The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-26
MORRIS OLD GANG
Being Turned Down, DE
Boys" Are Taking
Vengeance on the
Republican
Ticket.
RAILROAD WORKING FOR GRIGGS
Democrats Feel Confident They
Can Carry the County
for McGill.
S,,soic1 to the Jerscu Citv Nelus.

SpeeiGl to the Jersey Cfty Neirs.
MORRISTOWN, Oct. 26, 1s95.--Morris is
another county which the rainbow chasers
who roost I'D near the sky in the Pru-
Dental Building on Broad street, New
ark, claim as sure for Griggs by all the
way from 500 to 1000. What they have to
base any such claim upon it is hard 10
see unless it be that the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com
pany, of which Mr.. Griggs was openly
the counsel until a few weeks ago, is
working hard for their candidate
AS you travel on that railroad
you cannot but be surprised at the
number of it's employees who wear the
Griggs button. 1t is seldom that you see
such an open preference for any candl-
date displayed by the employees OF Dig
corporation. Usually when a rallroad
company gives its men to understand
that it expects them to see that TINS OF
that nominee is elected, some pretehce
to secrecy is made, and certain OF the com
pany's officers will take OCCASION at
some stage of the campaign. to punl1cly
deny that his corporation is using any
means to influence the political sentl-
ments of it's employees, and that they are
free to vote for whom they please But
no such pretence appears to be maoe ny
the D. L. and w. in this vicinity.
Every one of its employees understands
very well that he must vote for John w.
Griggs, or face the music, and that is
no secret to the community at large.
The Republicans make no attempt to
conceal the fact, but rather look upon
Mr.. Griggs as the especial candidate OF
calculations of majority count every en-
ploye of that big corporation who lives IN
the county for that ticket wy
COUNTING ON THE D., T. q w;
They also count upon 2 the 4bea faMay diaeotions
poration like that road. wieids IN a conf NJ
munity like Morris they consider a al
powerful and they will tell you CT the
many means the company mas at us
command for coercing others into the
Unfortunately for the Murphy-Peale
rainbow chasers the resources, OF the
Lackawa5nna road road are not bs as a nbo Se
HeVe and there are other causes at work
throughout the county which more than
means which the railroad might exer-
else.
OF late years Morris has be been growing
Bloodgood, Republican. was elected Sen
ator by 5S1 plurality. Three years later
he was s. by the n p& &
by Governor Werts who carried the
county by SS4. and who succeeded him.
self three years later with a plurality of
1872. Governor Werts was succeeded in
1893 by .Sias Drake, the present incum-
bent. who was reelected upon the Dem
ocratic ticket In 1888 the county gave
the Republican Harrison electors a plu
rality of 246, but the next year Leon Alb
ernor. received 100 more votes than Gen.
Grubb. In the. Presidential year of 1892
Cleveland carried the county. by 1O7, and
for Governor. received At.
In the municipal elections of this and
the other r. cities tie of the county Morris
sea saw county. one party being. in the
ascendency one. year and the other the
lean more toward the Democrats Not
WithStanding all the boasting of their
opponent. the Democrats We're never
confident of carrying old Morris for the
Democratic ticket than they do this fau.
and they have many good reasons for
REPUBLIcANs IN A BAD WAY.
The Republicans are in bad way.
They are suffering from severe attack
for some tlI,ie two factions in the party.
One of these, which is popularity known
as the ShGrt nair is composed Of
out and carry a primary, who are not in
politics for their health, and who know a
good thing when they see it. The other
contingent is made up of the goody goody
element in the party, which contemplates
with holy horror the up-to-date tactics
of their opponents and of that class of
politicians generally designated as ''silk
stockings" But Morris is original or she
is nothing, and instead of being called
silk stockings up here these Republican
angels are always spoken of as the lice
Creams" The origin of that name is
characteristic of this section. One of the
best-known caterers from .Easton to
his headquarters in Morristown, where he
manufactures most delicious ice cream
upon which the natives feed and wax fat
Some years ago when the reformers
started their warfore against the .Short
Hairs one of their candidates for the NOM
ination for Alderman happened to fall in
celebrate the event, if only in the interest
of harmony So instead of setting out
sundry kegs of beer with salads, pretzels,
switzer and the other standard conconit-
ants of an Aldermanic candidates accept
ance, he marshalled together all who
We're at the convention and marching
sbiaw % them ! ali IL off. to ice cream pini and
fancy cake. The short Ifairs'' turned from
that layout in disgust, and ever since
then they have designated their oppon-
Creams with all the derision and con-
tempt they can throw into their tones.
over amount Of trouble in downing their
milk-and-sugar opponents In fact as
one of their leaders would say .Dey wuz
dead easy meat" But mil desperandum"
was the motto of the "1ce Creams" and
as often as they went down they bobbed
up again with as broad a smile as ever
and just as full of fight. Gradually it be-
gan to dawn upon the sShort Hairs that
ice cream wasn't such an enervating diet
after all, and that each time it was get
ting little harder to put down the
dudes
SAME OLD GANG WORRIES THEM.
Thus matters went along until this fall
when the ice Creams walked into the
County Convention and captured every
thing on the ticket. The "Short Hairs"
got the whipping of their lives. The ice
cream ticket is made up Of John B.
Vreeland, of Morristown; Charles Hop
kins, of Boonton, and Joseph B. RICHTER,
is acceptable to the Short Hairs" and
they left the convention in an all but
hilarious mood, freely predicting the de-
feat of the entire ticket Their predic-
rtions were couched in terms which
led the few among the ice cream fac
| ton who have learned a thing or two
| from their bouts with the "Short Hairs, =,
| to see that the boys were open to con-
victon, and uraess they were convinced
| in the most substantial manner their pre-
dictionS would come true. The situation
| + in consequence is that unless the Short
| Hairs are conciliated the Morris Rcpub-
lican candidates will be found supine just
outside the breastworlzs the day after
| the election, and those in control of the
party are bending all their efforts to se-
curing the support of that same old
l.