The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-18
GRIGGS OWNS Up.
Says He Is a Candidate for
Governor and Can Carry
the State.
sEWELL COMING HOME
Ex-Gongressman cadmus Thinks
the Nominees Will Be McGill
and Kean.

TRENTON, July IS, 1s95.-Ee-Senator
John W. Griggs of Passaic. who IS
prominently mentioned as a candidate
for Governor in an interview yesterday
stated emphatically that he was can
didate for the Republican nominaGon
and says he has been urged to seek the
nomination by prominent men of botn
parties He is much encouraged by the
promises of support that he has received
from all parts of the State. He is sure
of the enthusiastic support of all the
Republicans of Passaic county, as we'll
as Bergen and hts native county of Sus-
sex.
rs it possible to elect a Republican
Governor in New Jersey this fall?''
81 answer unhesitatingly, yes; the
reign of fraud ard misrule under which
the State has suffered from Democratic
bosses must be completely overthrown-
It is natural that the people should ex-
pect the party that has exposed the
frauds and the misrule to reform it,
What can you say of the Democratic
criticism of the last Legislature?"
.I notice that the machine politicians
of the Democratic party are trying to
divert the attention of the people from
their own Inisdoings by the criticism OF
the course of the recent legislation on
reform measures. While it is true that
if the LEGISLATURE had proceeded with
more dehberation and postponed until
next year the attempt to repair the de-
feets in the Administration of the State
that the Senate investigation. brought
out, it would have been possible to have
prepared more efficient and complete oils
than those which We're passed; yet, when
the fact is considered, the splendid work
of the committee, uncovering for the
Slrst time frauds, irregularities and lile-
galFties that prevailed, not as an excep-
ton. but as rule in the State House,
you will understand that the Democrats
have every reason in the world to make
the people forget the true issues.
fsThe people will not forget that the
Democratic bosses required a Demo-
cratic Legislature to pass bill legaliz-
ing the infamous coal combine. The peo-
pie will not forget the servitude OF the
Democratic Legislature in the gambling
elements of the State. The effort to
divert attention from these things will
fail in the campaign which is coming"
1T has been stated thar your support
while in the Senate Of the hlgh license
and local option bill. would be used
Il have no doubt about it. Democratic
politicians who think that they can
create 9 prejudice against me among
certain people will use it Whenever they
can. 1 have no fear of the effect of that
upon any reasonable person. 1t is a
well known fact that L was never in
favor of local option as a means OF
regulating the liquor traffic. My record
will show that l always voted against
local option bills until 1888. when the high
license and the local option bills. We're
combined. I was in favor of the high III
cense bill The Republicans from the
rural counties insisted that they wanted
a local option law and secured caucus
support for it, and it was tackled on the
high license bill. voted with my party
after the caucus decided as it did. The
part of the bill that I favored personally
still remains a law. The local option
part was repealed the next year. con-
slider that a dead issue. Nobody that
know is willing to try again the expert
ment of local option