Evening star., 1896-09-28
McKINLEY'S MAJORITY
What It is Expected to Be in the State of
New Jersey.
Some informant tiOn as to the Probable
Result In the Different Con-
ErcssiOnal Districts.
,peeial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

CAPE MAY, N. J., September %, 1896
This has been q busy week among the
politicians of the garden state, and the
many things which have happened have
smashed many set Of figures. and caused
the revising of many set OF plans 1or
the present campaign. The gold democrats
have named set of electors, and the sill
verites have kicked out of the state COM
mittee all the members with golden princi-
pies Senator James Smith, jr., has re-
signed definitely state chairman and
national committeeman, and his reslgna-
ton has been accepted. and two avowed
silver men given the places he has vacated
This has given the republicans renewed
hope, and the prophets of that party are
now predicting that New Jersey will give
Mckinley and Hobart from 10000 to 10000
plurality, while before the coming of the
gold democratic electoral ticket In the field
they were not so certain of more than 1O,
600 plurality. The state at the last election
cast 81 500 votes, of which 162,%U were
for Griggs. republican candidate for gov
ernor; 10000 for the democratic candi-
date: 6,661 for the prohibitionist, only 1901
for the populst, and 4,147 for the social
Istic-labor party. The vote for governor in
1892 was: Democratic. 167,257 and 159,632
for the republican candidate. The repub-
licans gained last year but 5000 votes,
while the democrats who failed to vote last
year numbered 81 600.
The Stay-at-HOme Vote.
The whole situation up to this week
hinged on the question whether these 31.000
democratic voters who failed to vote last
year for governor would come out and
vote this year for Bryan. Last year it
was rebellion against an alleged state
ring led by Allen McDermott, now gold
candidate on free silver platform for
Congress from the seventh district, or
Hudson county. The vote of 1894 on Con-
greSS was about the same as last year,
when the whole delegation of eight were
eiected by the republicans. With the pos
sibiity of this loss to the democrats comes
the third electoral ticket. which means a
division of the present strength Of the
democracy. The republican state commit
tee has been working hard in the face of
all these, and have given no quarter to the
enemy. while the democrats have done no
practical work, because Of the continued
Wrangling on their committee. AS soon as
the Chicago convention was over Senator
Smith sailed for Europe, and, now that he
has been back but couple Of weeks, has
not helped matters. He resigned his ma
tional committeeship last week. and the
state committee tried to keep him in by
refusing to accept his declaration. But he
insisted, and on Thursday they acquiesced.
He, 1t is said, does not object SO much to
Bryan as he does to filling up the state
committees treasury out Of his own private
purse. The committee. it is said, does not
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his pocket book, which has been freely
opened in the campaigns just previous to
his election as Senator and since that time.
New Committeeman.
The committee chose ex-State Senator
Philip P. Baker national committeeman,
and he is an ardent silver man, from
business standpoint. He has large mining
interests in Colorado and New Mexico, and
while his home is thirty miles from Cape
May he has been in Colorado and its vicin-
ity about half of the present year. Be
have a dislike for third terms he carried
republican county and got into the state
| senate some eight years ago. In 1892 he
| was Cleveland presidential elector. The
| town in which he lives, Einelaud, casts
| nearly all of the 1000 populist votes in
the state.
Senator Kuhle, a democratic state COM
nitteeman. said YESTERDAY: We are now
| ago. We want to get together at once
| and organize thoroughly for the remain
| ing weeks Of the campaign The sena-
tors expression tells the story Of lost time
and opportunity for them. The commit
tee finished its work by ousing all gold
adherents and choosing Colonel E. L. Price
| Of Newark as state chairman.
The coming Of Bryan through the state
had little effect, because he spoke at WASH
| ington Park. which is owned by W. J..
| Thompson Of Gloucester race track fame.
whom the people repudiated by the election
| Of Governor Griggs.
COngFessmen.
| The democratic congressional district
committee has given 1t out at Washington
| that they will elect Congressman this year
in the first, third. fourth and seventh dis
tricts. They may in the fourth and sew
| euth, but 1t Is believed here not probable
that they can get any other district in the
| state.
| All Of the present republican delegation
from the state will be or now have been
| renominated. Henry c. Loudenslager. in
the first district, has against him John T.
| Wright, a populist, whom the democrats
have indorsed. In this district are about
all the populists In the state. He had