions- Nobody can safely say who're
hudson will go should Colonel John J.
Toffev decide. not to be a candidate.
One day the. barometer shows the
Griggs boom is moving lively and at
the e. next there is considerable Voorhees,
hn IL. H.
be for john Kean. but sentiment seems
TO be switching around in some other
direction. and the. temper of Republican
politics just now is such that there will
I be trouble If any attempt is made to
coeree the delegates. Burlington mas
considerable, to say about Griggs just
little opposition there is against the
Senator viii be dissipated by convention
time.
SOUTH JERSEY MIXED.
South Jersey is mixed There is an
effort to get the First and even the Sec
argued that # the two districts go into
the convention united it can cut some
figure. With the section south of Afer-
between five candidates, the lower end
might capture the nomination, or else
have considerable to say about it. This
1d idea CONGRESSMAN Harry L0udenslager's
It Is known that there are lots of
good Republicans in the First district
for Kean. and it looks as as if he may
be in- distress without the united support
of the South Jersey counties. Atlantic
and Cumberland have considerable to
say about Voorhees,; Burlington and
Ocean lean to Griggs. So the solid front
wants good mason or two to patch it
up. Morris will in an likelihood go to
Kean and perhaps Somerset. too, but
Senator Lewis Thompson is working the
county for his Young friend, Griggss,
Richard B. Beading can carry out his
plans. but Voorhees, has some support in
the county because he was born there
thirty odd years ago. The fight. there
fore, is really between Kean, VOORHEES,
and Griggs, three young men with con-
siderable ehnssle, and they are keeping
the situation trffie mixed Senator
Rogers is moving around the State in a
quiet way and he reports that he will
IiaveN delegates from all parts of the
State.
The Democratic canvass has not un-
dergone any special change within the.
last two or three weeks. but there have
been two or three triaing wrinkles that
NAV be worth a line or two. Chancellor
McGiu continues foremost among the
Possibilities and the movement for his
ncmin alton gathers fresh strength every
dav There are those who insist that he
viii stand resolutely against the use of
his naxle but it is known from the in
side that the Chancellor is seriously
considering the appeals of those wig
fh.lk that more than any other man
whose name has ben mentioned. he is